Recollections of numerous encounters at a logging camp during the Great Depression witnessed in Buchanan County, Missouri

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When I was just a small boy, my mother and father would tell us kids a story which they had truly experienced when they were a young couple just starting out in life. They were married in the year 1932. Shortly there after, they went with their friends, another couple of their age group to a logging camp. This logging camp was several cabins where two couples stayed per cabin. The men would leave and go logging during the day. Then, they returned at evening. It all started one Saturday night. The men came in from work and decided to go to town to have a good time, leaving their wives behind. My mother told me that the other couple had only been married for a short period of time; their names were Frank and Lucy G********. Lucy was extremely jealous and was afraid that someone would steal her husband, Frank. It was almost dark when the men left for town. Lucy was setting on the backporch steps, her arms wrapped around her knees, her head buried into her arms crying. It was at this point...