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L to R: Harrison Reibach, Tom Bean, Ray Conrad, Sammy Riggs(?), Irving Tom and in front, Barney Reibach.
Photo Courtesy of Dorothy McKnight Lawe.
"Nadine Mercier and myself stayed home
one time to babysit Nadine had to do
the washing. Thats when we boiled
diapers. I don't know how the red sock
got in with the white diapers, but Joyce
wore the prettiest pink diapers."
"I remember, in the evening, there were
boxing matches. It seemed like they
really turned out to be real big boxing
matches because the people lost their
tempers, getting mad if they were losing.
Then the families got involved. There
was a lot of boxing"...
Then I remember going to silent movies.
I can't remember if you had to pay or not,
but it was hard to keep quiet because
you had to have somebody read to you.
So, if everybody yelling, you'd be yelling.
If everybody laugh, you'd laugh'...
"I remember the food tasted so good.
Especially the coffee early in the morn
ing. Because I was real small, my folks
would let me drink coffee because I got
up early"...
"I remember one time, I was baby sitting.
I didn't realize my younger brother was
gone. I remember him saying when
coming in mom playing.
'I gave our dad ten gallons of gas. '
Here, he had put water in our gas tank. I
realty got a switching that night"
- Kathryn Harrison
"One time, Velma would go and pick
hops in the morning and I'd go in the
afternoon. So this day I cooked some
beans.
So, I had a kettle of beans boiling on the
stove and every once in awhile, I'd taste
to see if they were done. Well, then there
were a lot of other children around. I
remember Aunt Maude and her children
at home. Well, we all would taste the
beans.
Finally, when Aunt came back, she
looked at the beans, and said, 'Oh, thats
not enough to eat!!! You better peel
some potatoes.'
So, I got busy and peeled some potatoes
so we'd have something to eat "
-ILADOWD
-Ivanetta Cook
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L to R: Harold Mercier, Tommy Misfelt, Dean Mercier and Gordon Linton. Photo courtesty of Velma Mercier.