Talk: Shingles by the moon

Collected by Irene Carlisle Told by James M. Walden Transcribed by Nathaniel Lucy Busch, Arkansas Reel 140 Talk: Shingles by the Moon Irene Carlisle: Did you make your own shingles or homes? Did you . . . at your own shingles? James M. Walden: . . . old clap boards as what we called them. Carlisle: And they had to be laid in the dark of the moon. Walden: The dark of the moon. Carlisle: Or they'd curl up on their ends. Walden: That's right curl right on the end. Carlisle: Bacon will do that too. Walden: Yeah I've seen them houses before now covered in the new moon and looked like it just want to roll up in a ball. Just as fuzzy up there, looks like - we used to have - can you remember what we used to call the old frizzy chickens? Carlisle: I don't know. Walden: They're curly you know and every feather looked like it was a different way. That's just the way those . . . Carlisle: No, I never did see them. Walden: And even with the - your bought shingles would do that. Carlisle: No matter how dry or well treated they . . . Walden: No, it doesn't make any difference. That moon has some effect on them. I don't know what but -Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation