Naomi Trammel talks about entertainment in the mill village
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Naomi Trammel talks about entertainment in the mill village.
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ALLEN TULLOS:
When you-all were back at the Victor Mill in Greer, what kind of things would you do for entertainment or recreation? They had baseball—NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
They had just had ball games, you know, and box suppers, and things like that. It’s about all they had.ALLEN TULLOS:
Do you remember any musicians in the community? Any people that played guitars or fiddles, or had dances in people’s houses?NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I used to go to dances at Henry Greer’s, he was a real dancer. Henry Greer. We’d get up a gang, you know. Garvin Sellers, he was the manager of the ball team, and he’d get up crowd of girls, and we’d go to that dance. Well, if Mr. Gwin said I could go, I’d go. And if he felt that I shouldn’t go, he’d find out who was going. Well, he’d tell ‘em, and that’d be the last of it. And if he said I’d go, I’d go.ALLEN TULLOS:
What would happen at a dance?NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
Well, they’d just dance, you know.ALLEN TULLOS:
At somebody’s house.NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
At somebody’s house. That the only place they had, you know, then. They didn’t never go to the halls for dances.ALLEN TULLOS:
And people would move the furniture out of the room?NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
Yeah. [laughter] In living room. Just clear it up, you know, and have a dance. We wouldn’t only go to Henry Greer’s, we’d go to other places too. If it was all right. But we’d all go in gangs.ALLEN TULLOS:
Would there be a fiddle player, a guitar player, banjo?NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
Yeah. Yeah, fiddle player. Yeah, just ordinary music, you know, like country people have.
