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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 January 2008 )
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History in the Round: A Family's Tradition Comes Full Circle with a Mule-Powered Swing |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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Story and Photos by Jennifer Kettler,
Rural Missouri Magazine
July 2005, Volume 57, Number 7 Reprinted here with their permission.
After nearly 75 years Letha Freer is reunited with a piece of her past.
Letha, a Poplar Bluff native, once again rides a mule powered carousel
swing similar to one that her father, Lee Collins, owned and operated
with her uncle George in the 1920s.
As Letha carefully sits on the old wooden seat, creaky pine beams
screech and ropes tighten. The contraption’s arms slowly settle into
familiar positions as the swing prepares for takeoff.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 July 2008 )
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