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    1. OUR BABY HIGH CHAIRS.
    2. Jess Wilson
    3. OUR BABY HIGH CHAIRS. By Jess Wilson When I was six months old and Cousin Bill was one year old, our grandmother Wilson bought each of us a home made high chair. They were not the usual high chairs with a tray but rather a table height chair so that we could sit up to the dining table like grown-ups did. The chairs were made by Tom Lunsford and sold to our grandmother for $2.00 each. They were made by the traditional glueless method. The rounds and slats were shaped and let season for a year. Then the posts were cut and turned and drilled while still green. When assembled they were let dry. As the green posts shrunk around the seasoned slatts and rounds the chair became very rigid. Cousin Bill and I still have our high chairs. When I call him, Tuesday, I will wish him a happy 87th birthday and he will wish me greetings for my half birth day. We roomed together during high school and have managed to keep it touch at least once or twice a year since. The original hickory bark woven bottom of my high chair disintegrated while it was being used by my niece Kathy. However a grade school chum, Willie Eleton, did a workmanship job of replacing it. With its crooked front leg that gives it a sort of pigeon-toed look it certainly is not in a class with a Chippendale but I value it more than I would a Chippendale.

    02/06/2005 06:01:25