Folklore, Barbour County.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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Folder contains 54 pages of Alabama folklore compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. Know Alabama • , , • "lIUl UT-.o seem impossible with electr!oity but in the early history of" Eufaula, an incidentA occurred that stirred wide attention. Seek out some of the very old Eufaula citizens, says the Federal Writers' Project, and they will tell you the "lightning story." It happened on College Hill, at the quaint Southern home of R. • Edmondson. There was a day when rs. Edmondson was caring for two neigh- ( bor children during an illness of their brother. The day was sultry and thunder began to roar. SUddenly a bolt of lightning struck • the house, setting it afire. The blaze was soon extinguished, but something else had happened. The lightning flash had performed a strange miracle. The younger of Mrs. Edmondson's little guests, Sallie May Craven, had been standing directly in front of a large mirror in the long, Old-fashioned hall. Atter the storm had abated, an exact likeness of the girl was fOlnd repDoduced on the face of the mirror. News of the lightning-made photograph spread rapidly. CrOWds gathered to view the phenomenon and letters began pouring in. Among the letters received was one from Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, Alabama's famous author. In her story, "At the Mercy of Tiberius," a similar freak of lightning plays a part. The old EdmondsOl:l home stands today, but after half a century, the mirror photograph has faded. Still,...
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1938 Circa
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