On May 16, Thursday Night at the Olio, Josh Goforth sang and played several different instruments.
He showed us a picture of his Grandpa with a chew of tobacco bulging out of his left jaw and began telling stories about him.
He said his Grandpa had many outbuildings or barns, and he kept them all locked. He carried a large key ring with many keys. He said, "Grandson, this barn you can never go in."
When he died, we opened the barn, full of car and truck bumpers.
His grannie said when your Grandpa got mad at someone, he would hop into his old truck, go to their house, pull their bumper off their vehicle, and store it in the barn.
Delores Hydock talked about spending time with Dr Ruth.
She was doing a play about Dr. Ruth but was afraid to call and tell her. She finally got up the nerve, and Dr. Ruth answered. During her performance one night, Dr. Ruth sat out in the front row of the audience.
After the show, she came on stage, signed books, and answered questions until midnight.
Said she had to catch a plane the next day.
She turned to Delores and said, "If you are ever in New York, look her up," and they would go out to eat.
So Dolores decided to take her up on the offer. Dr Ruth's manager made all the arrangements. Dolores bought airplane and theater tickets and hotel reversions, which were all non-refundable.
Dolores got a call that Dr Ruth was out of town and would not return in time for them to meet.
Dolores decided to go anyway. She had spent all that non-refundable money, so why not?
She had been there a few days when she received a call. The caller said Dr. Ruth was back in town and was headed to the beauty salon. Could she meet her there?
Dolores had tickets for a Broadway show that night at 7 P.M.
She met Dr. Ruth at the beauty salon and made dinner reservations at a restaurant across the street from the theater. Dr. Ruth ensured she saw her show. She was a very generous woman.
Tim Lowery told a story about Mother Goat and her four kids along the line of Little Red Riding Hood.
She left them alone to go to the market and told them not to open the door.
Along came the wolf knocking at the door. But the kids knew that voice was not their mother.
He came again, but they said our mother's paws were white.
So the wolf had his paw wrapped and flour put on them.
He came a third time and knocked on the door this time. They let him in, and he ate three kids, but one hid inside the clock.
When their mother came home, she discovered her kids were all gone except the one hiding. She searched for the wolf and found the wolf asleep, but he was very full.
She cut the wolf open and out jumped the three kids; she then took several large stones, placed them inside the wolf's stomach, and sewed him up. The wolf was so full of rocks that he fell in and drowned when he went to the river for a drink.
Tim also talks about his kindergarten class. One of his students had a very short attention span.
He also talked about his first-grade teacher who carried everything on her person, and she had a spoon down there!
Bil Lipp told a story about his and Skeeters' trip out west in a van.
A large RV got behind them when they were in a narrow gorge and a drop-off on both sides.
They kept honking their horn and hollering snide remarks until they finally passed.
Skeeter kept saying he was going to get even if he ever saw them again
Finally, they arrived at the campground and got settled in for the night when Bil noticed across the way the RV that had passed them.
Bill noticed that they were drinking heavily. The drunk 'RVs saw some cows behind a fence and decided to go cow tipping, and they also decided to tip a bull.
Bil and Skeeter decided to get even with the guys in the RV. They walked up to the RV, told the guys a story about the Godist of Cows, and scarred the men. They then went inside their RV very drunk.
Skeeter and Bill put a jack under the RV and tipped it over. Then, all the men came climbing out of the RV's windows.
Someone called the police, and they came and wanted to know what was happening.
Bil and Skeeter rushed back to their camp.
Kevin Kline talked about his life and growing up in Minnesota. I could not hear him very well. He talked about going skiing and going up a lift. They were told not to wear long gloves or long scarves.
Kevin could not grasp the rope when they reached the top, which kept pulling him up.
Kevin has an artificial Limb on his left side, and when he could not let go of the rope, he loosened his artificial limb, flew up in the air, and fell to the ground.
A woman was watching, and she screamed he had lost his arm.
Kelvin also talked about wearing his mother's ice skates and ice fishing.
Eric Kirkman opened the festival Friday morning. He talked about himself.
He said I am a school principal at Kilby, a musician, a parent, a husband, and a graduate.
He said you must know who you are, what you are, where you are, and why.
He had to return to school, for kindergarteners graduated that morning.
Kelvin talked about getting a haircut from someone other than his regular barber. He mentioned this to the barber cutting his hair, who said he knew how to do it now.
