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A blackface minstrel show toured the scattered homesteads in 1898 and was paid
off with cake and lemonade. Front row, John Douthit, Homer Ingalls; Second row,
(seated) Mary Douthit, Will Norton. Standing, left to right, Mattie Peters, Jim
Peters, Mr. Taylor, Senie Douthit, Jack Peters. (Patton)
Friends share a trip to Miami on the Lemon City bus, ca. 1915. Left to right: Hazel
Filer, Oleta McCluney, Leonore DesRochers, Hazel DesRochers, and Frances
Clark. (Tinsley)
of a century has done even more to alter road building than dancing. For
the newlyweds there was always the shivaree. Estelle Zumwalt de-
scribed in her Memoirs what happened to her and Frank when they got off
the train in Lemon City following their honeymoon: "We were pounced
on.... They took the mattress out of the house and put it in the yard, and
they beat on tin pans and blew horns. They had their fun but afterwards
they served cold drinks and cookies. A shivaree could get pretty rough
but it also helped you to feel truly married."
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The Simpsons' was a popular place to stroll on a Sunday afternoon, and to "catch
the breeze" at the Simpson pavilion. Shown here, left to right: Mary Lee, Mabel
Soar, Leonore DesRochers, unidentified man, Joe King, Hazel DesRochers.
(Tinsley)
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