Memory Lane - Mary Alice Puckett is the d/o Mary Augusta Myers & Eddie Clarence Puckett, gd/o Sarah Ann Jobe and Simpson Myers & gt gd/o Edward J. Jobe and Isabell Fincher http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/letters_copple_myers.html Part 2 (see graduation photo on link above) 1940's After I graduated from high school and eventually went to work in Wichita I still came home on weekends every chance I got. We always raised some garden and in summer Mom canned everything she could. Dad built a big cabinet in the back bedroom that Mom called �The Peach Cubbard�. We bought 3 bushel of peaches every year. I sat and peeled peaches till my hands shriveled from being wet all the time and peach juice ran down my arms and dripped of my elbows. We canned chicken which we killed and plucked and cut up nite before. We usually did about 9 at a time. I got to the point after a chicken canning session I couldn�t stand the sight of a piece of fried chicken. Mom also made picklelilli, peach marmalade, jellies, strawberry preserves, chow chow and etc. She never had any luck canning peas or corn, it always �Went Bad� on her, and when anything �Went Bad� you could smell it every time you walked by the �Peach Cubbard� (chicken pew!) so Dad made racks out of old window screens and cheese cloth and dried corn and peas. One time he bought corn and made hominy, it turned out ok. One time he made sour kraut, it �Went Bad�. He used to make hot tamales, bar-b-cue sauce, etc. He used to make the bar-b-cue sauce they used during the county fair. He had a big lard can he sat on the stove on the porch. He poured gals of tomato sauce, packages of brown sugar, etc. The one ingredient that really made an impression me (a 12 year old) was a whole pound of butter. This was still �Hard Time Years� and whole pound of butter at once? Freida (Null) Wells d/o Mary Alice (Puckett) Null, Hoskins