| Susan Bragg recalls childhood memories of Murfreesboro.
"But the one thing I do remember so well that I feel like I got to know people all over Rutherford County, and yet I didn't know their names or anything about them. But when my father and grandfather had this men's store on the square, my grandfather used to say, "You are not to come to town shopping on Saturday. That is country people's day 'cause they can't come during the week. They have to work on their farms. So, you stay at |
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| home." My father and grandfather would come
home and eat supper, and they would always let us children go back with
them; on Saturday night, the store would stay open until 9 o'clock at
night. And all the people that had come to town during the day would
congregate around the square in different places -- the same ones in the
same spots -- and socialize. And we'd get to sit in the car and
watch. Now, for a child that, it was fun. We felt like we knew
this person and that person. Didn't even know their names, but we
say 'em every Saturday night. |
