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460. Phyllis Reason Bruce - 2009-06-08 09:41:51 |
| I went to kindergarten at Dunson with Miss Traylor being the teacher...Skipped around the circle thousands of times and played in the band with stick’s and symbles and such...My Aunt Alice Reason Worley took over when Miss Traylor retired as teacher and still has the instruments at her house....Such precious memories of my family on Dunson Villege #5 Cary Street nest door to the Walter Lynch’s...We then moved out in the country on Young’s Mill Road...My Daddy worked as loom fixer and started to work at the mill very young and worked there until his death in 1965...I took Piano lessons from Miss Traylor on the small piano at the kindergarten...Such precious memories... |
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459. Joe Thrower - 2009-06-07 19:13:59 |
Hey guy’s, Remember the old "flying Jenny" or some call it "Spinning Jenny"? This took a lot of construction genious to build and could be very dangerous. I’d like to propose a challenge just for some one to explain how it was built and operated.
Joe Thrower |
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458. Jake Thrower - 2009-06-06 21:04:08 |
WYNETTE, WE WOULD NEVER HAVE COME TO DIXIE TO SHOOT OUT STREET LIGHTS---THE BOYS THERE SHOT BACK!! USING REAL BULLETS.
ACTUALLY, MOST OF THE BOYS IN DIXIE WERE JUST LIKE THE DUNSON BOYS, SOME GOOD AND SOME SEMI-GOOD. YOUR BROTHER, THEO, WAS ONE OF THE VERY GOOD ONES. |
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457. Wynette Wright Little - 2009-06-06 18:20:31 |
So Jake--are you saying you boys from Dunson came over to Dixie to shoot out our streetlights??? Oh, well -- I’ll bet it was fun!
Homemade toys -- you bet. I wasn’t very creative but my older sister Ann would rummage around in daddy’s shop in the backyard and come up with all sorts of things. I particularly remember her making "stilts" and some kind of wooden go cart. Think she stole the wheels from an old bicycle we had. I remember she painted it but can’t remember the color. She made a skate board before we ever heard of skateboards! Daddy made spinning tops out of mother’s old spools of thread. Anne Stephens and I used to play with paper dolls and we made "furniture" for them to sit on -- out of tissue (Kleenex or toilet tissue).  |
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456. Gene Phillips - 2009-06-04 08:11:45 |
| Yes, and how about those cotton-molly balls made by winding yarn around wadded up newspapers? |
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455. Edith Bennett Hale - 2009-06-03 16:08:50 |
| Thanks for adding the gospel CD, I really enjoyed it. I love gospel music. Squire and I use to go to gospel singings on our dates. We still go to them. Edith |
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454. BOBBY L. COX - 2009-06-02 18:49:28 |
| DON’T FORGET COW PASTER BALL GAMES WITH DRIED COW PADDIES FOR BASES. |
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453. - 2009-05-31 19:58:02 |
| June it was good to hear from you again. I remember all the toys we use to make. One was a walkie talkie. Larry Sanders, my cousin, and I use to make them out of cans and string. We also made pea shooters. I can’t think of anything else now. All I know is we always had lots of fun on the village. Edith |
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452. CHARLIE A FARRAR - 2009-05-29 15:47:24 |
We used to get bamboo or a piece of copper tubing and make pea shooters. Shoot berries off shrubs, they would make a red mark on you when you get hit. Hurt too.
Don’t look for my articles much in the LaGrange paper. The editor is VERY selective on her choosing. She culls more than she prints but its her paper.
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451. Gene Tanner - 2009-05-28 20:31:20 |
Hi June, I remember the rubber guns we would cut out and wrap a cloth pin to hold the rubber bands from the red rubber tubes and they would hurt when you was shot with one,do remember the pop guns made from willow tree limbs and the chinberries plus one I always enjoys was the tractors make with a spool,rubber band,match stick.June I hope Joyce is doihg better I do think about you guys alot and keep you in prayers.
Gene Tanner(Hope to see Oct. |
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