Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host Brent Reaves. From Conehutton to

Trotline and in just general country living I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. Alright friends, pull

you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

The Power of Hello. I've said it before and I'll say it again sharing the burden

of a problem with a friend lightens your load just like sharing a joy

magnifies it. Friends can come from the most unexpected places and the best

ones man sometimes they seem like to be honest to goodness divine intervention.

This week I want to talk to you about some friends I've made just stumbling

through life out amongst nature looking for something to catch and eat or just

by being neighborly and just saying hello it can literally open doors and the

story I'm fixing to tell you is a prime example. 65 years ago my aunt Norma

Faye married a fellow by the name of Tully McCoy Uncle Tully was born in 1934

and grew up in Pike County Kentucky which is located on the Kentucky and West

Virginia state line separated only by the tug four for the big sandy river.

Does any of that sound familiar? Well at or two that's where all the

feud and took place between them and the Hatfield Uncle Tully's father Jim McCoy

was nine years old when that feud ended he remembered it well but Uncle Tully

said he never talked about. I'm happy to say that I talked to my uncle Tully this

morning. I was getting the details about one of my favorite stories I've ever

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