Ah, I was wondering about the Part Three, not knowing if you mislabeled the parts you were sending or what.... Now I will have even more to read and relish! Lois On Dec 2, 2008, at 12:13 PM, janrobison2@aim.com wrote: > From > > A HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA > > CONTAINING SKETCHES OF PROMINENT FAMILIES > > AND DISTINGUISHED MEN > > WITH AN APPENDIX > > BY REV. JETHRO RUMPLE > > PUBLISHED BY J. J. BRUNER SALISBURY, N. C. > > 1881 > > Copyright DMK Heritage 2004 > > > > The following are excerpts from the above-mentioned book. > > > > Pages 142-143 > > > > Later in the, fall was the time for pulling and shocking the corn. > A huge long heap, > > or straight or crescent-shaped, containing thirty, > > 143 HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY > > fifty, or a hundred loads of corn in the shucks, was piled up in > the barnyard. On a > > given day a boy was sent out to ask hands to come in to the > shucking on a night > > appointed. Fifty hands perhaps, might come just at dark. A rail > would be placed in > > the middle, and the hands divided by two captains who threw up > “cross and pile” > > for first choice of hands. Then came the race, the shouting, the > hurrahing, and the > > singing of corn songs if any negroes were present. And generally a > bottle of brandy > > was circulated several times and was sampled by most of those > present. Quite a > > number would sometimes get excited by the liquor, but it was > considered > > disgraceful to get drunk. Sometimes a fight would occur, especially > if the race was > > a close one. The winning side would try to carry their captain > around the pile in > > triumph, but a well-directed ear of corn, sent by some spiteful > hand on the beaten > > side, would strike a member of the triumphal procession, and thereby b > ad blood > > would be excited, and a promiscuous fight occur. But these were > rare accidents. > > After the corn was shucked, and the shucks put into a pea, came the > shucking > > supper-loaf, biscuits, ham, pork, chicken pie, pumpkin custard, > sweet cakes, apple > > pie, grape pie, coffee, sweet milk, buttermilk, preserves, in short > a rich feast of > > everything yielded by the farm. It required a good digestion to > manage such a feast > > at ten or eleven o’clock at night, but the hardy sons of toil had a > good digestion. Or > > if anything were wanting, a tramp of four or five miles, on an > opossum or coon > > hunt, lasting till one or two o’clock in the morning, would be > sufficient to settle the > > heartiest shucking supper that ever was spread on the farmers’ > tables in bountiful > > Old Rowan County. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROWAN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message