Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
cross questions and crooked answers noun phrase A guessing game played in some Smokies homes in the 1930s and observed…
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Playing Snap Dragon at Christmas
I was trying to enlighten and educate Chatter with some newly discovered Christmas knowledge I recently acquired when she gave…
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The Joy of a Swing
Veler Marcus: Daddy would make us rope swings. Tie a rope in a loop on a limb in the yard…
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Memories of Swinging on Grapevines
The other day I noticed a grapevine just at the top edge of a long slopping bank deep in the…
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Courtship Games – Do Kids Still Play Them?
Courtship games from The Frank C. Brown Collection North Carolina Folklore A boy and a girl stand at one side of…
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Bread n Butter and Posts
Blind Pig reader Hazel Carr, sent me the following question after reading the childhood game posts I’ve been sharing. “Do…
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The Magic of Marbles
Today’s guest post was written by Jim Casada. Jim Casada Copyright 2016 THE MAGIC OF MARBLES During the halcyon days…
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Playground Games
Angie and Tipper Martins Creek School had plenty of outside places to play other than the playground. There were several…
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Mumbly Peg
Mumbly peg is a game I’ve seen boys and sometimes men play during my lifetime. I was always to afraid…
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Marble Games
I’ve always loved marbles, not necessary to play with, just to hold in my hand and look at. I remember…
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Swinging
Tipper and Paul I couldn’t end the childhood games and songs without talking about swinging. I spent untold hours swinging…
