Record #:

22805

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

There was once a great deal of sentiment associated with hogs, especially at hog killing time in the old days. Old timers recall sweet recollections of the time they could sit on a piece of wood, with a juicy fragrant spare rib or piece of hog liver, broiled in glowing coals, in one hand and a large cooked sweet potato in the other. Kammerer presents a local writer’s descriptive narrative from 1882 expressing his fondness for events around a hog killing. The slaughter of hogs carried out in modern slaughterhouses does not carry the same \"fondness\" as older hog killings. In an 1882 descriptive narrative, a local writer expresses his fondness for such social events.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 16-15 1994, p9

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History--Hogs; Pitt County--Social customs