Well Chip, I couldn't stand it any longer... I went to work and looked up the reference to Cole's store. According to the article in the paper, the name of the game was "Lone Nine". Game regulars were: Eugene Brewer, Junior Williams, Clarence "Preacher" Collins, Wade Beason, Sandy Lay, George Sharp, and Randolph Collins. Steve PS. Still a-waitin' on that Revenoor story <G> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Morom01@aol.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Cole's Store > In a message dated 9/24/99 8:55:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > stephen.pierce@worldnet.att.net writes: > > << Do you remember > the name of that card game they used to play? >> > > Give me a few days but I'll remember what they called the game. Cole's store > was in the Sentinel when it closed. It was also featured on the Heartland > Series now featured on the Travel Channel as Appalachian Stories. Try to > watch Appalachian Stories if you can get the Travel Channel, 90% of it is > Union County. > > But the card game started out years and years ago. Two old men started > playing a game with some sort of wager. Neither knew how to play the game. > Neither would admit their ignorance and each started making up rules. Well, > the other had no idea either so he went along with the other one's rules and > vice-versa. Before long their perpetual card game turned into a game of it's > own. > > Get me started and I'll tell you about a revenuer who stopped by there one > day...So I'm told. > > Chip > Union County TnGenWeb > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. > Send a message to TNUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe >