Photo: Children's Picnic sponsored by the Senior Sewing and Saving Club, 1949

I. Music

In the past, people often gathered at each other's house for 'suppers.' The children would be put to bed and the adults would play cards and dance. One blues guitarist, 'Mister Temple,' played at many of the suppers. Other musicians played the harmonica and tambourine. The piano, harp, fiddle, and pan pipes were other favorite instruments.

Will and Bill Buford also played for community celebrations and picnics. They played the drums and cane pipe."

II. Crafts

Sultan Rogers has been recognized as a folk artist for his many woodcarvings which include people, animals, snakes, and canes.
Basketry is a traditional craft that has disappeared from the community. Some recall split-oak baskets. Mr. Sweeny of Spring Hill once made baskets from honeysuckle."

III. Quilting

Allean Pearson began quilting when she was six years old. She would beg scraps from her mother or use flour sacks to make dresses for her dolls. Her first quilts were basket quilts, later she mastered the art of the Double T, and then the Rose, Trip Around the World, Rattlesnake, and Eight Pointed Star. Today she is an expert in the Cathedral Window quilt, a difficult quilt with small pieces and folds.
Early in the twentieth century, Lucretia Wiggins of Taylor quilted also. With her friends and neighbors, they formed a 'quilting bee.'"