This is old, Blois, and I just wanted to fill you in on some of the stories that I told you about a while back just to keep you up on what's going on down here. And I wanted to tell you that Jimmy Vanderstig is all right now. It took him a good four or five days before they let him out of the hospital that he's doing all right now. And you know he come back up here to school.
The next Monday, I believe, yeah, next Monday he come back up here at school. And he won up to the teachers desk and he said, Miss Adams, I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry that I made all the trouble for you and that I'm going to behave myself from now on. And he said, I ain't telling you this because somebody told me to. He said, I just, you know, I just know I was wrong.
And and I just wanted you to know that I know that I'm wrong. And I'm going to act right from now on. And she said, that's all right, Jimmy. She said, you know, I know that sometimes boys will be boys.
And she said, I ain't going to hold it again. And she said, you know, you welcome in this classroom. And if you come up here for an education, she said, I'm going to see that you get one. And I'm going to help you all I can.
So that's it. That's the end of that story. No, Jimmy. He just, he just as mild as he can be.
He made no trouble. And Emily said he was actually studying up there. First time she'd ever seen him study in her whole life. She said that he was he was actually acting like somebody.
And it's the first time she'd ever seen him do it. So I thought you'd want to know about that. And I'm real, you know, happy that that Jimmy is kind of straightening out because, you know, he ain't going to mount to nothing if he don't. And so maybe that let go in the head learned him some sense.
I hope it does anyway. Okay, I want to get back with you on this. Oh, singing all day and dinner on the grounds that they're planning up here for the first Sunday in May, on May the 6th, I believe it is. And they are going to have this singing all day and dinner on the grounds.
They're going to have it. But if you want to see them Camden kittens, then you ain't no use in coming up here because they ain't going to have them. They, you know, I was I was plumbed wrong about that. And I didn't I didn't know I don't get up here to this church house much.
But you know, I was talking to Lester Clark down here. And I was laughing at them women. And I said, they don't want them kittens coming up there. And I was laughing.
And I said, you know, they say that them kittens shows their underwear. And he said, well, that's right. He said, they do. He said, that's the what the all them people come up to that club down there for is just to see them.
And I didn't believe him. I said, you don't really mean. And he said, yeah, he said that I've seen them a lot of times. And he said, that's reason I go up there as much as I can.
Well, I've, you know, old Lester is a he's a good old boy, but he's a he's you know, like stood jokin and he'll pull your leg if he can. And I thought that he was just lying. And I went up there to see it. I went up there to that club.
You know, I hadn't been up there and always been four or five years since I was up there. And I went up there to that club just to see if he was telling me the truth. And you know, you can't get anywhere close to that stage. All them front seats, that place is sold out every night when no girls is up there.
And you can't get close enough to see nothing. So you know, all them people are up there to see something. They just going up there to, you know, to drink beer, they're up there to see them girls. So I guess he was telling me the truth.
And I guess these church women up here was right. And I feel real bad about laughing at them because they was telling the truth. Well, anyway, the kittens ain't coming. And I felt kind of sorry for the preacher because he'd come up there and I apologized to the church.
And he said what he told him was that the old devil got into him. And he didn't, he knows better than to do what he'd done. And he said he was just so sorry. And he would said he would resign if they wanted him to because he know he'd done wrong.
And I felt awful sorry for him. I want to see him after the church service. And I told him I said, preacher, I know that you've done wrong. But I said, you know, I kind of hate that you're leaving.
And he said, well, he said they had told him that he could stay on if he wanted to do that. They know that everybody was made mistakes. And I said, well, yeah, that's right. They do.
I said, you know, a preacher, he is just human. And he said, well, that's right. But he said a preacher is supposed to be better than not supposed to be subject to temptations like other humans. And I said, well, that's right.
But I said, you know, preacher ain't perfect. And he said, no, he said, that's right. He said, the preacher wasn't perfect. And I said, well, maybe you're expecting too much of yourself.
