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Granny’s Toothbrush
"Every house had althea. Althea was called Rose of Charon, now hibiscus. Maybe you don't know, but I do: they used the althea for toothbrushes. They'd send you out to get grandmother a toothpick. No one was supposed to see you pick your teeth, but she'd do it just the same and she'd chew the end of it to make a little brush and it did a perfectly wonderful job of cleaning teeth. That's all they had. They didn't have any other kind."
Early Crops
"When the first people came here they naturally tried the crop they grew in the lowlands, the sandy lands: tobacco. We tried tobacco here but it was not very profitable. The land was text strong and the tobacco w as too strong.
"On the Richmond road - it's Route 729 now. but it was actually a road that led to Richmond - people carried tobacco first in great big hogsheads to Falmouth. The hogsheads were wrapped w ith hoops and had hickory wheels and an axle was put through the barrels. Oxen would pull the hogsheads tilled with packed tobacco all the wav to Falmouth and down the road. When the wheels would wear out they had spare wheels they carried along with them. These roads were called "rolling roads."
"They went down with a load of tobacco and came back w ith a load of fish and they salted the fish down and had them for the whole winter."
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