Carol's Chapter
Popcorn Profits and Fifty-Cent Discoveries
told by Carol Mae Guild Sutton
Bernie and Bob grew popcorn one year in McFarland’s vacant lot. Daddy promised they could keep the sales money and encouraged harvest help by offering fifty cents for each ear of Indian corn found among the popcorn. The boys dried the ears on the garage roof, used a popcorn sheller Daddy bought, and bagged the kernels in the basement. Daddy then drove them to movie theaters to sell their popcorn.
In the family's own words
Bernie and Bob used McFarland’s vacant lot to grow popcorn one year. Daddy said they could keep whatever money they made selling it. Daddy had a special way of soliciting our help when it came time to harvest the corn. As he and the boys planted the corn they interspersed a little Indian corn. If we came to an ear of Indian corn while picking, he would give us fifty cents. The boys would put the ears of corn on the garage roof to dry. Daddy bought them a popcorn sheller and they shelled the popcorn in the basement and sacked it up for sale. Daddy drove them around to the various movie theaters where they sold the popcorn.
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