THE HALL The Lower Freetown Hall was located on the angle of the Caleb Taylor farm, now in the possession of Allison Profitt . It was built in the year 1881 with lumber purchased, in part, from David Rogers , Mills; the rough boards costing 70 cents per hundred feet and the shingles $2.00 per thousand. The main building was about twenty-two feet by thirty-four feet with a fourteen foot post. It was sturdily built, the studding in the walls being 4x6 inches, hand-hewn and spaced eighteen inches apart. A choir loft or stage was added to the end of the building about the year 1908; George Taylor was the carpenter. On each side of the main building were three Gothic shaped windows and on each side of the choir there was a mullion window. On the end next the road there was a small porch or entry, also with a Gothic-shaped window, while high up on the gable end there was a small round window with a sash made in the shape of a wheel with spokes forming eight small panes. One of these panes had been broken out, the result of a certain small boy on his way home from school being tempted to try a shot at it with a snowball. just to see if he could hit it, with the aforementioned dire results. The deed may have been long ago repented of, but the hole remained for many years, a constant reminder to all passers-by, (if they could but read) that "Satan still for idle hands some mischief finds to do". In the days before the advent of the automobile, when all entertainment and social life was confined to the immediate vicinity, the Hall played a very important part in the life of the community, and with the passing of that era, its usefulness was at an end. Many were the happy evenings spent there, when concerts, plays, pie and basket socials put on by local talent, drew capacity audiences; or at election time when opposing candidates vied with each other in public debate for the good will of their constituents. Many were the pranks that were played, both at the political meetings and at the socials. At the pie and basket socials the girls supplied the pies or baskets and they were sold to the highest bidder with the proceeds going to some worthy cause, which was, of course, the main reason for having the event in the first place. The purchaser shared the pie with the girl whose name was attached and expected the privilege of seeing her home after the social. One respected and respectable citizen who was always at the forefront of all good causes suggested to his wife that instead of going to all the work of preparing a a basket she just put in a turnip, as he would be buying it anyway nobody would know the difference and a lot of work and fuss would be saved. So much for the plan, but alas, the secret leaked out, and when the basket was put up for auction the bidding started fast and furious and our friend had to follow up in order to save face, both for himself and his good wife. The result was that the aforementioned turnip became the highest priced turnip ever sold in Freetown - in spite of present day Marketing Boards — or what have you.