Pot Belly Tales

I realize a lot of folks come to my blog looking to find some information about stoves...not to read about some wild tales that have been told around a Pot Belly stove.    Well, your time i...

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Checkers and golf may seem a strange combination, but tools required for both games were originally made from wood. Language for play uses similiar terms, such as shot and stroke, and both invo...

http://potbellytales.blogspot.com/2007/10/checkers-golf.html

Not all the tales that were spun around the potbelly stove were “tales”. Some (like the one I am about to relate about Andrew Boggs, Jr.) actually contained a pretty good portion of fact ......

http://potbellytales.blogspot.com/2007/05/andrew-boggs-jr-strong-man.html

NEW TALE AROUND THE POT BELLY STOVE The winter months were the most productive months in Smith’s General Store, when it comes to tale spinning. There is just something magical about a pot bel...

http://potbellytales.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-tale-around-pot-belly-stove-winter.html

Smith's General Store was a gathering place for the local codgers to come by and loaf, chewing tobacco, rubbing their snuff, smoking cigars or pipes and gossiping or spinning their tales. Back...

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The Pot Belly stove becomes a dear friend during Christmas with the cold winters in the mountains of West Virginia. In early fall, Dad would buy a load of coal from one of the local mines and hir...

http://potbellytales.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-around-pot-belly-stove.html

Smith's General Store, home of the pot belly stove tales, was located in French Creek, WV and was open from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm, Monday through Saturday, and by request on Sundays after church s...

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