Short Stories (Folklore) | CYPHERS #1 | CYPHERS #2 | BREWSTER | CYPHERS #3 |
| GRAHAM #1 | GRAHAM #2 | DAY #1 |
| GRAHAM #3 | NUNLY | DAY #2 | FLETCHER |
| CHRISTIAN & or HARRIS | HIGGINS #1 | HIGGINS #2 | WHITT |

Dad and friends
[The photo above features my dad with some of the boys he played with. Dad is sitting behind the youngest boy on the left side of the picture. The last name of the oldest boy in the photo was Griswell/Grizwell? Mostly unidentified others at this time. My dad learned to ride bicycle on the one in the background.]

Dancin' A Jig On The Banks Of Big Creek

"Back when I was a boy, some of my cousins and friends used to go down to Big Creek and go skinny dippin'. Where we would go, the train tracks ran not too far away from the swimmin' hole. Sometimes there would be passenger trains passin' by and all of us boys would get out and stand by the tracks and dance around in our birthday suits."

"Of course, we never told our parents that we did that!"

Told by: Frank Cyphers


Follow these links to see photos of Big Creek:
[Big Creek photos are part of the War, WV photo gallery. To return here, click on your browser's *BACK* button.]


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(This short story was told to and transcribed by Benita Cyphers; May 1999; Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007).


CYPHERS #1
CYPHERS #2
BREWSTER
CYPHERS #3
GRAHAM #1
GRAHAM #2
DAY #1
GRAHAM #3
NUNLY
DAY #2
FLETCHER
CHRISTIAN &
or HARRIS

HIGGINS #1
HIGGINS #2
WHITT


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Links To The Other Short Stories
| Perry Cyphers Sets A Jail Mattress On Fire | Perry Cyphers' Unmarked Grave |
| How To Buy Moonshine Without Getting Caught | A Roaming Visitor Comes To Call |
| Experiences As An Evangelist In The Early 1900's | A Coal Miner's Tale |
| We Owed Our Souls To The Company Store |
| Movie Memories & 10-cent Tickets | Hoppin' Trains & Ridin' The Rails |
| Dancin' A Jig On The Banks Of Big Creek | Life On The Graham Farm |
| Helping To Make Caskets For Poor Folks | Readin' Tea Leaves |
| How Pink Higgins Came To West Virginia |






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This page was created on June 19, 1999
and edited on August 4, 2007.
It represents a work in progress.
Content and photos/graphics are the property of Benita Cyphers
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Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007


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