“Sleep Walker or Not” by Bea Griffin as
printed in Special Memories: A collection
of stories by Chowan County Extension Homemakers
When I was 11 or 12 years old my mother made me a pretty new
dress of blue and white gingham with a white peter pan collar. After 50-some
years I can still see it. Looking forward to wearing it to school the next day,
I carefully pressed it with the old flat iron, then hung it on the back of a
chair in the bedroom we three girls shared.
When I awoke all excited the next morning and reached for my
dress it had disappeared overnight. Knowing my sister Delsie was a sleep
walker, I pulled the covers from her, and sure enough, there she lay with my
pretty new dress all wrinkled.
So really, was she sleep walking or was it jealousy? I guess
I’ll never know. You be the judge.
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“Remembrances” by
Marie Evans as printed in Special
Memories: A collection of stories by Chowan County Extension Homemakers
I remember going out to the barn in the cold to milk the
cow. And making butter by shaking the cream in a fruit jar.
I remember picking cotton in the fall.
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