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There is a story about one of the Mining town residents that goes like this.
One of Atlanta's characters was Peg Leg Annie, described as a leading lady of the night. Annie and a companion, Emma von Losch, alias Dutch Em, set out on foot from Atlanta to Rocky Bar. They walked on crusted snow, although it was May, Probably in 1898. A blizzard raged for two days. The women failed to show up in Rocky Bar, and after three days a search party was organized. Annie was found crawling through snow on her hands and knees, incoherent. Dutch Em was found dead, covered by Annie's underclothes.
A number of versions describe what developed next. The most commonly accepted story seems to be that Annie was amply filled with booze and at the proper time both feet were amputated above the ankles.
The plucky annie found a man to live with, bore five children and dies in the 1930's having been dependent on friends for some years.
For a while Peg Leg Annie lived at Rocky Bar in a cabin which is still standing. Reportedly she sold whiskey to anyone with the money to pay for it. Being incapacitated, however, she lined up whiskey bottles under cover along one side of a building near her cabin. With a shotgun across her knees, she would direct the would-be purchaser to the spot where the booze bottles were hidden. The story goes that she always paid for her liquor - in advance.(also quoted from Ghost towns of Idaho by Donald C. Miller)
This one for peg week. Shot in Mudeford with Mike Brown pro-photographer March '15. It rained hard all day and this was probably the best image I took but only after Mike pointed it out to me (in the rain).
Just a quick grab shot for today. A clothes peg at near 1:1. It's not a greatly interesting item so I went mad with a B&W conversion :-)
I like to recycle just about everything - here I have washed out a couple of plastic bags and pegged them on the line to dry when they will be ready to use again.
ODC - WASHING 6th Oct 2013