GG's 2007 Road Trip
Orelena Puckett and her husband farmed near Groundhog Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains just below here when they were first married in 1863. She was 16. In her fifties she became a midwife and continued until she helped deliver her last baby not long before she died at the age of 102!! The Parkway wasn't here, of course, and when she was called on she either walked or rode her horse to help. They say in all those years she never lost a baby or a mother through any fault of hers. However, and this is sad, after assisting in the births of over 1,000 babies none of her 24 children lived past infancy. (1837-1939)
6"x6" oil on gesso board unframed, $100.00 (SOLD)
GG & I will be on a paint out with Oil Painters of America at Mt. Carmel in Utah the 24th of September through October 3, 2007.
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