Monday's edition of the Winston-Salem Journal (Piedmont area of NC), Memorial Day, 31 May will feature a story about my website honoring our heroes who "gave all" for our freedom. http://www.kenbrown.info/stokes/ Wishing all the Floyd group a safe Memorial Day weekend, and never forget the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice upholding freedom and democracy. Ken

Congratulations on the site, it is so well done. Joyce in CA -----Original Message----- From: vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ken & Margo Brown Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:31 AM To: VAFLOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VAFLOYD] Not Genealogy - My Website Honor Roll Monday's edition of the Winston-Salem Journal (Piedmont area of NC), Memorial Day, 31 May will feature a story about my website honoring our heroes who "gave all" for our freedom. http://www.kenbrown.info/stokes/ Wishing all the Floyd group a safe Memorial Day weekend, and never forget the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice upholding freedom and democracy. Ken To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Week 22: Spend some time at Find-a-Grave. Most of you have probably heard of Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/) and probably used it in your own research as well. The challenge this week is to simply browse this web site. Just click links. Look at the different ways the information is sorted. Study the tributes of others and see if there are ways you can improve your own entries. Don’t do any research of your own, simply study the efforts of others. If you have a genealogy blog, share your impressions of Find-a-Grave and any interesting entries you found at the web site. 52 Weeks To Better Genealogy is a series of weekly prompts that are a bit more challenging and are geared towards those new to the field of genealogy and family history as well as those who want to brush up on some skills which might be a bit rusty. We'll list a new challenge each Saturday which should be completed by the following Friday. And remember these should be fun exercises! Don't feel that you have to participate each week, nor should you beat yourself up if you miss one or more challenges. We all have so much that we want to accomplish - let alone what we want to accomplish with our genealogy blogs. This series should be one which, by the end of 2010, helps you to be a better genealogist. Thanks to Amy Coffin of We Tree (http://wetree.blogspot.com/) for the inspiration!

Bonnie, Mom called it "wilted lettuce". ----- "Bonnie Moore" <bmooreandbillmoore@hotmail.com> wrote: > My granny use to take lettuce and onions, Mix oil with bits of bacon, add a little vinegar to give taste and sugar, bring to a boil and pour over lettuce and onions. Yummy.... We planted about four rows of October Beans and would shell them and granny would can them, made some great eatings with cornbread. Daddy always took cornbread and crumbled it up in buttermilk. He really liked that. All this talk has bought back some awsome childhood memories. > > Bonnie > > > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:23:53 -0400 > > From: cdhbruce@cox.net > > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy...food... > > > > Hi, Paul, > > We used to have such a salad a couple of times in the spring, when the > > lettuce was young and tender. Pick and wash a bowlful of new leafy > > lettuce, slice up some onions and add to the lettuce, fry up some bacon > > 'til crisp and crumble it in with the greens, and drizzle the hot bacon > > grease over the salad and serve right away. Not my favorite salad, but > > not my least favorite, either. Gosh, it's been many years since I've had > > it... and it's spring... hmmm... > > > > Is that the way your wife's folks fix it? > > > > Hope all is well with y'all, > > > > Carolyn HALE BRUCE > > Virginia Beach, VA > > > > To contact Listowner: > > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > >

