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Regular Meeting. Nov. 18, 1924.

The regular meeting of the Tuesday Club
was held November eighteenth at the
Unitarian Parish House and was opened
by the president. After the customary
announcments, Mrs. Thomas G. Rees,
Chairman of the Social Service and
Legislative Committee, introduced Mr.
Eliot H. Robinson who gave an interesting
talk on "Our Contemporary Ancestors".
These proved to be the Cumberlain
mountaineers, who are still so primitive
that a visit among them is like going
back two hundred years, which suggested
this unusual title. Mr. Robinson told
of the quaint customs of these people,
their religion, their feuds, their persistent
"moonshining" ["and" strikethrough] the peculiarities of
Kentucky justice and politics, and ended
with an earnest plea for education. The
talk was also enlivened by several of
their folk songs, entitled "With his old shoes
on and his leggins," "My Blue Eyed Boy,"
"Down in the Valley" and "The Whiffle* of
the Smell."
After the meeting the club adjourned