This is the old blowers and I'm fixing to try to finish up that podcast that I was telling you about and this is the inferno part three And I'm not gonna go over everything that I said But you remember I told you about how this school had got started and how it was rebuilt over the years and how it growed and I told you about old man Tyson Deciding that he was gonna raise chickens and it would be cheaper to feed the kids that way And then I told you how he raised him for about 20 years until Oh, mr. Birkett come along as a business manager and he told him that wasn't didn't make no sense that it was He was wasting money and I told you about mr. Tyson getting rid of the chickens And then I told you about him retiring and oh mr. Robinson moving up and how he was going to get the chicken house clean By punishing the kids when they misbehaved and I told you about what the kids doing about you know though in that feces around and then I told you about how They tracked of the feces into the schoolhouse and how the parents come in still complaining to mr.
Robinson into the board and then I told you about how mr. Robinson tried to trick old Luther seals You know with a contract and how he went to the board and how the board farred mr. Robinson And then they went hard old Luther seals to you know They they approached him honest and told him that they'd pay him if he'd get it cleaned out for him And he did and then I told you that I was gonna tell you what they done with the chicken house after they got it clean And that's what I'm fixing to do right now here in this next part Well, it was a good building and it was great big building and had to you know Lighten and had a bathroom in it and it was a had him staying the steel walls and a good floor in a drainage system It seemed like a shame to tear it out I tear it up tear it down I mean and so for a while it just stayed out there and it was a long ways off from the school But gradual over the years the school started coming that way if you understand what I'm saying What I'm saying is that they'd they'd tear the school down and build a new building and they kept going toward the chicken house You know and they'd make the front of the place where the old building was they turn it into parking or you know Landscaping that kind of stuff and so gradual over the years that The school come toward the chicken house and one time all about Hold been about 40 years ago They decided that that was that chicken house and it had a name They give it a you know called that they name all them buildings Something and so they named the chicken house something it wasn't called a chicken house anymore But anyway, they was going to turn it into a storage building And so what they started doing is that all of the stuff that didn't nobody want anymore they took it over to that chicken house and You know some if some of it was good stuff But they just didn't want it no more and it it piled up in there and Anytime they had something they didn't know what to do with it Well, they'd take it put it in the chicken house and I remember for two years You know they used to have a big fourth of July Celebration down here, you know with with far works and stuff like that Well, I remember you the school vault them far works And actually the school didn't buy it But the town bought them and they stole it in the school house because they had room for it And they put them in the chicken house. Well, it rained You know on the fourth of July so they couldn't use the fireworks and they stayed there and they forgot all about them And they just you know, they just stayed in the chicken house didn't even you know out of sight out of mind That's what they say and so Couple years later they ordered some more fireworks and it rained again And they didn't do the fourth of July celebration And so that that just gives you an idea of what the what was going on with the with the chicken house And they they'd get you a new couch or something and an old couch was just they just take it over to the chicken house and put it there Well, you know I ain't blaming the school necessary because it is awful hard for a school to get rid of stuff Because you know, they bought it with state money and they had to account for it And so it was easier just to store it than it was, you know to try to try to get rid of it Well, you'd recollect I told you a while back that old man, a uncle Fred bought some carpet for the school and So they took up the old carpet and they hard me to do that And so I went to school and took up that old carpet and I asked them what to do with it And they said well put it in the they didn't call it the chicken house I had another name for it I can't remember the name of the building name because that building ain't standing no more So I don't guess it matters what his name was but they told me to put that old carpet in the chicken house And I done it and And they was two or three I think there was three old buses that they didn't use anymore that was parked out there You know behind the chicken house and then they had the the the boys well the girls too for that matter They had a a drive You know a collection drive where they was they was trying to teach recycling, you know, that's where you used up over again and so they had collected this pile of Powers or rubber towers and they was stacked up out there and they they didn't put them in the chicken house But they put them outside the chicken house back there And you can see what happened that over the years that thing that chicken house was just full of everything that People didn't want and so that's what they used the chicken house for and it that went on for 40 years went went on Until last month when they and people kept saying they needed to clean it up and and they