Cathy on the Carnivals

Seems we had entertainment, too. Wasn't that one of the occasions when Johnnie did her Minnie Pearl act? There was a musical group with Suzy Parker on piano, Ed Parker playing his fiddle, Hulon played the washboard and had a  bass instrument fashioned from a washtub, broom handle and wire/string. Seems somebody played a harmonica, too, or was it a comb with wax paper? Daddy put a barbershop quartet together with him, Harry York, Clayton Borden, and Arthur Bailey. And there was a women’s group that sang with Judy Borden, Flossie Monts, Helen Partlow, Montez Temple, Derie McFarling, Maxine Bailey, Niecy Grant, maybe others.
 
I was in charge of the haunted house one year. We made eyeballs out of peeled grapes, guts out of spaghetti, hair from a coonskin cap, and we used chicken bones laid out to look like a human hand. All the sound effects were done by kids hiding in the dark. We had a squeaky hinge, scratching on a wire screen, sandpaper rubbing, moaning, screaming, heavy walking, a screeching cat, a howling wolf. I was one of the guides through the house and we had to tell a story about how the house came to be haunted. The younger kids were really scared, the adults would go through it and act scared. What a hoot!