Completely Off-Topic: Gardening question about an heirloom KY dent corn.

[horseshoer]

Hopefully this will not be frowned upon by ya all for not pretaining to fishin, but I rarely venture over here, hopefully someone will see this who can help. I appreciate it.
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I have a country background and grew up gardening and putting by as part of rural farm life. It has carried thru to adult yrs and I am getting more & more into growing & helping bring back & preserving the foods once commonly grown by our forefathers & ancestors.
The common turkey for instance, that we all buy at the store and eat at holidays is the
Big-Breasted White (or some such breed), and the turkeys that were native to our country and selectively bred to in early yrs look nuthin like whats on everyones table at Thanksgiving. Its the same with varieties of foods, and the seeds. I am currently obtaining seed for an heirloom variety grown by generations of the Daymon Morgan family in Leslie Co., eastern Kentucky. Its a late-1800s Appalachian Mt. family heirloom corn that is noted for its yield and drought-resistance. It was crossed crossed over the years by the Morgans with Bloody Butcher dent corn, a large part of the reason for the yield and drought-resistance. Can be eaten in the milky stage like sweet corn and was widely prized for milling into cornmeal and for grits.

I am interested in any specific info related to this from any one of you Headhunters, maybe someone that lives in the area? One of you ol timers probly. About experiences with, knowing about the corn, the Morgan family and their story. Part of the enjoyment of producing these crops is the knowledge and historical data researching it gives one.
With the normal odds of reaping the reward after planting the crop & tending it, chances are excellent that I may be eating the very same grits (geneticly, only variable the method and water, pot they're cooked in), that yur great great grandmother was making for yur great granddad in that very same area of eastern KY one of you comes from or lives in. You cant bring yur kinfolk that far removed back in many ways- really no pics that far back or few, doesnt tell you what they wore, what they did, what they ate. Well you can sit down about as assured as one can be if yur from that area, and taste exactly what they were eating before the day of geneticly-modified foods and mass hybridization. Kinda get em back that way. Obviously, I like that kinda thing and think thats pretty neat, as one who also enjoys gardening with my geneology.

If you think I am a pain about this now, if one or more of ya have some good 1st-hand info then I will be buggin ya to know what you can tell me about the area-specific way was, or is, to say make grits in yur hollow of KY. The good news is if it gets that interesting here, you boys who got the local scoop (or just want some), will be getting a sack of Daymon Morgans Kentucky Butcher dent corn cornmeal in the mail bout that time. You all can get together and comment bout what an odd Yank that is what lives in VA as the grits be drippin off yo chins.:D

Thanks for any info!!!!!

[horseshoer]

I realize I could go to a gardening site (and will) and ask this very thing, a Kentucky-specific site even, but I will undoubtedly
get my info with the gardeners viewpoints inclusive, which doesnt necessarily put me onto specific stuff only residents of that area should really know about. Thats the stuff I want, in case you wondering why I am going to a lingerie shop to buy a gun.