"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Goomba wrote:
>
>> I like the old southern custom we learned about in North Carolina, where
>> neighbors hold a "pounding" when people move into new homes. Everyone
>> brings a "pound" of something (tea, coffee, flour, sugar...) to stock the
>> pantry.
>
> I thought you were going to say something about a chivaree, where people
> pound on pots and pans <g>
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
> Good Friends. Good Life

Now that's what I remember growing up in NC.......you follow the newlyweds
to where they were spending the first night and make all kinds of racket
usually with pots and pans, sometimes shotguns well into the night and often
to sunrise.......I have heard two stories why.....one to keep them from
consumating the marriage and the other to drown out the sounds of the
consumation.
-ginny