The Adair County news., 1921-12-20
Coat, 100 Years Old, is Given 10
Library.

Free Public Library.
1t was spun, woven, dyed, cut and
fashioned by Charity Callison Smith,
SO the placard runs, and was worn for
ten years by her helpmeet, Nathan
Smith.
In spite of the fact that it is said to
have been worn from 1920 to 1880,
even the eight buttonholes down its
double breasted front show no signs Of
wear.
The coat was presented by Mrs. ].
N.Coffey, Columbia KY.,granddaughter
Of Charity Smith. h.-Courier Journal
A KENTUCKY MUSEUM.
From the article in the Courier
Journal the following article was
written which appeared in the Louis
vile Times, Saturday, Dec. 10th. |
A blue jeans frock coat, worn by a
Kentuckian in 182O-3O, makes an inter
eSting and valuable present to the
Louisville Free Public Library. The
giving suggests that a museum Of
Kentucky heirlooms and relics could
be established here for profit, enter
tainment and instruction. The old
Kentucky homes throughout the
Commonwealth contain many avail
able articles OF sentimental and his
torical value to lovers of the State.
From the material obtained, an ear
ly Kentucky home could be rebuilt.
1t would consist of logs shaped with
the ak 1t would be covered with
cIapboards riVen with the froW;
weatherboarding fastened with wood.
en- pins; flooring made from ungrOoVed
oak; fireplace from roughly hewn
stone; andiorns from the hillside fur
mace.
The old four, poster would grace the
bedroom; the spinning wheel, the
wool carder, the Shoemaker's tools,
the candle molder, the bullet molder,
the other utensils which the busy
household used for providing the nec-
esSaries of life would find place in the
living room. The kitchen would have
the pot hanger, the meat grinder, the
coffee mill, the turn.Spit and all OF
the other accOutrementS of the an
cient cuisine. For the parlor there
would be the horse-hair furniture il
walnut; the corner rack made witt
spools; the old plush album; the sea
shell aud the big hunk of green glass
the daguerrotype; the family Bible
Fox's Lives of the Martyrs.
Placed where they belong, respect
lively, would be the old bootjack, th'
rag carpet and rugs; the crazy quilt
the comforter, the seine, steel trap
partridge net, squirrel rifle, powder
horn, little brown jug, with corncoI
stopper; rain barrel, soap stick, Setl
Thomas clock. Indian arrowheads.
The museum house would have
yard with hollyhOckS and cedars;
would have a tool shed with buI
tongue plow and A-harrow; a bari
and crib and pig pen and a chick
ell coop; it would ha Ve hound dogs III
der the floor and cat browsing in tn
dog trot. There would be the oil
stone springhouse; the cider press an
the sorghum mill; the old gray mar
aGd the "yaller" mule
The State Fair GIoundS inst bac
of the Merchants and Manufacturer
Building is fine site for the old KeI
tucky museum home. The Time
would suggest that this plot be oil
tanned; that the various counties {
the State undertake to supply the
Rquotds of the materials and the lab(
for construction and for equipmen
that the press of the State get b
hind the project; that the Kentuck
Historical Society give it backin
Then, when the material is on tt
ground, let US have an oldfashIon'
house raising with all of the aDcie
trimmings, barring, of course, VIII
was in the little brown jug, but ma
ing much of the burgoo and the ba
becue.
A visit to such a museum would /
store youth to the older generatic