West Virginia Farm Stories From the Early 1900s: ; School Entertainment and a Shirttail Tale

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Editor's note: Mary Cordelia Riffee Figgatt, 104, undertook to write her memoirs of growing up in Putnam County so that her descendants would understand how life was lived in the early years of the 20th century.

She began to compile them when she was 93 years old. For seven years, the former Putnam and Kanawha County schoolteacher wrote in her spare time, completing the work when she was 100 years old.

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West Virginia Farm Stories From the Early 1900s: ; School Entertainment and a Shirttail Tale

Here is another installment from her book, "West Virginia Farm Stories from the Early 1900s," which is available for $14.95 plus tax at bookstores throughout the st...

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