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How do we know it's time for lunch without the clock In John Hunter Walker's youth in the 60s, he knew it was coming up on lunch time by the sounds he could hear in the field that began with the chiming of the Adair County Courthouse clock. He remembers helping his Dad, Pete, work the Joe Russell Barbee crops on top of the hill above Bull Run. John was of age that he got to drive the Farmall Cub Tractor to plow tobacco. The clock on the Courthouse would chime 12 times every day. At the same time, Jack Williams would release steam from his laundry powering a steam whistle that would go off. The chimes and the whistle were immediately followed by every single dog in town beginning their howling chorus. John recalls asking, "Daddy, is it time to stop for lunch now? And Dad would say, you go on to the end of the row before you stop." After the last gong of the courthouse clock and the steam whistle and he'd plowed to the end of the row and the dogs stopped howling, he could take a break. This story was posted on 2023-08-16 23:35:03
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