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By Robert and Mary Steele The second election of General Jackson to the Presidency was celebrated in Dayton on the 8th of January, 1833, by a barbecue on the common west of the basin, now Cooper Park. National salutes were fired during the day. Immediately on the arrival at noon of a canal-boat with from fifty to one hundred …
by Horace Smith & Samuel Wordsworth The other day the people of Logan County, West Virginia, held a great barbecue to celebrate the division of the county. Tables were spread in the street and all traffic was suspended. Hundreds of stalwart mountaineers came in with their wives and children from the region roundabout. Eight big black bears had been …
By Parthenia Antoinette Hague Then there were the annual barbecues that each and all planters gave without fail to their slaves when the crops had all been laid by, which semi-holiday weeks embraced the last of July and the first of August. I remember in particular one barbecue roast that I witnessed one night in company with the household. The …
By Robert Francis Astrop Ye who love good eating, just go to a ‘Cue—Ye’ll find and enjoy it there, I warrant you. Who ever went there and ne’er got enough?Who ever went there and found the meat tough?Who ever went there and came mad away?Who ever went there, and kept steady all day? Who ever went there, discontent er distrest—Who …
By John James Audubon, 1897 Beargrass Creek, which is one of the many beautiful streams of the highly cultivated and happy State of Kentucky, meanders through a deeply shaded growth of majestic beechwoods, in which are interspersed various species of walnut, oak, elm, ash, and other trees, extending on either side of its course. The spot on which I witnessed …
