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- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
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- I wonder
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- Great shot
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Little Boy Blue: 1900
From New England circa 1900 comes a young fellow who looks like he'd rather be somewhere else, wearing anything but this ridiculous getup Aunt Polly made him put on. Good thing they haven't invented the Internet yet, kid. 5x8 inch glass negative, probably an estate-sale find. View full size.
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Been There
My brother and I would get the same look at Easter during the '50s when my mom would make us wear a suit. We would make sure we voiced our objections, too. Continually. Poor woman.
Beating the bounds
It might be that these lads are dressed in costume to "beat the bounds" of the parish on Ascension Day. It's been done in parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts since Colonial times, and before that in old England since at least Anglo-Saxon times.
In former times when maps were rare it was usual to make a formal perambulation of the parish boundaries on Ascension Day or during Rogation week. Knowledge of the limits of each parish needed to be handed down so that such matters as liability to contribute to the repair of the church, and the right to be buried within the churchyard were not disputed. The priest of the parish with the churchwardens and the parochial officials headed a crowd of boys who, armed with green boughs, usually birch or willow, beat the parish boundary markers with them. Sometimes the boys were themselves whipped or even violently bumped on the boundary-stones to make them remember. The object of taking boys along is supposed to ensure that witnesses to the boundaries should survive as long as possible.
Low Talking Aunt Polly
Aunt Polly must have been a low talker to get these 3 boys to wear puffy shirts on national internet.
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