yeah granny called it scalded > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:05:18 +0000 > From: ayfudad2@comcast.net > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy...food... > > Bonnie, > > Mom called it "wilted lettuce". > > ----- "Bonnie Moore" <bmooreandbillmoore@hotmail.com> wrote: > > My granny use to take lettuce and onions, Mix oil with bits of bacon, add a little vinegar to give taste and sugar, bring to a boil and pour over lettuce and onions. Yummy.... We planted about four rows of October Beans and would shell them and granny would can them, made some great eatings with cornbread. Daddy always took cornbread and crumbled it up in buttermilk. He really liked that. All this talk has bought back some awsome childhood memories. > > > > Bonnie > > > > > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:23:53 -0400 > > > From: cdhbruce@cox.net > > > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy...food... > > > > > > Hi, Paul, > > > We used to have such a salad a couple of times in the spring, when the > > > lettuce was young and tender. Pick and wash a bowlful of new leafy > > > lettuce, slice up some onions and add to the lettuce, fry up some bacon > > > 'til crisp and crumble it in with the greens, and drizzle the hot bacon > > > grease over the salad and serve right away. Not my favorite salad, but > > > not my least favorite, either. Gosh, it's been many years since I've had > > > it... and it's spring... hmmm... > > > > > > Is that the way your wife's folks fix it? > > > > > > Hope all is well with y'all, > > > > > > Carolyn HALE BRUCE > > > Virginia Beach, VA > > > > > > To contact Listowner: > > > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > > > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > > To contact Listowner: > > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > > > > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5

My granny use to take lettuce and onions, Mix oil with bits of bacon, add a little vinegar to give taste and sugar, bring to a boil and pour over lettuce and onions. Yummy.... We planted about four rows of October Beans and would shell them and granny would can them, made some great eatings with cornbread. Daddy always took cornbread and crumbled it up in buttermilk. He really liked that. All this talk has bought back some awsome childhood memories. Bonnie > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:23:53 -0400 > From: cdhbruce@cox.net > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy...food... > > Hi, Paul, > We used to have such a salad a couple of times in the spring, when the > lettuce was young and tender. Pick and wash a bowlful of new leafy > lettuce, slice up some onions and add to the lettuce, fry up some bacon > 'til crisp and crumble it in with the greens, and drizzle the hot bacon > grease over the salad and serve right away. Not my favorite salad, but > not my least favorite, either. Gosh, it's been many years since I've had > it... and it's spring... hmmm... > > Is that the way your wife's folks fix it? > > Hope all is well with y'all, > > Carolyn HALE BRUCE > Virginia Beach, VA > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4

Hi, Paul, We used to have such a salad a couple of times in the spring, when the lettuce was young and tender. Pick and wash a bowlful of new leafy lettuce, slice up some onions and add to the lettuce, fry up some bacon 'til crisp and crumble it in with the greens, and drizzle the hot bacon grease over the salad and serve right away. Not my favorite salad, but not my least favorite, either. Gosh, it's been many years since I've had it... and it's spring... hmmm... Is that the way your wife's folks fix it? Hope all is well with y'all, Carolyn HALE BRUCE Virginia Beach, VA

Now I love wilted lettuce - my mother always has it when the lettuce from the garden starts coming in - and my hubby likes it.. but it is just the lettuce & onion and bacon and just some of the bacon grease poured over it - enough to "wilt it" and you do have to eat soon as it is fixed as it doesn't taste that good when the grease gets cold... Sharon On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:23 PM, paul <pogoat2@webtv.net> wrote: > My wife and all of her family have a dish that they are crazy > about...they call it scalded lettuce and onions.... > > I have never cultivated a taste for it, but understand that it is a > favorite in Floyd Co. > Paul > > keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

William, thanks for the information. That's all news to me and very interesting. Thats amazing how far they will climb. Reminds me of a passion vine my husband planted. It has gotten in all the trees and bushes. it wraps around the limbs and almost impossible to get them out. The bad part is the vine goes under ground also and sprouts up all over. If you try to pull one up it breaks off. The only good thing about the passion flower is it smells so nice and has a very pretty blossom. It's saidto have the appearance of Christ's wounds and crown of thorns. Lois

Mary Anne....yes, it is made that way...they say you have to eat it pretty quick after scalding it with the grease....Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul

My wife and all of her family have a dish that they are crazy about...they call it scalded lettuce and onions.... I have never cultivated a taste for it, but understand that it is a favorite in Floyd Co. Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul

