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The city brethren
looked down their noses at the likes of us in the
boondocks who had grown used to the helping hand from
Western Newspaper Union. It was evident that the city
newsmen took a dim view of grassroots people upon whom
we depended as faithful subscribers. Believe it or not,
The Beacon even had a few readers tucked away deeply
into the hill country west of town and almost forsaken
from civilization's beaten paths. There were subscribers
whose only source of what was going on in the outside
world was The Beacon. |
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Who
can ever forget the late Cartoonist Al Capp's drawings
that were developed around Li'l Abner and Hillbilly
Dogpatch . What Capp had in mind when he created the
Dogpatch series we'll never know, but this thickly
wooded hill area surely must have been a counterpart.
It's community of natives comprised the tiny settlement
that went under the tag name of Green Hollow. The only
thing the people lacked was a southern drawl. |
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The
Green Hollow folks, in the days when we first knew them,
lived mostly in shanties. A few even found satisfaction
in living as actual cave dwellers in homes carved out of
clay banks. |
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Green Hollow
was located amidst deep gullies, and it was served by a
winding road barely passable for two cars in a touch and
go situation for the best of drivers. |
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Grading,
leveling and home construction in late years left only
memories of what once was the real Green Hollow. |
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Westen
Newspaper Union's readyprint service was beginning to
lose many of its subscribers and chose to call it quits.
No to function entirely on its own without the
readyprint crutch. There came the satisfaction that our
newspaper now could be proud to be recognized as 100
percent hometowner |
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