Kevin talked about himself as a kid and his brother walking him home from school. They took a detour to the local store. Kevin said this was not the way home, but his brother said that was okay. Kevin knew his brother would not lie. His brother said, "I will buy you a red and blue icy."
The icy machine broke and would not stop running, and ice was everywhere. Every cup or anything that held ice was filled to the brim.
His brother finally opened his mouth and let the ice flow inside. He got a brain freeze.
Dolores told a true story about taking a year-long trip to Europe with a roommate at age 19, and it did not turn out how she expected it to.
They stay with a German family for several weeks before beginning their European adventure.
When their time came to leave, her roommate had fallen head over the hill in love with OLLIO.
They bought a Volkswagen and began their travels, but they had an accident. The car was not worth fixing. Her roommate wanted to return to OLLIO, so she left Dolores alone. They did correspond, and Dolores hoped that her roommate was over OLLIO, but no.
Finally, the letters stopped, and Dolores continued her journey and took several jobs. She spent the whole year alone without her friend. They did not speak for 40 years. One day, after 40 years, her friend found her on Facebook and contacted her. At first, Dolores was reluctant to respond. They finally met and took a three-hour trip together. They talked everything out and became friends, and Dolores forgave her friend.
Tim told a story about his adventures driving a carriage in Charleston. South Carolina.
He met and worked with two barn hands, Smokey and Stinky, who spoke the Crealo language.
Clyde, who trained Clydesdale for Budweiser, was their boss.
Clyde gave Smokey and Stinky a hard time, but they would get even with Clyde.
The horse that pulled Tim's carriage was very touchy about his ears.
One day, Tim was late pulling into the barn, and Smokey was in no hurry to clean the horse. So Clyde got inside with the horse to clean him, when Stinkey stuck his finger into his mouth and put that finger into Tim's horse. The horse raised his foot and came down hard on Clyde's foot. This happened several times.
After that, Clyde resigned and went to work elsewhere.
Josh talked about his love for music and Musicals.
He discussed The Sound of Music, The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz, and many others.
He talked about music notes and sang several songs listed in the Baptist Red Hymnal.
He talked about when he visited Austria, where the Sound of Music was performed.
DO (liked dough), re (like Ray without the y), Mi (like me), fa (as in far), So (like it looks), LA (like it seems), ti (like tea), DO (like dough).
Josh sang several songs and played a variety of instruments.
Dolores told the story about Mrs. Griffith: "In her fashion," Mrs. Griffith, a sales clerk and more for Loveman's Department Store in Birmingham.
Mrs. Griffith let Dolores record her talking about her life in her 90s.
Mrs. Griffith talked about her husband going overseas during WWI. Her first position at Loveman's Department Store was sewing on tags in the basement.
Tim talked about having free time with his family during the Storytelling. He took his family to the Florence Lauderdale Visitor Center to find interesting things to do with his family. At the visitor center, three volunteers suggested places to visit; one said the Train Bridge.
A young college student said, "When you get to the end, take off your underwear and throw it into the tree below the bridge."
Tim said this is not suitable for children.
Next, the young man standing behind the counter said, go to the Rattlesnake Saloon,
Tim talked about their adventure to the saloon and said another place was unsuitable for children. My girls wanted to go back to the hotel to swim, so he took them back to the hotel and went back to the visitor center.
All the volunteers were gone this time, and regular work was behind the desk.
This time, she said take your family to Ivy Green, the Home of Helen Keller.
So off Tim went by himself to check it out. Tim had read the life of Helen Keller, her autobiography, and knew the history. He hit the jackpot.
He returned to the hotel and got his family, who all enjoyed Ivy Green.
Later, he called a friend who teaches deaf and dumb students and told him about Ivy Green.
He asked him if there was a way he could record and transmit the live video while walking around Ivy Green.
His friend said yes, and the children would love it.
The local TV Station got wind of what Tim was doing and recorded Tim transmitting to the children.
A couple was visiting Ivy Green at the same time as Tim Recording, and he asked them if they would like to learn sign language from the Zoom class watching, and they said yes.
Tim talked about his train ride from the St Louis Airport to downtown St Louis for a festival.
On the train ride, he met an audience consisting of a woman singing into a banana and a young man wearing earplugs singing to himself out loud.
A young man with a boombox loud enough for everyone to hear and, finally, a group of kindergarten singing. Tim said I enjoyed that train ride more than the festival.
