My father’s family grew up on Long Run out in Texas, just a few miles from Springfield on the old Perryville Road.
“Mr. Henry” Best, the head teacher at the Texas school house, lived between the Cocanoughers and Johnnie Key, who still worked his team of mules when I was a kid in the early sixties.
The Best family had old ties with the Denny Goode clan, and Denny’s raccoon hunting tradition fascinated this young man, transplanted to the Kenton County suburbs.