Monday, October 4, 2010
Mysteries Who Was "Cotton-Eyed Joe"??
Posted by Vance Lauderdale on Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM
So the obvious question is: Who was "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and why was he memorialized in the St. Mary's yearbook in 1961? In "loving" memory, no less.
I will patiently wait for an answer, dear readers. C'mon, I can't do this without you.
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Okay, so it's the name of an old folk song, and the name of a CHARACTER in that same song. That still doesn't explain why the girls of St. Mary's ran a large yearbook ad "in memory of" it, or him, or whatever.
Isn't somebody from St. Mary's out there, reading this? C'mon, what else could you possibly be doing??
After reading what wikipedia said about Cotton Eyed Joe, one could almost assume that the girls at this school were saying good bye to a dance they were no longer aloud to dance. Maybe the good times were gone.
We come here for accurate historical information and you serve up links to Wikipedia? Please.
As a literate St. Mary's graduate who just began reading this site recently, may I add that I think this ad refers to a horse named "Cotton-Eyed Joe." I can't swear to this, but I think the horse's bereaved owner put this ad in the yearbook.
