Old Timey Tales

Folksy Tales about Life on the Family Farm
By Jeannie Travis



Memories of a Farmer's Daughter

Making Sorghum Molasses

That Bad Cyclone

Christmas Memories

Mule Day in Weakley County

Oh, Boy, it's the Peddler Man

Washday at our House

Come Eat Breakfast with Us

Lost Crafts, Traditions

Mullein/Smoking Grapevine

Mr. Carson

Burning off the Plant Bed & Wilted Lettuce

Brown Eggs & Ma's Pretty Purple Iris

Stove top Biscuits & "Pone"

Play Parties Back in the Day

Hoop Cheese and Crackers & Oil Cloth on the Table

I Was Ma's Pet, for Sure

Cold Weather's Coming

Making Sausage & Biscuit Puddin'

Remembering Ma's Apron

Daddy Was A Handsome Blue Eyed Man

Spring is Tater 'scrabbling Time & English Peas

A Glass Half Empty & Asthma Dogs, etc.

Before Radio or TV & Aunt Pearl's new "Fridge"

Biscuits & Tea Cakes

Cotton Pickin' Days

Picking Strawberries, etc.

Swinging on Grapevines & Ma's Cistern

Lightning Bugs and Such & Country Sounds

Bones n Rocks in Granny's Soup & Homemade Mincemeat Pie

My Hard Working Mama

"Leather Britches", Beans & Playhouses are for Sissies

Cat Head Biscuits, etc.

Planting Customs Great Grandfather Used

Y'all Set Down for Dinner

Home Made Games & Play Pretties

Happy Easter & Taking Down the Stove

Poke Sallet

Mama Canned a LOT of Food! & Ma's Fried Corn

Swamp Rabbits Tale

My Mama's Chicken 'n Dumplings

Making Fried Pies

Chicken Choker Tales

Picking & Cooking Blackberries

One Room School & We Recycled Tin Cans

Spring Water & Rabbit 'gums, etc







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