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arry lived up on the ridge, about 2 revowhen nworC rreJ yB miles from my home, weywere kids. He was a year older and one grade above me in the little, one-room Jerry Crownover farms schoolhouse we attended together, in Lawrence County. He but we quickly became the best of friends. is a former professor of Early on, in our friendship, we would take Agriculture Education at turns spending the night at each other’s Missouri State University, homes pretty often, but after he got his first and is an author and bicycle, he would make the 2-mile ride almost professional speaker. daily during the summer and every weekend To contact Jerry, go to throughout the year. Larry had a black Schozarksfn.com and click winn that he had assembled from an assorton ‘Contact Us.’ ment of parts from the scrapyard. Mine was an old, blue RollFast that a neighbor had refurbished for me. Larry made fun of my bike every day, because it was a girl’s bike, but we still ended up riding hundreds of miles together over the years. The 2 miles of dirt road between our homes was all downhill for Larry and he had no fear of letting his bike go all-out down the steep hill, never even thinking of using the brake. How he kept from crashing and burning still mystifies me, as I was never that brave. The only concrete surface around was the low-water bridge across ‘Possum Walk Creek, and Larry would spend hours sliding his back tire, in order to leave black marks all over the bridge. He went through a lot of tires and the bridge was covered with black marks for years. As we became early teens, we each managed to acquire motorcycles. Mine was a 50cc monstrosity from Montgomery Ward. Larry’s was a 49cc behemoth from Sears, Roebuck & Co., that was actually a moped, which allowed me to get back at him, for making fun of my girl’s bike. By this time, the state had paved our little, dirt road
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