[AT] Culverts

[charlie hill]

David,  my father used to tell me about going with his dad to sell tobacco 
in Greenville, NC.  It was about 25 or 30 miles.  They went by horse or mule 
drawn wagon.  It took the whole day to
get there and unload.  The next day they sold the tobacco on the auction and 
got paid in cash.  He said they always went armed with a shotgun because 
there were bandits on the road.  This would
have been in the 1920 to 1930 era.

Pretty much the same story as yours except location and being armed.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Bruce
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:32 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts

We are losing those local expressions for better or worse.

My grandpa used to tell me of driving a horse drawn wagon to the tobacco
market - one day done, the market and one day back.  These days I can
follow the same route in half an hour (and come close by Spencer's).

In those day this area was very isolated.  Today in 15 minutes I can be
at Hanes Mall Blvd.

David
NW NC




On 3/25/2012 8:02 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> David and I live pretty close, but I haven't heard trunk.   Not yet 
> anyway!  I will say that around here culvert often seems to refer to the 
> whole drainage project, the "pipe" is a tile.  Like:  "They put a new tile 
> in the culvert".
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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