Wednesday, December 6, 2023
No Result
View All Result
SUBSCRIBE
The Chimney Rock Chronicle
53 °f
Broadway
54 ° Wed
56 ° Thu
57 ° Fri
51 ° Sat
49 ° Sun
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Pickup Locations
  • Columns
    • All
    • Book Notes
    • Eating Well in the Real World
    • Faith
    • Fishing with Mike
    • From the Potting Shed
    • Fulks Run Follies
    • Gobbler Sports
    • Headlines from Plains Museum
    • Hiking With Ray
    • Local Business
    • Local Legends
    • Musings from the Woodpile
    • Personal & Professional Development
    • Randy's Ramblings
    • Reflections from a Fuller Life
    • Sarah's Recipes
    • The Gospel Vault
    • The View From Here
    • The Wandering Wilkins
    My “Shooting House”

    My “Shooting House”

    What’s Killing Our Relationships?

    What’s Killing Our Relationships?

    The Wandering Wilkins

    The Wandering Wilkins

    Everything’s Coming Up Roses

    Everything’s Coming Up Roses

    Sarah’s Recipes

    Sarah’s Recipes

    Rounding the Bases

    Rounding the Bases

    Randy’s Ramblings – February 2022

    Randy’s Ramblings

    Bass Fishing with Mike – December 2021

    Fishing With Mike

    Understanding the Holy Spirit – Part 4

    The Problem with Indifference

    Grateful, Thankful, Blessed:  From the First Thanksgiving to the One on November 23

    Grateful, Thankful, Blessed: From the First Thanksgiving to the One on November 23

    My Safari to Africa with Leonard Lee Rue III

    My Safari to Africa with Leonard Lee Rue III

    Hiking With Ray

    Hiking With Ray

    Gospel Vault

    Southern Gospel Music Hall Of Fame – Part III

    The Difference Between Zoos And Taxidermy Shops  

    The Difference Between Zoos And Taxidermy Shops  

    Big Enough to Drag Out

    Big Enough to Drag Out

    Trending Tags

    • Entertainment & Events
    • History
      • All
      • Bev's Historic Notes
      Bad Roads

      Incredible but True

      Bennetts Book Run

      Bennetts Book Run

      Shrine Mont and the Arts:  A Hidden Gem for The Arts

      Shrine Mont and the Arts: A Hidden Gem for The Arts

      The Crider Family

      The Crider Family

      60th Anniversary: Brocks Gap Dam Proposal Lambasted!

      60th Anniversary: Brocks Gap Dam Proposal Lambasted!

      New Dale School: A Restored One Room School of Bygone Days

      New Dale School: A Restored One Room School of Bygone Days

      Making Saltpeter

      Making Saltpeter

      Stultz Family

      Stultz Family

      Highlight from the Plains Museum

      Highlight from the Plains Museum

    • Our Sponsors
      • Advertising
    • Home
      • About Us
      • Pickup Locations
    • Columns
      • All
      • Book Notes
      • Eating Well in the Real World
      • Faith
      • Fishing with Mike
      • From the Potting Shed
      • Fulks Run Follies
      • Gobbler Sports
      • Headlines from Plains Museum
      • Hiking With Ray
      • Local Business
      • Local Legends
      • Musings from the Woodpile
      • Personal & Professional Development
      • Randy's Ramblings
      • Reflections from a Fuller Life
      • Sarah's Recipes
      • The Gospel Vault
      • The View From Here
      • The Wandering Wilkins
      My “Shooting House”

      My “Shooting House”

      What’s Killing Our Relationships?

      What’s Killing Our Relationships?

      The Wandering Wilkins

      The Wandering Wilkins

      Everything’s Coming Up Roses

      Everything’s Coming Up Roses

      Sarah’s Recipes

      Sarah’s Recipes

      Rounding the Bases

      Rounding the Bases

      Randy’s Ramblings – February 2022

      Randy’s Ramblings

      Bass Fishing with Mike – December 2021

      Fishing With Mike

      Understanding the Holy Spirit – Part 4

      The Problem with Indifference

      Grateful, Thankful, Blessed:  From the First Thanksgiving to the One on November 23

      Grateful, Thankful, Blessed: From the First Thanksgiving to the One on November 23

