“I Remember When” by
Delsie Holland, as published in Special
Memories: A collection of stories by Chowan County Extension Homemakers
I remember . . .
Coming home from school so hungry and finding a large pan of
baked sweet potatoes, still warm, in the wood cook stove. (Better for a snack
than a Twinkie.)
My sister Beatrice and I making up our feather bed together.
To get it smooth all over, Bea would take a stick broom, lay it across the bed
and each taking an end and applying a little pressure to the feathers, we would
push it from one end to the other. We finally could get it smooth enough to
meet Mama’s approval.
Our house was swept entirely with a straw broom and our yard
with wax myrtle limbs.
The family gathered around a wood heater and each member,
largest to the smallest of us, had a pan to pop peanuts for seed. Some used a
wooden peanut popper, others just finished up with sore fingers.
The young girls were not allowed to read trash like “True
Confession” and “True Stories,” but what Mama didn’t know (or did she) that we
did read them when they were placed in the outside toilet to be recycled. (It
got might cold out there if the story was real long).
Reading the Burma Shave signs on 17 North when enroute to
Winfall to visit our Grandmama.
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