Edward, A lot of farmers wore straw hats to keep the sun from burning them up. I am sure you have heard the term "redneck", that is the origination of the term redneck. Paul S Boggs Miami, Fl Edward Boggs wrote: > --WebTV-Mail-850142453-764 > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > --WebTV-Mail-850142453-764 > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Message/RFC822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > X-WebTV-Signature: 1 > ETAuAhUAvjUcjOErgv7Egu4V/nZ8E0w0KUsCFQDJN2YBzi90+uBDo5l2gnFReN8z1g== > From: [email protected] (Edward Boggs) > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:27:16 -0500 (EST) > To: [email protected] > Subject: HAT > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) > > When I was about 3 years old, I remember wanting to wear my > grandfather's hat. It was what I would describe as a straw cowboy hat. > Is this something someone would wear on a farm? I believe they were > coalminers though. (He was from Wise Co. and Pennington Gap.) > > --WebTV-Mail-850142453-764-- > > ==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== > Help maintain free access to genealogical information on the Internet in 1999 by supporting Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html/