Volume 6, Number 9 - Fall 1978
A Tribute to Ridgedale, MO
by Clemmie Fortner Peebler
A highway ‘long the top of a mountain
A schoolhouse under a tree
A gathering together for meeting
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
Grey mists and a beautiful sunrise
Glory of hills I see
Wonderful, beautiful, splendid
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
Tall pines and oaks and cedars
Woodlands so wild and free
And all the friends so lovely
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
Blackberries ‘long the old rail fence
Grapevines climbing a tree
The wild rose bush by the winding road
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
Hearing the sound of a baying hound
As he barked at the foot of a tree
Waiting for one to come with a gun
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
A little store by the side of the road
A picture most lovely to see
Little brown cabins ‘neath the oak tree boughs
That’s part of Ridgedale for me
(Permission for publication given by Mable Ruth Maddeford, daughter of Clemmie Fortner Peebler. Mrs. Peebler was born on the homestead of her father, Jacob Fortner, who with his mother, Malinda, settled on the land that is now downtown Hollister, Mo.)
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