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Clint Black
20
Country star Clint Black has found overnight
success, but he's still looking for Miss Right.
Why I Love Country Music: By George Bush 24
In an exclusive essay for Country America
magazine, the United States' biggest country music
fan reveals why he loves that Nashville sound.
Enter Our Photo Contest
26
Your best photo could win you a fantastic family
vacation in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks.
Contest Winner Appears in Music Video
46
Visit the set of Shenandoah's latest music video
with Wayne Faulkenberry, the winner of our
On his recent trip
to Las Vegas,
Spend a day with
October 1989 "Win a Trip to Nashville" contest.
Clint Black was
a commercial
the best bet in
fisherman on
town. See story
page 60.
TRADITIONS
on page 20.
Country Roots: Signs of the Climes
16
Learn how you
Discover how birds, bugs and other natural
can make these
forecasters can predict changes in the weather.
crafts beginning
Patchwork Politics
on page 51.
36
For more than a century quilters have relied
on the power of the cloth to express their
concern about peace, politics and preservation.
TRAVEL
Highway to Heaven
29
Take a ride on Virginia's Skyline Drive, a
100-mile adventure through some of the
United States' most beautiful wilderness.
Where Big Muddy Runs Clean
42
Ride along as we explore an unspoiled
section of the historic Missouri River.
Take a canoe trip
in beautiful
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CRAFTS
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See page 29.
Old-Fashioned Country Crafts
51
Artisans share their secrets
for making candles, brooms,
wheat weavings and more.
continued on page 4
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Contents
continued from page 2
COUNTRY PEOPLE
pizzazz,
Every Cowboy's Girl
34
or
Cowgirl Liz Masterson educates people about life in the
twist-dye Blue.
Old West through her stories and songs.
easy. country Country classics.
A Day in the Life
60
Commercial fisherman David Dykstra
It's
risks the dangers of sailing on the
high seas to net big rewards.
a Cardinal Reart Foom Green.
OUTDOORS
Fossils Yield a Ton of Fun
58
Clarence Johnsrud finds dinosaur bones
and petrified plants on his farm.
Hank Thompson's 'Wild Side of Life' 64
Singer Hank Thompson travels from the
Alaskan tundra to the African deserts
looking for new hunting adventures.
Spend a story-
filled day with
COOKING
Hank Thompson
on page 64.
Sweet, Sweet Sorghum
68
Some of America's best cooks are baking with a traditional
favorite. Included are recipes for Apple Tea Bread, Shoo-
Fly Pie, Oatmeal Cookies, Oven Caramel Corn and more.
Celebrity Kitchen
76
a swag with real
Singer Tom Wopat cooks two of his favorite dishes:
Wopat's Wonderful Spaghetti and Tom's Beef Stew.
Then wooden Perfect! stain rod
REGULAR FEATURES
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Editor's Country: Work, work, work.
6
Letters: Where to find old 45's, advice on publishing your own
country songs and a water witch's words of wisdom
9
Country Calendar: Attend apple celebrations, bike rides, harvest
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Country Almanac: Pick a pretty pumpkin
19
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COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
COUNTRYAMERICA
1716 Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa 50336
Volume 1 Issue 10
Danita Allen
Editor
Bill Eftink
Managing Editor
Jerry J. Rank
Art Director
Mike Hood Senior Editor
Dick Sowienski
Senior Editor
Neil Pond
Senior Editor
Diane Yanney
Senior Associate Editor
Lisa Kingsley
Associate Editor
Jeanice Midgett
Assistant Editor
Curt Goettsch
Assistant Art Director
Pat Akers
Copy and Production
Editor
Cathy Lorentzen
Graphic Designer
David Simmons
Editorial Assistant
Dave Rawson
Contributing Editor
Nancy Reeves
Administrative Assistant
Marilyn Konrad
Copy Coordinator
Sandra Kinter
Art Coordinator
Diane Connett
Assistant to Editors
Richard L. Krumme
General Manager and
Editorial Director
James M. Gabal
Publisher
Gail Healy
National Advertising
Manager
Clem Sevde
Circulation Director
Susan Johnson
Circulation Manager
Mike Senior
Newsstand Director
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Production Director
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Public Relations
Representative
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Manager of
Marketing Services
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When nature's spectacular show of fall colors appears in Tennessee,
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midst of the fall colors, you'll find fascinating handmade crafts and
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EDITOR'S COUNTRY
Work, work, work
Country people know what hard
mechanics aren't like Gomer Pyle.
work is all about. They usually learn
Most working people are
that lesson early in life.
thoughtful, honorable and creative
My own country upbringing im-
in coming up with solutions to
pressed upon me the importance of
work problems. Country people
having chores to do while I was
take pride in jobs well done.
young. I know I didn't appreciate wa-
And second, we simply want to
tering the pigs and other odd jobs at
pay tribute to you hard-working
the time, but I've come to realize the
people who feed America,
sense of responsibility these chores
manufacture the products we use
gave me and my sisters. I think the
and provide the services we need.
work made us feel we played an im-
The first story in our series,
portant role in the family, too.
spotlighting a day in the life of a
For the past few years, I've
commercial fisherman, begins on
searched for some chore for my older
page 60. Send me your ideas for
daughter, Callina, almost seven, that
other occupations to feature.
would be more important than picking up toys or
clothes. Although these chores are important, I
President Bush writes for us!
wanted to give her some tasks that were more
Don't miss the article by President George Bush
significant. Let's face it: If she doesn't pick up her
on page 24 telling us why he loves country music.
toys or clothes, we step
We're proud of the article-not every magazine can
over them, and they're
talk the president into writing an exclusive essay!
still there the next day.
Senior editor Neil Pond deserves credit for the
As of a few months
story. A friend of his from church knew a contact
ago, Callina was given a
at the White House. Before we knew it, the
serious chore: She feeds
president offered to write an essay for us!
chickens that go hungry
At first we thought a speech writer would write
if she doesn't do her job.
the essay and the president would merely approve
My hope is that she will
it. That's the way it started, but the president soon
grow up with a sense of
took such a personal interest in the essay he
the importance of work
rewrote most of it himself. We're grateful to the
and of doing it well.
president and hope you enjoy his article.
The importance of
work to country people is
I
can't stop bragging
the impetus behind our
I like this issue so much I can't stop bragging. Be
new series "A Day in the
sure to enter our Country America/Kenny Rogers
Life." We will be
photo contest on page 26. Kenny, who has pub-
featuring stories about
lished two books of photographs, offers some tips.
the working people who
Finally, I know you won't want to miss our cover
keep America running.
story on the charming Clint Black on page 20. I
We decided to start the
was lucky enough to meet him last fall at Michael
feature for a couple of
Martin Murphey's West Fest (see page 40 of our
reasons. First, we want
June issue). He was obviously enjoying himself,
to combat the stereotype
carrying around his video camera and taking
of country people as
pictures just like all us other tourists. A great guy!
naive, simple-minded
folks popularized by the
media. We all know
My daughter Callina is
Danita aller
learning about work
country law-enforcement
by feeding chickens
officers aren't like
Danita Allen
and gathering eggs.
Barney Fife, and
Editor
6
Photo: Curt Goettsch
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
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around
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LETTERS
strings attached or any clubs I
in your magazine. I can check
There you go again!
can join that will give me tips on
water depth with a gold ring on
getting my songs published?
a gold chain or with two washers
Dear Readers,
B. J. Smith
on a piece of thread that swings
It's official. Now more than
Lancaster, California
back and forth. Each complete
600,000 of you buy Country
swing represents a foot, and it's
America magazine. That's a 50
Dear B. J.,
fairly accurate for me.
percent jump from 400,000
The business of country music
Verna M. Habecker
when we launched in October
is more businesslike than ever.
Lititz, Pennsylvania
1989. We can hardly keep up
Reputable Nashville publishers,
with your overwhelming
producers and record companies
response, and we're pretty
are not looking for lyrics or
Our kids aren't ugly
happy about that. Thanks!
poems-even good ones. They
The Editors
want complete, fully formed
Dear Editor,
songs. They'll also return mailed
I had to write about your
material unopened.
article on Lewis Grizzard in the
Avoid companies or individuals
May issue. In the article he lists
Wouldn't you?
offering to "put your lyrics to
some song titles for which he
music" for a fee. A longstanding
hadn't written lyrics. One of
Dear Editor,
rule of thumb: Never pay anyone
them was "You're the Reason
I'd walk a mile for a
to assist you in your songwriting.
Our Children Are Ugly." In fact,
country smile
You'd be better served by finding
Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
I'd swim or spin for a
a collaborator who specializes in
recorded "You're the Reason Our
country grin
melodies instead of words.
Kids Are Ugly" in 1978, and it is
I'd wade, I'd run for some good
The Editors
one of their funniest songs.
country fun
Debbi Reed
I'd jump, I'd fly for a clear
Ridgeway, Ohio
Dad went noodlin'
country sky
Wouldn't you?
Lynda Paxton
Dear Editor,
A single request
Halethorpe, Maryland
In your April issue we acci-
dentally found an article, "Gone
Dear Lisa Kingsley
Noodlin' for Fish," that men-
(Associate Editor),
Working for a song
tioned my dad, Pooge Henson.
I really enjoyed the article
The incident happened more
"Every Single Single" in the
Dear Editor,
than 45 years ago, and though
June issue. I have many old 45's,
I am a 38-year-old housewife
Dad has been dead for 25 years,
but the stores aren't selling them
and mother of five. I have been
it was great to read about him.
anymore, so my collection isn't
writing lyrics and poems since I
The article about water witching
growing. Do you know of a place
was 12 years old. I've always
in the May issue was also some-
that sells old singles?
been interested in being
thing Dad did. Anytime someone
Jason Duet
published but never knew how
wanted a well drilled, my dad
Thibodaux, Louisiana
to go about it.
would find the water vein.
I have sung some of my songs
Elsie Stroud
Dear Jason,
at local jam sessions, and they
Farmington, Missouri
Try Terry Horn, c/o Music
seem to go over well. I have sent
Mood Enterprise, RR 2 Box 296,
in several to companies
Rushville, IN 46173. They
advertised in other magazines,
'Witch' way to water?
specialize in country music.
and they all seem to say the
The Editors
same thing: "We love your song.
Dear Editor,
Send us $400, and we'll do
I was particularly interested in
Dear Readers,
something with it." I'm afraid
the water-witching article in the
We like to hear from you!
such companies are scams.
May issue. I also am a dowser,
Send your comments and
My question is this: Are there
water witch, etc. I've done some
questions to Country America™
any people or publishers out
80 homes since 1965. It's still
magazine, 1716 Locust St.,
there somewhere that will
popular here where public water
Des Moines, IA 50336.
actually read my lyrics and give
is not available. I use any fruit
The Editors
me an honest opinion with no
twig shaped like the one pictured
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
9
It's not only beautiful,
you can drink it.
And that's the way it
should be. Let's all pitch in
and make water pollution
a thing of the past.
Pure Water Pure Country
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Join TNN, your cable
operator and your local
environmental organization
in this important water
conservation project,
Pure Water, Pure Country.
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COUNTRY CALENDAR
Northwest
Folk Art and
Traditional Culture,
Billings, Montana,
Sept. 17-Dec. 30
Take a look at the folk art and
culture of the Yellowstone
region. Folk artists from various
cultures will be represented.
Call 406/256-6809.
Harvest Festival,
Wapato, Washington,
Havre Festival Days,
Sept. 1-3
Havre, Montana,
Celebrate fall's splendor and
Sept. 22-23
bounty with a carnival, parade
Get into the festival spirit with
and games for the kids.
games of all kinds, sale items, a
Call 509/877-2275.
parade and contests galore.
Browse through the booths of
Evanston Cowboy Days,
200 arts and crafts exhibitors.
Evanston, Wyoming,
Call 406/265-4383.
Sample American Indian
Sept. 1-3
foods, dances and arts and
Round up all the kids for an
Washington State Autumn
crafts at the Native American
exciting PRCA-sanctioned rodeo,
Leaf Festival,
Lifeways festival September
21-22 in Montrose, Colorado.
arts and crafts and a parade.
Leavenworth, Washington,
Call 303/839-5509.
Call 800/225-5996.
Sept. 28-Oct. 6
You can celebrate the beauty of
Ketchum Wagon Days,
the coming fall with a grand
Hydroplane Races,
Ketchum, Idaho,
parade, hot-air balloon rides,
Lake Mead, Nevada,
Sept. 3
band concerts, dancing and a
Sept. 22
This celebration of past mining
hearty pancake breakfast.
See hydroplane racing at its best.
history features flapjack
Call 509/548-5807.
This event will be a big splash!
breakfasts and band concerts.
Call 702/731-2115.
Call 800/634-3347.
Southwest
Spinning Spools Quilt Show,
Northwest Championship
Shawnee, Oklahoma,
Chili Cook-off,
Sept. 22
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,
Browse through 100 quilts on
Sept. 8
display, attend workshops or bid
Idaho hosts this regional cook-off
on a quilt at the auction.
in honor of the Idaho centennial.
Call 405/273-0184.
Call 800/232-4908.
Fall Festival,
Nordicfest,
Boulder, Colorado,
Libby, Montana,
Sept. 28-30
Sept. 13-16
Annual One-Arm Dove Hunt,
Boulder's Pearl Street Mall will
This logging town celebrates its
Olney, Texas,
be transformed into a huge
Scandinavian heritage with
Sept. 7-8
farmer's market with
delicious food, music, dance, arts
Arm and hand amputees are
entertainment and hayrides to
and crafts and a heritage show.
invited to bring their guns and
celebrate the harvest season.
Call 406/293-3832.
test their marksmanship skills.
Call 303/449-3774.
Call 817/564-5678.
Clearwater County Fair
Wool Festival,
and Lumberjack Days,
Fifteenth Annual Culinary
Taos, New Mexico,
Orofino, Idaho,
Arts Show,
Sept. 29-30
Sept. 16-18
Ouray, Colorado,
There will be an auction of wool
This annual logging competition
Sept. 14-16
products, hands-on activities for
attracts contestants from all
Come and sample delicious foods
kids and delicious lamb recipes.
over the world. Lumber on by!
prepared by Colorado chefs.
Call 505/758-9650.
Call 208/476-3412.
Call 800/228-1876.
continued on page 12
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
11
Country Calendar
Chimney Rock Pioneer Days,
Kansas Championship
continued from page 11
Bayard, Nebraska,
Ranch Rodeo and Indian
Sept. 7-9
Summer Days,
You can see living-history
Medicine Lodge, Kansas,
Central
demonstrations, pig roasts,
Sept. 29-30
antiques, quilt shows and games.
Ranchers throughout the state
Call 308/586-1063.
compete in wild-cow milking, calf
branding and cattle doctoring.
Apple Day Celebration,
Call 316/886-9815.
Excelsior, Minnesota,
Sept. 8
Applefest '90,
This fair features a flea market,
Marionville, Missouri,
farmer's market and antiques.
Sept. 29-30
Call 612/474-5880.
The whole town goes apple crazy
Paloma Fiesta,
with a parade, music, arts and
Paloma, Illinois,
Leon Lake Harvest Festival,
crafts and a fiddling contest.
Sept. 1
Aurora, Minnesota,
Enjoy freshly pressed cider and
Enjoy trap shoots, games and
Sept. 8-9
other tasty apple treats.
magic. Sit down to a hearty
Watch grain-threshing demon-
Call 417/463-7768.
homemade feast with a fish and
strations. There will also be
chicken fry in the evening.
antique cars and a petting ZOO.
Call 217/455-2031.
Call 218/638-2551.
East
Old Settler's Reunion,
National Cattle
Neosho Falls, Kansas,
Congress Exposition,
Sept. 1-2
Waterloo, lowa,
You don't have to be a settler to
Sept. 15-23
enjoy music, tractor pulls, arts
A family tradition for more than
and crafts, games and dancing at
80 years with nine days of live
this reunion for everyone.
entertainment, rides, shows,
Call 316/963-7645.
exhibits and demonstrations.
Bicycle for Two,
Call 319/234-7515.
Coshocton, Ohio,
Bike Across Missouri,
Sept. 1-2
Chesterfield, Missouri,
Drag and Brag Quilt Show,
Are you a bike-riding enthusiast?
Sept. 1-3
Paola, Kansas,
Fascinating films and exhibits
This annual cycling event starts
Sept. 22-23
trace the evolution of the bi-
in Chesterfield, goes to Kansas
Browse through a merchants'
cycle from the 1800s to now.
City and returns to St. Louis.
mall and a gift boutique.
Call 614/622-9310.
"Wheel" you come on by?
Call 913/294-2816.
Call 314/644-4660.
Buckeye Tree Festival,
Border Collie
Utica, Ohio,
National Championships,
Sept. 9
Belleville, Illinois,
This festival features buckeye
Sept. 27-30
woodcarvings, early Ohio music
You'll see the nation's top
and a laughing contest.
border collies compete in herding,
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and flower exhibits at the
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Old Sturbridge Village
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Cider Making,
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Chattanooga Choo
Sept. 22-Oct. 28
Choo Festival,
Costumed interpreters make
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
fresh cider on fall weekends.
Sept. 7-16
Call 508/347-3362.
You can discover Chattanooga's
prolific railroad history with
Rock Creek Park Day,
Carolina Craftsmen's
activities that include train
Washington, D.C.,
Annual Labor Day Classic,
excursions, displays and crafts.
Sept. 29
Greensboro, North Carolina,
Call 615/756-8687.
Numerous environmental and
Sept. 1-3
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Potters, fine artists, weavers, toy
Nature Wonder Weekend,
be on hand with a variety of
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Cairo, West Virginia,
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Signs of the climes
Move over, Willard Scott. You may have some
ing soon." A web's threads absorb mois-
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ture and break in high humidity. When
natural weather forecasters. For years, country
humidity is low, webs hold strong.
people have looked to signs from nature as sources
Q. The date in February on which a
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heavy thunderstorm occurs tells you what?
more accurate than sophisticated electronic
A. The date in May to expect a late frost.
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these "signs of the climes" ?
A. Look for early frost in October on that date.
Some are simple facts, and
Q. What does an abundance of fall leaves on
some have tales behind
the ground signify about the coming winter,
them. As the tales are
and what is its significance?
passed on through
A. A harsh winter. The leaf cover protects the
generations, people sometimes
vegetation underneath.
hear conflicting versions of the
Q. Birds feeding in the rain means what?
same story. Take this test for fun,
A. The storm will last all day. If it were a passing
"weather" you get them all right or
shower, they would feed later.
not. You should be able to "breeze" right through.
Q. What does it mean when butterflies
Q. What do early-blooming wildflowers, e.g.
flit high above the rooftops in late fall?
black-eyed Susans, tell you about the weather?
A. Winter is coming soon.
A. Fall will be dropping by early.
Q. Low-flying swallows predict what
Q. Sun dogs-orange spots that appear an
weather occurrence?
hour before sunset-are a predic-
A. Another folk proverb says, "Swallows fly
tion of what?
high, clear blue sky; swallows
A. It will rain in the next 24 hours.
fly low, rain we shall know."