Kelvin talked about his three-day hobo train ride from Minnesota to Washington State for a seafood meal.
He said that, and a friend and I jumped aboard a boxcar and began our journey.
They jumped off one train and then hopped onto another, only to find themselves going in the wrong direction.
After three days of adventure, they finally arrived and enjoyed a nice seafood meal.
Kevin said my friend got a job in Washington and had to hobo himself home.
Every time we saw Tim, he had a fan in his hand, and I asked him if he was hot. He said I am always hot. "I said I thought about buying one of those horns for my grandson, but my granddaughter would kill me.
Bill talked about him and Skeeter borrowing almost a mile of waterholes from his neighbors so they could have water at their camp. They also borrowed a goat from one of their neighbors.
Bill said they would tie it off when we were not using the waterhole so the water would not run out.
One day, their neighbor saw his goat atop a water spout in town.
The goat got thirsty and chewed the hose into water, which came gushing out and blew the goat into the air.
The neighbors had reported the missing hoses and goat.
The sheriff asked the boys if they knew anything about the hoses and goat, but they replied no!
We arrive early Thursday night.
Hubby and I ordered drinks and sat outside at Lost Pizza until Wanda arrived.
Wanda and I walked over to the theater to purchase tickets.
We saw Dolores, and she saw us.
She said two of my favorite people. She came over and hugged both of us.
I told her that I made sure not to miss the festival this year.
But I had a trip coming up in a couple of weeks.
The next day, Dolores mistook me for Peggy. We talked about her travels in Europe. Wanda said I could not see myself doing that because, at that time, I had not traveled far from home.
I said I could see myself at that age traveling to Europe on a whelm.
When I was 17, I traveled alone on a train from Decatur, AL., to Chicago, IL., to live with relatives. I was a few months pregnant then, but I did not mention that. This was in the late 60s, and telephone books were loaded with information. I took the telephone book out and looked at the bus route across town to see a friend's mother.
I talked about arriving at the Chicago Train depot and going to the restroom only to find out it cost 25 cents to use it. Of course, I was small enough to crawl under the door.
Dolores said that cash was not used in Sweden, and you had to have a code to pay to use the restroom.
She said I was at a loss when this young man who could speak English paid for us to use the restrooms.
I saw a couple of ladies from CBS who were there all three days. I also met a couple with whom I went to church at New Beginnings.
I met a couple named Dave and Gayle sitting out front of Theaterter. They were from Iowa and had come for the festival.
Dolores mistook me for Peggy, a woman about my height and curly blond hair.
Peggy was a retired teacher who traveled the world with her students and others. We talked about traveling to Denmark. She was with a friend, and they were from Centerville, TN.
I met a couple living in an RV. They were staying in Red Bay and having work done on their RV at the Allegro Plant. They said they had traveled all 49 states in their RV. Her husband was a retired Military man.
Met the director for the Storytelling.
I met Wanda's friends from Minnesota, who had moved here a few years ago.
On Thursday night, Olio, I wore my blue capris, a blue short-sleeve-checked shirt, and a black sweatshirt.
On Friday, I wore a white capri with my pink and white pullover, a sweatshirt from Victoria's Secret, and multi-colored pink shoes. We ate lunch at Rigatoni's, where I ordered the day's soup. (It consisted of Several cheeses with a tomato base.) I had gotten cold in the theater and needed something to warm me up. I drank water with lemon.
We also had two bags of bread with spices and olive oil. Since we were a little early getting back, we walked to the General Store.
On Saturday, I wore black pants, a Teal green sweatshirt, and my white long-sleeve henley American Eagle shirt. I also took my Little Mermaid teal blanket.
We ate lunch at Rosie Cantina, where I ordered 2 tacos and a side order of guacamole
with glass water and lemon.
It rained heavily while we were at Rosie's and was still sprinkling when we walked to the Salvation Army Store.
After the Storytelling, Hubby picked me up, and we went to Texas Roadhouse. He had been begging all week to go get a steak there.
When we arrived, the girl checking us in said there would be a 30-minute wait or longer, but if we wanted to sit at the bar, we could go right in, so we did.
Hubby ordered his steak with baked potato and salad.
I ordered grilled chicken fingers with sweet potato and salad. I was not hungry, so I gave my salad to my Hubby and ate part of my chicken and sweet potato.
Got a to-go box and ate chicken for breakfast and lunch the next day.
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