Where I'm from......

pajama · 09-17-2010, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by dixielady

We have an "old timey day" kinda thing that will be happening next weekend. (There's also one in the spring.) I guarantee that there will be butter churning, soap making, quilting and many other various "old timey" things going on. And that most all of the folks will be dressed in period costumes...

How funny. Our Old Timers Day is this weekend. Wonder if it's like in September all over the country? Or just the south? hmmmm

dixie · 09-17-2010, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by pajara2

How funny. Our Old Timers Day is this weekend. Wonder if it's like in September all over the country? Or just the south? hmmmm

Hmmm... I don't know...

Here's something that my county's website says:
"As you drive the back roads of Yancey County, you will find such quaint names as Bee Log, Hardscrabble, Pig Pen, Possum Trot and Rabbit Hop. Old mountain ways mingle with the new. We are firmly rooted in the past and growing toward the future. A great way of life and a wonderful place to live."

dixie · 09-17-2010, 05:40 AM

I just flipped a page on the county website. It was the genealogy of the county. They only have two family names listed. Mine is one of them. That's just slightly creepy in some odd way. *insert banjo music here*

Jess · 09-17-2010, 06:35 AM

Next weekend is our county fair.They have renamed it the county "cultural" fair. This area is deeply ( DEEPLY) rooted in self sufficiency and many of the cultural history aspects are definitely centered around things that involved homemaking and preserving.
This area is also very rich in its history of music making. We are on the Crooked Road, and chock full of bluegrass musicians and "old timey gospel".

We're actually looking forward to going and meeting some of our older community because they are a dying breed. With all of the good and bad aspects of previous generations, we are losing them.

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