Q. What do the rings on the woolly
Swallows fly low to the ground to
bear caterpillar's body signify?
compensate for falling barometric
A. The harshness of the coming winter.
pressure.
For example, if the caterpillar has
Q. And if a flock of ducks or
black bands on either end and a brown
geese is seen en route to
middle band, expect a hard, cold winter
southern climates?
at the beginning and end with milder
A. A winter storm is on the
temperatures during the middle
way. Their water supply is
months.
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Q. What do spider webs on
Q. What does it mean if
the ground mean?
you hear a rooster
A. Bundle up because a cold, hard
crowing in the evening,
winter is coming.
and why?
Q. What if you see a spider spin-
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Clint Black
Yes, that's his
real name,
yes, that's his
favorite color,
and yes, he
really does look
like Roy Rogers
He's handsome, friendly and
courteous. He blows a mean
harmonica, strums a tuneful
guitar and has a surprisingly
wide vocal range. He likes to tell
jokes and make people laugh.
Clint Black is all this and
more. But what many of his
female fans find really
interesting is what he isn't.
And what Clint isn't is
married.
"I almost got married a couple
of times," he says, "but I wasn't
sure I was in love.
"I'm a romantic at heart, and I
still love the idea of getting
married. But I'm not looking to
get married right away. I'm
going to give myself at least four
or five years.
"You would imagine I would
at least be able to grab a date
here and there," he says, then
grins and shakes his head. "But,
oddly enough, it's just not like
that. After a show, by the time I
get around to going somewhere,
all the opportunities are gone. I
don't have a girlfriend, and I
am looking."
The most eligible bachelor in
country music pauses, then raises
his voice, as if sending a message
to all available females: "I'm
calling out to you: Stick around!"
It's 2 a.m. in Las Vegas, the
end of a long day, and Clint is
just getting off work. The 28-
year-old singing sensation is
20
wrapping up backstage business
following a midweek performance
Clint Black
at Caesar's Palace. A couple of
hours earlier, he left a packed
Birthday: February 4,
ballroom crowd clamoring for
1962, in Long Branch, New
more music.
Jersey; raised in Texas
But now the showroom is
If he hadn't become an
silent. The cheering fans have
entertainer, he
returned to the craps tables, slot
machines and other endless
probably would have:
diversions in this round-the-clock
enlisted in the Air Force
city. Clint is also anxious for a
and trained for NASA's
bit of the action.
space program.
"I always liked blackjack," he
Write to Clint: P.O. Box
says, as the last of his guests and
299386, Dept. A, Houston,
band members filter out of the
TX 77229-0386
dressing room. "I used to play it
for pennies when I was a kid."
He laughs. "Of course, the rules
on Killin' Time and co-wrote the
here are a little more strict."
rest with band member Hayden
Although he's been to Las
Nicholas. "A Better Man" and
Vegas before as a visitor, this
"Nobody's Home" both sprang
trip is his first as an entertainer.
from Clint's emotions over a
"I've been in Houston all my
romantic breakup. "Killin' Time"
life," he says. "Las Vegas, to me,
took its title from an offhand
was always Frank Sinatra,
remark he made about the
Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli.
frustrating hurry-up-and-wait
I never thought that I'd be
period between planning his first
playing here."
album and actually recording it.
A little more than a year ago,
"I remember saying, 'Well, this
virtually nobody would have
killin' time is killin' me.' I looked
pegged Clint Black as a headline
at Hayden, and Hayden looked at
entertainer. He was little more
me. Our faces just lit up."
than a local honky-tonk singer
eking out a meager living on the
Hit song has ironic twist
Texas nightclub circuit, juggling
"Killin" Time" also packs a
various day jobs with whatever
meaning well beyond its simple
playing gigs he could find. Before
sing-along tag line. "It's an anti-
writing and recording the songs
drinking song," explains Clint.
for his debut album, Killin' Time,
"It's saying, 'If I drink myself to
in early 1989, he'd never been
death, that's where the real
inside a recording studio.
suffering begins.' Hayden and I
A major-league manager, Bill
were excited about the irony-
Ham, who also oversees the
how you can start drinking to
career of rock act ZZ Top,
ease your misery, but that could
eventually caught one of Clint's
be just the beginning of your
performances. He took Clint
troubles. You could end up
under his wing, gave him a few
'killin' time for eternity.'
pointers and ushered him into a
"I'm not anti-drinking. I think
recording contract with RCA
alcohol can be nice and soothing.
Records. Several months later,
Like anything, it depends on
Killin' Time was the top country
what you do with it. I'll have a
music album in the nation,
beer, a margarita or a whiskey
eventually selling more than one
and Coke, and I'm responsible for
million copies. Clint was on his
what I do with it. Some people
way to near-instantaneous
can handle it, and some can't."
superstardom with his hits
A female fan once asked him
"Killin" Time," "A Better Man,"
if "Killin" Time" warned
"Nobody's Home" and, most
specifically about drinking and
recently, "Walkin" Away."
driving. She referred to the lyric
Clint wrote four of the songs
continued on page 22
21
Clint
continued from page 21
"If I cross that line and they
bury me
" Clint had never
intended "line" to be interpreted
as a highway divider, but he was
delighted nonetheless. "I love it
when you can get two or three
different meanings out of one
thing in a song," he says.
Name was made for fame
When Clint signed with RCA
Records, he was prepared to
adopt whatever stage name they
might suggest. He was taken
aback when told that other
country singers could only wish
for a name as good as his.
"My dad wanted to name one
of his sons Cole," says Clint, "as
in Cole Porter." But Clint's
father refrained from bestowing
on any of his sons the moniker of
Cole Black-"because he thought
we'd take a ribbing for it."
His image-Wrangler jeans
and a black hat-is as natural as
his name. "I'm not sitting down
with consultants and asking,
'What do you think?' I pretty
"A horse is one of those things
much pick out what I like," he
that I assume anyone would
says. He's often been described as
have, if they could," says Clint,
having the friendly good looks of
who saddles up a rent-a-mount
a young Roy Rogers. Clint swears
when the mood to ride hits.
no one ever told him he
resembled the famous singing
and have a little extra, too."
cowboy until he was posing for
Will the extra amount of
the cover of Killin' Time.
Backstage, Clint and band
attention he's getting these days
"The photographer kept
member/songwriting partner
change him? He hopes not-and
laughing and pointing at me,
Hayden Nicholas go over new
he doesn't want his friends to
saying, 'Roy! It's Roy!' I finally
song ideas. "We're hand in
had to ask him what in the world
hand all the way," says Clint.
suddenly start treating him
differently either. "I want to be
he was talking about."
able to go home and be the same
The only imperfection on his
there's a great climbing site
old me," he says. "I don't want
handsome face is a small scar
called Enchanted Rock." He
the conversation to change just
below his lower lip, the result of
downplays the danger of this
because I walk in the door."
a childhood encounter with a golf
daredevil activity. "I take
At the same time, however, he
club. He was standing too close
every precaution I can," he says.
wants to savor every bit of it. "I
to his brother Brian's backswing.
Now he can pay the bills
have to make sure that I stop
He owns a home in Houston,
and tell myself, 'Wait a minute-
but he's rarely there to enjoy it.
This sudden deluge of success
this is a moment I've been
A basketball hoop in his back
is still somewhat overwhelming
dreaming about and living for.'
yard helps him unwind, and he'll
to him. "I'd pretty much been
"I used to say, with a sigh, 'I
occasionally head to the hills to
living off nightclub gigs for the
wonder if this could ever happen
do a bit of rock climbing and
past eight or nine years. I made
to me?' Well, this is it!"
rappelling. "Houston is pretty
ends meet, but I never could
much as flat as a rice paddy," he
keep up with the bills. Now I
By Neil Pond,
says. "But north of San Antonio
find I can keep up with the bills
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'Why I Love
By President George Bush
EDITOR'S NOTE: We asked
President George Bush: Why do
you like country music? He told
us in this exclusive essay for
COUNTRY AMERICA magazine.
So many country songs have
that upbeat, optimistic sound to
them, you can't help but tap your
toes and hum along. When
there's good country music
playing, it's like a good game of
horseshoes-I can't help but have
fun and loosen up!
In fact, I enjoy country music
so much that the carpenters built
a stereo right into the desk in my
study at the White House. It's a
cozy room away from it all, with
a view of a little garden outside
the window. My dog Millie's bed
is right next to the desk, and
although I can't speak for Millie,
I find myself more relaxed with
Reba coming over the airwaves.
Country music hits all the
right chords-like caring for your
family, remembering the good
times and keeping faith in God.
There's nothing better than
hearing the Oak Ridge Boys
singing "a little story of an
American family" at the end of a
long day. Or Randy Travis telling
about his love that's "deeper
than the holler." Or the
wonderful harmonies of the
Gatlin Brothers and Alabama.
The best part is the lyrics
I enjoy every one of them
because the best part of country
music is the lyrics. There's a
sense of everyday reality to
them. For example, we all come
home at night and switch on the
television news-and many times
what we get isn't always good
Our country's highest-ranking country music fan is the Chief
news. So Anne Murray's song "A
Executive himself, President George Bush. He keeps his White
Little Good News" really
House office radio tuned to a Washington country music station.
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COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
Country Music'
hits home to me when she sings:
"I'll come home this evenin'/ I'll
bet that the news'll be the
same/Somebody takes a hostage,
somebody steals a plane/How I
wanna hear the anchorman talk
about a county fair/How we
cleaned up the air/How
everybody learned to care."
God bless the U.S.A.!
As always, there's love for
America. You can hear it in the
line from the Lee Greenwood
song that we all love: "And I'm
proud to be an American, where
When entertainer George Strait visited the White House last year,
at least I know I'm free "
In
he brought along son George Jr. (Bubba) and his wife, Norma.
a
President Bush was more than happy to provide an autograph.
world where people everywhere
are marching toward liberty and
democracy, Lee's important
Aside from the beat, the tune
campaign trail throughout the
message reminds us how blessed
and the lyrics of the songs, there
heartland of America. They'd
we are to be citizens of the
are the people who sing country
sing on our bus, wave to the
country that stands as a model
music. During the last few years,
passers-by and perform when we
for so many others. His is a
I've gotten to know many of the
stopped along the way. The
sentiment that I think most
great country music singers.
conditions were sometimes rough,
Americans have felt: "I'd gladly
I've enjoyed meeting and
but they'd never complain.
stand up next to you/And defend
working with people like those
And Moe Bandy campaigned
her still today/'Cause there ain't
wonderful sisters, Loretta Lynn,
for us tirelessly; I'll never forget
no doubt I love this land/God
Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue.
it. Larry Gatlin and his brothers,
bless the U.S.A.!"
They traveled with me on the
too, made the long hours a little
easier to take. And this will come
as no surprise to the readers of
Country America: Not a single
one of them behaved like some
big-shot "star." Everyone was
there because they believed,
and they wanted to help.
Country is real people
That's what country music
comes down to: real people
singing real stories that we can
all understand. When I hear
those upbeat songs performed by
great American singers, it brings
to mind the words of Moe
Bandy's "Americana":
The president is always thrilled to meet his favorite singers, and
"I'll keep holding to the
he blended happily into this all-star lineup, from left, of Ricky Van
dream/You're still what livin'
Shelton, members of the group Alabama and Ricky Skaggs.
means to me."
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Photos: David Valdez, The White House
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Enter the
Country America
Kenny
TO THE OZATION
Rogers
Photo Contest
Get out the camera! Load it up,
and start shooting. It's time to
enter the Country America/
Kenny Rogers Photo Contest.
One grand-prize winner will
receive a five-day family trip for
four to the Missouri Ozarks.
Grand prize and category
winners will receive an auto-
graphed copy of Kenny Rogers'
America and be featured in the
May 1991 issue of Country
America magazine.
Send your best photos in one
or more of these five categories:
This is country. Any photo
you think captures the emotions,
values or traits of the country.
Just folks. Photos of country
people at rest, work or play.
Country humor. Pictures that
make us laugh.
Picture-postcard scenery.
Show us America's beauty.
Children: our heritage.
Photos that display the joy,
innocence, wonderment or fun
of being a kid.
The photos will be judged on
quality and appropriateness to
the category. Enter as many
times as you like, but put each
entry in a separate envelope.
Attach the entry-form coupon,
or a copy of it, to each entry.
Send color slides or prints or
black and white prints. By enter-
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Kenny Rogers offers
tips for better photos
If you do not have a camera
yet, my advice is to go out
and buy one-any camera-and
start taking pictures. I believe
you won't really begin to see
America until you start
photographing it.
Take the time to look. It
never ceases to amaze me how
much there is to see. When I'm
touring, I'm often told by local
residents there's nothing worth
photographing in the area.
Many of my finest pictures
come from such areas!
When you're ready to shoot,
look for interesting textures and
Kenny Rogers shot this giant rock bursting out of a California
patterns in the subject matter.
bay. "I was intrigued by the forces of land and water," he says.
For example, I may notice the
patterns formed on the walls of
bling mortar and peeling paint.
that's where the drama shows.
old buildings by brick, crum-
You should pay attention to
Take your pictures in the
the background details, and
early morning and late
change your camera position to
afternoon when the light is at
get rid of distracting elements
its best. If you see something
in your photo compositions.
you like in the late afternoon,
When you are photographing
chances are you will like it even
people, look for strong faces. I
better as the lights soften and
believe the eyes are the key-
the shadows lengthen.
Finally, I pass on some advice
Kenny's two books of
a friend and great photographer
photos are Your Friends
once told me: "Shoot what you
And Mine and Kenny
like, and you will like what you
Rogers' America.
shoot." Good luck, and have fun!
by Kenny Rogers
music show; and $500 cash for
federal, state and local laws and
travel expenses. The total prize is
regulations. Tax on prize is sole
estimated at $1,500.
responsibility of winner. People
The winner will receive $500
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as the total prize if unable to use
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eligible. Winners must sign
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by September 1, 1991.
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duce and display your photos.
Contest open to United States
Entries are due by November
Entries cannot be returned.
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THE SOUTH'S
Highway to Heaven
Vacation along Virginia's Skyline Drive
Secluded hollows, sunny clearings, rocky havens and, at trail's end,
quaint cafés and antiques shops await the Skyline Drive traveler.
Winding through one of America's most scenic
national parks, Virginia's Skyline Drive is a
hundred-mile path to wilderness adventure.
Bobcats and bears roam deep in the lush virgin
forests. Buttercups and laurels bloom in high-
mountain meadows. Blue-hued horizons meet the
heavens atop majestic peaks. Come along with
my family and me, and share with us the flowers,
creatures, history and vistas of Skyline Drive.
By Preston Smith
continued on page 30
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
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Highway
continued from page 29
Some people might take a
national park in their back yard
for granted, but not us. Every
couple of weeks, we go
somewhere in the Shenandoah
National Park in Virginia, which
is where you'll find Skyline
Drive. Of course, we're lucky
because the park is only seven
miles from our home.
The Shenandoah National
Park sprawls over 195,000 acres
across the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Oak and hemlock forests march
up the sides of the mountains,
and Skyline Drive weaves along
their crests from our hometown
of Front Royal all the way to
Waynesboro to the south.
My older son, Justin, and his
younger brother, Jason, discover
something new every time we
trek down the Drive. During the
spring, they smell the blue,
yellow and red wildflowers and
pink azaleas that bloom
everywhere. In the fall, they
crunch leaves and watch deer eat
as they prepare for winter.
We see nature up close
Sometimes, we've counted as
many as 60 deer grazing near the
roadside. With two million people
a year gawking at them, the deer
are fairly tame. If we stop and
roll down a window, some will
even walk up to our car looking
for a handout.
Less frequently, we have
You'll miss some of the
spotted raccoons, skunks,
greatest beauty if you don't go
opossums and gray squirrels.
slowly. Short or long side trails
Hikers sometimes see bears,
offer splendid surprises and
bobcats and wild turkeys.
picnic spots. Our favorite is the
The park is a bird-watcher's
short trail to Dark Hollow Falls.
paradise; ruffed grouse, barred
owls, ravens, woodpeckers and
juncos are permanent residents.
Summer brings flycatchers,
thrushes and 35 different kinds
Kathleen Layman sells dried
fruits, nuts, candy and other
of warblers.
goods at the 1880s-era Tuttle
The mountains spring up
and Spice General Store.
around us with peaks higher
than 4,000 feet. Pull-over points
along the drive let you view the
Blue Ridge and Piedmont
mountains to the east and the
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COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
The azure peaks are tell-tale signs of why the settlers called them the Blue Ridge Mountains.
MARYLAND
Alleghenies and the Shenandoah
Winchester
River Valley to the west.
Skyline Drive curves along 105
Washington
mountainous miles. Rangers
Strasburg
enforce a 35-mph speed limit; a
Front Royal
trip along its entire length can
Dickey Ridge
66
take more than three hours
Luray
Visitor Center
Warrenton
nonstop. But you'll want to stop.
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Panorama
A series of damp caves dot the
Drive, and children love to fill
WEST
VIRGINIA
the hollows with echoing hollers
VIRGINIA
Byrd Visitor
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340
of "Hello!" A more peaceful-but
33
Center
Harrisonburg
Culpeper
no less damp-alternative is a
canoe excursion down the
Shenandoah River, which runs
through the valley down from
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SKYLINE Elkton DRIVE
522
the Shenandoah Mountains.
Charlottesville
We don't usually drive the
Staunton
whole thing. Instead, we amble
Waynesboro
64
Monticello
along for a short way, stop to eat
Blue Ridge
a picnic supper, watch the deer
Parkway
SKYLINE DRIVE
and let the boys try to catch
them, then drive a few more
There are 75 breathtaking
overlooks along Skyline Drive.
miles before turning around and
There is only one called
going home.
Panorama, but that could aptly
When we want to make a day
describe each and every one of
of it, we detour 15 miles to one of
these stopping-off spots.
our favorite spots: the Tuttle and
Spice General Store. Inside, the
old-fashioned candy jars and
wooden storage bins stock
enough sugar to satisfy the sweet
There's no end of things for the
tooths of children of all ages.
Smith family to discover in the
The best views and more kinds
park. Preston's wife, Janis,
holds Jason as Justin stands.
of plants, wildlife and trees can
be found along the lower 70
miles of Skyline Drive.
continued on page 32
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
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Highway
continued from page 31
Most of the forests in the park
are filled with white and red
oaks, hickories, birches, maples,
hemlocks and tulip poplars.
There are nearly a hundred
other tree varieties scattered
about. You might stumble across
a 300-year-old hemlock on a walk
through a virgin forest at the
head of Whiteoak Canyon.
Visit Civil War battlefields
The Shenandoah Valley is
noted for its beauty-in fact, the
American Indian word
"shenandoah" means "daughter
of the stars." The red-orange
sunsets that precede the stars are
breathtaking, but there is more
to the valley than its painter's
palette sky. It also has great
historical significance.
American Indians of the
Tuscarora and Shawnee tribes
once inhabited the valley, and
they built a road that ran the
length of it. The road became the
famous Valley Pike tread by
those following the command
"Go West!" Settlement of the
valley by the early colonists
began about 1730, but it was
more than a century later during
the Civil War that it gained any
real importance.
