Shady Grove, Mississippi, is about as Mayberry as you can get. Actually, it is more like Green Acres, but let's not split hairs here. Besides the family with the phone on a pole outside, we had a wandering family who traveled everywhere by bike, lived in a one-room shack deep out in the woods without benefit of lights or running water, and wore several layers of clothes regardless of the weather. They were the Smith Brothers--Bill, A.J., and Plumber. They had a younger sister, Florence, but she died in her early sixties. One of the boys was once bitten by a snake, had to be hospitalized, and it was rumored received his first warm water bath. Doctor said the bath probably was more dangerous to the boy than the snake. All three men lived longer than its decent for anybody to do and were buried exactly where they wanted to be: out behind their house. I can only hope I have half as many people at my funeral as those boys had at theirs. Shady Grove shore did love them. Lydia & Laura Lee Hobbs, "I know what peculiar means, Pa. It means dirty."
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