Top: Librarian Ricky Rickman checks out patron and long-time resident Charlene Temple while Nancy Lyons waits. Middle: Bubba's on Route 10. Bottom: Bubba's employees Tiffany Phillips and Roger Fisher with owner Bob Clanton in front of a handmade fiberglass chicken a patron presented to the business. to the next row of seats with the same group. Karen Burrow Rickman attended the school before it closed and the classes relocated. She recalls walking next door to the cafeteria for lunch. " We loved the days when Mrs. Tiller fixed spaghetti for lunch. I think she used her own recipe and everyone wanted seconds. And you could get seconds! Lunches were 35 cents and ice cream was 10 cents for a whole and 5 cents for a half. " Rickman laughs thinking about getting a half an ice cream. " It was literally cut in half, which was fine if it was an ice cream sandwich. But if you wanted something on a stick you hoped you would get the half with the stick or it was hard to eat! " Rickman lives in her Grandmother Burrow's house. Someone in her family has always lived there. Her father, Cecil Burrow, was the youngest in his family and the first one to be born in a hospital. Everyone else was born in that house. Cecil Burrow also owned the country store that now houses Bubba's Chikin & Thangs. Rickman says they were not allowed a telephone in her home until she was 16 years old, since the line would only make long-distance calls. Even to contact the store if they needed her daddy, they used a walkie-talkie. " I don't know how it worked that far away, but it did. " The Burrowsville Library is active as a library and community center. Exercise classes, county public meetings, live music and speakers on various topics are other activities the residents enjoy at the community center. Burrowsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue is manned by about 35 men and women. The volunteers at Company 4 respond to about 130 calls per year and are supported by a Ladies Auxiliary group. 30 | Cooperative Living | March-April 2018 continued on pg. 36 www.co-opliving.comhttp://www.co-opliving.com