corn shuck

Some considered it akin to quilting or corn shucking.

He turned and burrowed his head into the goose-down pillow and beneath him the corn shuck mattress rustled in the dark.

He needed information and he couldn't get it here, lying on a corn shuck mattress in the loft above the kitchen of a neo-pioneer home.

Vickers remembered how he had speculated on the possibility of inherent memory, lying on the corn shuck mattress in the loft of Andrews' house.

"Frolics" were community events often associated with events such as corn shucking, house raising, etc, with a feast and dancing at the end of the labors.

The two-day event includes a parade, live music, corn shucking contest, recipe contests, corn eating contest, vendors, activities hot, fresh corn and more.

But the tamales sold here combine a ground corn base called the masa with fillings such as chicken, beef or beans, neatly rolled in a corn shuck.

Contests & events include best dressed pig, corn shucking, hog calling, eating chitterlings, pig racing, syrup making, baby crawling, and the great greased pig chase.

"Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe" (Traditional; arr.

This was Cornjerking, In other parts of the United States, this harvesting process may have been known as corn snapping, corn shucking, or corn husking.

Special events focus on farm life and techniques from the early 20th century, and include sheep shearing, corn shucking, ice cream socials, heritage crafts, music and pie baking.

The wrapper in a tamal is a corn shuck or a banana leaf; the wrapper in a Puerto Rican pastel is a banana leaf.

With contests ranging from seed spitting to corn shucking and plate lunches made and served by church groups, a typical gathering offers urban visitors a modern-day tour of small-town life.

One night in December 1910 (some sources say 1911), two of Allen's nephews, Wesley Edwards and Sidna Edwards, attended a corn shucking bee in Hillsville.

Vickers lay on the corn shuck mattress and stared into the darkness and wondered at the glibness of his imagination, with the nagging feeling that it was not imagination - that it was something that he knew.

That's an expression common down Texas way, for when a man left his camp to walk to a neighbor's, he would dip a corn shuck into the flames to light his path, and he would do the same when he started back.

They could have been going to do the laundry at the orphanage or the insane asylum; corn shucking at the mill; or to dean fish, rinse offal, cradle whitebabies, sweep stores, scrape hog skin, press lard, case-pack sausage or hide in tavern kitchens so whitepeople didn't have to see them handle their food.