Posted on 06/15/2007 10:58:19 AM PDT by Daffynition
Six generations after a French orphan named Martin Fugate settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky's Troublesome Creek with his redheaded American bride, his great-great-great great grandson was born in a modern hospital not far from where the creek still runs.
The boy inherited his father's lankiness and his mother's slightly nasal way of speaking.
What he got from Martin Fugate was dark blue skin. "It was almost purple," his father recalls.
Doctors were so astonished by the color of Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy's skin that they raced him by ambulance from the maternity ward in the hospital near Hazard to a medical clinic in Lexington.
Two days of tests produced no explanation for skin the color of a bruised plum.
A transfusion was being prepared when Benjamin's grandmother spoke up. "Have you ever heard of the blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek?" she asked the doctors.
"My grandmother Luna on my dad's side was a blue Fugate. It was real bad in her," Alva Stacy, the boy's father, explained. "The doctors finally came to the conclusion that Benjamin's color was due to blood inherited from generations back."
Benjamin lost his blue tint within a few weeks, and now he is about as normal looking a seven-year-old boy as you could hope to find. His lips and fingernails still turn a shade of purple-blue when he gets cold or angry a quirk that so intrigued medical students after Benjamin's birth that they would crowd around the baby and try to make him cry. "Benjamin was a pretty big item in the hospital," his mother says with a grin.
Dark blue lips and fingernails are the only traces of Martin Fugate's legacy left in the boy...........
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
Yes, they were called Democrats. Now Kentucky is inhabited by "Red People" (i.e., Republicans)
Why so blue?
Yes, I should have waited until Blue Monday to post this story.
And after we just had a blue moon, too.
Tell me why...
What Kentucky do YOU live in??? Here in the People’s Republic of Louisville, conservatives are on the varmint list.
It is only in the recent elections that the map colors were switched. Republicans used to be represented by Blue.
Don’t know why the media changed it. But they sure have seized upon pointing out the colors now (red state/blue state logic).
“Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek”
ROCK BAND! It doesn’t get much better that this one.
Actually I live in Arizona. My congressional district just turned Blue, after 20 years. (I think its a 2 year blip). But, Arizona is Red.
Isn't Kentucky Blue Statewide?
Are we headed toward “cheese” and “moose bit my sister”?
It's like a less credible, Russian version of The Weekly World News.
Have you ever had new denims run through the wash and turn everything blue?
We have McConnell and Bunning in the Senate, but the sheep kicked Anne Northup to the curb and put Socialist John Yarmuth in.
They also have been trying to indict Governor Ernie Fletcher for “governing while Republican”.
The Blue People of Troublesome Creek
that’s actually very interesting....
I had read about this ages ago ...but apparently it is new news to Pravda ... must be a slow news day.
I thought so too ... kinda like the blue lobster story a few days ago.
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