Cue the banjo music …

Our discussions of village life in Volhynia or even Molotschna sometimes feel terribly distant both in terms of time and location. Then I see a photograph such as the one below, and I realize that maybe the Bullers of recent times are not all that different from our nineteenth-century forebears. Life in Lushton in the early 1960s probably had more in common with life for our ancestors back in Russia than we may sometimes realize.

Of course, the real reason to post this photo is share a laugh or three by thinking up captions that capture the (hillbilly) essence of what we see. I offer several suggestions below; feel free to offer your own ideas in the comments.

• Cue the banjo music—here comes the cast of Deliverance!


• Larry was unavailable, but Daryl and his other brother Daryl agreed to be photographed.


• The sales team at Junior Sample’s used car lot. Give them a call at BR-549.