Desserts from the church ladies <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nHomemade food was a\u00a0 highlight of every All Day Singing With Dinner On The Grounds. Tables were made of planks laid over sawhorses then covered with oilcloth, then the rows of sawhorse-tables were loaded with every Southern specialty from the best home cooks in the world.<\/p>\n
At the end of many of these tables were stools that held washtubs filled with tea with big blocks of ice floating on top and tin dippers attached with string to the handles.<\/p>\n
Find a picture.\u00a0 Find a story.\u00a0 If that’s not a rule, maybe it should be. I’m surrounded by boxes and files and albums and scrapbooks.\u00a0 It’s the backbone of much of what’s becoming The Glory Road., the stories, the stage play and now the book.\u00a0 A photo turns itself into a scene.<\/p>\n
That’s Mother (Sister Fern) on the left in this picture. She\u2019s changed from her performing dress made of clingy jersey into something cooler, and she\u2019ll change back again after dinner, the midday meal in the Deep South. She’s\u00a0 probably complimenting that church lady next to her on her fine contribution to this bounty.<\/p>\n
I was off in search of my favorites.\u00a0 Somebody mistakenly put Ambrosia over there on a table with all the fruit salads when to my mind Ambrosia was a world apart from ordinary food. It was the Alpha and Omega, \u00a0the beginning and end of every dinner spread laid out at every Singing, every Revival, and every Sunday afternoon potluck at every stop on Route 66.<\/p>\n
Mother was partial to Jell-O and she’d choose from a whole table full of it, some of it made in intricate molds, some studded with fruits, and other bowls of the red and green and orange jiggly stuff were filled with mysterious chopped items. She loved them all.<\/p>\n
Leslie Ray headed for the chicken wings, the potato salad, then the table with all the breads – biscuits, risin’ rolls and cornbread. Daddy piled up a plate with\u00a0 barbecue and beans. He wandered the grounds balancing his plate and a Dixie cup of sweet tea, in search of the cook responsible for his favorite barbecue. Reverend Raymond Jones could talk beans with anybody til closing time. \u00a0One of us had to hunt him down when it was time for the family to be back onstage.<\/p>\n
Find an old photograph. Write some notes.\u00a0 I don’t want to miss a memory.\u00a0 They’re gifts that come and go when they please.<\/p>\n
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