Meet The Couple Behind A New Year's Eve 'Possum Drop' In Georgia

New York City's Times Square has a ball drop on New Year's Eve. Tallapoosa, Ga., rings in the new year by dropping a taxidermied possum named Spencer.

It's a tradition that career taxidermists Bud and Jackie Jones helped establish in their small town.

Bud, 88, and Jackie, 82, have been married for 62 years, and at StoryCorps interview recorded in September, they spoke about their colorful love story — which began with a missing pet on their very first date.

"I got in the car and you said, 'Now, don't get excited, Jackie, but my pet snake is loose in this car,' "Jackie says. "And I'm not a snake person."

Two years after the snake incident, there was a duck that almost foiled their plan to elope.