In this episode Ray talks about an accident that nearly caused a family tragedy.

Well, I suppose I'm a Methodist born and a Methodist bred, since both my mother and my father were Methodist.

Writer/Narrator: Ray B. Rogers Producer/Editor/Engineer: Bradford Rogers Additional Voiceover: Bradford Rogers

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives!

Music for this podcast may include the following:

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Good Thoughts (ID 45) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hoh Hey (ID 918) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Arround the Lake (ID 928) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz

Most people don't hitchhike these days...but we did it all the time when I was coming along...

See Show Notes for musical and production credits, including music from our friend Lobo Loco.

Where did this statement come from? Maybe a farmer, who had run out of food for his hog with no money to buy more hog food, turned his hog out into the fields and woods to forage for himself.

The hog would find acorns in the woods to help satisfy his hunger and then he would have to root for more dinner.

And so it is “Root, hog, or die.” It is simple, some effort must be forthcoming or the hog will die.

So it was during the Great Depression. It was “root hog or die” for people, as well as pigs.

Writer/Narrator: Ray B. Rogers Producer/Editor/Engineer: Bradford Rogers Additional Voiceover: Bradford Rogers

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives!

Music for this podcast may include the following:

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Good Thoughts (ID 45) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hoh Hey (ID 918) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Keep It In Your Heart (ID 899) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Everything on the Colne is good Nicky Cook Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)

PLANTATION Jason Shaw Creative Commons License (BY)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz

A special Christmas Hello and update from "The Little White House" in Winston County, Mississippi.

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives!

Music for this podcast may include the following:

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz

Where have all these critters gone?

Writer/Narrator: Ray B. Rogers Producer/Editor/Engineer: Bradford Rogers Additional Voiceover: Bradford Rogers

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives!

Music for this podcast may include the following:

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Good Thoughts (ID 45) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

After All (ID 943) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hoh Hey (ID 918) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hoh Harph (ID 924) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Driving to the Delta (ID 923) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Uncredibble Frog River Route (ID 252) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Keep It In Your Heart (ID 899) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Arround the Lake (ID 928) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Lucky The Horse (ID 916) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Everything on the Colne is good Nicky Cook Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)

PLANTATION Jason Shaw Creative Commons License (BY)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Pine Apple Rag Scott Joplin (piano roll) Public Domain

Weirder Drake Stafford Creative Commons License (BY)

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz

I still maintain...that it was all Winston Churchill's fault.

Writer/Narrator: Ray B. Rogers Producer/Editor/Engineer: Bradford Rogers Additional Voiceover: Bradford Rogers

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives...!

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Good Thoughts (ID 45) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

After All (ID 943) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Arround the Lake (ID 928) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Lucky The Horse (ID 916) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Weirder Drake Stafford Creative Commons License (BY)

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz

I was afraid this might be a little risqué, but here goes… And rest assured, this was recorded on a weekday—and besides, it’s probably not what you think, folks.

But just have a listen as I explain The Lost Art…

Writer/Narrator: Ray B. Rogers Producer/Editor/Engineer: Bradford Rogers Additional Voiceover: Bradford Rogers

Special thanks to Lobo Loco and these talented creatives...!

Malte Junior - Hall (ID 738) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Uncredibble Frog River Route (ID 252) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Arround the Lake (ID 928) Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Everything on the Colne is good Nicky Cook Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)

When The Mockingbirds Are Singing In The Wildwood Frank C. Stanley Public Domain

Pine Apple Rag Scott Joplin (piano roll) Public Domain

Click HERE to order Ray’s book Depression Baby: True Stories from Growing Up During the Great Depression in Appalachia — and Other Things… https://amzn.to/2H8jqgz