Do they make it with bacon bits and grease, heated to a boil with vinegar, then poured over the lettuce? My mother used to fix this and I have never got it right. I think there really is a knack to making it. My lettuce either gets soggy, or is coated with grease. It has been many years since I even tried making it. Mom's family came out of PA. and KY. --- On Wed, 5/26/10, paul <pogoat2@webtv.net> wrote: From: paul <pogoat2@webtv.net> Subject: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy...food... To: VAFLOYD@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 10:23 PM My wife and all of her family have a dish that they are crazy about...they call it scalded lettuce and onions.... I have never cultivated a taste for it, but understand that it is a favorite in Floyd Co. Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear List, Just a reminder of the Grand Opening of the Floyd County Historical Society Museum on May 29-30. At 1:00 PM Saturday - ribbon cutting. There will be music and refreshments, games for children; Judge Gino Williams will give a history of the museum. There will be an introduction of Charter Members (I believe all both of those living), as well as VIP guests. The museum will be open for you to tour. Ends at 3:00. On May 30, 2:00 - 4:00 PM, the museum will be open and there will be spinning and weaving exhibits outside the museum. At the Harvest Moon parking lot you can see antique tractors and vehicles, and there will be music, as well as ice cream making. The museum phone is 540-745-3247 (FCHM) and the website is floydhistoricalsociety.org "Jist Old Clyde"'s bench will be on the porch. Museum openings are Thursday - Saturday and the hours are on the website. I'm sure if you come from afar to Floyd and wish a tour, we can certainly do that! Until Saturday. Genevieve

What a great way to get the kids to shell the beans.  When mine were small we lived in Virginia Beach and when the ice cream truck was heard nearby, mine and the neighbor kids would start picking dandelion blooms from our yard.   I paid a penny a bloom and they could get a popcicle for a nickel.  In their hurry, they would pick handfuls.  We had they best looking front yard on the block. Ann ............................. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Belcher" <mflatfooter@swva.net> To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:41:45 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] not geneaology....good visit..... It's great when a topic sparks interest and responses come in from listfolks!  I feel like I just had a visit at the kitchen table with you all! We grew up on pinto beans, dried, that my mother soaked and then boiled...I never knew you could grow them in the garden here, until later in life.  We grew octobers in the garden in the 70's-90's , my daughter grows them today. Octobers are larger, and not as brown in color when cooked, and yes, speckled when shelled out.   When we shelled them out at home  the one who got a "redder"  one got a dollar..boy did the kids search for the pod that was more crisper, it usually had the darker beans. Hope everyone has a good day!  I've  got to go fix a mater sandwich! > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:33 PM, lois vick <loho5@msn.com> wrote: > >> Jerry,  if I'm not mistaken October beans >> tasted a lot like pintos.  If I recall they were larger than pintos. >> Maybe >> not as good but when we were young and always hungry almost every thing >> tasted good. >> >> My husband grew so many good tomatoes in TN.  We canned over 70 quarts >> and >> moved them to FL.  in October in 1952. >> I don't think we had a good tomato since. >> The ones the stores have now aren't were carrying home. >> >> Paul I can relate to the milk and corn bread. >> Now that's a great treat. >> >> Lois >> >>  To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lois, The "October" and pinto are both of the cranberry bean family. The Octobers are larger and the largest is the Medira cranberry bean which is what we in Floyd and the surrounding mts. call the "Big October" The "big Octobers are beans that have been handed down for many generations and they originally came over to this country from Portugal and Spain. Most people grow the taylor October bean which is a hybrid bush cranberry bean and smaller then the Madera. It is not a runner like the Big October which I have had run as far as ten feet. They have to be on a fence to do well. If not trellised or fenced they will take over a garden. -----Original Message----- From: vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of lois vick Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:34 PM To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com Subject: [VAFLOYD] October Beans Jerry, if I'm not mistaken October beans tasted a lot like pintos. If I recall they were larger than pintos. Maybe not as good but when we were young and always hungry almost every thing tasted good. My husband grew so many good tomatoes in TN. We canned over 70 quarts and moved them to FL. in October in 1952. I don't think we had a good tomato since. The ones the stores have now aren't were carrying home. Paul I can relate to the milk and corn bread. Now that's a great treat. Lois To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's great when a topic sparks interest and responses come in from listfolks! I feel like I just had a visit at the kitchen table with you all! We grew up on pinto beans, dried, that my mother soaked and then boiled...I never knew you could grow them in the garden here, until later in life. We grew octobers in the garden in the 70's-90's , my daughter grows them today. Octobers are larger, and not as brown in color when cooked, and yes, speckled when shelled out. When we shelled them out at home the one who got a "redder" one got a dollar..boy did the kids search for the pod that was more crisper, it usually had the darker beans. Hope everyone has a good day! I've got to go fix a mater sandwich! > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:33 PM, lois vick <loho5@msn.com> wrote: > >> Jerry, if I'm not mistaken October beans >> tasted a lot like pintos. If I recall they were larger than pintos. >> Maybe >> not as good but when we were young and always hungry almost every thing >> tasted good. >> >> My husband grew so many good tomatoes in TN. We canned over 70 quarts >> and >> moved them to FL. in October in 1952. >> I don't think we had a good tomato since. >> The ones the stores have now aren't were carrying home. >> >> Paul I can relate to the milk and corn bread. >> Now that's a great treat. >> >> Lois >> >>

