TRANSCRIPT

JG - James Gibson, interviewee / LR - Lyn Royce, interviewer

LR: Okay, so, I got your brothers' and sisters' names. Can you tell me when they were born?

JG: No; but I have this book.

LR: 'Kay...

JG: Okay? And eh, every time each 1 of us was born, my father marked it down in the, in the front flap and the back flaps of this book. And this book was a book on how to write notes, business, social... and it was that kind of book, you know, proper headings and all that. And, uh, I remember running across it when he passed, amongst his things, okay? And so I took the book. That's how come I remember, because I still have it, and that's like I can remember, I can tell y' I look in the book and I can tell you, when each, where we were born, what time we were born, and everything.

LR: Good; great. We'll get you to get that book and bring it in for us.

JG: Mhmm. But I can't leave it!

LR: No, no, no; nope, you bring it in and we'll just record it for you, 'n just write it down and put it in our records and hand it back to y'. Maybe scan a page for the exhibit? If it shows up...

JG: Oh yeah, so that you, so you see the authenticity.

LR: You SEE when it's there, yeah the 'authentic'...

JG: You can see, because in those days, you know, they used fountain pens, as they're called. And, uh, 1, uh, of the entries that he marked, a fountain pen, and the fountain pen was split. So it must have split, because the broad, it was broad strokes in the, in the writing.

LR: Yeah.

JG: You'll see that, you'll see what I mean.