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"AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS"
AT BROYLES CHAPEL
It's hard now to imagine life without T.V., picture shows, radios,
automobiles, airplanes, discos, and all the other things that have come
into being in the last eighty years, but those who lived in the days before
we had them managed to live and be happy.
I grew up in the neighborhood of Broyles Chapel five miles west of
Palestine, Texas. I had a sister, Imogene, who was my companion through
it all, so it's "We".
We did have telephones. It was a very localized system. The switchboard
was in some neighbor's home. The last place I remember was that of
Mr. Joe Lewis.
The phone was a big brown box on the wall, with a side crank to call
out. Each subscriber had an assigned code. Our ring was two longs and a
short. Eavesdropping was a well-known, but never admitted, form of entertainment,
especially when there was a widow romancing.
The social life of any rural community is very strongly influenced
by the seasons. The reason, of course, being that the season determines
the.amount of leisure time and energy left for "gettin' together."
So I shall first follow around the calendar with the Big Days of my
life.
Sundays
We had Sunday School every Sunday and church or "singing" every Sunday
night. And then, the Sunday was the visiting for children. Some of
my friends went home with me every Sunday from Sunday School and stayed
till "night services", or else I went home with them. My sister did the
same with her girl chums. If for any reason we were at home on Sunday
afternoon without company then we felt lonesome. The wind just blew differently
around the chimney - or if it were a hot summer day the dirt
dauber whined out a more melancholy strumming as he plastered his mud
house behind the window facing or up in the "loft". Because Sunday was
just different from a week day.
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Anderson County Genealogical Society. The Tracings, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1985, periodical, 1985-01~; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth37984/m1/4/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Anderson County Genealogical Society.