was going to you know Sooner later they was gonna and they were gonna call off that Recycling stuff to the recycling plant, you know people always gonna do something But they never did get around to it and that stuff piled up out there And so I'm fixing to tell you then about the far that's what I've been leading up to all this time So in the next part here, I'm gonna tell you about what happened on the day of the far Well about the five or six weeks ago On a Friday night after school it was it was after dark Somebody or some bunch of people it wasn't just one person It was a whole gang of people and I don't have no idea in the world who it was But somebody or some group of people come up there and busted in that tractor shed at the schoolhouse and You know they had a lot of Gasoline for the for the lawn mower and the tractor and everything Stored up there in that in that tractor shed and somebody got that stuff and they they went down that That chicken house inside it I mean they went in there and they soaked them couches and that carpet and you know everything that they could pour gasoline on they did and They it didn't take them long because you know there's a security or night watchman that makes a roundup and he don't start To nine o'clock so it happened sometime before nine o'clock because you know he would have heard him Anyway, they went up there and soaked that thing down real good with fuel and somehow or other and I don't know who it was They said a some kind of a timer or something that That you know because they didn't they didn't set far to it then and it wasn't no fuse There was some kind of a timer so it had to be in somebody that knows something about you know electronics but anyway, that's what they done and Next morning about old five o'clock hours out in Vilkenham cows and I heard the offless racket and boy there was a explosion and Sparks flow flew up in the air and in the black smoke billering up, you know from that far and Of course, I'm a they don't have nothing down here, but a volunteer for department And so I don't I don't belong to that because I've got all these cows You know to take care of and if a flower was to come you at milken time or you know I can't run off and leave the cows, but anyway the far the volunteer for department they they brought that that one engine down there, but they couldn't even get close to it and Directly all them rockets started going off and you could see you know the rockets whizzing through there they and they would you know they explode and and they had them You know throw them stars up in there and them fireworks were displayed and it was pretty to look at it really was But it you know it scared everybody to death and the whole town you know come down there to see it But they couldn't get close to it because they didn't know what what it was and and the worst part of it Well, there's a lot of bad parts, but I don't know if you've ever seen you know a far burn I mean a bunch of towers catch far, but they had a hole You know I told you about that recycling well they had a them towers caught far and it thoughed up black smoke and by that time the Sun had come up and they thought up that black smoke and It was it looked like one of them clips is what it looked like you know where the The moon I think they say the moon comes in front of the Sun and it it blacked out the sky had been any chickens They would have gone to roost so it was that dark well like I said that old emotores Started throwing up that black smoke and then That old carpets You know I told you about pulling that carpet off of them floors and that carpet will smoke to it bad to smoke and it throws off all them chemicals and smells and so people can't even get close to it because you know you could breathe that stuff in and it might You know mess up your lungs, but anyway that carpet come in smoking and it it you know It like I say it covered up the Sun and then them them Far works got to going off and shooting across the sky and it was like it was dark, you know because like I say it that It produced you know kind of a clips effect You know like it does when they have one of them clips is and I think the boom comes in front of the Sun or something And it was really beautiful watch and it went on for about 30 minutes They had four or five years of them fireworks stood up in that building that went up when that when that far started So it was all in all one of the prettiest sites that I've ever seen But it was you know It was kind of scary for the people because they had forgot all about them fireworks and they did know what in the world was going on But anyway, it it was it was some day down here and I'm gonna I'm gonna stop right here, but next time I'm gonna tell you what happened after the far cuz You know people would just let that go They tied up all them fire departments.
They had fire departments down here like I said from you know Brankley and Stuttgart and Far City Conway they they had all them fire departments come down here, but they couldn't do nothing with the far because they couldn't get close to it Cuz they didn't know but what there might be some ammunition in there that would go off or Besides that all them chemical smells was was in the air and they didn't have no you know Oxygen masks or nothing So all they could do was do like the rest of us They just sit and watch it burn and and that's what we done But anyway, it created quite a stir You know in the in the not only in the community But all the way up to the state cap going I'll tell you about that in the last final episode of this podcast But I'm gonna get this one on right now And I'd like to say I hope you hope you enjoyed listening to it today And I'll be back in a and another old two or three days to try to wind this story up