Notes On

Notes On

County

Entertainment

On Dancing...

"We had dances all the time, even in horse and huRK>' days." remembers Mrs. Mary Butts Quaintance. "These were the days of the bin jazz hands. We'd no anywhere to a dance - to Culpe|>er, I.uray. Front Koval.

"We had n°nd hands here too, bin dances, .lack Miller arranged them. 1 re member one - Sonny Poster and the Ked Hot Pep|H*rs. We wore evening dresses to the dances. There were always a whole lot of cha|>erones and if there was ever a sinn that a lady had been drinking ■ they'd usher her riiiht out.

"What they'd do was hire a band to play until two. Then, at two. we'd pass the hat and try to pay them to stay longer. There was many a ninht we’d dance all ninht, as loan as w e could afford it.

“And we didn’t have the same partner to dance w ith all ninht. There was always a stan line, men would cut in. We went with our parents there were all anes there. '

On Hiking...

There was a Rappahannock Hiking Club active in the 'sixties, taking organized out inns to such places as Devils’ Stairs and Stony Man. Fed by Forest Warden Raymond .Johnson, some of the nr°llP’s members were Arthur Cheatham, Clarence Wann°iU‘r and Russie

On

Knitting Bees

For the Boys

in Grey...

Durinn the (’iv iI War, younn nii'ls of Rappahannock would n»‘t tonether for knittinn liees: "At first they would all tonether. measure their yarn 1 by their arms...ten, twenty yards at a time, lettinn the loose coils ot yarn (all to the floor beside them. A sinnal would be n'iven "(Jo!"

“Needles benan to fly and the loose yarn would disappeare into a sock for a soldier boy. The one fin ishinn first scored and it was marked up by the score keeper. Time and anain t hey measured their yarn until the day was spent.

"The nirl makinn the hinhest scores w as declared the day's champion. Sometimes she received a prize ...a bin ban of roasted chest nut s.