Folklore Research

• custom
• tradition
• West Virginia
• oral history
• personal experience narratives
• rural
• memory
• recollections
• foodways
• eating
• meal preservation
• food

"But Dad would take the wheat to the mill, oh I don't know how many bushels he'd take at once and grind and he'd get flour, he had a big barrel, a wooden barrel in the kitchen, he'd dump all this flour in that barrel and Mom kept her dough board across the top of that to cover it over and she'd use, that would last almost all winter. Every Friday night we'd have to shell corn and take it to the mill for cornbread that week. They ground the corn every week, not the flour, just the corn. We would take it to the mill, There was a mill up at Hominy there, a grist mill, and that would be enough to do us a week. Then Friday night we'd have to do it all over again, shell that corn."

• Accession #3151-52
• Instructor: Patrick Mullen
• 1986
• 27pp