Fireworks

Appalachian Furniture: An imported idea The Professor of Appalachian Studies at Mountain Dream College to show his interest in traditional Appalachian furniture constructed the furniture in his house from packing crates. The Appalachian Newspaper came and took pictures. The wire service picked up the story, carried it coast to coast. His hillbilly neighbors discussed where he got his ideas-they had never seen such. A youth, member of the Route 23 generation, explained that's how they used to make furniture in Chicago where the professor was from. They discussed and discussed and finally decided his furniture was traditional Appalachian. After all, Appalachia itself was only invented about 1965 and some professor up in Ohio is still mad because he failed to copywrite the name. Cousin Jedd spent two weeks admiring the professor's furniture. I cleaned out the workshop and we have a lot of orders from all over the U.S.A. The professor's angry, but he ought to knowed he could never patent his next door neighbor's family tradition. -Walter Lane Fireworks (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee) No fiery dandelion heads to sparkle and blow across the summer lawns or the prissy ladyfingers you get up north but something with bang for your buck: a roman candle held by hand; a silvertube ignited in a garbage can to whack into ringing the anvil of a southern sky; an underwater cherrybomb (sunfish floating up, pointing like dead fingers); and the screaming thing I can't forget that chased me down the street like those red and yellow signs in Pigeon Forge: Fireworks! Legal! Last Chance! -Charles Darling 44 ...