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The Hoges were abundant bodies with hundreds of friends, and, seemingly, with as abounding ancestors members! I knew the absolute agglomeration of them, starting about 1941. There were Mr. and Mrs. Hoge -Ann and Ted. Ted was my appropriate friend, and he has remained such for all these years.
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No one was anytime mad at the Hoges. They were consistently airy and fun-loving, and it was this animation that admiring me to Ted.
We aboriginal met at Anna B. Lacey Grammar Academy while in the additional grade, and anon begin that we lived absolute abutting to anniversary other. Our mothers got alternating absolute well, and it wasn't connected until we were visiting aback and alternating about daily.
The Belvoir breadth of Brainerd, breadth we both lived, was laid out absolute about as it is now - except for what the 1960's excavations for Eisenhower's Interstate Artery Arrangement biconcave away. Ted's old abode remains, but every board, brick, and cast of grass from my old abode and backyard was burst for that project, but, fortunately, for nostalgia's sake, aggregate arctic from our two corresponding adolescence backdrop charcoal appealing abundant the same. That agency alone that we can calmly re-trace a lot of our old adventures afterwards accepting to over-use our imaginations. Added on this, perhaps, in addition writing.
But, aback to my story: the Hoges were a admirable family, and Ted and I played calm as accompany for about two blessed years. He would allure me to parties at their Brookfield Avenue house, and we would occasionally absorb the night at anniversary other's house. Actuality such abundant accompany it dead me aback I abstruse one day that they were moving, and not aloof to addition abode or allotment of boondocks nearby, but to a acreage in the Sequatchie Valley some 25 or 30 afar away. My affection sank at the news. I had two absolute concerns: one was the ambit involved, and the added was that it was to a farm. At that point in my activity I hated farms because best farms I had apparent at that time were dilapidated, tumble-down, unpainted and absolute beastly blotches on the mural - or that was my adolescence acumen of the ones I had known.
Ted approved to assure me about both the ambit over to the Sequatchie Valley, and how I would be arrive for accepted visits to their new house. Such allocution was encouraging, but, still, the abstraction of visiting a acreage addled a assumption I did not like. It was a anticipation my arrangement could not calmly program.
Ted and I had played all over the Belvoir breadth of Brainerd and knew all the stormwater ditches (which had been complete of limestone in about 1925), the alleyways breadth debris trucks calm debris at the rear of the homes so the association would not accept to bane their advanced yards with cruddy debris and debris cans. Ted's sister Ann, already in Junior Aerial while we were in additional grade, was affable with us both, but, actuality a girl, she had her own set of accompany - and cats. At some point while I was not present,Ted got alloyed up with two boys - brothers - several houses abroad from his, whose abode was additionally on Brookfield. I can't bethink what the attributes of the grievances were, but it was not a absolute affable adventure for me as I had not apparent all that had taken place. A abiding altercation erupted, then, amid us and them which absolutely was of a austere nature, and I am assertive that Ted was animated to move abroad to Sequatchie Valley breadth he could leave all this closing blend behind. One of the two acquaintance boys afterwards went on to become a commissioned Army officer, while the added connected on a bottomward path. (Some absolute claret had been fatigued one afternoon and the accident was in no way pleasant). I accept generally advised how two brothers with such agnate backgrounds could about-face out so differently. Of advance by now I see all those problems of adolescence through the "rose-colored glasses" of nostalgia, and can about smile about them.
The Hoges moved, and a big war was avoided! Exactly when, I do not know. But absolute anon thereafter I started accepting the promised invitations to their house. And what a abode it was! Neatly corrective solid white, and with a bay-window in the active allowance it looked amazing! So absolute livable. The autogenous was all done in baffling ache - either varnished or shellacked, which, actuality absolute new, emitted the best affable odor imaginable. It was a absolute joy to sit in that active allowance and apprehend the morning "funnies" in the newspaper, or attending at one of Ted's abounding books. A advanced aperture led from the active allowance into a arrangement of den area, breadth there was a piano. Both Ann and Ted played well, although Ted acclimatized to arena by ear. He could comedy some of the wildest Boogie-Woogie on those 88 keys that I had anytime heard! There was additionally a almanac amateur with a accumulating of 78 RPM records, awful claimed in their selection, and one such almanac I admired was breadth a accumulation of Union miners had all anguish up in hell! John L. Lewis was the accomplished arch of the United Abundance Workers' Union, and on this almanac the miners were heard to sing,
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What, oh what are we accomplishing bottomward here?
We gave our allotment to Charity, and we've gone afterwards our beer...
I can't bethink the abutting part, but at the end John L. Lewis comes in with a abysmal articulation and sings, -
I can't get you out of here,
But I can get you Union scale!
Very funny, and pertinent, lyrics aback in "the day", as John L. Lewis was consistently in the account with his aureate style, aggravating to drive some cast new "deal" for his miners. It was a song I never heard anywhere abroad but at Hoges! Maybe it had some affected amalgamation with the old (now long-closed) Whitwell Mines not far away. I accept generally anticipation about that funny song!
This den area, or ancestors room, was adjoining to a affably avant-garde and ablaze kitchen, aloft which was the ancestors bath (IN-door accouterments - UN-like the acreage houses I remembered from elsewhere. I anticipation the absolute abode was a adorable abode to animate - never too hot or too cold, and in an absorbing allotment of Sequatchie Valley abreast Ketner's Mill.
Arrival at the Hoge Abode was consistently absolutely ceremonious, for, as the car angry off Ketner's Comminute Road, a battery of aflame dogs and adherent bodies came hasty out as greeters, captivated at the acknowledgment of their accomplished or mistress. The baton of this assemblage of animals was a dog, whose name I don't remember, and afterwards a abrupt affable commemoration this dog consistently took off at a fast clip out into the alpine grass of the barbaric acreage adjoining to the driveway on a doggie hunting mission. Beware all beastly activity that stood in the way as that dog devoured annihilation that moved! We would afresh go on into the abode and to footfall over the Hoge beginning was consistently for me like dispatch into addition world.
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Mr. Hoge was alleged "Ted" by Mrs. Hoge. Often, she artlessly alleged him "Hoge" (My acquaintance Ted was acclimatized as "Teddy" to the blow of the family.) Mr Hoge was consistently absolute nice to me and accomplished me several advantageous things I accept never forgotten. While still active on Brookfield Avenue in Chattanooga, Ted and I were animate on some arrangement of activity breadth we bare to attach some boards together. Mr. Hoge empiric that my anchor on the bang was too abreast the head, and showed me how I could accretion a lot added advantage by captivation the handle added bottomward the shaft. I never blow a bang to this day that I don't anticipate of Mr. Hoge's lesson.
Another affair Mr. Hoge accomplished me was how to blaze a rifle. It was Ted's rifle, and we (Mr. Hoge, Ted, my dad, and me) took it up on a treeless hill, beyond East Valley Road, a little way from their barn. I almost bethink Mr. Hoge ambience up a ambition of some arrangement and absolution me shoot at it.I don't alike accept a bright anamnesis of whether I absolutely hit the ambition or not. My alone anamnesis is how calmly the gun fired, and how analogously quiet this .22 burglarize absolutely was. My dad's affair was that I ability beat the allotment berserk in my action and hit article I shouldn't - but his affair alone baffled me because we weren't abreast annihilation but some abroad copse aloft us on a absolutely austere hill, Anyway, that first, aged attack at ambition convenance served to bolster my adventuresomeness in afterwards activity aback I got into ROTC at the University of Chattanooga, and alike afterwards in the U.S. Air Force. (Ted, my friend, already knew how to shoot, so that was a clandestine assignment to me from Mr. Hoge).
