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The Last Sunday Drive

  • Colleton Museum & Farmers Market 506 East Washington Street Walterboro, SC, 29488 United States (map)

(An illustrated talk) Tom brings back the Sunday drive with memories and sights to be seen today. Times were mom, dad and the kids would head out to see the countryside. Back in the Burma-Shave days, mom-and-pop drive-ins and gas station biscuits fed folks. Cheap gas-filled cars and people made Sunday drives through a land where See Rock City barns, sawdust piles, and trains and junkyards gave them plenty to see. Men in seersucker suits ran old stores with oscillating fans, and if the kids ate too much penny candy, grandma had a home remedy for them. It was a time for dinner on church grounds, yard art, and old-fashioned petunias. Author Tom Poland revisits disappearing traditions.

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