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Chapter 3. Something old. Something new.

Jacob County, Kentucky. 1935.

The morning of Eli Mullins has wetten dawned clear and bright if a big cold.

Although the weather forecast in the Jacob County register assured the young groom that the temperature would rise to up around 50 degrees,

which was down right balmy for February on Pine Mountain.

Eli was up early of course helping his daddy on the farm who's running he would likely take over in the next few years as Joe Mullins is the eldest boy.

Now, farm requires tendon every day. Special occasions notwithstanding and in the lean years of the 1930s that was especially true.

The Mullins family was more fortunate than most. One of their primary cash crops being tobacco.

Commonity whose value wouldn't hit as hard by the stock market crash as many others but Joe had insisted they work harder than ever.

Expanding the farms they could offer work to local folks who had fallen on hard times.

The hard work paid off and the Mullins clan shared their good fortune with their community.

Adding a little more here and there to the church offering plate and helping folks out where they could when folks would accept help.

Of course, which many were too proud to do.

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