Everybody Loves A Good Watermelon
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In this sixth of fourteen short stories that Abbie Joules has written about her deceased brother, Ben, the small farming community of Peach Creek comes together in a contest of marksmanship to help raise money for a meeting hall--and a pool table. The contest, conceived by Ben (who is a crack shot) raises the funds needed for the hall, but the event doesn't end the way he envisions it. Ben thinks he's holding all the cards, but he doesn't reckon on Mr. Moore who has donated the land for the hall.
Michael Allender
I was born in Dalhart, Texas, received degrees at Texas A&M in Wildlife Science and Psychology, and did post graduate work at Utah State in ethology. I worked as a professional photographer and wildlife artist, and authored "The Guadalupe Mountains Of Texas", published by the University of Texas Press, a coffee table book of a west Texas national park. I then worked for 25 years as a wood craftsman and entrepreneur. I currently live in Redmond, Oregon, and avail myself of every opportunity to paddle the wild rivers of the Pacific Northwest, from California to northern Canada and Alaska.
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Everybody Loves A Good Watermelon - Michael Allender
EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD WATERMELON
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Michael Allender
Copyright 2014 Michael Allender
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Everybody Loves a Good Watermelon
(Story # 6)
In east Texas during the early fifties, watermelons were a way of life, a summer ritual, and usually in greater supply than there was demand. And a surplus of anything always got my brother to thinking and scheming. Ben Joules was a wheeler and a dealer.
All the families along our little Peach Creek, which is just southeast of College Station, liked to get together from time to time to talk about the weather, discuss mutual problems, and air grievances. As a close-knit country community,