Well isn't it a small world. A good friend of mine here in the Berkshires is
Charles Loomis, He showed me a book about his decendants, the Loomis gang
from over that way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Marcham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin
> 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
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> > <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:
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>
> --
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