Resident of Promised Land, SC (Greenwood County). Learned how to quilt and make lye soap from her mother. Her father could make just about any type of split-oak basket: fish trap, clothes hamper, chair bottoms. Grows and cans okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, watermelons, and a vareity of beans and peas.
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Audio Transcript for... Canning Vegetables Corduroy Quilt Curing Meat Killing Hogs Making Lye Soap Making Souse Meat Quilting Snakes
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Resident of Promised Land, SC (Greenwood County). Learned how to quilt and make lye soap from her mother. Her father could make just about any type of split-oak basket: fish trap, clothes hamper...
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Resident of Promised Land, SC (Greenwood County). Learned how to quilt and make lye soap from her mother. Her father could make just about any type of split-oak basket: fish trap, clothes hamper...
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Resident of Promised Land, SC (Greenwood County). Learned how to quilt and make lye soap from her mother. Her father could make just about any type of split-oak basket: fish trap, clothes hamper...
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Rebecca Hill discusses making souse meat.
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Rebecca Hill on snakes.
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Rebecca Hill explains how she cures her meat with salt.
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Rebecca Hill describes the process of raising and killing hogs and how the phases of the moon are important
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Rebecca Hill's story of how she taught herself to make lye soap when she was young
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Rebecca Hill describes her process for canning vegetables.
