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Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Moses Family Celebration, 1976, Whitley Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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The Whitley Republican, Williamsburg, KY - Aug. 19, 1976
heads or tales by Gene Siler, Sr.
The Moses' family celebrates with music and prayer
  Luscious green mountains reach down or either side of this stream called
Little Wolf and they seem to shake hands near the edge of the cool, crystal
waters as they start towards the distant sea.
   Certainly this creek is Little Wolf but these mountains are big and tall
as giants.  Thousands of Moses people have lived in the sheltering shadows
and drank from Little Wolf before it ever got contaminated by the dirty
fingers of civilization.
   Moses men folks either farmed the valleys or else arose before daybreak
and rode their hardtail mules up the slope and thru the lofty gap over to
Proctor to mine coal out of dark corridors where black gold deposits had
lain dormant for thousands of years.
   "You see my miner's pick tieclasp?  How many of you ever dug coal at
Proctor or Kensee or some other mine in this area way back yonder?"
   Hands went up all over the Moses Reunion crowd. Yes they had dug coal way
back yonder.
   And now Preacher Joe Moses takes out his banjo and sings "Go Down Moses."
Joe really goes after it.
   "Go down Moses and tell old Pharaoh to let my people go."
   As you remember, Pharaoh did in fact let the Moses people go.  And maybe
that's the reason we are here today, just celebrating their freedom after
all the centuries have passed by.
   "This is America's Bicentennial year.  So I want to give a prize to the
first one who will tell me the names of two American presidents that died on
July Fourth.  There were three such presidents, but I will settle for just
two names."
   "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson", says a lady from New York City.  What
a long distance she has come and what a vast spread both in populations and
in two different ways of life.  So she will take this prize back to Gotham
on the Hudson from all of us on Little Wolf Creek.
   "And now someone tell me what did a certain Bible Woman named Hannah pray
for and what did she promise God?  I'll give a Jesus dollar - that's a free
kind of dollar -- for the right answer to that question."
   "She prayed for a son and then promised to give him back to God."
  "You are absolutely right.  Here's your Jesus dollar, Charles Lee.  You do
know your Bible, don't you?"
   Speaking of Bible knowledge, Dave Roberts told me of a preacher who told
his congregation one Sunday they could read from Genesis to Revelations and
would never find but one way to get to heaven and that is the straight and
narrow way.
   Next Sunday a man said, "Preacher, after you told about just one way to
get to heaven me and Molly hunted through the bible and couldn't find a
thing about that.
   We read from 'Genesee to Revelo' but couldn't find it anywhere in the
Book."  Probably some of these Moses people know the Bible from "Genessee to
Revelo."   They are diligent students of the Word.
   Isham Moses also is one of those here today.  Came all the way from
Chicago.  He was a barber for 50 years before he finally folded up his razor
and clippers forever.  He tells me that a Chicago haircut now costs $5.00 in
some shops.
   So if your local barbers, merchants, doctors and lawyers seem to be
charging you high prices nowadays, just remember how prices are in Chicago
and then be grateful for Wolf Creek.
   Yesiree, Wolf Creek has more bargains, more beauty and more benevolence
than Chicago or New York.

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