In early spring the ground in Clay County, Tennessee is too wet to plow, and too wet to play marbles. in late fall the frosty nights are too cold for the game, and besides, tobacco is in need of ...

Do kids still play marbles? If memory serves, we drew a big circle in the dirt and used a shooter marble to knock smaller marbles out of the circle. The phrase “play for keeps” comes from the practice ...

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I have a small basket full of antique clay marbles that I love and so do my granddaughters. It’s the uneven shapes and the colors — dark-blue cobalt, brown or red glazes — that have attracted me to ...

You can walk into the Buckeye Marble Show on Saturday for free, which is a very nice price, but you'll need $1,000 if you want to leave with a rare vintage purple-and-white horizontal swirled Navarre ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I used to be a crack shot at pitch (marbles) ...

Dug up from my allotment in Benson about 15 years ago. Helps give an understanding of childrens activities during those times - it was not all hard toil from when they could walk.

Dug up from my allotment in Benson about 15 years ago. Helps give an understanding of childrens activities during those times - it was not all hard toil from when they could walk. Comments are closed ...