photo from 1941 "Dryad" TN College for Women
Lillian Branson remembers living near the Tennessee College for Women on East Main Street. She describes the May Day festivities.
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photo from 1941 "Dryad" TN College for Women Lillian Branson remembers living near the Tennessee College for Women on East Main Street. She describes the May Day festivities. |
| They would let us come play on the campus. They had a big field day every year and all the children, before they had the big field day, they would let us come over there and jump the hurdles and swing on things. It was a great place to live because we had our own playground you might say. They had beautiful trees. We picnicked under them and they had a great May Day ceremony every year. The made a May Pole and the girls would go earlier in the week, out in the country. You may have noticed all the daises that bloom out on the roadside, and the Tennessee College girls would go pick those daisies. They would make a daisy chain that I would say was a foot-wide in diameter. They would weave those daisies into a big chain, and on May Day the girls would walk from the buildings of Tennessee College out to the front campus where they had a May Pole. The girls would dance around the May Pole and weave the May Pole. They did a lot of that in those days. You don't see that now. |