----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Daniels" <margie@majorinternet.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:45 AM Subject: [Crawford County] Room and board > An apprentice would journey to another village to learn more about his craft > (journeyman). There he would pay someone for his room, and food for his > board. > Julia says: More to the point, the term "board" comes from the eating table. > Before power tools, it was a great and lengthy effort to make smooth-hewn > tables; people would make do with as few pieces as possible. Usually a table > was just one board, sometimes two, set on trestles, making a long narrow > surface to eat from. Coming to dinner was called "coming to the board," a > table cloth was referred to as "board clothes," and when hired help or an > apprentice came to stay, they paid in cash or service for their room (where > they slept) and their "board" (what they ate). Note: the American colonials > hated making boards suitable for tables so much that they often used split > apart shipping crates; there are still examples to be found which have the > painted names of the master of the house and the shipping agent/company on > the underside. > > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > I am a Southern Woman with revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought are my birthright. Rose O'Neal Greenhow Heroine of the Confederacy > >