AN AGE-OLD GAME OF MARBLES IS STILL THE RAGE IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE
A line of pickup trucks and an oasis of light glimmering through the darkened trees told Bobby Fulcher that he had found the last surviving marbles yard in Tennessee. Making his way closer, Fulcher heard the murmur of voices and saw men young and old ringing a rectangular patch of dirt upon which two two-man teams were shooting marbles, handmade from local flint, with deadly accuracy and consummate strategy. The game of rolley hole was alive, but just barely.