Pineville Culture
Quilting was a big social event with the ladies. They would come to this person's house this month and put a quilt in her quilting frame and help her quilt it. Then next month, the ladies would go to someone else's house and do the same thing. Some of it was done at the church, but the women worked in the fields and did not have a lot of time to spend doing anything but working. During the quilting, the ladies would learn news about others in the community. The men would go coon and fox hunting. For family fun, everyone would load the children in the horse and buggy and go to the creek and camp-out all night, fish, and then cook what they caught for a wonderful feast. Several families would do this together. Also beginning in the 40's, the families would travel by horse and buggy to Atmore, Alabama, which was the nearest town. There the children were allowed to go to the movie for ten cents and stay most of the day. They would take a bag lunch to save money. Mothers and Dads would buy groceries and visit with neighbors on the street all day. Everyone was in town on Saturday until 9 or 10 o'clock that night.
Flowers family in the early 1920's
Hog killin' was a big event in this community. Families would gather together and kill their hogs, cut the meat, clean the chitterlings, make sausage, hog-head cheese or sause, and then cook a big meal for everyone who had worked that day. After the meal, the meat would be divided among the families. Later in the years, listening to the Grand Ole Opry by battery radio on Saturday night at someone's house was a real treat. There was no electricity until in the late 1940's.