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My TracTor STory:

You can go home again

By Lewis Chapman
I was born in Blairsville, Georgia,
in 1951 and my family moved to
Chamblee, Georgia, in 1952. I began Georgie’s Drive
school in DeKalb County around 1956.
In 2nd grade I had a classmate named Thru Brunswick
John Maloney and we became lifelong
friends. My family would return on Hello! I’m Georgie, the Georgia Grown mascot. I travel
weekends to Blairsville as both sets of the state of Georgia promoting our #1 industry –agriculture!
grandparents were still alive. There are lots of important things that were invented in Geor-
gia, like Coca-Cola and the cotton gin. But no family reunion
My maternal Grandfather, R.L. meal or church social would be complete if Brunswick Stew
Lance, owned a 100-acre farm that hadn’t been invented! Although other places claim to have
he and his family worked. In 1955 he invented it first, we invented it, too. I even found the pot it
bought a 1952 Model Farmall Cub was invented in, in downtown Brunswick. Sitting next to the
to make work on the farm a little farmer’s market in Mary Ross Waterfront Park, the pot is
easier. He did not particularly care displayed with an inscription that reads: “In this pot the first
for mechanical things. The whole Brunswick Stew was made on St Simon Isle July 2 1898.”
time that I knew him he complained You’ll never guess what I found one day at the Golden Isles
about driving. He had a 1950 Model Welcome Center on I-95 – another stew pot! But, it’s not the
Chevrolet pickup truck but I’m not original one. A local Boy Scout troop gave them a new one
sure that he ever really learned to with a display stand in 1988. The staff said they enjoy watch-
ing people get their picture taken with – and even inside –
drive. He could get around Union their famous Brunswick Stew pot. They do have the original
County and the surrounding area but recipe for Brunswick stew, which includes onions, tomatoes,
that was about it. corn, beans, cow, pig, and chicken, but no squirrel. Commu-
When I was a teenager, I would nities in the Southern Appalachians also lay claim to devel-
spend time during the summer with oping this savory winter stew, and insist it tastes best with
him. I saw my Grandfather (Bob, as fresh small game – squirrel, rabbit, opossum – and whatever
we called him) work with his Cub local ingredients are on hand.
tractor on occasion in the 1960s,
mowing and cultivating. Bob passed
away in 1971.
For the most part the tractor sat
under a shed until 2004. I knew that
John had restored several tractors,
both red and green. I began to ask him about a possible restoration, and he agreed to help me
with it. So, in February 2004 he and I pulled the Cub out from under the shed where it had been
sitting for 30-plus years. Someone had the forethought to leave antifreeze in the engine, so the
radiator and engine block were in good shape. With a new battery, even the headlights worked!
The restoration was finished in September 2004.
In 2018 my wife and I were able to move back to
Blairsville and now live on the same farm that Bob Do you have a tractor story to tell? We’d love
to share it with our readers. Write to Lee
purchased in 1925. His Farmall Cub is stored near Lancaster in care of the Market Bulletin or
where it was in 1955. Sixty-eight years later the Cub email lee.lancaster@agr.georgia.gov.
and I are back where we started!
Stirring the stew pot in Brunswick. (Lee Lancaster/GDA)

cook GeorGia Grown: Goat Cheese and Seasonal Greens Fondue

Ingredients: Directions: mixing bowl that fits over the top of the
1 ½ cup chopped turnip greens Toss grated Thomasville Tomme with saucepan. Fill saucepan with boiling
1 Tbsp olive oil cornstarch. Set a small pot of water to water and place mixing bowl over it to
¼ cup white wine boil. create a double boiler. Do not allow
1 tsp garlic, chopped bottom of mixing bowl to touch the
2 Tbsps onion, diced finely Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medi- water.
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves um heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, Add Thomasville Tomme to the wine
1 cup Thomasville Tomme, shredded until translucent. Add garlic and thyme and cream mixture one handful at a
8 oz Goat Cheese and stir until fragrant. time, stirring until mostly melted before
¼ tsp cornstarch Increase heat and add turnip greens. adding the next handful. Add crumbled
¼ cup heavy cream Sautee until fully wilted. Add wine and goat cheese all at once, stirring until
Assorted vegetables and toasted cia- heavy cream and heat until just begin- fondue is melted and smooth. Do not Season to taste with fresh black pep-
batta for dipping (suggestions: roasted ning to bubble. allow mixture to come to a simmer or per. Serve warm with assorted cooked
root vegetables and/or mushrooms, fondue will break and become grainy. and raw vegetables and bread for
raw radishes and/or apples) Transfer mixture to a stainless-steel dipping.

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