From scenic overlooks on the
southern part of the drive, you
can see where Stonewall Jackson
marched his men across the
mountains. As the back door to
In addition to playing host to
Washington, the valley was
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah
strategically important through-
National Park has 500 winding
out the war. With its resources of
miles of lush nature trails and
grain, hay and livestock, it was a
150 miles of horse trails.
chief supply source for General
Lee's army until Confederate
troops were driven out.
Though those unfortunate
troops were driven out of the
The park is home to deer, black
beautiful valley, you might want
bears, foxes, bobcats and 200
to drive your troops into it. The
different kinds of birds.
history and beauty we find on
Skyline Drive make living in the
area a joy, but your family will
delight in the same wonder with
just one visit.
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Highway
Where to stay
continued from page 32
Three medium-size towns with
25 hotels lie near the Skyline
Beyond Skyline Drive
Drive: Front Royal, Luray and
Waynesboro. Shenandoah
Adventures abound in the area. Caves, canoeing rivers, antiques
National Park contains two
shops-you name it-the Shenandoah National Park area has it.
lodges and four campgrounds.
Hotels
For a complete directory of
the places to stay and play
near the Skyline Drive, write:
Virginia Travel Council, P.O.
Box 15067, 7415 Brook Road,
Richmond, VA 23227.
Call 804/266-0444.
Park lodges
Reservations are needed at
least six months in advance.
From April through
November, call 703/999-2211.
Other times, call 703/743-5108.
Rent a canoe, and row your boat on the Shenandoah River.
Campgrounds
The park's scenic-but-primitive
Antiquing
Enjoy music
campsites have showers and
Many quaint antiques shops
There are many local country
laundry facilities but no
abound in this historic valley,
bands traveling through the
electrical hookups. The
especially in New Market,
small towns around Skyline
campgrounds fill up early
located about 15 miles west of
Drive year-round. For a schedule
most weekends. For more
Skyline Drive. The Tuttle and
of performance dates and places,
details, call 703/999-2266 or
Spice General Store, just north of
write: Band Book, 62 Frederick
800/999-4714. Call 900/370-
New Market, has a free museum
Road, Stephens City, VA 22655.
5566 for reservations.
loaded with Virginia antiques.
For a list of about a dozen
Explore caves
commercial camps, write:
Some of the East's largest, most
Virginia Campground
majestic caves are located in
Association, 300 W. Franklin
northern Virginia. Seven
St., Richmond, VA 23220.
glittering limestone caverns lie
beneath the Shenandoah Valley.
General information
For more information, write:
Bargain shops
Virginia Division of Tourism,
At drive's end, in Waynesboro,
202 N. Ninth St., Suite 500,
you'll find the Shenandoah
Richmond, VA 23219.
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Outlet Village. This shopping
Call 804/786-4484.
center is full of shops that have
reasonable prices on housewares,
luggage, clothing, books and toys.
Drive on south
Stay on Skyline Drive until it
turns into the Blue Ridge
Parkway. This road rolls 469
miles through the Blue Ridge
Mountains to the Great Smoky
Climb aboard an old steam
Mountains in North Carolina.
engine at the Virginia Museum
Stop by and visit an old gristmill,
Campgrounds provide 704
campsites along the Drive.
of Transportation in Roanoake.
sawmill or blacksmith shop.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
33
Liz Masterson is
A Real
Cowboy's
She swaggers up to the
Girl
singer Kate Wolf, Liz
mike, scanning the audi-
looked at what she loved
ence with a sharp gleam in
doing as a child and
her eye. A red cowboy hat
thought about what she
crowns a head of coiled
wanted to do with the rest
brown hair. A smile curls
FLOVER OF RANGE
of her life. "When I'd
her lips as her mouth
start singing 'Old
opens. "Everybody feelin'
Cowhands of the Rio
fine tonight?" she asks. It's
Grande' and 'Ragtime
more of a command than a
Cowboy Joe,' songs I grew
question.
C
up singing, they'd take
Who is this woman with
me back to a really happy
the honeyed voice that just
time in my childhood."
won't quit?
OOWGIRLS
Her life now had
Hold onto your hats,
direction.
folks, Liz Masterson just
Having that direction
breezed into town!
didn't necessarily make
With a voice and vivaci-
her life any easier. With
ty reminiscent of yester-
calloused fingers, Liz
day's cowgirls, Liz sings,
plucked out the simple
yodels, plays guitar and
chords to John Denver
tells stories. Her specialty
songs, sitting alone in the
is rustic Western music,
bathroom. That mastered,
which ties together the his-
COWBOY CI NEW
low-budget gigs around
tory of the Wild West with
the Northwest followed.
tales acquired through re-
Liz's big break came
search. Her one-woman
when the Wyoming
show enlightens audiences
Chatauqua Association
about the role of women in
commissioned her to
the growth of the West.
present a seminar on the
Her performances aren't
songs of ranch wives and
all flash and fluff either:
There's a method to her
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cowgirls. She's been
singing, yodeling and
music. "The songs I sing
storytelling ever since!
are about being outside
Surrounded by her Western memorabilia, Liz
and galloping into the sun-
takes real pride in making her home a
By David Simmons,
set. Although it's a fantasy,
reflection of her great love for the West.
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I don't think it's wrong to
fill your mind with happy times. The music I sing
is from the Thirties, when folks were really
depressed, what with the Dust Bowl and the Great
Get a taste of Western swing
Depression. This music lifted their spirits," she
says. That's what Liz does, lift people's spirits.
You can lasso Liz's albums, Swingtime Cowgirl
But before Liz could lift others' spirits, she first
and Tune Wranglin', by mail. Specify which
had to lift her own. "I was 31 when my mother
album you'd like, and send a $10 check or money
died," she says. "She was just 62. It was a
order to: Western Serenade Music, P.O. Box
revelation for me to realize that at 31 my life might
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be half over. I had to get my life together."
schedule of Liz's appearances, most of which are
in the Southwest and Northwest.
Remembering the words of her late mentor, folk
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Politics
Women use quilts to spread the
word about patriotism and peace
Many long years and elections
women's rights emerged. Women
ago, before women in America
had "dangerous" discussions
the
could vote and when it was
around their quilting frames
unseemly for them to mount
about such topics as temperance
soapboxes or march in parades,
and voting rights. Suffragist
they called upon the "power of
Susan B. Anthony delivered her
the cloth"-the quilted cloth-to
first talk on the equal rights
express their outrage, joy or dis-
women deserved at a church
may about the issues of the day.
quilting party in Cleveland.
During the late 18th and early
19th centuries, the quilt was used
uilts were signs of safety
RAIN
as a banner of pride, second only
There was another kind of
to America's new flag. The
"rights" talk women bandied
original settlers expressed love
about while quilting-the freeing
for their new country by
of slaves. The Civil War and the
integrating into quilts the
abolition movement brought
patriotic symbols they saw on
about a great outpouring of
posters and in newspapers. Many
political quilts. Quilts hung on
quilts were worked around eagle
clotheslines of those involved in
designs copied from the design of
the underground railroad
the great seal.
signaled safe houses for runaway
A new country meant new
slaves. Geometric figures showing
leadership. And for the
paths to freedom were worked
patchwork patriots of the day,
into quilts. Needles sewn into
that also meant new quilt
quilts bore the admonition, "May
designs. In early America,
our needles prick the conscience
presidential campaigns used
of slaveholders."
printed fabrics, commemorative
Husbands and sweethearts
squares and kerchiefs to promote
away at war received motifs of
their candidate. Because there
hearts and hands inscribed with
MARYLAND
was little variety of other fabrics,
such messages as "Fight the
women made quilts from these
fight, Christian, Jesus is o'er
SCIENTISTS,
early political fliers.
thee" and "Strength is the path
By the 1850s, the idea of
of duty/Curved is the path of
WE'LL STACH
THIS WORLD
beauty." Many quilts made in the
TOGETHER
DON GIVE
The National Peace Quilt is
North exalted Abraham Lincoln
UP!
made up of 50 blocks-one
and likened secessionist Jefferson
from each state-based on
Davis to a donkey.
the drawings of children.
continued on page 38
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
Photos: Courtesy of Boise Peace Quilt Project; Euphrat Gallery
37
There was the war on alcohol,
not always point a finger at the
Patchwork
and then there was war. In
negative. In the Thirties, first
general, it was World War I and
lady Eleanor Roosevelt's efforts
continued from page 37
in particular, the murderous
on behalf of arts and crafts gave
Battle of Flanders. John McCrae,
women the impetus to be positive
a Canadian officer, wrote these
about the nation's post-Great
famous lines for the dead of that
Depression economic recovery.
During the last quarter of the
battle: "In Flanders fields the
Women responded by picking up
19th century, crazy quilts made
poppies grow/Between crosses,
needle and thread and making
from velvet and satin came into
row on row/That mark our place;
more quilts. The central motif of
fashion. The material was
and in the sky/the larks, still
many Depression-era quilts was
gathered from campaign ribbons
bravely singing fly/Scarce heard
the National Recovery Adminis-
and badges passed out at political
amid the guns below."
tration's blue eagle, with the
rallies. Bits of colorful fabric
Lizzie Forester and Ann Kirby,
motto "We Do Our Part." One of
were saved and found their way
a mother and daughter from
the quilts from this era was
into women's scrap bags.
Stone County, Missouri, turned
decorated with dollar signs, little
The reverence felt for the
McCrae's poetry into visual art
folds of red, white and blue cloth
raucousness of political
with a quilt called Poppy Fields
and tassels of grocery string!
campaigns did not transfer to
of France. It featured blood-red
plain old raucousness. The
poppies on a white background-
Piecing peace in Boise
Women's Christian Temperance
reminiscent of the white crosses
After World War II, ever-
Union in the late 1800s pledged
marking the many graves
increasing numbers of women
itself to the removal of alcohol
created by war.
went to work, and they began to
from the social sphere in such
Women also made quilts to
see quilting as only a quaint
quilts as Temperance Tree and
raise funds for the Red Cross,
remnant of the past. Then in the
Drunkard's Path. Embroidered in
sent quilts to relief agencies
turbulent Seventies, stimulated
the blocks were such slogans as
overseas and made quilts for
by the feminist movement, quilt-
"Look up, Not down," "Drink
warmth at home during the wool
ing took on a new importance.
and Die," and beneath the figure
shortage created by the war.
But perhaps it was two young
of a boy dressed as a soldier, the
Despite the dismay about war
Boise, Idaho, mothers concerned
words, "Tremble, King Alcohol."
these quilts expressed, they did
about nuclear war who have
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of
of
IN GOD WE
TRUST
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The theme of this Boise Peace Quilt Project quilt
is, appropriately, "Our insistent vision given
birth, the precious patchwork of this earth."
This 1889 Women's Christian Temperance Union
children's quilt was discovered recently in the
bedroom closet of an Evanston, Illinois, home.
38
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
most dynamically used the power
The quilt is now on tour,
of the cloth to spread the word
appearing at various quilt shows,
about peaceful politics.
peace rallies and churches. It will
In 1981, Anne Hausrath and
eventually be displayed in the
Diane Jones recruited women to
Smithsonian Institution. Some of
make a national peace quilt for
the project's other quilts are in
the citizens of the Soviet Union.
Lithuania and Leningrad.
Today, the Boise Peace Quilt
The 60 local members of the
Project involves scores of men,
Boise Peace Quilt Project are
women and children and has
currently working on three other
produced dozens of quilts. Boise
quilts that symbolize seemingly
women have traveled to Russia,
divergent goals, but they always
and Russian women have visited
use peace as their backing.
Boise. The intent of the original
The Idaho Peoples Quilt, a
project was to have every United
three-part panorama, celebrates
States senator spend one night
the diversity of the human
sleeping under the National
family with representations of
The cogwheels on this National
Peace Quilt.
more than 140 ethnic groups.
Recovery Administration quilt
Between 1984 and 1986, 67 of
Saying Yes, Saying No says yes
represent industrial progress.
the 100 senators did just that.
to the future and no to the
United States Air Force's plans
to establish a practice bombing
field in Idaho.
Another, Just Us, is "stitching
against the poverty bias," project
member Heidi Read says. They're
working in conjunction with
Idaho Hunger Action, a low-
income self-help group. "It's an
attempt to stitch together the
'haves' and the 'have-nots' in our
community," she says.
Patching the environment
Some recent quilts have been
created by individual artists.
Others are communal and inter-
generational efforts where
women educate themselves-and
the public-about a problem and
raise funds for a vital cause.
That's what Helen Green did.
The Berkeley, California, woman
organized a quilting group to
help save the environment.
When water-starved Los
Angeles began draining Mono
Lake, lake salinity doubled, and
the wildlife, whose food supply
was poisoned, began to disappear.
Gull colonies that nested at the
lake were ravaged by coyotes. In
1980, Helen decided to dramatize
the issue with a quilt.
"I felt I had to do something,"
she says. "It's like some people
cook when there's a death in the
family. I quilt."
The Golden Gate Audubon
Society sponsored the project,
Each of the Mono Lake quilters carefully studied the geology and
and Helen recruited 16 quilters
wildlife of her particular segment to create an individual design.
continued on page 40
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
39
cutting down the stately trees.
Patchwork
The cause of peace. The cause
of trees, wildlife and lakes. The
Start your own quilt
continued from page 39
cause of children. It's why Helen
"How to Start Your Own
and Heidi-and hundreds of
people like them-quilt. But
Peace Quilt Project," including
there is another just cause.
sewing and organizational tips
and one of the full-color note
through an advertisement in the
"Quilting is a tranquil, central
newspaper. They made a quilt
experience," Heidi says. "And we
cards the project sells, is
available from the Boise Peace
called Mono Lake that was sold
think community is built around
at an auction for $6,700.
Quilt Project for $2.50.
a quilting frame."
To order, write: Boise Peace
The proceeds from the sale of a
redwood quilt are helping offset
By Jean Gillette, of
Quilt Project, P.O. Box 6469,
Boise, ID 83707.
legal costs incurred to fight
Sunnyvale, California
QUILTERS
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The Boise Peace Quilt Project quilters marked their fifth anniversary by sewing themselves into one
of their most detailed works. Hundreds of people around the country have quilted with the group.
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Where Big Muddy
Out on the prairie, the Missouri is free of dams and jetties
"Captain Lewis and I
went up the bank and
walked a short distance
in the high prairie.
From the bluff on the
second rise immediately
above our camp, the
most beautiful prospect
of the river, up and
down, and the country
opposite, presented itself,
which I ever beheld."
Journal entry by William Clark, of the
Lewis and Clark expedition, July 30, 1804
Between the Gavins Point Dam at
Yankton, South Dakota, and Ponca,
Nebraska, some 50 miles down
river, lies a unique section of the
Missouri River. This is the last
major, free-flowing stretch left of a
river that once flowed for 2,315
uninterrupted miles and drained
one-sixth of the United States.
continued on page 44
Runs Clean
Big Muddy
steady current, the river becomes
Travel along the Missouri
continued from page 42
a silent and indifferent giant. A
River was never this pleasant for
thing of awe and beauty.
our forefathers. Consider these
It's nice to be able to dip your
facts: Between the early 1820s
Above this 50 miles, flood-
paddle, or your hand, into clean
and the late 1880s, 700 steam-
control dams block the river's
water. Feel its coolness. Not feel
ships plied these waters from St.
trek to the Mississippi. Below
as though you may be contami-
Louis to the Dakotas. Of these,
this stretch, jetties create a
nating yourself with some nasty
about 350 of them burned or
channelized river all the way to
chemical. And it's nice to be able
sank. Although the river was the
St. Louis. It becomes a muddy
to eat the fish you catch.
main highway for westward
ditch for barge traffic, narrow,
For the first few miles below
expansion, its shifting channels
swift, devoid of grandeur.
Yankton, civilization is
and vicious sandbars conspired to
But here is the Missouri that
everywhere. An old dock rotted
make river travel dangerous.
Lewis and Clark had seen. Wide.
away, leaning with the agony of
Clean. Clear. Along its banks
age, soon to fall into the water
Relax on a sandbar
stand dense patches of native
that will claim it forever. A
The sandbars are still here on
timber. The prairie, although
smokestack and some low,
this stretch. You can rest on one
without many of its native
industrial-looking buildings soon
of the bars, eat lunch, wiggle
grasses of a century ago, still
fade and are replaced by the
your toes in the sand. Clean,
rolls away and away.
river, the morning sky and the
white sand. From one vantage
From a canoe, caught in its
cottonwoods in summer green.
point you can see through the
grove of trees on the far shore.
There a church with a white
steeple sits alone.
Yet the river is not pristine.
Throughout the day you see
houses and motorboats. There
are rusted cars, too, hurled down
a bank in a vain attempt at
stabilizing it. You don't see too
How you can canoe the Missouri River
much of this, but it's here.
This stretch of river also
The Cottonwood Corral, in
National Recreational River.
wrestles with other problems.
Yankton, will rent you one of
Write: U.S. Army Corps of
The government placed the
their seven canoes for $13 a
Engineers, 215 N. 17th St.,
protective bandage of National
day. You provide your own
Omaha, NE 68102-4978.
Recreational River status on it,
transportation to put-in and
For up-to-the-minute river
but the force of the water coming
take-out points. Write:
conditions, call the Gavins
from those upstream dams causes
Cottonwood Corral, Rte. 1
Point Dam at 402/667-7873.
erosion in a manner the river
Box 241, Yankton, SD 57078.
was never meant to handle.
Call 605/665-9589.
There is evidence of this: a
Just across South Dakota 52
large and muddy cut bank, a row
is the Lewis and Clark Resort
of timber-still green with
and a marina on Lewis and
leaves-floats in the water,
Clark Lake. The resort offers a
shrinking sandbars where
choice of comfortable cabins
endangered birds nest.
with kitchens or 24 motel
Despite these assaults, the
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Missouri River is remarkably
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all
include 300 campsites, a
its troubles when paddling. The
swimming beach, nature trails
current is steady, but not so fast
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and a restaurant that serves
as to make fishing difficult.
moderately priced meals.
Rig your rods with jigs and
Write: Lewis and Clark
minnows; let this arrangement
Resort, P.O. Box 754, Yankton,
25%
bounce along the sandy bottom.
SD 57078. Call 605/665-2680.
6220
823.0
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Photos: Andy Cline
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Faulkenberry's first trip out of
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his home state was quite an
Columbia album, Extra Mile.
adventure for the 24-year-old
country music fan. As the winner
ranging in age from two to 20. A
Charlene were escorted by their
of Country America magazine's
nurse, a doctor, a bag lady, a
Country America hostess to
"Win a trip to Nashville" contest,
hobo, cowboys and clowns were
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where
Wayne received an expenses-paid
also there. Between scenes
Shenandoah were preparing for
trip to Music City. He will also
Wayne waited patiently with his
their scenes in the video. Mother
be appearing in Shenandoah's
mother for his name to be called,
and son were escorted to the
music video for the song "Next to
then took his place once more
Fame Studios, where they met
You, Next to Me." Wayne's entry
under the hot camera lights.
the band members and got
was randomly selected from more
Nine and a half hours after the
autographed pictures.
than 2,750 entries.
day began, Wayne still thought
That evening, VIP seats in the
The Faulkenberrys, Wayne
shooting a music video was
front row awaited Wayne and
and his mother, Charlene, were
glamorous.