      My Safari to Africa with Leonard Lee Rue III

      My Safari to Africa with Leonard Lee Rue III

      Hiking With Ray

      Hiking With Ray

      Gospel Vault

      Southern Gospel Music Hall Of Fame – Part III

      The Difference Between Zoos And Taxidermy Shops  

      The Difference Between Zoos And Taxidermy Shops  

      Big Enough to Drag Out

      Big Enough to Drag Out

      Trending Tags

      • Entertainment & Events
      • History
        • All
        • Bev's Historic Notes
        Bad Roads

        Incredible but True

        Bennetts Book Run

        Bennetts Book Run

        Shrine Mont and the Arts:  A Hidden Gem for The Arts

        Shrine Mont and the Arts: A Hidden Gem for The Arts

        The Crider Family

        The Crider Family

        60th Anniversary: Brocks Gap Dam Proposal Lambasted!

        60th Anniversary: Brocks Gap Dam Proposal Lambasted!

        New Dale School: A Restored One Room School of Bygone Days

        New Dale School: A Restored One Room School of Bygone Days

        Making Saltpeter

        Making Saltpeter

        Stultz Family

        Stultz Family

        Highlight from the Plains Museum

        Highlight from the Plains Museum

      • Our Sponsors
        • Advertising
      No Result
      View All Result
      The Chimney Rock Chronicle
      Subscribe
      Thank you to our Sponsors! Thank you to our Sponsors! Thank you to our Sponsors!
      Home Columns Fulks Run Follies

      Fulks Run Follies

      Ronnie Fulk by Ronnie Fulk
      March 15, 2022
      in Columnists, Columns, Fulks Run Follies, Ronnie Fulk
      Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
      Photograph of Ronnie Fulk
      Born and raised in Fulks Run and graduated from Broadway High School in 1975. Worked at Macs Superette from the age of nine where most of my stories were heard. Co-owner of M & R Feed and Hardware in Fulks Run until 1985.
      In 1985 started working at the United States Postal Service in Harrisonburg Va until 1993. Then assumed the roll of Postmaster of Quicksburg VA until 2013 when I became Postmaster of Fulks Run VA until my retirement in 2014. Finished my full time working career at Central Valley Truss in Fulks Run, retiring from full time employment October 2021. Since 1999, I occasionally fill the pulpit in local churches. Married to Cammie Anderson for 41 years, and we have two adult daughters, Rebecca and Sarah.

      March is here, and usually the March winds make us hang on with both hands to keep from being blown away. What can you do when those March winds start to howl? Why eat and play cards, of course.

      And speaking of eating how about a piece of fried golden brown Turner Country Ham, macaroni and cheese, brown beans, sauerkraut, sometimes Cole slaw, homemade cake, iced tea and coffee. Now if that menu sounds familiar then you have either helped or attended a Fulks Run Ruritan Club fried ham supper. Now keep in mind this was 40 plus years ago.

      At one time the Ruritans held a Ham and Oyster Supper, but sometime in the 70’s the oysters became so expensive they would have had to raise the meal price so much, not many people could afford to come. And we were serving right at 220 people at those ham and oyster suppers.

      Now the great debate started…old school against them young know it all’s.

      Young Know It All, “Well, let’s try it, a Fried Ham only supper. All you can eat.”

      Old Schooler, “WHAT?! all you can eat?! You’re Crazy! You’ll never get a good turn out without oysters!” When the smoke cleared the young know it all’s won out.

      So, there you have it, the first Turner Fried Ham Supper, six dollars per person, all you can eat. We served over 400 people plus carry outs with that meal, and the rest is history.

      And when the Ruritans purchased the new park, we had to come up with a way to pay for it. So, six suppers a year, Ham in September, January, and March. Pot Pie in October, February, and April. We didn’t want to pay interest any longer than we had to.

      Now that doesn’t sound like a lot unless you are the person that is doing the work! What does a ham supper involve?

      First set the date, then start to advertise, boy, this is easy.

      Then determine about how many people to prepare for, keeping in mind, snow, sleet, even rain, can be a factor in winter. One year in September we were watching the track of a hurricane.

      Now it’s starting to get a little harder. If my memory serves me correctly, we started with approximately 20-22 hams, sliced them so that we only used the center cuts. Toward the end we were using 24-26 whole hams. The butts and pieces would be used for the pot pie supper, but we will talk about that supper in April.

