Word: hollerin
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...room, the mountain types are usually already swilling Coors around the pool table. Scenery aficianados stop pies) either in the glassed room or the deck overlooking the river. Night draws crowds from college-town Fort Collins and Cheyenne, who drink Rocky Mountain-sized quantities of beer while dancin and hollerin and havin a wild time...
...also salute North Carolina's great gubernatorial power, who, despite his veto handicap (North Carolina Governors do not have the power of veto), proclaims such earthshaking events as "North Carolina Possum Pickin' Day," "National Hollerin' Day" and "Frog Jumping...
Spivey's Corner (pop. 100), North Carolina, had its big day in history last week. It was there that once and for all they drew the line between hollering and hollerin', in the goldarnedest contest that the village had seen since Dewey Jackson won half a ton of fertilizer for hog calling...
Hollering is making noise. Hollerin' involves a lot more than that. Jackson, now 76, and the community's reigning basso profundo, gave the final proof. Hitching up his overalls before a crowd of 5,000, he launched into a lusty, ear-piercing "whooo," then followed with a foghorn of a tune that sailed clear into the next county. That was genuine east North Carolina country hollerin'. As Dewey told the crowd, "I been hollerin' since my mammy slapped me on the bottom the day I was born...
...event was the first National Hollerin' Contest that anybody knows about, and contestants came from as far away as Louisiana and Maryland to pay tribute to a minor art form that dates back to way before the days of the telephone. Hollerin' is the way folks used to communicate when they lived a mile or more apart. It requires a lot of lung power, and just plain shouting will not do. Traditionally, each farmer had a set of hollers that were recognizable as his own by their beat, melody and style of delivery. Some hollers were based...