Creighton:
I checked with Debbie's dad, Paul Loomis (lives in Union Valley between Cuyler and Cincinnatus, descendant of the infamous Loomis Gang), on the current prices of fur:
Big beaver $30-35 (he got another one today)
Muskrat $3 (considering all the work involved this hardly seems worth it)
Raccoon $14-15
Red fox $30-35 (I see this dead on the road of late)
Gray fox $20
(I forgot to ask about deer hides)
Paul remembered '79 and '80 as the peak years for fur.
In recent years there has been a big anti-fur group here in Syracuse that used to picket a local furrier, I'm thinking right around Thanksgiving, and got pretty wild one year. I think there was a high school kid who got up on top of a police car at one point but was wrestled to the ground and taken away in hand cuffs.
It was a little hard to find much white around this Christmas but I imagine in the hills around Caroline there was still a fair amount of white...
Bruce (evidently didn't get the memo that today was a holiday--I'm one of only three or four out of about fifteen on our staff here today)
-----Original Message-----
From: This isn`t an orifice, it`s help with fluorescent lighting.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Creighton
Brown
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 2:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin
There was , not to many years ago, a coon club near my house in Caroline
Center , NY. A square pond with a pulley system over head. On the rope was a
caged coon which was pulled over the pond with the contesting coon dogs in
pursuit under. First to the opposite shore won 50% and first to bay at the
bottom of the pole 50%. Of course you couldn't bet on the dogs, that's
illegal, but you could buy a share in a dog and sell it after the race for
more if it won. In the early 70s a good coon pelt was worth up to $70, so
the guys around me were serious about bringing them in. I visited the hills
of Caroline for Christmas
, we arrived to find my friend had lined the driveway with hollowed out
blocks of ice with candles suspended inside. The prettiest thing I've seen
in a long time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Sasser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin
> Deb & Ruth,
>
> I once attended a wedding in southwestern Pennsylvania where the bride and
> groom wore camo while reciting their vows on a hilltop. The evening
> festivities culminated in a midnight coon hunt with the bride and groom
and
> dogs leading off the procession in the back of a pickup truck. A good
time
> was had by all (except perhaps the coons).
>
> Lisa
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Deb Bledsoe <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > your uncle wasn't making excuses; as you are not an appendage person,
you
> > weren't invited -
> > coon hunting is mostly just a way for the mens to get out of the house
and
> > away from the rules of the womenfolk...
> > they sit around a big camp fire, cuss, pass a jar of white liquor, piss
on
> > the trees, tell whatever kind of jokes they want, maybe play a little
> banjo
> > and guitar
>
> > To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
> > uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> > <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
>
> --
> To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
|
