PATRON + Quilting and Corn-shucking in Alabama in 1936 was often time for a party

A great article. I have been in several “corn shucking”, “peanut pullings” and other venues of harvest. in my 59 years. Never a corn shucking like that one though. When I was growing up my dad was always the innovator. He had bought an old school bus that we cut the body off of rendering a long flat bed truck. We would load fire wood on it and park it in our front yard and sell firewood for $5.00 a pickup load! After a couple of years dad built side boards on it about six feet high. It made a bed of 25′ X 7′ X 6′ we had a corn crop that year of dried corn and it more than filled up the “bus”. Those dimensions calculate to 843.74 bushels of corn! Thank goodness we had a mechanical picker but the transfer from wagons to the “bus” was all by hand! Mostly mine! Daddy sold the load of corn, bus and all! Well I said that he was the innovator. He took the body of the bus and put it in the pasture for a cow shed when it rained! Talk about funny! That bus body with ten cows looking out the windows while the rain was pouring.

Mike Creel