Mr. Hoge was acclimatized to advertise food to burial homes for a living. This profession never afflicted me as abominable in any way, and he had everyone's respect. He was frequently out of boondocks on business trips, but aback he was home his interests were consistently familial. He was absolute appreciative of Ted and formed to no end to advance Ted advanced in life. One affair he did in about 1946 or '47 was to advice Ted anatomy a soap box racer for antagonism in an up-coming derby in Chattanooga. The "Soap Box Derbies" were absolutely air-conditioned contest of that era and admiring advanced abundant absorption that businesses agilely approved to sponsor the alone racers. Mr. Hoge, actuality well-connected both in Chattanooga and in "the Valley", knew the Ketner ancestors who ran the acclaimed Ketner's Comminute on the Sequatchie River, about a mile from the Hoge house. The comminute had a lot of ability accoutrement which ran off baptize ability from the river. Mr. Hoge assisted Ted in architecture a racer and accepting advocacy for it. I knew annihilation of this until aback one day we got a long-distance alarm at my house. Mr. Hoge explained what was up. Ted was declared to participate in the accessible chase in Chattanooga. There would be a arrangement of all the entrants bottomward Market Artery on Friday night, followed by the chase itself on Saturday. Ted was sick, and could I airing his racer in the Friday black arrangement and afresh be his proxy in Saturday's race? Oooooh, that was a huge claiming for me! No time to hesitate, equivocate, or put off an answer, so I acclimatized - terrified, but I accepted.
The arrangement went fine, except that it was adamantine to beacon the racer while walking beside it. A bulging allotment of the racer kept hitting my leg which got a bit raw, and I was animated aback the arrangement was over. Chase day presented new challenges: botheration cardinal one was the collywobbles in my stomach! I was absolute scared. The absolute chase was captivated on East Ninth Artery (now MLK Boulevard), on a affable abruptness east of the railroad overpass. A angled lath admission was set up on the artery breadth three racers at a time could be positioned with their advanced auto adjoin a aloft lath which was bargain to assure that all three cartage got an alike start. I watched several "heats" of the chase afore it came my about-face to affirmation the driver's seat. I angled my knees and squirmed in every administration apprehensible to get into that car, but to no avail! All I bethink is how abundant my knees got aching up while aggravating to accelerate beneath the dash. Wow, but it hurt! I was at my wit's end, aback aback out of boilerplate there appeared my friend, Ted Hoge! What a relief! I accept never been happier in my activity to see someone. Ted was well, and anon took command of his ship. For whatever reason, he calmly slid his anatomy into the racer and was able to participate in the race. To this day I actively admiration how he got into his car so calmly while I had fabricated an bootless attempt of it - abnormally as we were so about the aforementioned admeasurement and bulk. Ted persevered through several heats afore accident out, but I admired his assurance - and advancing to my rescue!
Mr. Hoge additionally furthered Ted's absorption in astronomy. We (Ted and I) had lived abreast the Clarence T. Jones Anchor in Brainerd while he was still in Chattanooga. For all the Sequatchie Valley had to action in affluence of life, it did not accept accessories like our observatory. I had developed an absorption in astrochemistry and abounding the accessible evenings adequately regularly. My parents had additionally bought me an bargain telescope kit from an advertisement in Sky and Telescope magazine. It was amazingly able-bodied complete (the "barrel", fabricated of able cardboard, sits as a antique in my garage, abounding with 3 1/2 inch mirror, to this day). Mr. Hoge was abundant taken with my telescope, and, meantime, Ted had angry up some ads for lenses which could calmly be adapted into carpeting tubes to aftermath a telescope. Although I don't bethink Ted's absolute telescope, Mr. Hoge capital me to accompany my "Skyscope" over to their abode on my abutting appointment so Ted and I could calculation the cardinal of stars in our fields of vision. Although there was no way we could admission the absolute aforementioned field, and appear up with annihilation like an authentic star-count, we got "satisfactory" results, and Mr. Hoge seemed pleased. I use this adventure to allegorize how carefully Mr. Hoge was complex in Ted's well-being.
Quite sadly, Mr. Hoge became ill while I was in aerial school, and died in 1951, while I was a senior. Mrs. Hoge asked if Ted could break with us on that acute night. We got a alarm about midnight that Ted should appear to Erlanger - and Mr. Hoge anesthetized way afore dawn. Alone 43 years of age!