Charlene in the Nashville Now
picked up at the Opryland Hotel
The next day Wayne and
studio. Wayne called his father,
at 8 a.m. on their first full day in
Donald Faulkenberry, later that
Nashville and taken to Scene
evening. Donald said he had seen
Three Productions, where
them when the camera scanned
Wayne's role in the Shenandoah
the audience.
video was to be shot. Charlene
The third day was open, and
watched the parade of extras
the Faulkenberrys took advan-
beginning with five sets of twins
tage of the time to go on a tour
of Music Row and tourist shops.
That evening they once again got
VIP treatment, this time at the
Grand Ole Opry. From their
seats in front of the stage, Wayne
and his mother watched per-
formances by such Opry greats
as Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, Billy
Walker, Jan Howard and others.
On the fourth day, Wayne and
Charlene boarded the American
Airlines jet for their flight back
to Charlotte. Both said they
would like to return to Nashville.
If Wayne has his way, in fact,
Nashville may get three new
residents-a sure sign that the
whirlwind trip was a success.
Like any budding country music video celebrity, Wayne
Faulkenberry started his day in makeup. His mother, Charlene,
By Valerie Hansen, a writer and
watched as he was transformed into an auto mechanic.
hostess for the Faulkenberrys.
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Stained-glass crafts radiate
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From its basic components of sand, silicon and
lead, stained glass has retained its lasting
loveliness while going through relatively few
changes in how it's made. Though stained-glass
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lead to it. This method allows the artisans to
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Victorian design in her stained glass.
Shedding light on
candle crafts
From their ancient Egyptian
beginnings as rush-wrapped sticks
dipped in tar, candles have come a
long way. Candles made from
tallow, a rendering from the same
animal fat that the colonists used to
make lye soap and lard, smelled less
than pleasant. Beeswax or bayberry
candles were considered "company" candles, a
luxury reserved for guests. By the mid-1800s,
candles were made from paraffin, one of the last
substances extracted from crude oil. Using
similar turn-of-the-century handmade styles and
procedures, Jay Holt, a master craftsman at
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produce 400 candles a day. "We pour our candles
SO they are 100 percent paraffin. The fragrance
is locked inside and is released as the candle
burns down," he says. Jay uses only tightly
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anyone can create original, colorful candles.
continued on page 55
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Old-fashioned corn-husk
crafts create a hull-abaloo
When Annie Lee Bryson was 18 years old, she
made her first corn-husk craft: a pair of sandals.
Since then, she has expanded her craft to include
corn-husk dolls, hats, rugs, wreaths, flowers and
even more shoes. "I made a pair of shoes once
that I wore all summer," she says.
Corn-husk crafts can be traced back to the
first-generation pilgrims. One legend holds that
the Indians taught settlers how to make corn-
husk dolls in exchange for wooden dolls. The
crafts may have grown more sophisticated over
time but are still made traditionally in the
Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
To make her beautiful corn-husk flowers,
Annie Lee always uses wet husks because they
are easier to roll and twist. After twisting the
husks into the desired shape, she dampens the
ends to attach them to the stem. She then wraps
them with floral wire. Once started, she warns,
it's hard to stop. For more information, send a
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Annie Lee Bryson's dolls are made completely
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from corn, down to their corn-silk hair.
Wheat weaving has
the luck of the straw
Ginnie Blakemore will
unabashedly tell you there's
nothing prettier than a long
beard. So long as that beard is
on an attractive stalk of wheat.
She is one of a number of
crafters reviving the art of wheat
weaving. The craft almost died
out in the mid-1800s because farm
machinery was ruining the stalks.
But the art predates machinery.
The imprint of woven wheat has been found on
Aztec pottery, and threaded patterns ornamented
a gown belonging to James Madison's daughter.
The craft came to this country from Europe
and South America and found its way into
Ginnie's home in McGaheysville, Virginia.
Ginnie weaves three popular designs. There is
a heart-shaped piece called the mortiford, the
countryman's favor and the V-shaped corizone,
which is believed to bring prosperity. For more
The mortiford, shaped like a heart, is a token
information on wheat weaving, send a self-
of love. The countryman's favor, a spray of
addressed stamped envelope to: Ginnie Blakemore,
wheat, is a gift of thanks for hospitality. The V-
Rte. 2 Box 931, McGaheysville, VA 22840.
shaped corizone is used as a house blessing.
continued on page 56
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continued from page 55
Getting your hide tanned
the old-fashioned way
"Leather fashion is here to stay," says Bill
Churchill of Federal Way, Washington. A bold
statement maybe, but backed up by facts:
Leather clothing of some sort has been around
since the days of the cave men. The ancient
Egyptians started tanning leather, and Spanish
explorers to the New World designed leather
after flowers they discovered.
Bill himself comes from a line of shoe
repairmen and has worked with leather since
1958, trying his hand at everything except
making garments. Using organically tanned
R
leather, he dampens it and traces the pattern
with mylar, never carbon, as the latter comes off
on the leather. He uses a swivel knife to cut
around the outside of the sketch. He then uses
special mallets to pound in the design. For more
The duck clock shown above has 20 to 25
information, write: Tandy Leather Company,
hours of labor invested in it, and other pieces
Dept. CA, P.O. Box 2934, Ft. Worth, TX 76113.
can require as much as 50 to 100 hours.
Broomcorn crafts
sweep the country
In the late 1700s, Benjamin
Franklin brought to Pennsylvania a
corn strain that would sweep the
colonies, literally. This first
European broomcorn was hand-
harvested, seeded, dried and formed
into brooms. Many brooms are still
made this way today. Modern
crafters skip the technological
advances of broom-turning machine
in favor of foot-powered tools for th
process of wrapping the thousand or so fibers
with wire. Broomcorn is especially good for
sweeping because its hairlike follicles grasp and
hold dust unlike plastic brooms.
With the rest of the students at Berea College
in Berea, Kentucky, those in the broom-crafts
department work 10 to 20 hours per week at
their craft in lieu of tuition. The students can
make broom types as wide as the imagination,
says student Tim Adams. All their house broom
or "streamliners," have a lifetime guarantee.
Arcola, Illinois, holds a Broomcorn festival
every year around Labor Day. For information,
The "fan spread" has become Berea College's
most popular broom. Recent graduate Jeannie
call Arcola City Hall at 217/268-4966.
King, above, demonstrates how they are
fashioned by hand. Crafters use braided stalk,
By Jeanice Midgett and Lisa Kingsley,
sassafras or curly willow for the handle.
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Fossils
yield
a ton
of fun
Farmer would rather dig
for fossils than gold
A
fter decades of farming in North Dakota,
Clarence Johnsrud retired from his labor but not
from the land. Today, Clarence is digging up fossils
millions of years old on the land he once tilled.
He began collecting fossils 10 years ago when
his daughter found one near his home. Since
then, he has dug up tons of them. Many
fossils date back 60 million years to
the Paleocene Epoch.
The dinosaur fossils
he has discovered
Retired farmer
Clarence Johnsrud
chisels away
layers of rock
looking for
fossilized plants,
mammals and
dinosaur bones.
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are even older. He often works from sunrise to
the North Dakota Geological Survey, Clarence's
sunset hunting for ancient treasures. He then
rocks contain some of the best preserved leaves
carefully chips and splits them to uncover
ever discovered. "We are interested in what he has
the history hidden within.
found," states Hoganson. "It's unusual to find
In a garage lined with mudstone and
leaves so intact. From a scientific aspect, these
shale rocks, Clarence bends over and chisels
fossils are valuable because they are easy to study."
away at one. The surface layer gives way,
revealing an assortment of plant life. "Just
Clarence plans to donate fossils
look at that," he says. "These leaves are 57
Inside Clarence's home, which overlooks the
million years old, and you are the first person
sugar beet fields now farmed by his son, is a glass-
ever to see them!" Clarence affectionately
framed case displaying his favorite fossils. They are
runs his hand over the uneven surface. "I'd
a combination of relics found at digs around his
rather dig for fossils than for gold," he says.
home and in other parts of the state. "These are
His enthusiasm would lead one to believe he
my nicest rocks," he says. Opening the case, he
has just discovered his first fossil-laden rock. Far
pulls out several specimens. "Here is the hip bone
from it. He estimates he has cracked open more
of a duck-billed dinosaur. Oh, look at this, here is a
than 20 tons of stones. "Each one is exciting," he
piece from the horn of a triceratops."
says. "On the outside it looks like nothing, but you
There is enough scientific interest in Clarence's
never know what you will find until you open it."
fossils that he hopes to donate a lot of them.
'You just can't save it all'
Several museums, the North Dakota Geological
Survey and the University of North Dakota have
Chiseling away at a rock often involves difficult
approached him about obtaining and displaying
choices for Clarence. A single rock can contain
samples from his collection. "I am happy to share
several layers, each one loaded with fossils. "You've
them with others," Clarence says. "I've got to do
got to make decisions," he says. "Sometimes you
something with the ones in the garage soon. If I
have to sacrifice one layer to find out what is under
don't, my son won't have room to get the beet
it." He shakes his head sadly and adds, "You just
planters out before next planting season."
can't save it all."
His last big find came from a road cut two miles
By Patti Armstrong, of Bismarck, North Dakota
from his home. He was allowed to haul several
pickup loads of rocks away. He is bothered that the
construction was not delayed SO he could remove
more. "I wish I had brought home every rock,"
Clarence laments. "I did not realize they were so
full of fossils until I opened them up."
Most of the collection from around his farm
contains plant life that once thrived in North
Dakota's prehistoric tropical climate.
According to John Hoganson, paleontologist with
You can dig into this hobby
If you're looking for a ton of fun or just a
fistful of fossils, consider digging your own.
Fred LaBahn, of Prescott, Arizona, a member
of the American Federation of Mineralogical
Societies (AFMS), says you have to know where to
look. "You find fossils in such sedimentary rocks
as shale, sandstone and limestone," he says.
Clarence holds the fossil remains of a leaf he
"These rocks were once river beds where the
believes to be more than 50 million years old.
fossils became preserved." LaBahn claims fossils
are sometimes found by chance. "It never hurts to
state geological survey-you'll find them listed in
check out the rocks along road construction."
the government section of the phone book. Or
LaBahn warns that collecting dinosaur and
write to Country America magazine for a listing of
other prehistoric bones on public land is
your state geological survey and the nearest
illegal in many states. Contact your state
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For more information on fossil hunting, call the
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59
Forager deckhand David Dykstra shows off a
couple friends: a yellow eel and a sea raven.
POST
FORAGER
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A day in the life of a
Commercial
Fisherman
High seas spawn romance and danger
It's 3:30 a.m. David Dykstra pushes himself out of
getting preparations under way. The other two
bed, turns off the alarm clock and starts dressing.
crew members, Joseph Starks and Pete Babcock,
He has no need for $40 neckties or $300 suits. All
arrive shortly. With hardly a word, they untie the
he needs for work are his boots, a flannel shirt,
boat, pull away from the dock and head for the
blue jeans and-of course-his sea legs.
open sea, through the Harbor of Refuge. It's 4 a.m.
While other 38-year-olds may climb the corporate
David looks across the bay to the lights shining
ladder, David climbs the rigging of the fishing
on the trawlers tied up at the public docks. Some of
trawler Forager.
these boats won't be sailing the high seas today, or
David gives his wife, Debbie, who is still in bed, a
tomorrow. Perhaps never. Because of loan defaults,
goodbye kiss. Because the boat is just a couple min-
bankers now own the boats. Owning a boat doesn't
utes' drive through the port of Point Judith, Rhode
make you a fisherman.
Island, he has time to peek at his slumbering
Because it will be a couple hours before they get
children: Dori, 11, Holly, seven, and Caleb, three.
to the fishing grounds, the crew bunks out. When
When David arrives at the dock, he finds his
they reach the fishing grounds, the captain revs the
father, John, the captain of the boat, already
continued on page 62
Photos: Tom Stewart
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Fisherman
break, it could come snapping across the deck like a
lethal rubber band made out of steel.
continued from page 61
David knows there is no room for error.
While the captain tows the net, the crew goes in
engine to signal it's time to get up and work.
for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage and
With Pete controlling the hydraulics, David
strong coffee. It's 7:30 a.m.
guides the net down the rear ramp.
An hour later, the crew returns to the deck and
Because David has been a commercial fisher
reverses the procedure to hoist in the net. As the
since he was 19, he has learned to take nothing for
winch pulls the net out of the water and above the
granted. He is aware of his position as well as the
deck, David urges the bulging net toward the
position of the net and other crew members.
center of the boat to the hog's pen-an area eight
feet by eight feet, enclosed on four sides by boards.
One misstep could mean an icy death
Joseph trips the bag, and the fish spill into the pen.
To fall or get tangled in the net and pulled
After the crew sets the net back in the water,
overboard into the icy March waters of the Atlantic
they turn to the job of sorting fish. A belt carries
would be almost certain death.
the fish from the hog's pen to where David, Joseph
"Your arms and legs would go numb right away,
and Pete are standing. The three crew members
making swimming impossible," David says. If
resemble an octopus as they grab for flounders,
somehow, you still managed to keep your head
flukes and whitings, throwing each into its own
above water, your hip boots would fill with water,
basket. They leave the unwanted sea critters on
sending you to the bottom as quickly as if someone
the belt that carries them out of an opening
had thrown you an anvil.
Drowning isn't the only danger. The drag of the
net, the cranking of the winches and the thrust
from the boat's two Detroit diesel engines create
tremendous opposing forces. If a cable were to
Captain John Dykstra runs the boat from the
wheelhouse as Pete Babcock checks the course.
David Dykstra helps tie off the end of the net
where the fish collect as the net is reeled onto
the large overhead drum. Hydraulic winches
move the net to the hog's pen. Bringing in the
tow creates a sense of anticipation because
each crew member is paid according to how
much is caught. A net full of marketable fish can
mean a decent paycheck at the end of the week.
David stands at the hog's pen to examine the
catch. He's holding a flounder. The stingray-like
fish are called skates. Other species include
greysole, flukes, anglers, sand dabs,
whitings, as well as snails, starfish and eels.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
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called the scupper back into the waiting ocean.
David points to a sleek white-bodied sea bird with
a yellow head and black-tipped wings. "It's pretty
late in the year to be seeing gannets," he says. He
keeps sorting as he talks. "They come from the
arctic. It's a sight you'll only see out here on the
boat because they don't go close to the shore."
The first catch is good. In addition to the quality
fish, they net a bunch of ugly fish called skates. A
skate resembles a stingray-it has a pancake-like
body with eyes on top and a long, pointed tail.
The skates are thrown into a barrel and sold for
six cents a pound to lobster trappers for bait. Even
at six cents a pound, skates can mean the differ-
ence between making a profit or not. A few years
ago many fishermen didn't even bother with them.
"We caught 1.5 million pounds of skates last
year," David says. "If you want to stay in business,
that's what you got to do."
By the time the crew is done sorting the first
haul, it's time to bring in the second tow. It is a
pattern followed throughout the day.
Between tows, David goes to the wheelhouse and
monitors the radio, hoping to catch news from
other fishermen about how the fish are running.
"That's part of the attraction of fishing," David
says, motioning to the radio. "Trying to figure
where other fishermen are and if they're catching
anything. The competition adds to the excitement."
Sometimes the competition goes too far. In their
area, there are one or two boat fires a month-
David and Joseph Starks stand at the co
belt and pull out the salable fish. The rer
many are the result of electrical failures, some the
goes back into the ocean and attracts th
result of arson. "There's a lot of jealousy among
fishermen," David says.
As the sun sets, the crew pulls in the seventh
and last tow of the day, and the captain
immediately heads for port, hoping to beat the
other boats. If other captains bring in big catches of
the same kind of fish, prices drop dramatically.
"Sometimes you think you've done well, but
when you get in you find out the fish aren't worth
anything," David says. Still, he says it's all worth it.
He drives home by the light of the moon
"On a crystal-clear night the stars come right
down and reach the water," he says.
David also tells of the thrill of seeing whales and
touching porpoises that come up to the boat. "That
can be awe-inspiring," he says.
It is 10 p.m. by the time they unload the fish at
the cooperative and clean the boat.
David gets in his pickup and heads home where
he'll have a late supper with his wife, quietly give
his three sleeping children good-night kisses, lay
out his clothes and set his alarm for 3:30 a.m.
By Dick Sowienski, COUNTRY AMERICA
David sorts through the yellow-tail flounders,
looking for the larger, higher-priced ones. He
drops them below where they are layered in ice.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
were
-
HANK THOMPSON
Hunts 'The Wild Side of Life'
The home of Hank
of the artist who put
and Ann Thompson in
Texas honky-tonk on
Keller, Texas, is as
the musical map in
open, gracious and
the 1940s-and helped
comfortable as its resi-
keep it there. From
dent couple. Visitors
"The Wild Side of
are greeted with a gen-
Life" to "Oklahoma
erous dose of Western
Hills" and "A Six
hospitality.
Pack to Go," Hank is
"Come on in," invites
one of only a handful
Ann with a smile.
of recording artists
The decor of the
who have charted
house-modern, yet
records for decades.
unmistakably South-
Singing isn't his
western-reflects the
only skill, however.
couple's deep-anchored
He and Ann are top-
Texas roots, and also
notch hunters.
the dual passions that
They've hunted bear
rule their lives: country
and caribou in Alaska,
music and wild-game
moose in Newfound-
hunting. On one wall of
land, elk in British
the dining room looms
Columbia, pheasant in
an Alaskan caribou
Kansas, dove in
with velvet-covered
Mexico and just about
antlers that almost
everything else in
brush the ceiling. On
Montana, Wyoming,
the opposite wall is an
Colorado, Oklahoma
equally large elk tro-
and Texas. Last year
phy, crowned by a rack
they fulfilled their
that boasts six points
dream of going on an
on each side. The out-
African safari, where
spread hide of a black
they bagged eight
bear drapes artfully
Big-game trophies share space in Hank and Ann
trophies in four days.
from halfway up the
Thompson's home with Hank's music awards.
"I was raised on
wall onto the floor. A
hunting and fishing,"
stuffed javelina, a wild pig, stands transfixed in a
says Hank, who grew up in the great outdoors of
perpetual snarl in a corner by the kitchen door.
Waco, Texas. "Dad was a hunter, and I'd say 80
An adjacent wall holds trophies of another sort:
percent of the meat on our table was wild game."
numerous statuettes and commendations gathered
through 50 years of musical achievement. In their
He bought a shotgun for his sweetie
midst rests the most recent addition to Hank's
And Ann-was she raised in the fields and
collection. The humble-looking gold plaque-its
streams, too? After all, half the trophies in their
dimensions no larger than a piece of ordinary
home are hers, including the huge caribou.
paper-attests to Hank's 1989 induction into the
"No, I didn't hunt until we started dating," she
Country Music Hall of Fame. It is perhaps the most
says. "The first present he bought me was a
impressive, all-encompassing musical trophy a
shotgun." Hank's wife of 20 years makes a face of
country entertainer can ever hope to bag.
comical disappointment. "I wasn't overly elated
"We sort of thought it would be bigger," jokes
about it. I thought, 'What am I going to do with
Hank, who accepted the honor at the 1989 Country
this?' But I figured if I wanted to be a part of his
Music Association Awards in Nashville.
life, I'd have to learn to hunt. Now I love it."
