The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys & GamesLinda Garland Page, Hilton Smith UNC Press Books, 1993 - 204 páginas Part oral history and part rule book, this is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; of making dolls, homemade board games, playhouses, and other toys -- each with complete instructions and the flavor of southern Appalachia. |
Contenido
OUTSIDE GAMES | 1 |
Getting Started | 3 |
Anty Over | 5 |
Ball Games | 6 |
Base | 9 |
Buck | 11 |
Cracking the Whip | 12 |
Drop the Handkerchief | 14 |
Marbles | 49 |
Mumble Peg | 54 |
Diversions and Entertainments | 61 |
Sundays | 63 |
Holidays | 65 |
Kitchen Games | 67 |
Vaulting and Swinging | 70 |
Pranks and Practical Jokes | 72 |
Fox and Geese | 15 |
Fox and Hounds | 16 |
Red Rover | 17 |
Soup Pot | 18 |
Stealing the Pines | 20 |
Wolf | 21 |
INSIDE GAMES | 23 |
Blindfold | 25 |
Cat and Rate | 26 |
Club Fist | 27 |
Farmer in the Dell | 28 |
Kitty Wants a Corner | 29 |
Lemon Relay | 30 |
Old Granny Hum Burn | 31 |
Tap Hand | 32 |
Thimble | 33 |
GAMES FOR TWO OR THREE | 35 |
Fox and Geese | 37 |
Hopscotch | 38 |
Horseshoes | 40 |
Hull Gull | 44 |
Knock the Stick | 47 |
ImaginingPretending | 77 |
Riddles and Tales | 80 |
Odds n Ends | 81 |
Dolls and Playhouses | 83 |
Stick Dolls | 85 |
Cucumber Dolls | 86 |
Cornshuck Dolls | 95 |
Cloth Dolls | 96 |
Pretending | 108 |
Playhouses | 115 |
Dressing Up | 118 |
TOYS AND CONSTRUCTIONS | 123 |
Cornstalk Creations | 128 |
For Yards and Hills | 136 |
Puzzles | 150 |
Noisemakers | 154 |
Launchers | 165 |
Handheld Motionmakers | 177 |
Spinning Tops and Tobacco Tags | 193 |
Participants | 201 |
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games Linda Garland Page,Hilton Smith Vista previa limitada - 2018 |
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys & Games Linda Garland Page,Hilton Smith Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Términos y frases comunes
Appalachian apple arms Arthur Davis ball Bill Henry Billy boys called catch Christmas circle corn cornshuck cornstalk Crows Daddy Daisy Justice doll dowel Drill Elizabeth Dubose Ernest Watts feet Folklore Fox and Geese Foxfire Book Fred Kelly Geese girls ground guess hand handkerchief head Helen Nichols hickory Hilton Smith hole home base Horseshoes inches long interview it'd Jack Prince Jack Straws jump kids knife knock legs limberjack marbles Museum of Appalachia nail notch piece play players pretty propeller pull Rabun County Ray Hicks remember rock rope Roy Roberts runner shaft shoot shuck side slingshot snipe hunting Soup Pot spin square Stanley Hicks stick string strip swing thing throw toys and games tree turn usually Where's whittle wire wood Yeah
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Página ix - This is getting way up into the evening. We've had supper. The directions he gave us will appear in a Foxfire Press book about toys and games. That's when the fun began. As he would remember things, he'd get excited and his eyes would light up. Once he had found the right wood, he sat and whittled while he reminisced until late in the night. After showing us how to make two different kinds of whistles and a pop gun, he decided he needed a different stick of wood. So off he went, romping through the...
Página ix - ... wood, he sat and whittled while he reminisced until late in the night. After showing us how to make two different kinds of whistles and a pop gun, he decided he needed a different stick of wood. So off he went, romping through the woods at ten o'clock at night with no flashlight in the pitch black darkness. He left us sitting there dead tired and sleepy-eyed, wondering what was going on. We could hear him thrashing around and breaking branches. By the time we'd figured out what was going on and...
Página ix - ... about toys and games. That's when the fun began. As he would remember things, he'd get excited and his eyes would light up. Once he had found the right wood, he sat and whittled while he reminisced until late in the night. After showing us how to make two different kinds of whistles and a pop gun, he decided he needed a different stick of wood. So off he went, romping through the woods at ten o'clock at night with no flashlight in the pitch black darkness. He left us sitting there dead tired...