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Apple grafting tale ends in Bear Ridge antics
Mountain Echo details a tale of grafting an apple onto a pumpkin vine leading to Likely cider from the vine and a Bear Ridge mite society fundraiser. The event spirals into a chaotic pumpkin pie night with temperance zealots, fistfights, and a climactic applejack distill event.
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Uncle Jim Teeple
Bear Ridge
Uncle Jim’s
Skeils
Red School
Uncle Jim
Jim
Polly
Ike Sawyer
the Narrows
Childurn
Brother Skeils
Teeple
Narrows
Bunky Davis
Dominie
Aunt Polly
Presbyterian
Pat Juba
Mite Society
Total Abstainers