In a way, the award reflects the modest attitude
continued on page 66
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
65
Hank
Thompson
continued from page 65
"
While Hank prepares drinks at
the dining room bar and Ann be-
OKLAHOMAS 1978
GOODWI. AMBASSADOR
gins cooking deer steaks for lunch,
HANK THOMPSON
HANK
the couple recalls Ann's first hunt-
ing lesson.
"We went out into the desert,
and there was a bird sitting on a
cactus," says Ann. "He told me to
shoot it. I missed the bird and the
cactus."
"That bird didn't even fly
away!" Hank says with a laugh.
Ann's aim has improved
through the years, a fact illustrat-
ed by the bighorn sheep and Alas-
kan bear trophies displayed in the
living room.
At the mention of Alaska, Hank
chimes in with a tale of lost booty.
"I lost all the trophies I'd gotten on
my first trip to Alaska. I had a wol-
verine, a moose with a 67-inch
spread and an Alaskan brown
bear. The outfitter we used got in
trouble with the fish and game
The memorabilia in his office attests to Hank's influence as a
commission. He was supposed to
pioneer of Texas-style honky-tonk and Western swing.
ship the trophies. Instead, he went
to South America, and I never got them!"
returning to the plane late one afternoon. There
The Thompsons' collection of trophies isn't the
was the biggest grizzly I'd ever seen
only thing that has grown through the years. Their
"I was sitting in a deer blind and saw a covey of
collection of hunting stories and colorful anecdotes
quail land on a rock. All I had was my rifle
has also swelled with each outdoor excursion. Hank
"Did you hear the one about the four hunters
loves a good tale told well, and you can just
who
"
imagine him spinning riveting tales around a
And so it goes, as morning quickly gives way to
crackling campfire.
afternoon.
"There's something about airplanes that
Hank and Ann have great respect for their prey.
fascinates grizzlies. We were up in Alaska,
They consider hunting a part of the balance of
nature and adhere to game laws. And they're
Hank Thompson
conscious of nature's food chain: Most every trophy
on their wall also represents a hearty feast at their
dinner table.
Birthday: September 3, 1925, in Waco, Texas
"This axis deer," Ann says as she puts the steaks,
Family: Wife Ann; no children
biscuits and gravy, home-grown field peas, tomatoes
Biggest Hits: "The Wild Side of Life,"
and corn on their table, "is the best-tasting deer
"Humpty Dumpty Heart," "A Six Pack to
there is."
Go" and "Wake Up, Irene"
After a toast to companionship and the first
If he weren't an entertainer, he'd be:
mouthful of tender deer steak, Hank grins. "Did
an electrical engineer
you hear about the hunter sitting on the edge of
Favorite Food: Mexican
the bayou? Across the ridge
"
Write to Hank: 5 Rushing Creek Court,
Roanoke, TX 76252
By Valerie Hansen, who shared a story-filled day
and a big meal with the Thompsons.
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Photos: John Rogers
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W
hen Don Eck of Bartlett,
how they boiled the juice in a
Kansas, makes sorghum syrup,
copper pan under a tree. "We
he's helping to preserve a little
were as green as the sorghum-
bit of rural and historic America.
cane juice," he says.
"We started making sorghum
With experience and hard
because I wanted my wife and
work their business grew into a
children to know how real
family operation. Now Don and
sorghum tasted. My parents
Marilyn's three children and
made it: I never forgot the
seven grandchildren help with
flavor," says Don.
the cutting, processing and
Adds wife Marilyn, "It's a
packaging. The Ecks sell their
personal joy to produce
sorghum in area supermarkets
something SO pure. That's what
and by mail order (ordering
people miss from the past, even
instructions are on page 72).
if they've never lived in the
country."
America's sweet memories
The Ecks made their first
The history of sorghum goes
batch of sorghum syrup about 18
back to colonial days when
years ago. They called on an old
sorghum was the sweetener of
Sweet, Sweet
sorghum maker's son to explain
choice. The colonists used it not
the process to them. Don recalls
only in baking but also in
SORGHUM
Pure sorghum
flavoring cured meats. By the
Golden
Mail
1850s, farmers had begun
is a finger-
growing sorghum commercially;
licking taste of
by 1879, production in the
United States had risen to 28
nostalgia. Use it
million gallons a year.
After that, however, as sugar
as syrup instead
and other sweeteners became
of honey or
more popular, the sweet sorghum
industry went into decline,
molasses.
except during World War II,
when sugar rationing made
sorghum a leading table
sweetener again.
Today, in 24 states across the
country, an estimated 700 family
farms grow and process sweet
Don and Marilyn Eck grow
sorghum. And though they have
sorghum on their Kansas farm.
a steady market for the syrup,
sorghum growers play a very
small role in U.S. agriculture.
Still the Ecks continue to raise
sorghum SO they can share their
taste of the country. You can
enjoy the sweetness, too, in the
recipes on the following pages.
continued on page 70
Apple Tea Bread, Shoo-Fly Pie,
Oatmeal Cookies, Oatmeal
Bread and Sorghum Egg Butter
(recipes on pages 70 to 74).
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Photos: Bill Barksdale; Mike Dieter; Jim Goss
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
it
1
COOOOO
"
Sorghum
continued from page 68
What is sorghum?
Shoo-Fly Pie
Pictured on page 69, this
Pennsylvania-Dutch pie substitutes
sorghum for the traditional molasses.
1 unbaked 9-inch pastry shell
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Sorghum is a plant all its own.
actually molasses, the thick,
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
It is mostly stalk, just like corn
dark syrup that separates itself
1/4 teaspoon salt
and may grow as high as 15
from raw sugar during the
2 tablespoons shortening
feet. There are four kinds: grain
manufacturing of refined sugar
3/4 cup hot water (not boiling)
sorghum, used mainly for
from sugar cane. Though some
1/2 cup sorghum
livestock feed; grass sorghums,
sorghum imitations are labeled
1 slightly beaten egg yolk
used for hay and pasture;
"pure sorghum syrup," they
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
broomcorn, used to make
may be molasses mixed with
brooms; and sweet sorghum,
sorghum. And there are some
Bake unpricked pastry shell in a
which provides syrup as well as
sorghum makers who refer to
450° F oven for 5 minutes. Cool
hay and silage.
their honest-to-goodness pure
thoroughly on rack.
Many grocery stores carry
product as "sorghum molasses."
For filling, combine flour, brown
products called sorghum that
Read ingredient lists on
sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg,
aren't sorghum at all! They're
sorghum labels carefully!
cloves and salt in a medium mixing
bowl. Cut in shortening till the
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Oatmeal Cookies
mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Combine hot water, sorghum, egg
1 cup applesauce
yolk and baking soda in another
6 tablespoons sorghum
Pictured on page 69.
mixing bowl. Pour 1/3 of the sorghum
1 cup raisins
mixture into bottom of partially
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 cup all-purpose flour
baked pastry shell. Sprinkle 1/3 of the
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
flour mixture atop sorghum layer.
Cream margarine or butter and
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Repeat layers, ending with flour
sugar in a large mixer bowl until
3/4 cup shortening
mixture.
light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a
1 cup packed brown sugar
Cover edge of the pie with foil to
time, beating well after each
1/2 cup sugar
prevent overbrowning. Bake in a
addition.
1 egg
450° F oven for 15 minutes. Remove
Stir together the flour, baking
1/4 cup sorghum
foil; bake at 350° F for 20 minutes or
powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg;
1 teaspoon vanilla
till set. Cool on a wire rack before
set aside. Combine applesauce and
3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
serving. Makes 1 pie.
sorghum. Add dry ingredients
alternately with applesauce mixture
Combine flour, salt and soda. In a
to egg mixture, beating well after
mixer bowl, beat shortening, brown
each addition. Fold in the raisins and
sugar and sugar till fluffy. Add egg,
Apple Tea Bread
chopped nuts. Turn into four greased
sorghum and vanilla; beat well.
5½x3x2/4-inch loaf pans or one
Add dry ingredients to beaten
Pictured on page 69.
greased bread pan.
mixture; beat till well combined.
Bake small loaves in a 350° F
Stir in oats.
1/2 cup margarine or butter
oven for 40 to 45 minutes; bake large
Drop dough from a teaspoon
3/4 cup sugar
loaf 1 hour or till toothpick inserted
2 inches apart onto an ungreased
in center comes out clean. Cool for
cookie sheet. Bake at 350° F 12 to 14
3 eggs
10 minutes. Remove bread from
minutes. Makes 60.
2 cups all-purpose flour
pans, and cool on wire racks.
continued on page 72
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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Sorghum
continued from page 70
Oatmeal Bread
Pictured on page 69.
1 cup rolled oats
2 tablespoons shortening
1 tablespoon salt
2 cups boiling water
2/3 cup sorghum
Oven Caramel Corn
Cupcakes and
1 package active dry yeast
2/3 cup water (105° to 115° F)
Lemon Sauce
7½ to 8 cups all-purpose flour
7½ to 10 cups popped corn
Cakes
(³/4 cup unpopped corn)
1½ cups all-purpose flour
Grease two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans
1 cup peanuts (optional)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
or 8-inch round cake pans. Sprinkle
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
with oats. Set aside. Combine 1 cup
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
oats, shortening, salt and boiling
1/4 cup sorghum
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
water. Let stand till lukewarm.
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
Meanwhile, dissolve yeast in the 2/3
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
cup warm water. Stir sorghum and
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
yeast into oat mixture. Stir in as
Pinch cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
much of the flour as you can mix in
1/2 cup sorghum
with a spoon.
Combine the popcorn and
1/2 cup boiling water
Turn out onto a lightly floured
peanuts (if desired) in a 17x12x2-inch
1 well beaten egg
surface. Knead in enough of the
baking pan. Remove any unpopped
1/2 cup soft shortening, margarine
remaining flour to make a
kernels of popcorn. Set aside.
or butter
moderately soft dough that is smooth
Combine brown sugar, margarine,
Lemon Sauce
and elastic (6 to 8 minutes). Dough
sorghum and salt in a 2-quart
1/2 cup sugar
will be sticky. Place in a greased
saucepan. Cook and stir over
2 tablespoons cornstarch
bowl; let rise in a warm place till
medium heat till mixture starts to
Dash salt
double, about 1½ hours.
boil. Clip a candy thermometer to
1 cup water
Punch down; let dough rest 10
side of pan. Cook without stirring for
2 tablespoons margarine or
minutes. Halve dough. Shape each
4 minutes longer to 255° F, hard-ball
butter
half into loaf or round shape. Place
stage. Remove from heat.
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
in prepared loaf pans or round cake
Stir in vanilla, baking soda and
2 tablespoons lemon juice
pans. (Slash surface of round loaves
cream of tartar. Pour mixture over
if desired.)
popcorn. Gently stir till all popcorn
Combine flour, brown sugar,
Cover and let rise in warm place
is coated. Bake in 250° F oven
cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice,
till nearly double, about 45 minutes.
1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
salt, baking soda and baking powder.
Bake in a 350° F oven about 45
Spread out on a 15½x10x1-inch
Mix sorghum, boiling water, egg and
minutes. Cool on rack. Makes 2
baking pan to cool. Store in airtight
shortening together; add to flour
loaves.
containers. Makes 7½ to 10 cups.
mixture and mix well.
Spoon into greased or baking-
cup-lined muffin pans, filling half
full. Bake in a 350° F oven 20
How to order sorghum
minutes or till done.
Meanwhile, prepare sauce.
The Eck family (see story on
you which stores in Arkansas,
Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt;
page 74) sells sorghum by mail.
Tennessee and Missouri carry
add water. Cook and stir till
For a price list, call 316/226-
their products.
thickened and bubbly. Remove from
3368. Write: Golden Mill Sor-
For more recipes and
heat and stir in margarine or butter,
ghum, Rte. 1 Box 29, Bartlett,
information, write: Brenda
lemon peel and juice. Serve warm
KS 67332. Enclose a self-
Stemler, Secretary, National
over cupcakes. Makes about 16
addressed, stamped envelope.
Sweet Sorghum Producers
cupcakes.
You can call the Stoll family at
Association, Rte. 1 Box 189,
continued on page 74
901/934-4831, and they will tell
Waterloo, IL 62298.
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Sorghum
continued from page 72
How sorghum is made
For Victor Stoll of western
The Stolls carry
Tennessee, making sorghum is
cut sorghum to a
a family tradition. "My father
press in their
told me when he was growing
Tennessee field.
They belong to a
up in the South every farm
Christian
grew sweet sorghum for their
offshoot of the
own use. Families either
Mennonites.
processed it themselves or a
man would come once a week
with his mill and boiler and do
it for them," says Victor.
The process of making
sorghum begins in September.
Rollers in the
The Stolls harvest the tall
press squeeze
sorghum stalks that are full of
out the juice,
the juice needed to make
which is hauled
in a tank to the
sorghum.
sorghum house.
Harvest is usually finished
by November. Victor staggers
spring planting so his sorghum
matures over two months. He
could not harvest and process
his entire crop all at once.
Victor cuts the sorghum
with a one-row corn binder he
Victor Stoll cooks
pulls behind a tractor. If the
and skims the
stalks have blown down, the
sorghum juice.
Stolls cut them by hand.
He produces
Sorghum Egg Butter
The stalks dry on the
about 25 gallons
of syrup an hour.
ground for three to four days.
Also pictured on page 69.
Then a press and a large tank
are brought to the field. The
2 cups sorghum
stalks are fed through the
6 tablespoons butter or
press, and the juice collects in
margarine
the 285-gallon tank. It takes
4 beaten eggs
Victor about one hour to fill
1 teaspoon vanilla
the tank.
Sorghum is
He hauls the tank to the
strained several
Combine sorghum and butter or
sorghum house where the thin
times before it's
margarine in a large saucepan. Bring
green juice is poured into
allowed to cool
and form into
mixture to boiling; remove from
interconnected pans and
heat. Stir a small amount of
sorghum syrup.
cooked. After boiling about 25
sorghum mixture into beaten eggs.
minutes, the juice reaches the
Return egg mixture to saucepan.
proper thickness. Victor can
Cook over medium heat, stirring
judge by appearance when the
constantly or till thickened slightly.
syrup has cooked long enough,
Do not boil. Serve with pancakes,
but he has a candy thermom-
over baked apples or as ice-cream
eter for backup. Once the
topping. Makes 3 cups.
sorghum reaches the soft-ball
Pure sorghum is
stage, it's ready, he says.
jarred, capped
The hot syrup is then
and taken to
filtered through cooling tanks
grocery stores.
where it thickens. Finally the
cooled syrup is poured into
containers. The Stolls sell
their sorghum in four-pound
metal tins and one- and two-
pound glass jars.
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there's one of his talents that's often overlooked:
Home: Nashville
Tom is a good cook.
Family: Single
Like many entertainers, Tom enjoys the solitude
of his home when he's not performing. He'll putter
Hobbies: Gardening,
in his garden or do some woodworking. Almost
downhill skiing,
always he prepares his own meals.
exercising,
Being single might be a good excuse to forgo
motorcycling and
cooking altogether, but not for Tom. "Eating the
woodworking
kind of food I grew up with gives me a sense of
Current album:
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Don't Look Back
Tom prefers the hearty foods of his Wisconsin
Biggest hits:
childhood such as the spaghetti and beef stew
"Rock and Roll of Love,"
pictured here. The original versions of these recipes
"A Little Bit Closer"
came from his mother.
and "Susanna"
Tom has adapted the recipes for his grown-up
tastes. Now years and miles away from the family
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dairy farm and demanding physical chores, he
International Fan Club,
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Wopat's Wonderful Spaghetti
1/2 to 3/4 pound bulk Italian sausage
2 medium onions, chopped
1 to 2 tablespoons cooking oil
1/2 of a medium green sweet pepper, cut into 1/2-inch
squares
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 15½1/2-ounce jar spaghetti sauce with meat
1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
1 6-ounce can tomato paste
1/2 cup dry red wine
1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning, crushed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Hot cooked linguine or spaghetti
Grated Parmesan cheese
A native of Wisconsin, the Dairy State, Tom
sprinkles fresh Parmesan on his spaghetti.
Combine sausage, onion, green pepper and cooking oil
in a Dutch oven. Cook until sausage is brown and
vegetables are tender. Drain off fat.
pepper. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, covered,
Stir in mushrooms, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce,
for 45 to 60 minutes. Serve over hot linguine or
tomato paste, red wine, Italian seasoning, salt and
spaghetti. Pass grated cheese. Makes 6 servings.
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Tom would rather cook up a batch of his delicious stew than eat in a restaurant. This one-dish meal
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85
Fairs and Festivals.
The finest fairs and
festivals come to town on TNN.
Join host Mike Snider
as he crosses the country to bring
you the shows and the stars.
The people and the pageantry.
The American spirit at its best.
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In September, get set
for Fan Fair from Nashville.
October highlights the Georgia
Mountain Fair. Then it's on
to the Nebraska State Fair and
the South Carolina State Fair
in November.
All on Fairs and Festivals.
Only on TNN.
TNN
THE NASHVILLE NETWORK
The Heart of Country
Mike Snider
Executive Producer: C. Paul Corbin
Producer: Jimmy Jay
Co-Producer/Writer: Joe Elmore, Walt Adams
Producer/Director: Rusty Wilcoxen
Produced in association with Jayson Promotions.
© 1990 Group W Satellite Communications. THE NASHVILLE NETWORK, TNN and the TNN logo are registered service marks of Opryland USA Inc.
September 1-2
EAST
CENT
1130
10³⁰
MTN
Sat., Sept. 1
Grand Ole Opry Live
PAC
930
830
Opry stars in concert.
Mid
1100
Barbara Mandrell And
goo
800
Backyard America
1000
900
The Mandrell Sisters
700
600
DTN
End-of-the-growing-season
Mel Tillis, Phyllis Diller,
gardening tips.
and Lee Majors.
930
830
The Joy Of Gardening
100
Mid
American Music Shop
730
630
How to harvest and
1100
10°°
Kathy Mattea,
preserve produce.
Doogie McClain.
1000
900
Creative Living
130
12³⁰
The Texas Connection
800
700
Jewelry making,
1130
10³⁰
Nancy Griffith,
SEPTEMB
crocheting.
Eric Taylor.
1030
930
Side By Side
200
100
Championship Rodeo
830
730
Travel series.
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
1100
1000
Celebrity Outdoors
Program Gu
goo
800
Irlene Mandrell races
powerboats in Florida.
EAST
CENT
1130
1030
Remodeling And
MTN
PAC
Sun., Sept. 2
930
830
Decorating Today
Installing a garage
goo
800
Exciting World Of
door opener.
700
600
Speed And Beauty
Noon
1100
Country Kitchen
Sprint car racing and
1000
900
Ex-pro football player
hot rod extravaganza.
"Mean" Joe Greene.
930
830
Truckin' USA
12³⁰
1130
Side By Side
730
6³⁰
Trucking jamborees,
1030
930
Travel series.
technical tips.
100
Noon
Going Our Way
1000
900
Trucks And
1100
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
800
700
Tractor Power
130
12³⁰
Remodeling And
Monster truck competition
1130
10³⁰
Decorating Today
at Louisville Motor
Installing a garage
Speedway.
door opener.
1030
930
Hidden Heroes
200
100
Country Kitchen
830
730
Close-up look at
Noon
1100
Ex-pro football player
motorsports.
"Mean" Joe Greene.
1100
1000
Inside Winston
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
900
800
Cup Racing
12³⁰
1130
The Lewis Family,
NASCAR highlights.
the Kingdom Heirs.
1130
1030
Championship Rodeo
300
200
The Tommy Hunter Show
930
830
Bronc and bull riding.
100
Noon
Louise Mandrell, Vince Gill.
12³⁰
1130
Celebrity Outdoors
400
300
Church Street Station
1030
930
Irlene Mandrell races
200
100
Doug Kershaw.
powerboats in
430
330
This Week In
Sarasota, Florida.
230
130
Country Music
100
Noon
The BASSMASTERS
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
1100
1000
Host Ray Scott.
and Charlie Chase.
130
12³⁰
The Buckmasters
500
400
Country Beat
1130
1030
Whitetail Magazine
300
2⁰⁰
Rockin' country videos.
Electronic deer
630
530
Gospel Jubilee
target system.
430
3³⁰
The Lewis Family,
200
100
Bill Dance Outdoors
the Kingdom Heirs.
Noon
1100
Weekend fishing series.
700
600
A Conversation
230
130
Hidden Heroes
500
400
With Dinah
12³⁰
1130
Close-up look at
Actress Stephanie Powers.
motorsports.
730
6³⁰
This Week In
300
200
American Sports
530
430
Country Music
100
Noon
Cavalcade
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
Motorsports events.
Patty Loveles
and Charlie Chase.
430
330
NHRA Today
800
700
Church Street Station
230
130
Behind-the-scenes action
600
500
Doug Kershaw.
of NHRA drag racing.
8³⁰
730
At home with a star
Grand Ole Opry Live
500
400
Inside Winston
630
530
Opry stars in concert.
300
2⁰⁰
Cup Racing
900
800
Barbara Mandrell And
NASCAR highlights.
Come along as host Lorianne Crook -
700
600
The Mandrell Sisters
530
430
Firestone Firehawk
with singer Patty Loveless (above) in
Mel Tillis, Phyllis Diller.
330
2³⁰
Endurance Championship
1000
900
American Music Shop
Grand sports-class
Tennessee home on Celebrities Offsta
800
700
Kathy Mattea,
competition from Mid-
VIII. The entertainer's career has
Doogie McClain.
Ohio's Sport Car Course.
skyrocketed since she topped the cou
1030
930
The Texas Connection
600
500
Truckin' USA
charts with Timber, I'm Falling in L
830
730
Nanci Griffith,
400
300
Trucking jamborees,
Eric Taylor.
technical tips.
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 8 p.m. Eastern
1100
1000
On Stage
6³⁰
530
Road Test Magazine
Thursday, Sept. 27, 11 p.m. Eastern
900
800
Shane Barmby.
430
330
Host Don Garlits.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
September 2-7
For information concerning guest appearances on Nashville Now
(two weeks prior to air date) and the Grand Ole Opry Live (two
days prior), contact TNN Viewer Services at 615/883-7000.
700
600
American Sports
830
730
On Stage
200
100
Music Row Video
130
12³⁰
Top Card
500
400
Cavalcade
630
530
Concert series.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
Motorsports events.
900
800
SPECIAL
2°°
100
Crook And Chase
830
730
NHRA Today
700
600
TNN's All-Star Salute to
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
630
5³⁰
Behind-the-scenes action
Country Music. Join CO-
EAST
CENT
230
130
A Conversation
hosts Johnny Cash and
MTN
PAC
Wed., Sept. 5
12³⁰
1130
With Dinah
of NHRA drag racing.
900
800
Inside Winston
Barbara Mandrell as they
Actress Suzanne
700
600
Cup Racing
give a special tribute
900
800
VideoMorning
Pleshette.
to Ralph Emery (R).
700
600
NASCAR highlights.
Country music videos with
300
200
Country Standard Time
930
Bill Dance Outdoors
1100
1000
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
100
Gospel Jubilee
Noon
830
Nostalgic country videos.
730
630
Weekend fishing series.
900
800
The Lewis Family,
Katie Haas (live).
400
300
VideoGold
1000
900
Outdoor News Network
the Kingdom Heirs.
Noon
1100
American Magazine
200
100
Country video countdown.
800
700
Fishing tips and hot spots.
1130
1030
On Stage
1000
goo
Co-hosts Dan Miller
500
400
On Stage
1030
930
The BASSMASTERS
930
830
and Lisa Foster.
300
2°
Concert series.
Concert series.
830
730
Host Ray Scott.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
100
Noon
Country Kitchen
530
430
American Magazine
1100
1000
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
1100
1000
Ex-pro football player
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
The Exciting World
goo
800
Of Speed And Beauty
130
1230
Crook And Chase
"Mean" Joe Greene.
and Lisa Foster.
Sprint car racing and
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
630
530
Top Card
10³⁰
430
330
Game show.
hot rod extravaganza.
200
100
Music Row Video
1130
Game show.
1130
1030
Truckin' USA
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
200
100
Crook And Chase
700
600
Music Row Video
930
830
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
500
400
Trucking jamborees,
Hit country videos.
technical tips.
230
130
Church Street Station
800
700
SPECIAL
1100
EAST
CENT
12³⁰
1130
Tue., Sept. 4
Doug Kershaw,
600
500
Trucks And
My Heroes Have Always
Mid
1000
900
Tractor Power
MTN
PAC
Johnny Rodriguez.
Been Cowboys. Host
Monster trucks at Louisville
300
200
Country Standard Time
Waylon Jennings looks at
Motor Speedway.
goo
800
VideoMorning
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
the modern-day cowboy.
700
600
12³⁰
1130
Hidden Heroes
Country music videos with
400
300
VideoGold
goo
800
Nashville Now
10³⁰
930
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
200
100
Country video countdown.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
Close-up look at
Katie Haas (live).
500
400
On Stage
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
motorsports.
100
Mid
Inside Winston
Noon
1100
American Magazine
300
2⁰⁰
Les Taylor.
830
730
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
1000
900
Cup Racing
Co-hosts Dan Miller
530
430
American Magazine
1100
1000
American Music Shop
and Lisa Foster.
3³⁰
230
NASCAR highlights.
Co-hosts Dan Miller
900
800
Kathy Mattea,
130
12³⁰
Celebrity Outdoors
100
Noon
Remodeling And
and Lisa Foster.
Doogie McClain.
1130
1030
1100
1000
Irlene Mandrell races
Decorating Today
630
530
Top Card
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
Installing a garage
430
330
Game show.
930
830
John Anderson.
powerboats in Florida.
200
100
Championship Rodeo
door opener.
700
600
Music Row Video
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
Mid
1100
130
12³⁰
Top Card
500
400
Hit country videos.
1000
900
Bronc and bull riding.
Host Ralph Emery.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
800
700
A Conversation
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
200
100
Crook And Chase
600
500
With Dinah
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
Noon
1100
EAST
Entertainment news.
Actress Suzanne
200
100
Music Row Video
CENT
MTN
PAC
Mon., Sept. 3
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
Pleshette.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
12³⁰
1130
The Lewis Family,
830
730
On Stage
the Kingdom Heirs.
630
530
goo
800
VideoMorning
Concert series.
700
600
Country music videos with
300
200
Country Standard Time
900
800
Nashville Now
EAST
CENT
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
MTN
PAC
Fri., Sept. 7
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
Katie Haas (live).
400
300
VideoGold
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
200
100
Country video countdown.
830
730
1100
Entertainment news.
goo
800
Noon
American Magazine
VideoMorning
700
6⁰⁰
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
500
400
On Stage
1100
10⁰⁰
A Conversation
Country music videos with
300
200
Concert series.
900
800
and Lisa Foster.
With Dinah
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
100
Noon
Side By Side
530
430
American Magazine
Actress Suzanne
Katie Haas (live).
1100
1000
Travel series.
3³⁰
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Pleshette.
Noon
1100
American Magazine
12³⁰
Top Card
and Lisa Foster.
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
130
1130
1030
Game show.
6³⁰
530
Top Card
930
830
Concert series.
and Lisa Foster.
200
Crook And Chase
430
100
330
Game show.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
100
Noon
Celebrity Outdoors
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
700
600
Music Row Video
10⁰⁰
900
Host Ralph Emery.
1100
1000
Irlene Mandrell goes
230
130
The Texas Connection
500
400
Hit country videos.
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
powerboat racing in
12³⁰
1130
Rusty Wie, Michael Ballew.
800
700
Church Street Station
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
Florida.
300
2⁰⁰
Country Standard Time
600
500
Doug Kershaw.
200
100
Music Row Video
130
12³⁰
Top Card
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
830
730
On Stage
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
VideoGold
630
530
400
Les Taylor.
200
100
Crook And Chase
300
Noon
1100
200
100
Country video countdown.
900
800
Nashville Now
Entertainment news.
400
On Stage
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
EAST
CENT
230
130
American Music Shop
500
300
2⁰⁰
Dave Mallett.
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
MTN
PAC
Thur., Sept. 6
12³⁰
1130
Kathy Mattea,
530
430
American Magazine
830
730
Entertainment news.
Doogie McClain.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1100
1000
SPECIAL
900
800
VideoMorning
300
200
Country Standard Time
and Lisa Foster.
900
800
Funny Business with
700
600
Country music videos with
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
6³⁰
530
Top Card
Charlie Chase IV. Charlie
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
400
300
VideoGold
Game show.
Katie Haas (live).
200
100
430
330
plays tricks on country
Country video countdown.
700
600
Music Row Video
music stars and fans (R).
Noon
1100
American Magazine
500
400
On Stage
1000
900
300
200
John Anderson.
500
400
Hit country videos.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
Co-hosts Dan Miller
800
700
Gospel Jubilee
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
and Lisa Foster.
530
430
American Magazine
600
500
The Lewis Family,
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
100
Noon
Going Our Way
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
the Kingdom Heirs.
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
and Lisa Foster.
88
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
September 7-10
630
530
Top Card
500
400
Country Beat
1000
goo
Trucks And
700
600
American Sports
430
330
Game show.
300
200
Rockin' country videos.
800
700
Tractor Power
500
400
Cavalcade
700
600
Music Row Video
630
530
Gospel Jubilee
Monster truck competition
Motorsports events.
500
400
Hit country videos.
430
330
The Speer Family,
from Richmond
830
730
NHRA Today
800
700
The Texas Connection
the Dixie Echoes.
International Speedway.
630
530
Behind-the-scenes action
600
500
Nanci Griffith,
700
600
A Conversation
1030
930
Hidden Heroes
of NHRA drag racing.
Eric Taylor.
500
400
With Dinah
830
730
Crew chief Lee Beard
900
800
Inside Winston
830
730
On Stage
Host Dinah Shore.
prepares for the
700
600
Cup Racing
630
530
Canyon.
730
630
This Week In
Fram Supernationals.
NASCAR highlights.
goo
800
Nashville Now
530
430
Country Music
1100
1000
Inside Winston
930
830
Bill Dance Outdoors
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
900
800
Cup Racing
730
630
Weekend fishing series.
1030
930
Crook And Chase
and Charlie Chase.
NASCAR highlights.
1000
goo
Outdoor News Network
830
730
Entertainment news.
800
700
Church Street Station
1130
1030
Championship Rodeo
800
700
Fishing tips and hot spots.
1100
1000
SPECIAL
600
500
Exile.
930
830
Bronc and bull riding.
1030
930
The BASSMASTERS
goo
800
Harry Anderson: Just
830
730
Grand Ole Opry Live
12³⁰
1130
Celebrity Outdoors
830
730
Host Ray Scott.
for Laughs. Night Court's
630
530
Opry stars in concert.
1030
930
Vicki and Dale Sanders
1100
1000
The Exciting World
Harry Anderson joins
goo
800
Barbara Mandrell And
fish and pan for gold in
900
800
Of Speed And Beauty
guests Dennis Blair,
700
600
The Mandrell Sisters
Alaska's Yukon Valley.
Ice and speedway racing.
Jeff Foxworthy and
B.J. Thomas,
100
Noon
The BASSMASTERS
1130
1030
Truckin' USA
Gary Mule Deer.
Tony Orlando.
1100
1000
Host Ray Scott.
930
830
Truck jamborees,
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
1000
900
American Music Shop
130
12³⁰
The Buckmasters
technical tips.
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
800
700
Duane Eddy.
1130
10³⁰
Whitetail Magazine
Mid
1100
Trucks And
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
10³⁰
930
The Texas Connection
Boston Red Sox star
1000
goo
Tractor Power
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
830
730
Monte Warden,
Wade Boggs goes hunting
Monster truck competition
200
100
Music Row Video
Dickie Lee Erwin.
for whitetail buck
from Richmond
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
1100
1000
On Stage
in Texas.
International Raceway.
900
800
Billy Hill.
200
100
Bill Dance Outdoors
12³⁰
1130
Hidden Heroes
1130
10³⁰
Grand Ole Opry Live
Noon
1100
Weekend fishing series.
10³⁰
930
Crew chief Lee Beard
EAST
CENT
930
830
Sat., Sept. 8
Opry stars in concert.
230
130
Hidden Heroes
prepares for the
MTN
PAC
Mid
1100
Barbara Mandrell And
12³⁰
1130
Crew chief Lee Beard
Fram Supernationals.
1000
900
The Mandrell Sisters
prepares for the
100
Mid
Inside Winston
goo
800
Backyard America
B.J. Thomas,
700
600
Fram Supernationals.
1100
1000
Cup Racing
Preserving apples, tips
Tony Orlando.
300
200
American Sports
NASCAR highlights.
on growing spinach.
100
Mid
American Music Shop
100
Noon
Cavalcade
130
1230
Celebrity Outdoors
930
830
The Joy Of Gardening
1100
1000
Duane Eddy.
Motorsports events.
1130
10³⁰
730
Vicki and Dale Sanders
630
Turning sod or lawn into a
130
12³⁰
The Texas Connection
430
330
NHRA Today
fish and pan for gold in
productive garden area.
1130
10³⁰
Monte Warden,
230
130
Behind-the-scenes action
1000
Alaska's Yukon Valley.
900
Creative Living
Dickie Lee Erwin.
of NHRA drag racing.
200
100
800
700
Championship Rodeo
Jewelry making,
200
100
Championship Rodeo
500
400
Inside Winston
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
crocheting and
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
300
2⁰⁰
Cup Racing
home decorations.
1030
NASCAR highlights.
930
Side By Side
530
430
Firestone Firehawk
EAST
CENT
830
730
Travel series.
EAST
CENT
330
230
Endurance Championship
MTN
PAC
Mon., Sept. 10
1100
1000
Celebrity Outdoors
MTN
PAC
Sun., Sept. 9
goo
800
Grand sports-class
Vicki and Dale Sanders
competition from New
goo
800
VideoMorning
fish and pan for gold in
900
800
Exciting World Of
York's Watkins Glen
700
600
Country music videos with
Alaska's Yukon Valley.
700
600
Speed And Beauty
International Raceway.
co-hosts Al Wyntor and
1130
10³⁰
Remodeling And
Ice sled racing, Granatelli
600
500
930
830
Truckin' USA
Katie Haas (live).
Decorating Today
Indy racing team.
400
300
Trucking jamborees,
Noon
1100
American Magazine
Assembling a utility cart.
930
830
Truckin' USA
technical tips.
10⁰⁰
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Noon
1100
Country Kitchen
730
630
Trucking jamborees,
630
530
1000
Road Test Magazine
and Lisa Foster.
900
Kathy and June Forester.
technical tips.
430
330
Host Don Garlits.
100
Noon
Side By Side
1230
1130
Side By Side
1100
1000
10³⁰
Travel series.
930
Travel series.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
100
Noon
Going Our Way
Missing this show
1130
10³⁰
1100
Game show.
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
would be a crime
200
100
Crook And Chase
130
1230
Remodeling And
Noon
1100
1130
Entertainment news.
10³⁰
Decorating Today
Just for Laughs with Harry
230
130
The Texas Connection
Assembling a utility cart.
200
100
Anderson features Night
12³⁰
1130
Nanci Griffith,
Country Kitchen
Noon
1100
Court star Harry Anderson
Eric Taylor.
Kathy and June Forester.
(left) in an evening of
300
200
Country Standard Time
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
12³⁰
1130
comedy from the Showboat
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
The Speer Family,
Hotel-Casino in Atlantic
400
300
VideoGold
the Dixie Echoes.
The Tommy Hunter Show
City, New Jersey. Also
200
100
Country video countdown.
3⁰⁰
200
100
Noon
appearing are funnymen
500
400
On Stage
Tom Wopat,
Jeff Foxworthy, Dennis
300
200
Canyon.
Roger Whittaker.
Blair, Grover Silcox and
530
430
American Magazine
400
300
Church Street Station
2°°
100
Gary Mule Deer.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Exile.
and Lisa Foster.
430
330
This Week In
130
Friday, Sept. 7, 11 p.m.
630
530
230
Top Card
Country Music
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.
430
330
Game show.
(All times Eastern.)
700
600
Music Row Video
and Charlie Chase.
500
400
Hit country videos.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
89
September 10-15
For information concerning guest appearances on Nashville Now
(two weeks prior to air date) and the Grand Ole Opry Live (two
days prior), contact TNN Viewer Services at 615/883-7000.
800
700
Gospel Jubilee
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
EAST
CENT
Noon
1100
American Magazine
600
500
The Speer Family,
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
MTN
PAC
Thur., Sept. 13
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
the Dixie Echoes.
200
100
Music Row Video
and Lisa Foster.
830
730
On Stage
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
goo
800
VideoMorning
100
Noon
Celebrity Outdoors
6³⁰
5³⁰
Concert series.
700
600
Country music videos with
1100
1000
Vicki and Dale Sanders
goo
800
Nashville Now
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
fish and pan for gold in
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
EAST
CENT
Katie Haas (live).
Alaska's Yukon Valley.
1030
930
Crook And Chase
MTN
PAC
Wed., Sept. 12
Noon
1100
American Magazine
130
12³⁰
Top Card
830
730
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
Game show.
1100
1000
Gospel Jubilee
goo
800
VideoMorning
and Lisa Foster.
200
100
Crook And Chase
goo
800
The Speer Family,
700
600
Country music videos with
100
Noon
Going Our Way
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
the Dixie Echoes.
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
1100
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
230
130
American Music Shop
1130
1030
On Stage
Katie Haas (live).
130
12³⁰
Top Card
12³⁰
1130
Duane Eddy.
