{"id":2362,"date":"2010-07-05T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=2362"},"modified":"2010-07-05T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T22:17:25","slug":"growing-up-on-pig-basket-creek-and-in-turkey-swamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/stories\/growing-up-on-pig-basket-creek-and-in-turkey-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up on Pig Basket Creek and in Turkey Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Told by Garland Strickland of Philadelphia Community, Nash County, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garland Edward Strickland, Jr. [8 November 1915 – 1 June 2003]
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Submitted by:\u00a0 Margaret Stickland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Posted: 5 July 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph, Ada Mae and myself grew up on Pig Basket Creek and in Turkey Swamp.\u00a0 Most of the things we did were in that swamp.\u00a0 In today\u2019s world, they would be considered dangerous I suppose.<\/p>\n

I remember once my Uncle Charlie lived next door to us.\u00a0 One year, Uncle Charlie told us that if we would keep the suckers out of his tobacco that he would take us to the picture show every Saturday night.\u00a0 He gave us a quarter apiece every weekend to go to the show.\u00a0 We had ten cents for the show and five cents for popcorn, and there was a whole dime that we could splurge on.\u00a0 We would see things that happened in the picture show, and when we came home, we would try them.<\/p>\n

I remember once we saw Tarzan swinging through the trees from one tree to another.\u00a0 When we came home, we decided we would try that.\u00a0 So we climbed up a pine tree with the intention of swinging to another pine tree.\u00a0 Well, for some reason \u2013 probably because they were younger and smaller \u2013 Joseph and Ada Mae went across fine, but when I swung across, the top broke out of the receiving pine tree and I fell to the ground.\u00a0 They carried me to the house and put me to bed and told Mama that I didn\u2019t want no supper, that I wasn\u2019t feeling too good.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how long I stayed unconscious, but I am told that is the reason that I\u2019m not real bright.<\/p>\n

Once we saw Tom Mix ride a buckin\u2019 bronco.\u00a0 We came home and decided we would ride our old goat.\u00a0 Loving our little sister so much, we let her try it first.\u00a0 Well, the goat threw her off.\u00a0 We tied her feet under his belly so he coundn\u2019t throw her off.\u00a0 Ada Mae rode that goat!<\/p>\n

Then we saw them racing horses around a track with a cart, so we built us a cart and hitched the goat to it.\u00a0 We loved our little sister, Ada Mae, so much that we let her drive the cart first.\u00a0 We put her in the cart and gave her the reins.\u00a0 That goat took off for the woods, flying.<\/p>\n

About an hour later our little sister came walking back.\u00a0 The goat came back, but we never did find that cart.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how we got our fun.<\/p>\n

From: stories taken and recorded by the Nash County Arts Council Oral History Project. \u00a0Published in THE CONNECTOR in the Winter 2000 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Told by Garland Strickland of Philadelphia Community, Nash County, NC Garland Edward Strickland, Jr. [8 November 1915 – 1 June 2003] Submitted by:\u00a0 Margaret Stickland Posted: 5 July 2010 Joseph, Ada Mae and myself grew up on Pig Basket Creek…<\/p>\n

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