SMALL TOWN CELEBS

I know that we have neighborhoods in the big city.  But one thing I miss about small town life is the personalities.  The ones that stand out.

Mrs. Walls was the Snow Cone Lady.  I first came into contact with her at the race car track.  Stock cars that sputtered and smoked and leaked and crashed all too often as the  dirt choked the spectators.  I was a strawberry snow cone man then.  Man of 12 or 13.

She had a little stand outside her house in a section of the community called Summersville.  Ironic for her because her business peaked, of course, in the Summer.  All kinds of flavors colored and flavored shaved ice.  Blue eagle was probably number one followed closely in later years by rainbow.

Everybody knew Mrs. Walls and frequented her snow cone house often.  But she was one of several small town celebs.  Celebrities that live in every burg and podunk in our land.

In MTV, the list would include such personalites as Gordon the Rainman, Hound Dog, Speedy and Mousy (the Baldwin sisters), Raymond the Grit man, Lucky LeRoy, and a host of others that would mean nothing to non-MTV readers, other than to examine their community stand outs.

I'm trying to categorize similar attributes that small town legends have, but to include all that I mentioned, I'm at a loss.  Uniqueness being the only quality. 

So I'll just tarry here in front of the computer screen on a 100 degree day and try to recall what one of Mrs. Walls' snow cones tasted like.  Today, I'm letting a vanilla flavor coat my tongue.