Carolyn, I agree with you 100%.  Those tomato sandwiches with white bread were the best.  My sister and I would do the same as you, take a salt shaker to the garden.  Good memories. Thanks, Ann .......................  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Bruce" <cdhbruce@cox.net> To: maryva2005@yahoo.com, vafloyd@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:49:20 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans Even though we have a "farmers market" in Virginia Beach, I haven't found a palatable fresh tomato in decades. 8~( Sorry, Mary Anne, but I have all but shunned fresh "tomatoes" entirely. What I'd love to have is a sandwich... white bread, mayonnaise, and a half-inch thick slice of a real old-fashioned Beefsteak tomato. My favorite sandwich in the whole world... now extinct. I just hate those pinkish red, white-hearted tomatoes that have been hybridized to be picked without bruising by machines traveling through the fields at five miles an hour. I'm not picky, just old enough to remember when tomatoes were solid red, juicy, thin-skinned warm globes that were never out from under the sun or stars until my sister and I took a salt shaker to the garden and picked and ate 'em! The real thing, they were. Carolyn HALE BRUCE Virginia Beach, VA Mary A. Sutphin wrote: > You all are forgetting to add diced fresh tomatoes to the beans, cornbread and onion. <snip>  To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I like them green for frying :) I love fried green tomatoes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce & Tom" <jthawkin@pacbell.net> To: <vafloyd@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans > There are many tomato fields in this area, they are picked green for > shipping. Sometimes gasses are used to bring out the color. We are lucky > to > get "real" tomatoes during the season. I laugh when I see "vine tomatoes" > advertised. Tomatoes all grow on vines. > > The store tomatoes would come in handy if you want ammunition for cannon > practice. Joyce in CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Carolyn Bruce > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:52 PM > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans > > They don't taste like tomatoes and they haven't the same color, smell, > or consistency of tomatoes, Kat. I think they should call them something > else so people don't start to think that these tasteless things are what > tomatoes are! I call them "ersatz" tomatoes, 'cause they're poor > imitations of real tomatoes, like during WWII, chicory was a poor > substitute for coffee, and "oleo" was a poor substitute for butter. > > Carolyn > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2896 - Release Date: 05/25/10 18:26:00

Jerry, if I'm not mistaken October beans tasted a lot like pintos. If I recall they were larger than pintos. Maybe not as good but when we were young and always hungry almost every thing tasted good. My husband grew so many good tomatoes in TN. We canned over 70 quarts and moved them to FL. in October in 1952. I don't think we had a good tomato since. The ones the stores have now aren't were carrying home. Paul I can relate to the milk and corn bread. Now that's a great treat. Lois

After reading all the emails the last couple of days about beans I decided we needed pintos, cornbread in cast iron skillet, sweet onions and chow-chow for "supper" tonight. Good stuff. Thanks. Alice