930
830
Concert series.
Noon
1100
American Magazine
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
300
200
Country Standard Time
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
200
100
Crook And Chase
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
and Lisa Foster.
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
400
300
VideoGold
130
100
Country Kitchen
230
130
A Conversation
200
100
1230
Crook And Chase
Noon
Country video countdown.
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
Kathy and June Forester.
12³⁰
1130
With Dinah
500
400
On Stage
200
100
Music Row Video
130
12³⁰
Actor Carl Reiner.
300
200
Top Card
The Forester Sisters.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
300
200
Country Standard Time
530
430
American Magazine
100
330
230
200
100
Crook And Chase
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
400
300
VideoGold
and Lisa-Foster.
EAST
CENT
230
130
Church Street Station
200
100
Country video countdown.
630
530
Top Card
MTN
PAC
Tue., Sept. 11
12³⁰
1130
Exile.
500
400
On Stage
430
330
Game show.
300
200
Country Standard Time
300
200
Jo-El Sonnier.
700
600
Music Row Video
goo
800
VideoMorning
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
530
430
American Magazine
500
400
Hit country videos.
700
600
Country music videos with
400
300
VideoGold
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
800
700
SPECIAL
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
200
100
Country video countdown.
and Lisa Foster.
600
500
Rick Nelson: It's All Right
Katie Haas (live).
Now. A look at the
Noon
1100
American Magazine
These folks know
superstar's life.
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
goo
800
Nashville Now
the best angles
700
600
and Lisa Foster.
Host Ralph Emery (live).
100
Noon
Remodeling And
1030
930
Crook And Chase
1100
1000
Ray Scott shows highlights
830
730
Decorating Today
Entertainment news.
Assembling a practical
from the Bassmaster
1100
1000
The Texas Connection
utility cart.
Classic as pro bass anglers
900
800
Monte Warden,
130
12³⁰
Top Card
compete for the world
Dickie Lee Erwin.
1130
1030
Game show.
championship in Virginia.
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
930
830
200
100
Crook And Chase
Doug Stone.
Noon
1100
Sunday, Sept. 16, 12:30 p.m.
Entertainment news.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
and 10:30 p.m.
1000
900
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
Host Ralph Emery.
12³⁰
1130
(All times Eastern.)
The Speer Family,
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
1130
1030
the Dixie Echoes.
Entertainment news.
300
200
Country Standard Time
500
400
On Stage
630
530
Top Card
200
100
Music Row Video
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
300
200
The O'Kanes.
430
330
Game show.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
400
300
VideoGold
530
430
American Magazine
700
600
Music Row Video
200
100
Country video countdown.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
500
400
Hit country videos.
500
On Stage
and Lisa Foster.
800
700
SPECIAL
EAST
CENT
400
Sat., Sept. 15
300
200
Concert series.
6³⁰
530
Top Card
600
500
Funny Business with
MTN
PAC
530
430
American Magazine
430
3³⁰
Game show.
Charlie Chase IV (R).
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
700
600
Music Row Video
900
800
Nashville Now
900
800
Backyard America
500
400
Hit country videos.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
700
600
and Lisa Foster.
Making the most of
630
530
Top Card
800
700
A Conversation
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
your tomato crop.
430
3³⁰
600
500
With Dinah
830
730
Entertainment news.
930
830
The Joy Of Gardening
Game show.
700
600
Music Row Video
Actor/director
1000
American Music Shop
730
1100
630
Successful planting.
500
400
Carl Reiner.
900
800
Duane Eddy.
1000
900
Creative Living
Hit country videos.
700
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
800
700
800
SPECIAL
830
730
On Stage
Jewelry making, crocheting
600
500
Harry Anderson: Just
6³⁰
530
Jo-El Sonnier.
930
830
The Forester Sisters.
and
for Laughs. Night Court's
900
800
Nashville Now
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
home decorations.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
10⁰⁰
900
Host Ralph Emery.
10³⁰
930
Harry Anderson joins
Side By Side
830
730
guests Dennis Blair,
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
Travel series.
Jeff Foxworthy and
830
730
Entertainment news.
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
Celebrity Outdoors
Gary Mule Deer (R).
1100
10⁰⁰
A Conversation
200
100
Music Row Video
900
800
Janie Frickie hunts sharks
goo
900
800
With Dinah
Mid
1100
800
Nashville Now
Hit country videos.
off Catalina Island.
Actor Carl Reiner.
1130
10³⁰
700
600
Remodeling And
Host Ralph Emery (live).
930
830
1030
930
Crook And Chase
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
Decorating Today
830
730
Entertainment news.
930
8³⁰
Jo-El Sonnier.
EAST
CENT
How to make a fireplace
1100
1000
Church Street Station
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
MTN
PAC
Fri., Sept. 14
rack with compartments for
900
800
Exile.
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
logs and kindling.
VideoMorning
Noon
1100
Country Kitchen
1130
1030
On Stage
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
900
800
930
830
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
700
600
Country music videos with
1000
900
Christy and Kim Forester.
The O'Kanes.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
200
100
Music Row Video
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
12³⁰
1130
Side By Side
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
Katie Haas (live).
1030
930
Travel series.
90
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
September 15-18
100
Noon
Going Our Way
930
830
Truckin' USA
Mid
1100
Trucks And
830
730
1100
1000
On Stage
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
730
630
Trucking jamborees,
1000
goo
Tractor Power
630
530
Bill Monroe.
130
12³⁰
Remodeling And
technical tips.
Mudbogging competition
goo
800
Nashville Now
1130
10³⁰
Decorating Today
1000
900
Trucks And
from Panama City, Florida.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
How to make a fireplace
800
700
Tractor Power
1230
1130
Hidden Heroes
1030
930
Crook And Chase
rack with compartments for
Mudbogging competition
1030
930
Winston Cup Champion
830
730
Entertainment news.
logs and kindling.
from Panama City, Florida.
Rusty Wallace and crew.
1100
1000
SPECIAL
200
100
Country Kitchen
1030
930
Hidden Heroes
100
Mid
Inside Winston
900
800
Fairs And Festivals: Fan
Noon
1100
Christy and Kim Forester.
830
730
1989 NASCAR Winston
1100
1000
Cup Racing
Fair in Nashville. Coverage
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
Cup Champion Rusty
NASCAR highlights.
12³⁰
1130
of the country music
The Nelons, the
Wallace and crew.
130
12³⁰
Celebrity Outdoors
extravaganza.
Primitive Quartet.
1100
1000
Inside Winston
1130
1030
Janie Frickie hunts sharks
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
300
200
SPECIAL
goo
800
Cup Racing
off Catalina Island.
1000
goo
100
Noon
Host Ralph Emery.
In-Fisherman Walleye
NASCAR highlights.
200
100
Championship Rodeo
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
Tournament of Champions.
1130
1030
Championship Rodeo
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
Top anglers compete for
930
830
Bronc and bull riding.
200
100
Music Row Video
$82,500 on Mille Lacs in
1230
1130
SPECIAL
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
Minnesota.
1030
930
Bassmaster Classic. Pro
EAST
CENT
400
300
Church Street Station
bass anglers compete on
MTN
PAC
Mon., Sept. 17
200
100
Eddie Rabbit, Baillie
the James River in
EAST
CENT
and the Boys.
Richmond, Virginia.
900
800
VideoMorning
MTN
PAC
Tue., Sept. 18
430
330
This Week In
130
1230
The Buckmasters
700
600
Country music videos with
230
130
Country Music
1130
1030
Whitetail Magazine
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
goo
800
VideoMorning
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
Wildlife biologists
Katie Haas (live).
700
600
Country music videos with
and Charlie Chase.
manage whitetail
Noon
1100
American Magazine
co-hosts Al Wyntor and
500
400
Country Beat
bucks by helicopter.
1000
goo
Co-hosts Dan Miller
300
200
Katie Haas (live).
Rockin' country videos.
200
100
Bill Dance Outdoors
and Lisa Foster.
Noon
1100
American Magazine
630
530
Gospel Jubilee
Noon
1100
Weekend fishing series.
100
Noon
Side By Side
1000
goo
430
Co-hosts Dan Miller
330
The Nelons, the
230
130
Hidden Heroes
1100
1000
Travel series.
and Lisa Foster.
Primitive Quartet.
12³⁰
1130
1989 NASCAR Winston
130
12³⁰
Top Card
100
Noon
Remodeling And
700
600
A Conversation
Cup Champion Rusty
1130
1030
Game show.
1100
1000
500
400
Decorating Today
With Dinah
Wallace and crew.
200
100
Crook And Chase
How to make a fireplace
Host Dinah Shore.
300
200
American Sports
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
rack with compartments for
730
630
This Week In
100
Noon
Cavalcade
230
130
The Texas Connection
530
430
logs and kindling.
Country Music
Motorsports events.
12³⁰
1130
Monte Warden,
130
12³⁰
Top Card
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
430
330
NHRA Today
Dickie Lee Erwin.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
and Charlie Chase.
230
130
Behind-the-scenes action
300
200
Country Standard Time
200
100
Crook And Chase
800
700
Church Street Station
of NHRA drag racing.
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
Noon
1100
600
500
Entertainment news.
Eddie Rabbitt, Baillie
500
400
Inside Winston
400
300
VideoGold
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
and the Boys.
300
200
Cup Racing
200
100
Country video countdown.
12³⁰
1130
The Nelons, the
830
730
Grand Ole Opry Live
NASCAR highlights.
500
400
On Stage
630
530
Primitive Quartet.
Opry stars in concert.
530
430
Firestone Firehawk
300
200
Doug Stone.
300
200
Country Standard Time
900
800
Barbara Mandrell And
330
230
Endurance Championship
530
430
American Magazine
100
Noon
700
600
Nostalgic country videos.
The Mandrell Sisters
Grand sports-class
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
400
300
VideoGold
Paul Williams, Brenda Lee.
competition from New
and Lisa Foster.
2⁰⁰
100
1000
Country video countdown.
goo
American Music Shop
York's Watkins Glen
630
530
Top Card
500
400
800
700
On Stage
Music jam sessions.
International Raceway.
430
330
Game show.
300
200
Bill Monroe.
1030
930
The Texas Connection
600
500
Truckin' USA
700
600
Music Row Video
530
430
830
730
Grains of Faith,
400
American Magazine
300
Trucking jamborees,
500
400
Hit country videos.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Native Sun.
technical tips.
800
700
Gospel Jubilee
and Lisa Foster.
1100
1000
On Stage
630
530
Road Test Magazine
600
500
The Nelons, the
630
530
900
800
Top Card
Butch Baker.
430
330
Host Don Garlits.
Primitive Quartet.
430
330
Game show.
1130
10³⁰
Grand Ole Opry Live
700
600
American Sports
930
830
Opry stars in concert.
500
400
Cavalcade
Rev up your RV
Mid
1100
Barbara Mandrell And
Motorsports events.
1000
900
The Mandrell Sisters
830
730
NHRA Today
and see the sights
Paul Williams, Brenda Lee.
630
530
Behind-the-scenes action
100
Mid
American Music Shop
of NHRA drag racing.
Join hosts Jim Ed Brown
1100
1000
Music jam sessions.
goo
800
Inside Winston
and his wife, Becky, as they
130
12³⁰
The Texas Connection
700
600
Cup Racing
travel by RV to some of the
1130
10³⁰
Grains of Faith,
NASCAR highlights.
most popular and scenic
Native Sun.
930
830
Bill Dance Outdoors
spots throughout America.
200
100
Championship Rodeo
730
6³⁰
Weekend fishing series.
Each episode of Going Our
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
1000
900
Outdoor News Network
Way features two different
800
700
Fishing tips and hot spots.
destinations. Jim Ed and
1030
930
SPECIAL
Becky also give practical
EAST
CENT
830
730
MTN
Sun., Sept. 16
Bassmaster Classic. Pro
tips and information about
PAC
bass anglers compete on
RVs and the RV lifestyle.
the James River in
900
800
Exciting World Of
Richmond, Virginia.
700
600
Speed And Beauty
Saturdays, 1 p.m.
1130
1030
Truckin' USA
Racing's legendary "Big
930
830
Thursdays, 1 p.m.
Truck jamborees and
(All times Eastern.)
Daddy" Don Garlits.
technical tips.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
91
September 18-22
For information concerning guest appearances on Nashville Now
(two weeks prior to air date) and the Grand Ole Opry Live (two
days prior), contact TNN Viewer Services at 615/883-7000.
700
600
Music Row Video
630
530
Top Card
530
430
American Magazine
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
500
400
Hit country videos.
430
3³⁰
Game show.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
800
700
SPECIAL
700
600
Music Row Video
and Lisa Foster.
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
600
500
Celebrities Offstage VIII.
500
400
Hit country videos.
630
530
Top Card
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
Host Lorianne Crook
800
700
A Conversation
430
330
Game show.
200
100
Music Row Video
interviews popular
600
500
With Dinah
700
600
Music Row Video
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
country music stars (R).
Dinah talks with
500
400
Hit country videos.
900
800
Nashville Now
actor Walter Mathau.
800
700
American Music Shop
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
830
730
On Stage
600
500
Music jam sessions.
EAST
CENT
1030
930
Crook And Chase
630
530
Concert series.
830
730
On Stage
MTN
PAC
Sat., Sept. 22
830
730
Entertainment news.
goo
800
Nashville Now
630
530
Jason D. Williams.
1100
1000
Church Street Station
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
900
800
Nashville Now
goo
800
Backyard America
goo
800
Eddie Rabbitt, Baillie
1030
930
Crook And Chase
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
700
600
Preparing your lawn
and the Boys.
830
730
Entertainment news.
1030
930
Crook And Chase
for winter.
1130
1030
On Stage
1100
1000
A Conversation
830
730
Entertainment news.
930
830
The Joy Of Gardening
930
830
Sweethearts of the Rodeo.
900
800
730
630
With Dinah
1100
1000
SPECIAL
Great gardening tips, home
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
Actor Walter Mathau.
goo
800
Rick Nelson: It's All Right
remedies to zap bugs.
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
Now. A look at the
1000
goo
Creative Living
130
12³⁰
930
830
superstar's life.
800
700
Crook And Chase
Concert series.
Jewelry making,
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
crocheting.
200
100
Music Row Video
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
1000
goo
Host Ralph Emery.
1030
930
Side By Side
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
830
730
Travel series.
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
Celebrity Outdoors
200
100
Music Row Video
200
100
Music Row Video
900
800
Actress Judy Norton-Taylor
EAST
CENT
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
goes skydiving.
MTN
PAC
Wed., Sept. 19
1130
10³⁰
Remodeling And
930
830
Decorating Today
900
800
VideoMorning
EAST
CENT
EAST
CENT
Building a picnic table.
700
600
Country music videos with
MTN
PAC
Thur., Sept. 20
MTN
PAC
Fri., Sept. 21
Noon
1100
Country Kitchen
1000
900
co-hosts Al Wyntor and
Frankie Avalon.
Katie Haas (live).
900
800
VideoMorning
goo
800
VideoMorning
12³⁰
1130
Side By Side
Noon
1100
American Magazine
700
600
Country music videos with
700
600
Country music videos with
1030
930
Travel series.
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
co-hosts Al Wyntor and
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
100
Noon
Going Our Way
and Lisa Foster.
Katie Haas (live).
1100
1000
Katie Haas (live).
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
100
Noon
Country Kitchen
Noon
1100
American Magazine
Noon
1100
American Magazine
130
12³⁰
Remodeling And
1100
1000
Christy and Kim Forester.
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1130
1030
Decorating Today
130
12³⁰
Top Card
and Lisa Foster.
and Lisa Foster.
Building a picnic table.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
100
Noon
Going Our Way
100
Noon
Celebrity Outdoors
200
100
Country Kitchen
200
100
Crook And Chase
1100
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
1100
10°°
Janie Frickie hunts sharks
Noon
1100
Frankie Avalon.
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
off Catalina Island.
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
230
130
Church Street Station
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
12³⁰
1130
The Bishops,
12³⁰
1130
Eddie Rabbitt, Baillie
200
100
Crook And Chase
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
the Spencers.
and the Boys.
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
200
100
Crook And Chase
300
200
The Tommy Hunter Show
300
200
Country Standard Time
230
130
A Conversation
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
100
Noon
Crystal Gayle, Razorback.
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
12³⁰
1130
With Dinah
230
130
American Music Shop
400
300
Church Street Station
200
100
400
300
VideoGold
Actor Walter Mathau.
12³⁰
1130
Music jam sessions.
Juice Newton,
200
100
Country video countdown.
300
200
Country Standard Time
300
2°°
Country Standard Time
Hank Thompson.
500
400
On Stage
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
100
Noon
Nostalgic country videos.
430
3³⁰
This Week In
300
200
Sweethearts of the Rodeo.
400
300
VideoGold
400
300
VideoGold
2³⁰
130
Country Music
5³⁰
430
American Magazine
200
100
Country video countdown.
200
100
Country video countdown.
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
500
400
On Stage
500
400
On Stage
and Charlie Chase.
and Lisa Foster.
300
200
Concert series.
300
200
Jason D. Williams.
500
400
Country Beat
530
430
American Magazine
300
200
Rockin' country videos.
Frankie Avalon
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
630
530
Gospel Jubilee
and Lisa Foster.
430
330
The Bishops,
creates a stir
630
530
Top Card
the Spencers.
430
330
Game show.
700
600
A Conversation
Now you can add pizzazz to
700
600
Music Row Video
500
400
With Dinah
your pasta. Rock 'n' roll
500
400
Hit country videos.
Host Dinah Shore.
idol Frankie Avalon (left)
800
700
The Texas Connection
730
6³⁰
This Week In
and host Florence
600
500
Grains of Faith,
530
430
Country Music
Henderson will show you
Native Sun.
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
how to spice up your life
830
730
On Stage
and Charlie Chase.
when they prepare his
6³⁰
530
Scott McQuaig.
800
700
Church Street Station
favorite marinara sauce on
900
800
Nashville Now
600
500
Juice Newton,
Country Kitchen. Plus,
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
Hank Thompson.
regular guests Williams and
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
830
730
Grand Ole Opry Live
Ree share dessert tips.
830
730
Entertainment news.
6³⁰
530
Opry stars in concert.
1100
1000
The Texas Connection
900
800
Barbara Mandrell And
900
800
Grains of Faith,
700
600
Saturday, Sept. 22, Noon
The Mandrell Sisters
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1 p.m.
Native Sun.
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans.
(All times Eastern.)
1130
1030
On Stage
1000
900
American Music Shop
930
830
Scott McQuaig.
800
700
Music jam sessions.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
92
September 22-27
1030
930
The Texas Connection
700
600
American Sports
830
730
On Stage
EAST
CENT
830
730
Dave Halley, Kris McKay.
500
400
Cavalcade
630
530
Concert series.
MTN
PAC
Wed., Sept. 26
1100
1000
On Stage
Motorsports events.
goo
800
Nashville Now
goo
800
Vince Gill.