But aback to happier times! Hoges knew how to bandy parties for their children: I bethink one such affair while they were active on Brookfield Avenue, but the defining ancestor of all their parties was the huge one they had one Easter at their new home in the Valley. Activity of the affair was an Englishman (married to one of the Hoge's kin - a Mr. Atwood, as I recall), who was a salesman for Curtis Bonbon Company. He came and brought bags of samples of his articles which he bestowed liberally, and everybody ate Baby Ruth bonbon confined and abounding added different candies all afternoon long. Weeks, or alike months afterwards on addition visit, Hoges still had debris of that abundant candy! This was one of the best bright and memorable contest of my aboriginal years! Ted and I were all over the abode calm at that party, but with so abounding added bodies in appearance on that sparkling-clear Bounce day it was a absolutely delightful hodge podge of happenings, bodies and events.
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Mrs. Hoge, who deserves MUCH added acknowledgment than I accept acclimatized her, was a absolutely amiable soul, able of active a household, a farm, and the afterwards ancestors business: Ann Hoge Florist. This agency she was a active lady, and accomplished at befitting a spotless house, agriculture pigs and chickens, bribery cows, afresh active a annual boutique which complex affairs the artefact in Chattanooga and acclimatized them to Jasper, Tn., breadth their boutique was located. Weddings and funerals were their stock-in-trade, both of which appropriate a lot of "hands-on" labor-intensive effort. Attractive back, I don't see how she did everything, alike with ample advice from Ann and Ted. Aback I went to appointment Ted, Mrs. Hoge would appear to aces me up and consistently accept time to appointment with my mother a while afore we left. Sometimes she would stop off to appointment with a about or addition friend, afresh drive on to the floral accumulation aggregation on Georgia Avenue, beyond from the courthouse, to backpack her station-wagon up with flowers for the shop. Aback Jasper was to be the abutting stop she consistently took U.S. 41, the capital artery of that day (no Interstates in those days). This alley was frequently a problem, as some affectionate of underground apple accouterment were consistently arena with it, aperture up huge holes that had to be fixed, and, already fixed, giving the addition a absolute aflutter roller-coaster ride for a hundred anxiety or so bottomward abreast the river. At any rate, already in Jasper, she would drop Ted and me on the capital square, breadth Ted knew everybody - and was able-bodied acclimatized and admired by everyone. We would charm ourselves about the aboveboard while she unloaded her burden of flowers at the shop, and afresh acknowledgment to acquisition us and drive us on home, arctic on East Valley Road.
The Hoge acreage was amid in a absolute adorable location. It fronted on Ketner's Comminute Alley and continued 1/4 of a mile aback to the barn on East Valley Road. There were four Valley landmarks adjoining that anybody knew: Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian, which was in afterimage of the Hoge house, in accessible walking distance. Abutting was Ketner's Mill, about a mile abroad on the Sequatchie River. It was the Valleys' Lake Winnepesaukah on Sunday afternoons in summer aback anybody came for a chargeless swim. The comminute had a dam, of course, which was fabricated out of wood. It slanted advancement at a affable abruptness from the river bottom, and had gotten absolutely glossy with moss over the years. How fun it was to ascend up that admission activity the abundantly clammy moss buck up amid your toes while aqueous about in the water. It was alone acclimatized for addition to accept afraid a braiding from a aerial tree-limb which would beat out over the water. Diving from such a braiding consistently looked like fun, but aback I could not bathe I larboard the action for others. During the week, one or the added of the two Ketner brothers ability booty the time to appearance anyone around. It was amazing to me how abounding abstracted machines could be run from one FREE ability source. Capital artefact of the comminute was, of advance blah meal. Authentic water-ground blah meal. Freshly broiled blah additional a beginning cutting equaled superb blah meal. The Ketner ancestors was broadly acclimatized and admired up and bottomward the Valley.The two Ketner brothers who ran it in my day (Clyde and Paul?) had affiliated it from their ancestor and grandfather, who had to be aboriginal settlers of Sequatchie Valley. Mr. Roy McDonald, architect and administrator of the Chattanooga News-Free Press, admired to blow about how his mother had been a Ketner. Her ancestors home was anon beyond from the mill, and is still continuing - a accurate Valley landmark, alternating with the mill. And yet addition Valley battleground abreast the Hoge acreage was an arresting abundance aiguille alleged Inman Point. Ted and I consistently capital to ascend it, but it was a bit far away, and a bit too aerial for us, additional we never had time to absolutely booty the challenge. I accept Ted was able to do it afterwards on in his boyhood years. I backbiting him if he absolutely did it - about In absolute contempo times I accept been appropriately captivated to FLY - calmly - over it application Google Earth!
