[Granville-Hough] 22 Oct 2009 - More Farmer Adventures in Jackson

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

More Farmer Adventures in Jackson.

Our story of our misadventures peddling cantaloupes in Jackson reminded 
Harold Hopkins, formerly of Mize, of his days as a news reporter in 
Jackson for the Daily Clarion Ledger. One of his duties as a neophyte 
was to check the police blotter each morning for possible stories. One 
morning he was startled by the appearance on the blotter of the name of 
one of his first cousins, one of the Roberts boys from Mize, either Earl 
or Prentiss, jailed for vagrancy. Roberts had gone to sleep next to his 
truck load of melons, then had been picked up in a police sweep of the 
area. It seems that after WW II, Jackson developed a farmer’s market 
where everyone had to go when they had produce to sell. Roberts was not 
aware of this restriction, so learned about it the hard way. Harold got 
him out of jail on his own recognizance and never saw Roberts again. (If 
such a law had been in effect when we were there in 1937, the jail would 
not have held us all. Besides, if we had told the Jackson police we were 
all from Sullivan’s Hollow, they would not have risked having us in the 
jail.) We finally sold our truckload of overripe cantaloupes for ten 
cents per dozen and managed to lose $10.00 and a lot of sleep on the two 
day trip. We hope the Roberts lad did no worse. They lived on the farm 
next to ours.

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And in the words of the Eskimo proverb: "May you have warmth in your 
igloo, oil in your lamps, and peace in your heart."