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Historic Webster is a newsletter of the Webster Historical Society, Inc., created at the Society’s founding in 1974. The publication helped to serve the Society's mission of collecting and preserving the history of Webster, North Carolina. Webster, established in 1851, was the original county seat for Jackson County.newsletter of the Webster Historical Society, Inc. • p VOLUME VI, NUMBER 2 WEBSTER, NORTH CAROLINA SPRING, 1979 On the Scene with Lawrence C. Frizzell ''Entertainment'' Entertainments around Web­ster in my day were few and far between, but when the Ingle Sisters put on a show in the courtroom everybody turned ot and enjoyed it to the limit. The three sisters played violins (fid­dles) with a flair that brought down the house. There was also a tight wire act that was pretty good, and several other things to round out the show. After­ward a number of fiddles ap­peared in the community and music was heard over the coun­tryside. Some of us stretched wires or ropes between posts and tried to imitate the tight rope artists, with scant success. Social activity was rather limited in those days. Occa­sionally there would be a dance, or something called a "candy pullingn to vary the monotomy. the "candy" was molasses mix­ed with a little flour to help thicken it and boiled until it was quite thick. When it had cooled somewhat, a boy and a girl would grease their palms with butter, take a big gob of the mollasses in their hands , and, facing each other,...

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