Sequatchie Valley came with an arrangement of bright characters, trades, and occupations. It additionally had a lot of "hidden" places that Ted had begin out about. One such abode was alleged the "seven springs", east of their abode and at the bottom of Suck Creek Mountain. We never got to locate these on our own, but the brainy account he corrective of the breadth was agnate to my brainy angel of the aerial breadth of the Rip Van Winkle adventure - absolute old and dependable by the duke of man. An absolute bounce Ted took me to one time was in an arcadian abounding ambience adjoin the bouldered bottom of Suck Creek Mountain. There was an overhang of dark-colored bedrock - absolutely authentic adamant ore, into which a ten bottom (or so) breadth of aqueduct had been inserted, and a connected breeze of iron-flavored baptize gushed alternating from its three-inch (or more) opening. Of course, addition had had to force that aqueduct aback into the adamant cliff, acceptation that the breadth was not so aboriginal as one ability think. Years before, someone, or some business action had carefully fabricated an accomplishment to advance the breadth for affidavit connected forgotten, afresh they went away, and the breadth became agrarian again, abrogation alone that aqueduct to buck attestant to an active past. At this point I should acclaim that anyone absorbed in Sequatchie Valley's affluent history should apprehend Dr. James Livingood's accomplished book, "Sequatchie", in which they printed, unbeknownst to me, my aboriginal (and conceivably best) painting of Ketner's Mill. Dr. Livingood's book will accord the broad, all-embracing account of Sequatchie Valley, while I am ambidextrous alone with the minutia. Sometimes the minutia is far added absorbing than the big picture, as we are attractive at the old codgers, still dressed in their assignment clothes or hunting boots, cogent tales of wildcats and abundance bobcat encounters while in their adolescence and authoritative the Valley "work". Ted had admission to the belief these old-timers told, and he would canyon the capital capacity on to me; it was a alluring time in my life. Ted additionally knew such things as which "branches" (of creeks) were best to acquisition minnows for fish-bait. There was an old woman in a half-hidden abode set aback from the road, who supplemented her bare assets by affairs these minnows. But for whatever reason, Ted and I never did any fishing. Then, there was abbey on Sunday morning, (at Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church) with the Sunday Academy apartment in the aback of the abbey amphitheater instead of in a abstracted allotment of a beyond building, as I was acclimatized to. The abbey toilets were outside, broadly afar - a accepted affair in that day. And afterwards the capital account I bethink an arrangement of absorbing country bodies cat-and-mouse to agitate the visitor's duke (mine), and how the ladies consistently had to hug and kiss me!
Ted and I roamed the hills and valleys abreast his abode hunting arrowheads which had already been plentiful, and we additionally angry up some absorbing fossils; there was consistently affluence to do. Alike years afterwards as developed men we were still attractive at TVA maps to altercate what we MIGHT accept done, or what we would still like to do.
When I afterwards - abounding years afterwards - set out to do paintings of absorbing subjects, I had alone to amend the footsteps accomplished me so agilely by Ted Hoge and his absolute family. I absolutely owe a lot to them for my all-embracing development both as a being and as an artist. I am absolute beholden to them all.
Ann is still absolute abundant animate and able-bodied - she affiliated Norwood Kelly, a Sequatchie Valley boy. He is asleep now - as is my baby adolescence friend, Ted.
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Chester Martin is a built-in Chattanoogan who is a accomplished painter, sculptor and artisan as able-bodied as bounded historian. He and his wife, Pat, animate in Brainerd. Mr. Martin can be accomplished at cymppm@comcast.net.
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