Funny Things in 1960s Appalachian Homes We All Thought Were Fancy (Nobody Ever Actually Used Them)

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🔗 93 things every Appalachian grandfather knew. How many are left in you? In my grandmother's front room there was a settee that sat under clear plastic for fifteen years. Nobody in the family sat on it. In all that time, the plastic came off exactly one time, for one person. My grandfather built our house in nineteen thirty one, and nothing in it was bought to look at. Then, along about nineteen fifty eight, my grandmother Ora decided one room was going to be fancy. Egg money and butter money, a piece at a time: the rose settee, the runner on the rug, the guest towels nobody dried their hands on, the good plates on the rail, the encyclopedias, the candy dish with candy nobody ate. My grandfather wrote every one of them down in his farm ledger. Beside the plastic for the settee, four dollars and ten cents, he wrote three words in the margin. This is that front room, one fancy thing at a time, and why the plastic never went back on. My grandfather also kept the useful side of that ledg...