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Here is “Round 29” of your insights into how to know if someone is from North Carolina. You may also want to check out

• Round One (February 2004)
• Round Two (March 2004)
• Round Three (May 2004)
• Round Four (July 2004)
• Round Five (August 2004)
• Round Six (September 2004)
• Round Seven (November 2004)
• Round Eight (January 2005)
• Round Nine (February 2005)
• Round Ten (March 2005)
• Round Eleven (April 2005)
• Round Twelve (May 2005)
• Round Thirteen (June 2005)
• Round Fourteen (August 2005)
• Round Fifteen (September 2005)
• Round Sixteen (October 2005)
• Round Seventeen (November 2005)
• Round Eighteen (December 2005)
• Round Nineteen (January 2006)
• Round Twenty (February 2006)
• Round Twenty-one (March 2006)
• Round Twenty-two (April 2006)
• Round Twenty-three (May 2006)
• Round Twenty-four (June 2006)
• Round Twenty-five (July 2006)
• Round Twenty-six (August 2006)
• Round Twenty-seven (September 2006)
• Round Twenty-eight (October 2006)

If you can think of anything to add to this list, send it to us:

E-mail: Carolina.country@ncemcs.com
Mail: P.O. Box 27306, Raleigh, NC 27611.
Phone: (919) 875-3062.

From Joan Daly, Goldsboro

• You know what a carbuncle or rising is, and your daddy uses fat meat to draw it to a head.
• You shined your black patent leather shoes with a cold biscuit your mother made.
• On Saturday night you have seven pairs of children’s shoes lined up on newspaper, polished and ready for Sunday School.
• Your church had revivals for seven nights straight, and you were made to attend all of them, no questions asked.
• You attended cottage prayer meetings (church held in homes).

From Dennis Burden, Lumberton

• Your last meal could be a piece of hoop cheese and a honey bun.
• You brought a leaf of tobacco to school for show-and-tell.
• You played hide-and-go-seek in a corn field.
  
• You think Dean Smith should run for president and Michael Jordan for vice president.

From Ann Heath, Pinnacle

• You ran barefooted to the tobacco field with a glass juice jar filled with water to give the primers a cold drink.
• You would play under the quilt at a quilting party and try to figure whose feet were whose.
• Your daddy let you help him put the mules in the pasture when he got through plowing the tobacco fields.

From Clelia Hand, Canton

• You know this evening means anytime after noon.
• You ask for tiles and the clerks direct you to the towels.
• Your daddy gave you rides on his push plow.
• Your sister wanted a little sister so bad that she asked your daddy if he thought she could order one from Sears and Roebuck, and he said he didn’t know but he could try.
• Everybody in town called you “Little Sister.”
• You were the mascot of “The Seven Sisters of the Siler Spider.”

From Wayne Beane, Hudson

• You faked sickness to stay out of school to go fishing.
• You dug worms and put them in a Prince Albert tobacco can.
• You seined minnows from a small creek.
• You might also have caught spring lizards for bait.
• Your float was a cork from a Griffith shoe polish bottle.
• You pole was a river bank cane.
• Your line was Mom’s sewing thread.
• You sat on the river bank and got red dirt on the seat of your pants.
• You took a can of sardines for a snack.
• When you caught fish, you cooked them on the river bank.

From Jessie Neal, Bear Creek

• You made frog holes in the sand.
• You smoked dried mulberry root cigarettes.
• You walked around on tall Tom Walkers.

From Randy Martin, Lawndale

• As soon as you were big enough to hold the hoe, you helped in the garden.
• Dogs outnumber the people who live on your road.
• Your grandpa and cousins took you snipe hunting.
• You got in trouble for sneaking your pet chicken to school for show-and-tell.
• Your momma had to run you out of the chicken house because you had the hens so upset they wouldn’t lay.
• Your daddy killed a snake by whooping it with a switch.

From Jack Martin, Rockingham

• Your daddy “hoped” out at the still on Saturdays during the off-season. They paid him with a jar of white corn liquor in a half gallon Mason jar.
• Your mother perked Luzianne coffee and chickory in a percolator with a glass bulb on top.
• Your daddy made home brew in a stone crock, usually in the smoke house. It was sweet and you sneaked some and got tipsy.

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