HOG KILLIN TIME
John Tinseth AKA "The Trad" is publishing a short story I wrote a while back about a hog killing in rural Tennessee. Part one, and a bit of an interview I did with Tinseth is here: http://thetrad.blogspot.com/2011/11/nothing-to-be-gained-here-act-i.html
Used to be that the first freeze meant hog killing time around here. Not so much anymore. Ones I witnessed were in middle GA and two of three folks that conducted them are either no longer living or have gotten too old to keep hogs.
In a time when people, at least the well-to-do, are so oddly obsessed with knowing where their food comes from, a story about the very root of the idea and its yield, gets some space on a site people actually do visit. Enjoy.
Used to be that the first freeze meant hog killing time around here. Not so much anymore. Ones I witnessed were in middle GA and two of three folks that conducted them are either no longer living or have gotten too old to keep hogs.
In a time when people, at least the well-to-do, are so oddly obsessed with knowing where their food comes from, a story about the very root of the idea and its yield, gets some space on a site people actually do visit. Enjoy.
Labels: Blood 'n' Guts, Hog Killin, The Trad, Vanishing South
posted by GSV JR at
9:38 AM
2 Comments:
Stew (or Stewart... preference?). Really great to know more about you via the interview. We've got friends in Atlanta and a trip is long overdue. When we head that way I'll let you know. It'd be an honor to break bread.
When I'm in trouble, which is a lot actually, I get called "Stewart."
Yeah, c'mon. Bread, beer, beef, whatever.
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