What I Learned Today
In the 1930s, there was a half mile packed red clay track
At the Catawba County Fairgrounds, now Hickory High School,
And they ran car races there during the fair,
Races that drew 10,000 people, who stood outside
The fence, and they staged a head-on collision
Between two cars, which drew the top billing.
They had found something particular to the area
Where bootleggers ran trunk loads of hooch
Down mountain roads, the like of which
We can hardly imagine, that one in six adults
Was involved some way in the moonshine biz,
That World War II stopped it all for four years
Yet it returned with a vengeance, men and machines
And soon enough baseball was dead.
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