Forest Stories Episode Seventy Six Pig Ladies Big Rocks

Thanks for being part of the conversation I am the Poet In The Forest. A children series I penned out in the 1990s. None of it would be possible if it wasn’t for this forest in South Charlotte, NC. I talk about it so much that I thought maybe it’s time you get to meet all that inspires me. Thanks for being part of the conversation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This
is four Stories. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,
none of it would be possible if it wasn't for
this forest right here in South Arlotte, North Carolina. I
talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's
time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.
Welcome back to the forest. The four gigantic boulders on
pig Lady's front yard. Pig Lady, she had pigs, She
raised pigs. We called her pig Ladies. Not anything evil,
she was pig Lady. But the four giant boulders that

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are currently sitting on what used to be their yard.
He had Alzheimer's and she was just unbelievably ill. So
therefore they gave their lives to the next chapter. And
the house has sat empty now for about six months.
But nobody's going to know why these four boulders are
here unless it's documented. I was here when they dug

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these boulders out of the earth while trying to rechannel
the creek that sat behind their house because it was
a flood zone and the goal was to try to
figure out a way to get those waters to move
in the right direction. So, whoever it was, the city,
the state, or just somebody, what they did was they said, look,

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we've got to get new culverts in the ground, and
we have to make sure that everything is going to
be safe, not just for today, but for several generations
beyond us. These rocks they came up from the soil.
They dug them out. I don't know why the owner
of this home, pig Lady's husband, chose to put them here,

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but it's very picturesque. It's very peaceful, and so many
times I've walked by here and said I want to
write here sometime. I don't know. Would people think I
was weird, would people think I'm trespassing? But the four
giant boulders in pig Ladies front yard, this is far

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from being natural. This was here and is here because
they dug these rocks up from beneath the surface while
trying to control the stream. Hey, thanks for being a
part of the conversation.