Paoli Pride Preview

Would you believe that last night, I dreamed about when we began to have ice to preserve our meat? In the 1920s, Paoli and other Garvin County farmers preserved their pork and beef by smoking it. When I was very young, the men in our family butchered a hog each winter and stored it in a “Smoke House.” By the time I can start remembering, in the early 1930s, they began taking pork and beef t...