830
730
NHRA Today
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
goo
800
VideoMorning
1130
10³⁰
Grand Ole Opry Live
630
530
Behind-the-scenes action
1030
930
Crook And Chase
700
600
Country music videos with
930
830
Opry stars in concert.
of NHRA drag racing.
830
730
Entertainment news.
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
Mid
1100
Barbara Mandrell And
goo
800
Inside Winston
1100
1000
Gospel Jubilee
Katie Haas (live).
1000
goo
The Mandrell Sisters
700
600
Cup Racing
900
800
The Bishops,
Noon
1100
American Magazine
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans,
NASCAR highlights.
the Spencers.
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Sons of the Pioneers.
930
830
Bill Dance Outdoors
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
and Lisa Foster.
100
Mid
American Music Shop
730
630
Weekend fishing series.
930
830
Concert series.
100
Noon
Country Kitchen
1100
1000
Music jam sessions.
1000
goo
Outdoor News Network
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
1100
1000
Frankie Avalon.
130
12³⁰
The Texas Connection
800
700
Fishing tips and hot spots.
1000
goo
Host Ralph Emery.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
1130
1030
David Halley, Kris McKay.
1030
930
The BASSMASTERS
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
200
100
Championship Rodeo
830
730
Host Ray Scott.
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
200
100
Crook And Chase
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
1100
1000
The Exciting World Of
200
100
Music Row Video
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
goo
800
Speed And Beauty
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
230
130
Church Street Station
Big Foot monster truck.
12³⁰
1130
Juice Newton,
EAST
CENT
MTN
Sun., Sept. 23
1130
1030
Truckin' USA
Hank Thompson.
PAC
930
830
Trucking jamborees,
EAST
CENT
technical tips.
Tue., Sept. 25
300
200
Country Standard Time
MTN
PAC
100
Noon
Guest host Jimmy Dean.
goo
800
Exciting World Of
Mid
1100
Trucks And
400
300
VideoGold
700
600
Speed And Beauty
1000
goo
Tractor Power
goo
800
VideoMorning
200
100
Country video countdown.
Big Foot monster truck
Monster trucks at Wood
700
600
Country music videos with
500
400
On Stage
930
830
Truckin' USA
County Fairgrounds in
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
3⁰⁰
200
Joe Barnhill.
730
630
Trucking jamborees,
Bowling Green, Ohio.
Katie Haas (live).
530
430
American Magazine
technical tips.
12³⁰
1130
Hidden Heroes
Noon
1100
American Magazine
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1000
goo
Trucks And
1030
930
Crew chief Junie Donlavey.
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
and Lisa Foster.
800
700
Tractor Power
100
Mid
Inside Winston
and Lisa Foster.
630
530
Top Card
Monster truck competition
1100
1000
Cup Racing
100
Noon
Remodeling And
430
330
Game show.
from Wood County
NASCAR highlights.
1100
1000
Decorating Today
700
600
Music Row Video
Fairgrounds in Bowling
130
12³⁰
Celebrity Outdoors
Building a picnic table.
500
400
Hit country videos.
Green, Ohio.
1130
10³⁰
Actress Judy Norton-Taylor
130
12³⁰
Top Card
800
700
A Conversation
10³⁰
930
Hidden Heroes
goes skydiving.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
600
500
With Dinah
830
730
Crew chief Junie Donlavey.
200
100
Championship Rodeo
200
100
Crook And Chase
Singer Glen Campbell.
1100
1000
Inside Winston
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
830
730
goo
800
On Stage
Cup Racing
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
6³⁰
530
Concert series.
NASCAR highlights.
12³⁰
1130
The Bishops,
900
800
Nashville Now
1130
1030
Championship Rodeo
EAST
CENT
Mon., Sept. 24
the Spencers.
700
600
930
830
Host Ralph Emery (live).
Bronc and bull riding.
MTN
PAC
300
200
Country Standard Time
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
12³⁰
1130
Celebrity Outdoors
100
Noon
Guest host Jimmy Dean.
830
730
1030
930
Entertainment news.
Actress Judy Norton-Taylor
goo
800
VideoMorning
400
300
VideoGold
1100
1000
A Conversation
goes skydiving.
700
600
Country music videos with
200
100
Country video countdown.
900
800
With Dinah
100
Noon
The BASSMASTERS
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
500
400
On Stage
1100
10⁰⁰
Singer Glen Campbell.
Host Ray Scott.
Katie Haas (live).
300
200
Concert series.
1130
1030
On Stage
130
12³⁰
The Buckmasters
Noon
1100
American Magazine
530
430
American Magazine
930
830
1130
Concert series.
1030
Whitetail Magazine
1000
goo
Co-hosts Dan Miller
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
NASCAR champ Dale
and Lisa Foster.
and Lisa Foster.
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
Earnhardt goes hunting for
100
Noon
Side By Side
6³⁰
530
Top Card
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
whitetail in Canada.
1100
10⁰⁰
Travel series.
430
330
Game show.
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
200
100
Bill Dance Outdoors
130
12³⁰
Top Card
700
600
Music Row Video
200
100
Noon
Music Row Video
1100
Weekend fishing series.
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
500
400
Hit country videos.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
230
130
Hidden Heroes
200
100
Crook And Chase
800
700
SPECIAL
12³⁰
1130
Car owner and crew chief
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
600
500
Fairs and Festivals: Fan
Junie Donlavey.
230
130
The Texas Connection
Fair in Nashville. Coverage
EAST
CENT
300
200
American Sports
12³⁰
1130
Grains of Faith,
of the country music
MTN
PAC
Thur., Sept. 27
100
Noon
Cavalcade
Native Sun.
extravaganza for fans
Motorsports events.
300
200
Country Standard Time
of all ages.
goo
800
VideoMorning
430
330
NHRA Today
100
Noon
Guest host Jimmy Dean.
goo
800
Nashville Now
700
600
230
130
Country music videos with
Behind-the-scenes action
400
300
VideoGold
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
co-hosts Al Wyntor and
of NHRA drag racing.
200
100
Country video countdown.
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
Katie Haas (live).
500
400
Inside Winston
500
400
On Stage
8³⁰
730
Entertainment news.
Noon
1100
300
200
American Magazine
Cup Racing
300
200
Scott McQuaig.
1100
1000
Church Street Station
1000
900
Co-hosts Dan Miller
NASCAR highlights.
5³⁰
430
American Magazine
900
800
Juice Newton,
and Lisa Foster.
530
430
Firestone Firehawk
3³⁰
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Hank Thompson.
100
Noon
330
230
Going Our Way
Endurance Championship
and Lisa Foster.
1130
10³⁰
On Stage
1100
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
Grand sports-class
630
530
Top Card
930
830
Joe Barnhill.
130
12³⁰
Top Card
competition.
430
330
Game show.
Mid
1100
Nashville Now
1130
10³⁰
Game show.
600
500
Truckin' USA
700
600
Music Row Video
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
200
100
400
Crook And Chase
300
Trucking jamborees,
500
400
Hit country videos.
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
technical tips.
800
700
Gospel Jubilee
1130
1030
Entertainment news.
230
130
A Conversation
630
530
Road Test Magazine
600
500
The Bishops,
200
100
Music Row Video
12³⁰
1130
430
With Dinah
330
Host Don Garlits.
the Spencers.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
Singer Glen Campbell.
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
93
September 27-30
For information concerning guest appearances on Nashville Now
(two weeks prior to air date) and the Grand Ole Opry Live (two
days prior), contact TNN Viewer Services at 615/883-7000.
300
200
Country Standard Time
goo
800
Nashville Now
630
530
Gospel Jubilee
100
Noon
The BASSMASTERS
100
Noon
Guest host Jimmy Dean.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
430
330
The Cathedral Quartet,
1100
1000
Host Ray Scott.
400
300
VideoGold
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
the Fox Brothers.
130
12³⁰
The Buckmasters
200
100
Country video countdown.
830
730
1130
Entertainment news.
700
600
A Conversation
1030
Whitetail Magazine
500
400
On Stage
1100
1000
The Texas Connection
500
400
With Dinah
$27,000 Buckmaster of
300
200
Concert series.
goo
800
David Halley, Kris McKay.
Host Dinah Shore.
the Year competitions
530
430
American Magazine
1130
1030
On Stage
730
630
This Week In
in Destin, Florida.
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
930
830
Lee Greenwood.
530
430
Country Music
200
100
Bill Dance Outdoors
and Lisa Foster.
Mid
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
Noon
1100
1100
Nashville Now
Weekend fishing series.
630
530
Top Card
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
and Charlie Chase.
230
130
Hidden Heroes
430
330
Game show.
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
800
700
Church Street Station
12³⁰
1130
Peugeot Talbot
700
600
Music Row Video
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
600
500
Lorrie Morgan,
Sport Team.
500
400
Hit country videos.
200
100
Music Row Video
Alan Jackson.
300
200
American Sports
800
700
American Music Shop
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
830
730
Grand Ole Opry Live
100
Noon
Cavalcade
600
500
Music jam sessions.
6³⁰
530
Opry stars in concert.
Motorsports events.
830
730
On Stage
goo
800
Barbara Mandrell And
430
330
NHRA Today
6³⁰
530
T. Graham Brown.
EAST
CENT
700
600
The Mandrell Sisters
230
130
Behind-the-scenes action
900
800
Nashville Now
MTN
PAC
Sat., Sept. 29
Ray Stevens,
of NHRA drag racing.
700
600
Host Ralph Emery (live).
Donny Osmond.
500
400
Inside Winston
10³⁰
930
Crook And Chase
900
800
Backyard America
1000
goo
American Music Shop
300
200
Cup Racing
830
730
Entertainment news.
700
600
Growing grapes and
800
700
Music jam sessions.
NASCAR highlights.
1100
1000
SPECIAL
muscadines, making
10³⁰
930
The Texas Connection
530
430
Firestone Firehawk
900
800
Celebrities Offstage VIII.
homemade wine.
830
730
Asleep at the Wheel.
330
230
Endurance Championship
Host Lorianne Crook
930
830
The Joy Of Gardening
1100
1000
On Stage
Grand sports-class
conducts up-close-
730
630
Wide-row planting system.
900
800
George Fox.
competition from New
and-personal interviews
1000
900
Creative Living
1130
1030
Grand Ole Opry Live
York's Watkins Glen
with popular country
800
700
This show features tips on
930
830
Opry stars in concert.
International Raceway.
music stars (R).
jewelry making, crocheting
Mid
1100
Barbara Mandrell And
600
500
Truckin' USA
Mid
1100
1000
900
The Mandrell Sisters
400
300
Nashville Now
and home decorating.
Trucking jamborees,
1000
900
Host Ralph Emery.
10³⁰
930
Side By Side
Ray Stevens,
museums, technical
130
12³⁰
Crook And Chase
830
730
Travel series.
Donny Osmond.
tips and restoration.
1130
10³⁰
Entertainment news.
1100
1000
Celebrity Outdoors
100
Mid
American Music Shop
630
530
Road Test Magazine
200
100
Music Row Video
900
800
1100
1000
430
330
Johnny Cash competes in
Music jam sessions.
Host Don Garlits.
Mid
1100
Hit country videos.
a marlin tournament in
130
1230
The Texas Connection
700
600
American Sports
1130
1030
Asleep at the Wheel.
500
400
Montego Bay.
Cavalcade
1130
10³⁰
Remodeling And
200
100
Championship Rodeo
Motorsports events.
EAST
CENT
930
830
Decorating Today
Mid
1100
Bronc and bull riding.
830
730
NHRA Today
Fri., Sept. 28
630
530
MTN
PAC
Building an octagon-
Behind-the-scenes action
shaped deck.
of NHRA drag racing.
900
800
VideoMorning
Noon
1100
Country Kitchen
EAST
CENT
900
800
Inside Winston
700
600
Country music videos with
1000
900
Host Florence Henderson.
MTN
PAC
Sun., Sept. 30
700
600
Cup Racing
co-hosts AI Wyntor and
12³⁰
1130
Side By Side
NASCAR highlights.
Katie Haas (live).
10³⁰
930
Travel series.
goo
800
Exciting World Of
930
830
Bill Dance Outdoors
Noon
1100
American Magazine
100
Noon
Going Our Way
700
600
Speed And Beauty
730
630
Weekend fishing series.
1000
goo
Co-hosts Dan Miller
1100
1000
Exploring the U.S. by RV.
NASCAR champion
1000
900
Outdoor News Network
and Lisa Foster.
130
12³⁰
Remodeling And
Bill Elliott.
800
700
Fishing tips and hot spots.
100
Noon
Celebrity Outdoors
1130
10³⁰
Decorating Today
930
830
Truckin' USA
10³⁰
930
The BASSMASTERS
1100
1000
Actress Judy Norton-Taylor
Building an octagon-
730
630
Trucking jamborees,
830
730
Host Ray Scott.
goes skydiving.
shaped deck.
technical tips.
1100
1000
The Exciting World
130
12³⁰
Top Card
200
100
Country Kitchen
1000
900
Trucks And
goo
800
Of Speed And Beauty
1130
1030
Game show.
Noon
1100
Host Florence Henderson.
800
700
Tractor Power
NASCAR champion
200
100
Crook And Chase
230
130
Gospel Jubilee
Monster truck competition
Bill Elliott.
Noon
1100
Entertainment news.
12³⁰
1130
The Cathedral Quartet,
at South Carolina's Myrtle
1130
10³⁰
Truckin' USA
230
130
American Music Shop
the Fox Brothers.
Beach Speedway.
930
830
Trucking jamborees,
12³⁰
1130
Music jam sessions.
300
200
The Tommy Hunter Show
1030
930
Hidden Heroes
museums, technical
300
200
Country Standard Time
100
Noon
Janie Frickie,
830
730
Peugeot Talbot
tips and restoration.
100
Noon
Guest host Jimmy Dean.
George Jones.
Sport Team.
Mid
1100
Trucks And
Inside Winston
1000
goo
400
300
VideoGold
400
300
Church Street Station
1100
1000
Tractor Power
2⁰⁰
100
Country video countdown.
200
100
Lorrie Morgan,
goo
800
Cup Racing
Monster truck competition
500
400
On Stage
Alan Jackson.
NASCAR highlights.
at South Carolina's Myrtle
300
200
T. Graham Brown.
430
330
This Week In
1130
1030
Championship Rodeo
Beach Speedway.
530
430
American Magazine
230
130
Country Music
930
830
Bronc and bull riding.
1230
1130
Hidden Heroes
330
230
Co-hosts Dan Miller
Co-hosts Lorianne Crook
1230
1130
Celebrity Outdoors
10³⁰
930
Peugeot Talbot
and Lisa Foster.
and Charlie Chase.
1030
930
Johnny Cash competes in
Sport Team.
630
530
Top Card
500
400
Country Beat
a marlin tournament in
100
Mid
Inside Winston
430
330
Game show.
300
200
Rockin' country videos.
Montego Bay.
1100
1000
Cup Racing
700
600
Music Row Video
NASCAR highlights.
500
400
Hit country videos.
130
12³⁰
Celebrity Outdoors
600
500
with Dinah. Dinah Shore
TNN
1130
10³⁰
800
700
SPECIAL
Johnny Cash competes in
A Special Conversation
a marlin tournament in
Montego Bay.
interviews stars Minnie
200
100
Championship Rodeo
Mid
1100
Pearl and Roy Acuff.
Bronc and bull riding.
94
COUNTRY AMERICA SEPTEMBER 1990
ON SEPTEMBER 16,
WATCH THEM TURN INTO
SITTING DUCKS.
CATCH THE 20TH ANNUAL
BASSMASTERS CLASSIC
SEPTEMBER 16, 12:30 PM E.T.
Watch the world's best bass anglers take on Virginia's bass at this year's
BassMasters Classic. Names like Gary Klein, Guido Hibdon, Rick Clunn and defending
champ Hank Parker.
In all, 41 top-ranked fishermen will meet on the James River outside of Richmond.
The stakes: the winner's $50,000 share of the $130,000 purse of cash and prizes.
So consider yourself invited and join host Ray Scott for an hour of the finest bass
fishing around. We can hardly wait to see who'll drop by.
UTNN
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The Heart of Country
© 1990 Group W Satellite Communications. THE NASHVILLE NETWORK, TNN and the TNN logo are registered service marks of Opryland USA Inc.
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with a frozen turkey!
Your wife's hairdo has ever
been destroyed by a ceiling fan.
You consider a six-pack and a
Men are such a waste around
Jeff Foxworthy
bug zapper to be quality
the house. I was talking to a guy
entertainment.
last night who thought loading
Your dog and your wallet are
the dishwasher meant getting his
Jeff Foxworthy is a native of
both on a chain.
wife drunk!
Atlanta, Georgia. As a kid he
Directions to your house
memorized comedy albums to
include "turn off the paved
perfection and recited them to
road."
I read in the newspaper the
family and friends.
Your mother keeps a spit cup
other day that for the first time
Jeff was also a serious
on the ironing board.
in history more women have jobs
student who went to college at
You owe the taxidermist more
than men. And even though they
Georgia Tech. He then went to
than your annual income.
work all day, women still come
work for IBM. When the
Your front porch collapses and
home and clean up about 99
employees needed a laugh, they
kills more than three dogs.
percent of the things that get
went to Jeff. The same IBM co-
You prefer to walk the excess
cleaned around the house.
workers dared him to try stand-
length off of your jeans rather
However, women are not as
up comedy at a club called the
than hem them.
proud of their 99 percent as we
Atlanta Punchline.
Your family tree does not fork.
men are of our one percent. If we
Today, Jeff is on the road 45
clean something up, we talk
weeks a year and appears on
about it all year.
such shows as The Nashville
I worked in Los Angeles and
Although a woman could be
Network®s Nashville Now and
found that things are a little
repaving the driveway, a man
Crook and Chase.
more sophisticated out there. For
will have enough gall to run out
Jeff shows his country accent
example, when guys fall in love
in the yard and holler, "Baby,
in this excerpt from his book
they think they have to buy
don't worry about emptying that
You Might Be a Redneck If
candy, wine and roses.
ashtray in the den. I've done got
available from Longstreet Press
Heck, in the South when a
it! Did it for you, Sweet Pea! I'm
of Marietta, Georgia.
man falls in love, he just spray
gonna go take a nap now."
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Paoli, Indiana since 1972:
3,650 people,
1,260 babies,
2 floods,
2,647 auto claims
and 1 State Farm agent.
Agent Jeff Jones
P
aoli's not a big city by any stretch. But
even in a small town like this, things keep
changing. They put up a new church not far
from the courthouse last year. Families are
building houses. Babies are being born. And
every time something changes, someone's
insurance coverage needs reviewing. That's
where Jeff Jones, Paoli's State Farm agent
for the last 18 years, comes in.
FAST
NORTH
EAS
EAST
so
Like State Farm agents across the country,
Jeff offers all his policyholders a free State
Farm Family Insurance Checkup. That helps
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them make sure that no matter what's
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changed, their insurance coverage won't be
out-of-date. Whether it's auto, home, life
or health insurance.
In 18 years, about the only thing in Paoli that
hasn't changed is Jeff. And that's the way
folks in Paoli like it.
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STATE FARM
Auto
Like a good neighbor,
Life
Fire
State Farm is there.
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