Elva Templeton: You weren't allowed to play cards. You were liable to be turned out from church for playing cards or dancing. Our Sunday school teachers had parties during the year, pulling candy and ice cream suppers. Pulled candy was made with sugar, water and flavoring. It was cooked to a certain stage, and then you pulled it. You let it cool first or you'd burn your hands. Sometimes two of you would work together pulling the same piece until it was brittle. Then you cut it off to certain lengths.

Esther Ivey: We had hayrides up to the High House, which was supposed to be haunted. Boys and girls climbed in back of a wagon filled with hay pulled by a horse. One of the more dependable boys drove the wagon. We did not have streetlights; we had lanterns. When I'd go off to a party with my brothers, my father insisted on us taking a lantern because we lived on the edge of town. They'd hide the lantern and then pick it up when we went back home.

Robert Godbold: We played ball and games. We had Scout meetings in the basement at the Baptist Church. We went up to the ball field and played Capture the Flag. We were boys. We got into mischief, but we didn't destroy things. One of the worst things we'd do was knock on somebody's door and run.

Mary Crowder: I was in the Girl Scouts. Miss Lilly Gray was our first Scout leader, and we had a very good, active troop. One time we hiked almost down to Hemlock Bluffs. We had picnics. We met once a week and worked on badges. During World War II, we collected bacon grease and lard for the war effort.

Margaret Travis: Mr. Vic Council had a sawmill in Green Level. My friend was his niece. Mr. Vic would shave curls off a plank of wood. I had straight hair and wanted curls so much. My friend and I would put the wood shavings in our hair for curls. That sawmill had a huge sawdust pile. We would climb the sawdust pile and slide down. It was hard to get to the top because you'd sink down into it. We'd climb to the top, then roll down that sawdust pile.