In our family, card playing was how you learned to count. My grandfather’s favorite game was setback. The men who stopped off at his store often stayed for cards or checkers. The handmade checkerboard sat on a 10-penny nail keg; the checkers were Nehi Orange or NuGrape bottle caps.
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…we used to play setback in the storage room at the Wild Goose Inn in Fairfield, NC. Morgan Harris taught us how to play cards in PE class, Hearts was one of the games. I know of a Lynn Harris.
