In a message dated 10/31/02 7:01:13 PM, Rosamundi4@dragonbbs.com writes: << Yes, I can remember going to particular homes, remembering from the year before that they gave great popcorn balls, cookies, etc. I also remember the throwing of corn and soaping windows of those who didn't answer their door. Here many moons ago, the teenagers would turn old outhouses over, and tie a dummy up over the bridge, nearly every year. Till one year an elderly lady just about wrecked her car over the dummy. Jackie >> Jackie: You brought back memories of those popcorn balls! My mother use to make tons. I wasn't allowed to carry a bar of soap but many little kids in California did and they would soap either windows or screen doors if the door wasn't opened or if nobody was home. My mother said the boys would turn over outhouses around Verden, OK when she was a kid. Also, the young guys would hoist cows on the tops of buildings! One year they put someone's car on the Verden Bank building! The house she was raised in, she and all her sisters and brothers swore, had a haunted attic. They didn't like going up there. They'd hear noises up there at night and a group of them would go up (8 children) and see nothing. Well, one Halloween one of the brothers took a goat up there and closed the door. So, they heard all this noise up there and were scared so badly! My grandma wasn't afraid of the devil himself, so she went up there and opened the door and brought the goat down and out of the house. Mother said "Mama knew John did that and she couldn't wait for him to get home!" Well, my Uncle John got the switch big time! Another time they heard something up there so a group went up and yelled "Come out!" She said a really scary voice said "Okay" so they all ran to the barn and climbed into the loft and looked at the house and nothing was seen. They were ALL together so it wasn't one trying to play a trick on the rest. My grandparents had gone into Verden, about 4 miles from their farm, and when they got home they went looking for the kids, who were all asleep in the barn loft. Sandi

Those are the type of stories I would like to have written down for my family to know someday. Makes the past real, if you know what I mean. Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: <SandKatC@aol.com> To: <MAUPIN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] Halloween > > In a message dated 10/31/02 7:01:13 PM, Rosamundi4@dragonbbs.com writes: > > << Yes, I can remember going to particular homes, remembering from the year > > before that they gave great popcorn balls, cookies, etc. I also remember > > the throwing of corn and soaping windows of those who didn't answer their > > door. > > Here many moons ago, the teenagers would turn old outhouses over, and tie a > > dummy up over the bridge, nearly every year. Till one year an elderly lady > > just about wrecked her car over the dummy. Jackie >> > > Jackie: > > You brought back memories of those popcorn balls! My mother use to make > tons. I wasn't allowed to carry a bar of soap but many little kids in > California did and they would soap either windows or screen doors if the door > wasn't opened or if nobody was home. > > My mother said the boys would turn over outhouses around Verden, OK when she > was a kid. Also, the young guys would hoist cows on the tops of buildings! > One year they put someone's car on the Verden Bank building! > > The house she was raised in, she and all her sisters and brothers swore, had > a haunted attic. They didn't like going up there. They'd hear noises up > there at night and a group of them would go up (8 children) and see nothing. > Well, one Halloween one of the brothers took a goat up there and closed the > door. So, they heard all this noise up there and were scared so badly! My > grandma wasn't afraid of the devil himself, so she went up there and opened > the door and brought the goat down and out of the house. Mother said "Mama > knew John did that and she couldn't wait for him to get home!" Well, my > Uncle John got the switch big time! Another time they heard something up > there so a group went up and yelled "Come out!" She said a really scary > voice said "Okay" so they all ran to the barn and climbed into the loft and > looked at the house and nothing was seen. They were ALL together so it > wasn't one trying to play a trick on the rest. My grandparents had gone into > Verden, about 4 miles from their farm, and when they got home they went > looking for the kids, who were all asleep in the barn loft. > > Sandi > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to > [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to > [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >