TRANSCRIPT

MD - Marjorie (Bell) Dawson, interviewee; JA - June (Bell) Anderson, interviewee; GB - George Bell, interviewee / LR - Lyn Royce, interviewer

MD: [different than] ...from when I was growing up.

LR: So what was it like when you were growing up [Marjorie]?

MD: [indecipherable brief overlapping GB& MD] ...you know, I can't think about it... My mother was always a good cook.

LR: Okay.

MD: And they could take anything and make pies, you know? Meat pies, and put everything in it... My father was a cook. So he baked pies and things like that but, you know, later on when the younger kids come, things were different.

JA: But you know, we used to have, um, the farmers and then we'd have Thanksgiving and Harvest Home and the farmers would bring all the fruit and donate it to the church. And then we'd go off and we would buy it, like, the people would buy it and then they'd go home and they would make canned peaches and stuff and they cooked, they didn't, you know, rely on things.

MD: That was Harvest Home, wasn't it?

GB & JA: Yeah.

JA: And they used to have that...

LR: So you, so you remember those celebrations at home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

JA: Oh yeah.

LR: Yeah.

JA: Were alright...

LR: Did you have you lots of people... did you have extended family come? Or was it just... There were enough of you with 10! But did you have more visitors come at those celebrations?

MD: We know on Thanksgiving, my father used to get us all together and we always had to kneel down and pray and everything, before we'd eat. Stuff like that. So it was... My day were... things would be so much different than 'cause I was always sort of happy...

LR: Unhunh...

MD: ...you know.

LR: When...

GB I used to be in control of cleaning the lanterns, because my hands were small. We didn't have electricity, so... I used to clean out the lanterns. Wicks?

LR: Okay.

MD: I used to carry him around when he was a baby. My mother'd say to me, 'Do this work.' I'd say, 'I have to take care of the baby.' [chuckles]

JA: You know we used to have a coal yard at the back, at the end of our street.

LR: Mhmm... Okay.

JA: And then when the coal fell down, my brother Bob would go down, pick up the coal, and bring it home.

MD: Apartment buildings.

JA: So we used to, you know, so there was a lot of things that you could do.

LR: You'd just picked things up as you went and bring them home...

JA: Yeah, right.