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I hate to tell a certain Mr Banfill he has been conned. Roscoe never had a brother Redd and the only Ty in his connections was an elderly gentleman he shared a cell with many long years ago.

Roscoe Petross Willows, like his sister Sadie, has been many things over the years and most illegal. You can see why the family was so happy when he got an HONEST job with a NASCAR crew. Now that is in danger if we don't round that diabolical set of siblings up soon.

Sadie and Roscoe called my cell last night bragging about their little escapades since last I talked to them. Oh goodness, They did make it to Baja where they ditched the truck, it was empty by then anyhow. They caught a ride in a truck load of farmworkers heading toward Georgia then jumped ship when they found a man heading toward New York. Sadie suddenly had a yearning to see some tv show host in NYC. They did the side stop when they realized Mr Banfill was in that neck of the woods.

The jailbreak that was taking place while Willard and I were at Sylvia's hometown turned out to be another pair of runaways. Thank goodness.

Well, they are still trying to find a way into that show.

We're on our way with Sadie's pink butterfly net. More later.
Posted by Aunt Ornery at 6:05 AM - 5 Comments   Add a Comment  
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Better hurry! These are a lively pair!  
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by Anexplorer (PM , CC ) on Thursday May 22, 2008 @ 7:26 AM




Well, I guess Albert B. was conned! He may have conflated several of DT's nephews with this Roscoe attached to Sadie. (Aside from Leon, I don't think Albert ever met any other of DT's relatives.)

And Roscoe shared a cell with a "Ty"? hmmmm.... Does Roscoe have a history of bootlegging?

But I wonder why Sadie was calling Roscoe "Rod?" And this "explorer" they talked about looking up in Canada -- not that they could get past the customs check -- I wonder...
 
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by gnostix (PM , CC ) on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @ 12:54 AM




Roscoe's father was a bootlegger and Roscoe a "Ridgerunner"(the one who delivered it while being chased by revenuers). It's my belief that the "Rod" part may be a shortened version of "hotrod" another term used around here for a fast car or one who drives it.

As for them going to Canada--- That scares me and the girls (Willard and Fairweather).
 
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by Aunt Ornery (PM , CC ) on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @ 7:12 PM




Bet it scares Anex, too--  
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by Fairweather Lewis (PM , CC ) on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @ 8:15 PM




"Hotrod" contracted to "Rod" may settle some questions. I'll see what I can find out from DT, though his memory is unreliable.

Albert made the acquaintance of the clan while in the pen with DT; he's hardly an old hand at Appalachian culture. I'm still sorting out what he's doing in western NY, though the confluence of new Indian casinos and old bootlegging routes across the lakes may have influenced his new choice of home. It's certainly not because he loves skiing.

Here's a generic question about titles: My father (from a coal-mining region in western Pennsylvania) said that as kids (1920s-30s) they would call miners "coal-shiners." This suggests an obvious relationship with "moon-shiners." Have y'all ever heard of this at the southern end of the ridges? Are there any other sorts of "shiners" out there?
 
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by gnostix (PM , CC ) on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @ 11:36 PM


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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