Bunyan Tales
Paul Corbin is a 100-year-old historian, humorist, and amateur archaeologist from Advance, Mo. He grew up in the Greenbrier area west of Advance, where he attended Stepp School on the banks of Cato Slough and the Castor River, important waterways throughout his life. In an age when many area residents did not go to high school, the young Corbin made the decision to walk the five miles to Zalma, graduating in 1933. Throughout his life, he was an enterprising businessman, selling Watkins products from house to house throughout a large area - and later opening a variety store in Advance. He and his wife Geneva traveled throughout the United States, even following the route that the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled. His knowledge of Native American culture is extensive, and he has donated a sizeable collection of his artifacts to the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center and the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill. Throughout the years, he has submitted articles to TBY, the North Stoddard Countian, the Ozark Mountaineer, and several other Missouri publications. He has also written two books - "Reflections in Missouri Mud," and "Fragments of my Feeble Mind." The first one is out of print.
My Honey
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008, at 9:24 PM
I trust that the blogers reading this entry will forgive me for boasting and bragging, when I say that I have the sweetest place in town. You see I have been extracting honey today and I have smeared it all around. I have honey on my britches, and honey in my hair. There is honey on the doorknoba abd honey on every chair. I have dripped honey all over the kitchen floor, and I will surely dream about my honey tonight when I snore. Sure wish some of you could have been here to help me. I would have even let you lick the doorknobs
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