      Back to the story, it wasn’t long until we were serving over 800 people with carry outs included, even when the cost was now eight dollars a plate. We would set out chairs that started around the walls down the hall and back and over to the exit door. Then the line started at the front door down past the flag pole. The small cafeteria only seated 108 people, and after eating all you could eat the people would sit and talk for a long time. I guess it’s because they couldn’t get up or move.

      Our preparations grew to 80 pounds of brown beans, 60 pounds of macaroni for the macaroni and cheese, and 12 gallons of sauerkraut. I think one year they made over 30 gallons of iced tea. The operation began on Friday night. We would sort thru the beans picking out stones and then washing them and putting them in to soak. Making tea, slicing onions doing whatever we could to get an early start on Saturday Morning. We started about seven in the morning on Saturday, with the cooking of macaroni, then to the brown beans.

      The frying of the ham started and once fried, it was placed in warmers. Before the new park with those facilities, people brought in their portable skillets and in every nook and corner everyone was frying ham. Some people had to wait almost an hour to eat, but they didn’t mind for they were enjoying themselves just talking to people they hadn’t seen in years.

      Now when they added the new gym, we decided to move the eating area to the new gym. One big problem, not enough tables. And we now want to thank the Mt. Carmel United Brethren Church for allowing us to borrow their tables. Although this didn’t come off without some problems. One night on the way back to the church with those tables some slid off the back of the truck at the school, and then when they when up the hill to the church the rest slid off the truck. They didn’t even know it, until they arrived at the church and went to unload the tables, and there was none left to unload. The one fellow said “ I think the tables slid off” “No kidding, the other the man said, I told you to tie them down, they wouldn’t stay on there. (this was edited to keep the column rated G) Back down the road they went finding some on the hill at the church, the one said I believe it was more than that, and on down the road to the school they went finding those at the entrance. But one table wasn’t found till Sunday morning.

      Then after the eating was done the clean-up work began till about eight thirty that evening.

      Now you get an idea why they don’t have suppers anymore. Most of the younger generation would think you were crazy for doing all that work and then giving all profits back to needy people and the community. Maybe we were crazy, but there is one thing I leaned some years ago. If it makes you feel good and feels right in your heart, then it’s the right thing to do.

      Believe it or not
      Until next time
      Ronnie Fulk

      Ronnie Fulk

      Ronnie Fulk

      Born and raised in Fulks Run and graduated from Broadway High School in 1975. Worked at Macs Superette from the age of nine where most of my stories were heard. Co-owner of M & R Feed and Hardware in Fulks Run until 1985. In 1985 started working at the United States Postal Service in Harrisonburg Va until 1993. Then assumed the roll of Postmaster of Quicksburg VA until 2013 when I became Postmaster of Fulks Run VA until my retirement in 2014. Finished my full time working career at Central Valley Truss in Fulks Run, retiring from full time employment October 2021. Since 1999, I occasionally fill the pulpit in local churches. Married to Cammie Anderson for 41 years, and we have two adult daughters, Rebecca and Sarah.

      Next Post
      Berryman Custer (1833-1925)

      A Different Time

      Popular Articles

      • Rent a Racer: 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350 Hertz

        Rent a Racer: 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350 Hertz

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Hunting Caribou in Northern Quebec

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Paul Saunders, Singers Glen’s Hero of WWII

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Leth Oun with Joe Samuel Starnes – A Refugee’s American Dream

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Hiking With Ray

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Handy With Randy

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • The Old Inn At Mauzy

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Grateful, Thankful, Blessed: From the First Thanksgiving to the One on November 23

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • The Shoemaker Family

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • Everything’s Coming Up Roses

        0 shares
        Share 0 Tweet 0
      • About Us
      • Advertising
      • Contact
      • Pick Up Locations

      © 2023 The Chimney Rock Chronicle - Website & E-Commerce by Bare Web Design, Broadway Va.

      No Result
      View All Result
      • Home
      • Columns
      • History
      • Sports
        • Thank you to our Sponsors!
        • Advertising

      © 2023 The Chimney Rock Chronicle - Website & E-Commerce by Bare Web Design, Broadway Va.