Whistling Indoors Calls Trouble
Long before radios filled rooms with music and before phones carried voices through walls, American homes were places where silence held meaning. The sounds allowed indoors were chosen carefully. Footsteps, conversation, laughter, the clatter of dishes, even crying were accepted as part of daily life. Whistling, however, occupied a strange and uneasy place. Across Midwestern towns and Appalachian hollows, people