I said, you know, a man is just flesh and blood. And I said, I'm going to tell you the truth, the preacher, I want to pair to see them girls myself. Because I just want to see if you know what they were saying was true. And I said, I ain't gonna do it no more.
Because I said, you can't, you can't see nothing. They're all people up around that stage crowd around and hollering and and drunk. And I don't like to be around stuff like that. And he said, well, he said he would he had put on ashes and sackcloth.
And I don't know what that means, but that's what the preacher said. He said he'd put on ashes and sackcloth. And he said he'd uh, he'd trade about it. Uh, and he was going to stay up there at the church and then have him.
And uh, he said he wasn't going to ever do nothing like that again. And he said, he understood that the mower that certain deacons run that church. And he said, they hired him and they run the church and he wasn't going to have, there wasn't going to be no more mix ups of that kind anymore. And so I told him, I said, well, I think that's a good idea.
And I said, I ain't gonna, I ain't gonna lie to you preacher. I ain't gonna come to the church. Cause I'm just not a church man. I said, I do believe in in doing right.
And I am religious and I try to hit people all I can. But I said, I ain't gonna go to the church. But I think the church is awful lucky to have you. And I think you're a good man.
So that's the way we left it. And the preacher is going to stay. They have a forgiving and he's gonna stay around and he's gonna be the preacher up here. And I think that he learned a lesson from this old thing.
I think he learned that he needs to keep his feelings in check. And I think he learned a lot from it. And I think he'll be a better man because of it. So they are going to have the singing all day and dinner on the grounds up here the first Sunday in May.
And they're going to have the palahatton possums like they said in the first place. And you know the palahatton possums they are bluegrass group and they're going to say bluegrass religion appear. And I think people will enjoy it. But I do know that they have, they've got another man.
They've got another man that's in the group with them. And he is they called themselves palahatton possums and junior and junior plays a no-bro. And he acts a fool you know cuts up and makes all these jokes you know. And he plays that no-bro you know makes him funny.
Same on him. Funny racket with the no-bro. You know I don't know if you know what a no-bro is maybe I'll tell you but it's like a guitar except it's tuned in a chord and it's a you got a slide you want to borrow that slides up and down on the neck of the guitar just like a steel guitar you know it's a cold and no-bro. And a lot of bluegrass groups have them but most of the groups you know they play it serious you know they have a they play the no-bro as an instrument and they play it serious but he just acts a fool and tells jokes and and I don't know if they're going to bring him up here or not because I don't know if you know people would want to see that at a church affair you know if they'd want to see somebody up there acting a fool and and he wears these big old baggy britches and he you know got the big old work shoes that he wears and you know tries to be a hick is what he tries to be and I don't know I'm going to talk to that old boy and tell him they ought not to bring him down here because I don't think that'll go on go over real good with the with the women folks down here but you know it ain't none of my business but I'm just going to advise him I'm gonna say you know I'm not trying to tell you what to do but you probably all consider you know what I'm telling you that's all I'm gonna say but anyway I hope that you'll come down here like I told you they're gonna have all kinds of all kinds of good vitals down here they're gonna have barbecue and fish and they're gonna have you know they have all the you know the country vegetable you know purple whole peas and cornbread and sweet potatoes and I don't eat sweet potatoes but a lot of people do but they're having you know cabbage and they don't have watermelon I mean not watermelon I'm sorry they're gonna have that I was thinking about next July when they have that picnic they always have watermelon down there then but watermelon is not ripe yet not maybe it's not but anyway it ought to be a real good dinner down there nothing else and if you like you know good old plain religious music you know people just talking about how y'all live and what y'all to do and what the right way to live then I think you'll enjoy the music down here and and I know good well you enjoy the dinner they're gonna have potato salad and they're gonna have all kinds of pies I got brownies and they got you know layer cakes and what they call lemon or I can limit my name pies what they call it and I've added it's real good so anyway I'm gonna shut up because my daughter she'll even get old to me and probably give me another sea minus for a rambling on and I probably have talked too long on this but anyway sometimes I kind of get carried away but I hope you'll come down here and join us on May 6th I think you'll have a real good time.