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Shooting In the New Year

Record #:
9981
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Abstract:
An approximately 200 year old New Year's tradition survives in Cherryville. Participants follow a crier chanting good wishes from house to house and fire old guns such as black powder muskets into the air.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 41 Issue 8, Jan 1974, p8-10, por