Growing Up in Davie County, North Carolina

by Moore, Jamie W.

• ISBN13: 9781596290792
• ISBN10: 159629079X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

For those who find themselves reminiscing of times past when life seemed less complicated, let William Jamie Moore take you back in time to an era in small-town America when crime was almost nonexistent, your backyard acted as the grocery store, charity wasn't an obligation; when life generally moved at a much slower pace. In Growing Up in Davie County, Moore offers us an unusually candid and incredibly detailed window on to small-town life in North Carolina in the early decades of the twentieth century. Through the wide eyes of a child, we're transported back to a simpler, pastoral world that existed all over America not so very long ago. At times informative, at times moving and on occasion side-splittingly hilarious, this collection of stories is a must for anyone who can appreciate the joy of growing up in a friendly, close-knit community.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 11
January 1988: An introduction	p. 13
Childhood	p. 17
The election	p. 18
I was born in 1902	p. 19
The picture	p. 21
Grandmother	p. 22
Water	p. 23
North Main Street house	p. 24
The mountain	p. 27
The Old Court House	p. 30
The bank robbery	p. 34
Mocksville	p. 35
Animals we owned or not	p. 41
Preaching to the pigs	p. 42
Marbles	p. 43
Mr. Young	p. 44
Mama and the player piano	p. 46
Eternity	p. 47
The matches	p. 47
The monkey and the balloon	p. 48
Oil for our lamps	p. 50
Trip to Grandma's and Stroud's Mill	p. 51
The chicken hawk	p. 57
The goose	p. 58
The weasel	p. 61
Trip to the barbershop	p. 63
As a small boy	p. 65
Christmas	p. 66
The popgun	p. 70
Charging the candy	p. 71
First year in school	p. 72
Second grade ghosts	p. 74
Mr. Young's world	p. 75
Halley's comet	p. 77
Ride the delivery wagon	p. 78
No shoes this summer	p. 79
Measuring the wheat	p. 81
Learning geography	p. 81
First train ride	p. 82
Taking the cow to pasture	p. 86
Jim Smith, house painter	p. 87
Big garden vegetables	p. 87
Little garden flowers	p. 90
The apple tree	p. 90
Flexible flyer	p. 93
The sawing engine	p. 95
Sausage and ham	p. 97
Mr. Hilery, RFD	p. 99
Fishing with the lure	p. 100
A boy's world at ten	p. 102
The flexible barn	p. 105
Threshing the wheat	p. 105
Youth	p. 111
The bicycle	p. 112
Sell the stove, cut the cake	p. 114
How to save five dollars	p. 116
Our calf can run	p. 118
Bob Wilson's beef wagon	p. 119
Milk the cow	p. 120
The secret	p. 122
Mr. Grant and the segar	p. 122
Learning to whistle	p. 123
Loop the loop	p. 124
Four men in a car	p. 125
The Chautauqua	p. 126
Swicegood car ride	p. 128
The cotton patch	p. 130
Amy's Christmas car	p. 133
The first Ford	p. 135
The new ground	p. 141
Mama's ducks	p. 143
Snook	p. 144
The Boy Scouts and Grace Harlowe	p. 148
Growing up	p. 151
Summer paint job	p. 152
The rooster crowed in Mocksville	p. 156
Mr. Hooper's cow	p. 157
Trip to the conference	p. 158
Baseball	p. 159
Basketball	p. 160
The furniture factory	p. 161
Bringing Clara back from college	p. 166
The chair factory	p. 168
The Mocksville picnic	p. 170
The Great War at home	p. 174
Great War realities	p. 176
Aftermath	p. 179
High school graduation	p. 179
The presentation	p. 182
Afterword: 1992: Reflections on age	p. 183
Grandpa's study	p. 186
Notes	p. 187
About the editor	p. 191
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