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Happy July 4th folks!
I'm a member of a facebook group associated with the genealogy group (Macon County Memories) my mother is part of.
This is a photo of a member's father, and it fits right in with our atmosphere here. This is in a small mountain community not too far from where I grew up and several other members here are located as well. Elliot (our illustrious 'Blues') lives near there too.
Photo caption reads:
In memory of my father Thad Hez Cloer (1906-1993) on this beautiful Father's Day. This photo was made by my sister Joyce of our father sitting on my porch, relaxed, sharpening his knife on a whetstone. The photo won a Franklin Press photo contest and was featured as the top front story. The editor at that time (Scott McRae) said that the contest committee selected it unanimously because of "the story it told about the man, just being himself."
and:
On that day, several of my family were porch sitting and having our usual good time talking, when my sister made this photo. I don't think my father even knew he had been photographed, which makes it all the better. There was nothing special going on that day --- just us resting on the porch after a hard day of working in the woods.
My request to post the photo here:
Betty Cloer Wallace - I'm a member of a knife discussion forum, where we have a 'Traditional Knives' area. With your permission, I'd like to link this photo from there. Some of our old school traditional knife carrying folks would love to see it.
and his daughter's response:
Sure, that would be great. It is public information and has already been shared far and wide. My father always carried a pocket knife and a whetstone, as did many others at the time, and what he was doing in this photo was common for him, any time he was visiting and talking. He would get out his knife and whetstone.
He gave my son a new pocket knife when he was in kindergarten, which was a tradition at the time, and by the time my son started school at Union Elementary, a state law was passed prohibiting knives in school, which was a major disappointment for him. Up until that time, the boys playing mumbly-peg on the dirt playground had been great fun.
Hope all of you can get some great family time this fourth. Be safe!
~Chris
ps - in the last paragraph is a reference to state law & knives at school. Let's keep discussion on this in the spirit in which it's posted. (ie: no poly-ticks.)
I'm a member of a facebook group associated with the genealogy group (Macon County Memories) my mother is part of.
This is a photo of a member's father, and it fits right in with our atmosphere here. This is in a small mountain community not too far from where I grew up and several other members here are located as well. Elliot (our illustrious 'Blues') lives near there too.
Photo caption reads:
In memory of my father Thad Hez Cloer (1906-1993) on this beautiful Father's Day. This photo was made by my sister Joyce of our father sitting on my porch, relaxed, sharpening his knife on a whetstone. The photo won a Franklin Press photo contest and was featured as the top front story. The editor at that time (Scott McRae) said that the contest committee selected it unanimously because of "the story it told about the man, just being himself."
and:
On that day, several of my family were porch sitting and having our usual good time talking, when my sister made this photo. I don't think my father even knew he had been photographed, which makes it all the better. There was nothing special going on that day --- just us resting on the porch after a hard day of working in the woods.
My request to post the photo here:
Betty Cloer Wallace - I'm a member of a knife discussion forum, where we have a 'Traditional Knives' area. With your permission, I'd like to link this photo from there. Some of our old school traditional knife carrying folks would love to see it.
and his daughter's response:
Sure, that would be great. It is public information and has already been shared far and wide. My father always carried a pocket knife and a whetstone, as did many others at the time, and what he was doing in this photo was common for him, any time he was visiting and talking. He would get out his knife and whetstone.
He gave my son a new pocket knife when he was in kindergarten, which was a tradition at the time, and by the time my son started school at Union Elementary, a state law was passed prohibiting knives in school, which was a major disappointment for him. Up until that time, the boys playing mumbly-peg on the dirt playground had been great fun.
Hope all of you can get some great family time this fourth. Be safe!
~Chris
ps - in the last paragraph is a reference to state law & knives at school. Let's keep discussion on this in the spirit in which it's posted. (ie: no poly-ticks.)
(I sometimes even dream of moving my little hone against the stationary edge of my knife, rather than moving the knife against the stationary stone. 
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