Rosemary Brown's Pentecostal Songs in Indiana!

By Rosemary Brown

I thought what was that? Something different is going on and then I got real quiet and listened again. And sure enough I heard a Yoo Hoo pronounced (you who) . So I went out to the back yard and looked across the hill and valley to Grandma's Hill and there was Aunt Virgie calling Yoo Hoo. I ran to get Mother and told her that Aunt Virgie was calling. So she went out into the back yard and answered back with a similiar "Yoo Hoo". That's to let the caller know that we are listening for the message. Aunt Virgie said, Nodie (Noah) broke ee's arm. (My poor mother with all the struggles and trials of raising a family did not want to believe this message. So she called back "What did you say?" I said Mom she said "Nodie broke his arm. "No,No, She didn't say that." "Yes she did." I said.

Then Mother ask where is he and Aunt Virgie said that Ted and Ike took him to the doctor. It seems that he was in the Orchard and when he went to go back to the house he climbed the Gate instead of opening it and got his toes caught in the wires on top of the gate and fell backward with his arm landing across a rock and it broke smack dab in two. Later the story was told of how He ran from them and his arm was hanging almost to the ground and he was so scared that he was going to get a licking that he ran not realizing they were only trying to rescue him. He probably thought he was going to get a whipping for trying to climb the gate. Our parents did not hesitate if they thought we needed a whoopen, and sometimes I guess we did. Even if one did we might all get it because as my Dad used to say he wanted to make sure he got the right one. I can well understand why he ran , He wasn't all that big to start with.

A little later that summer Mother got a chance to go visit Grandma and Aunt Ella who had moved back to the old HOme Place in Kentucky. They had left the big house to Uncle Ted and Aunt Virgie. Uncle Jim was married by this time and lived in Anderson and he and Aunt Myrtle were going to Ky. They had ask Mother if she wanted to go along with them and of course she was very anxious to see her mother. Uncle Jim had said Mom and the Baby (Raymond) could go with them, but that's all the room they had for extra passengers. Now mother was not about to leave Noah behind with that broken arm, she wanted to make sure he didn't get even more damage. He can sit on my lap I heard her say when Jim objected. Of course she was already holding a Baby. So mother took some groceries with her because she always worried about Grandma and she was always one who insisted upon paying her own way. AS soon as they got gone my Dad started catching chickens to sell. I don't remember how he got them to market, but I do know he exchanged them for money. He acted like he had been set free, and that Sunday morning we got up and got cleaned up and went walking over to Memorial Park, where we stayed all day. Pop pitched horse shoes and ate fron the concession stand and us children went down the crooked slide (a real treat for us) and on the swings and the merry go round. When we got hungry June would say let's go ask Pop can we have an ice cream cone, which we got, because I guess he knew we had to have something to eat. It was a lot of fun and that night we walked back home. It was about two or three miles but we were happy.

When mother got home the next day and found out her chickens were gone she cried and said, "I was saving the chickens to buy school books for you kids." If she had known that pop was going to act so irresponsibly she would have sold the chickens her self and used the money and have what she really needed for that trip. Now she said "We will have to go to the trustee to get money for school books." She was really humiliated because this family always made their own way they did not ask for anything. They believed in working for what you got or doing without. That year after Mother had to go " a beggin" not Pop but Mom had to do it, we had new books, where always before we had second hand books, and June said this is better anyway. We had never had new books before.

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