tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post3560920647015322568..comments2024-02-04T19:01:49.455-06:00Comments on Itawamba Connections: Rook - an Itawamba pastimeMona Robinson Millshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07942686174431804604noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-52985656294214681412012-02-24T13:56:00.660-06:002012-02-24T13:56:00.660-06:00This is such a great game!This is such a great game!Viagrahttp://www.kwikmed.com/viagra.aspnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-34890719274033733382010-02-07T16:52:04.141-06:002010-02-07T16:52:04.141-06:00Rook is such a staple in our formative years that ...Rook is such a staple in our formative years that we actually started having an extended family tournament which is held annually the second Saturday night in March. This year will be our 27th year! We don't play with the Red One but our version is just as much fun and we all look forward to getting together once a year.<br /><br />Glad to know that Georgia isnt the only place that continues the tradition!!innerjujuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295191880965797940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-13999651901381276032009-12-30T21:13:25.014-06:002009-12-30T21:13:25.014-06:00I have a deck of Rook cards but have never been ab...I have a deck of Rook cards but have never been able to get any of my family interested in playing. I enjoyed your memories of the game and the history of the game itself. I hope your new/old tradition takes off.Charley "Apple" Grabowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07193646109965731249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-74836391589722172392009-12-29T18:13:27.489-06:002009-12-29T18:13:27.489-06:00Thank you for 'splaining this game of Rook! or...Thank you for 'splaining this game of Rook! or the Itawamba Co. version. . . back in the 30's and early '40's when we often went to Sunday morning church services with my grandparents, Morman & Kate Robinson Stone at Bexar Methodist church, we often got back home to find a game of Crokonole, Dominoes or Rook already in progress on the front porch if the weather was nice. The Lindsey men (Mike your daddy was one "of em") shall be nameless who would be rooted in their seats awaiting Granny Kate to hurry up with her Sunday dinner so Granddaddy "could come out to play!" She raised her own fryers that she killed, cleaned and cooked before we went to church and remebering this was the day before REA came to these parts so that meant a hurry up fire in the woodstove to make her famous "mile high" biscuits to "sop the gravy with". The Stone's oldest granddaughter, the late Naomi Stone Jones was the most often repeated child of the 8 grand children, and Granny Kate's favorite involved her fluffy biscuits and the saying went like this from Naomi when they sat down to eat: "hurry up and pass me a biscuit so I can sop sop sop." !! It took me a long time to learn what that meant. These rules could only happen every other Sunday because Bexar Church was in a group of 4 churches served by a circuit riding minister. I know this sounds confusing to anyone who isn't familiar to this type of church organization. Bexar got a morning church service once a month and an afternoon service once a month; the alternating Sundays (morning or afternoon) we had Sunday School while the preacher made his way to Shottsville, Bethlehem and I can't remember if the fourth church was Barnesville or Smyrna, but I believe it was Smyrna.<br /><br />Mona, you have taught me more about Rook than I ever imagined in watching these grown men have so much fun with a hand full of cards. The only "catch phrase" that my aged mind recalls is someone always boasting "we set you" or "we made you go set" - I always wondered if there is a difference!?! I remember what that Rook box looked like, but I can't recall seeing the face of a card. <br /><br />We had snow for Chirstmas in our neck of the woods, and now we await to see if the snow falling this afternoon will be around for the New Years festivities! Please have a Happy one!bettyeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-42455760841022977512009-12-29T17:42:57.408-06:002009-12-29T17:42:57.408-06:00Don, If I ever play rook with you, don,t let me ca...Don, If I ever play rook with you, don,t let me catch you scratching your nose or ear, or anything for that matterMa Jeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284597030233351185.post-6476406832745024052009-12-29T08:56:19.249-06:002009-12-29T08:56:19.249-06:00What a wonderful post. It brings back great memori...What a wonderful post. It brings back great memories of the games at Lawrence & Pearls on Christmas eve. I have the library table that the rook cards were kept in. One point I might add to the traditions of the game, is the signals such as scratching your nose if you had the red one and your ear if you have the rook. I learned of these signals on Lawrence's back porch by my older cousins Thomas and another that shall remain nameless. It was a wonderful tradition and I am glad to see you bring it back, as one of your on.Don Dulaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17332375714278624730noreply@blogger.com