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Do you Remember when?
- Bathing in a galvanized tub by the woodstove.
- Washing clothes by the creek.
- Using feather beds as cover on the beds in winter.
- Sleeping with all the windows and doors open during the summer months.
- Hearing the katydids, whippoorwills and crickets at night as you walked a country road during the summer.
- Can you remember Malmaw fixing that breakfast?
- Warming your front side by the fireplace.
- Remember Pal Paw fixing the fire for the long night?
- Making sling-shots out of rubber inner tubes, shoe tongues.
- Rolling a barrel rim or hoop with metal wire for hours.
- Riding the horse drawn hay sled and having Pal paw stack the hay on the sled.
- Going to the outside toilet no matter what the weather.
- Using the Sears catalog for paper . . .in the outhouse.
- No indoor plumbing or electricity until we were almost grown.
- Sitting on the porch.
- Playing cards on the porch.
- Putting the card table away when the preacher came by.
- Uncle George dressing up like a woman.
- Being scared from listening to ghost stories and mad dog tales and Malmaw getting fun from the telling.
- All baptizings were in the river.
- Trading at the Balkan company store with scrip.
- Getting paid a dollar a day to take in the hay, hoe corn and pick beans.
- Remember how dark the nights were on the Creek?
- Hulling walnuts and the black stain having to wear off our fingers.
- Remember when the road crossed Hances Creek several times from Page to Malmaws & Palpaws.
- Remember when the Creek was so clear, large number of minnows, and other creatures lived in it?
- Remember crossing the Creek on rocks?
- Remember Raub hole below the old Schoolhouse?
- Remember when electricity and telephone came up the Creek.
- Can you remember what it was like before that?
- More dirt roads than paved ones.
- Highway 25 was the main north-south road from Pineville to Michigan.
- Going to the movies at the Bell Theatre.
- Going to all day church meetings and dinner on the ground.
- Remember when there were long church services and there were as many people outside as in?
- Remember walking to Aunt Carrie and Susies for Pop?
- Remember foot logs across the Creek.
- Remember gathering at Malmaws and Palpaws?
- Remember walking to their house and smelling the Coal sulfur in the air?
- Carrying lunch to school in a four-pound lard bucket.
- How about picking Blackberries and putting them in that lard bucket?
- Everyone drinking from the same dipper.
- How about getting your drinking water from the stream behind the house?
- Hearing a hen cackle in the springtime.
- Watching a chicken run around the yard after its head was wrung off.
- Flagging down a Greyhound Bus along the Harlan road.
- Not being afraid to pick up a hitchhiker.
- Neatly patched kids clothes.
- Remember Palpaw repairing shoes?
- The smell of bed sheets dried in the sun.
- Lard rendered from hog fat.
- Have you ever seen a hog hung from a tree to prepare the meat?
- How about a car beening clean in the River?
- Half gallon canning jars.
- Wood floors scrubbed with lye soap.
- Smell of fresh greens cooking on the stove.
- Fly swat made from screen wire or rubber inner tube.
- Old fashioned church fans.
- Setting up with the dead.
- Playing in the creek, catching tadpoles, crawfish and frogs.
- How about seeing boys saining for minnows in the creek?
- Corn shocks and pulled fodder. Pumpkins on the ground.
- Having to cut your own willow switch and getting a harder switching if it was too spindly.
- Sears and Roebuck catalog for toilet tissue.
- Smell of fresh sawdust.
- Remember Charles shooting Clifford with a BB gun as he bend over to pick up coal.
- Remember Malmaw telling tales to Clifford and having Leon scare him from the Porch?
- Remember the Pineville flood and Clifford taking Aunt Carrie and Suzies TV up to your old house with his pickup bed door down?
- Having cornbread and sweet milk for supper.
- Hand shelling corn to feed the chickens.
- Picking up potatoes from fresh-dug soil.
- Eating potatoes fried on a wood cook stove top.
- Do you remember Palpaw starting the cook stove with kindling?
- Do you remember Palpaw getting coal from the Coal House and bringing it in a coal bucket across the walkbridge?
- The cold wood floor as you ran barefoot to dress behind the wood stove.
- Local cut Cedar Christmas trees with paper chains and bubble lights.
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