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This is Roberta Perkins. Today's date is July 12th, 2015. I'm at the home of Richard Louis for the oral history project. Mr. Lewis.

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Sometimes there's a lag. How could I get you to give your full name and date of birth and where you were born?

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Richard Wayne Lewis for January 12th, IP 49. Helped him, Marilyn Little. Okay. Not on the names of your parents

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mother either be Louis and Ernest be live. Do you have any idea when they came? Either be miller, maybe mother's maiden name. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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Do you remember when they caned? Are there or not? Remember but you do know? Didn't mean if I ever say when they came

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time inhale my character yet. No, I couldn't say. I pick on the third, the fourth, the youngest of nine.

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So a lot of family had already been established before they move from one place to another. I do remember them family lived in

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Glasgow area at one time. Lived in your area at one time? We settle at the Pleasant Valley Road. That was the last thing that I remember.

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The only place I remember. He and brothers and sisters. How many would you say? Yeah, I have three brothers.

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Had five sisters. My oldest sister being the oldest. Earnest junior. Second folders. There's Clifford.

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We call him Ray. There's gone. Rosetta, Romo, myself. Hey Sandra. And Marvel. Marvel the baby and the baby boy. Okay.

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Okay. Let me move on to going to school. And I inhale. What do you remember? What what the David like starting for you?

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What time did it start? Did you walk to school? When driven to school? I started my career a lot.

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I do remember when we left the house, probably left the house. We always went to my grandmother, grape, Harvard,

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going to go early part of the school year. And still a bunch of great way to put a bus, which we walked out the alae little dirt laying we had to the end of the road,

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width on little funny shape school bus. It will pick us up. Either going in or coming could go down the road and pick up some people and come

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back up the same road and pick up others. And in route to the school. When we got to the school, sometimes I think the bus would

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lead us out at the end of the road and it was a long pavement from the bottom up high that we ran up to the to the school.

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And other times the bus trip us up little quick, a driveway to the door of the school. That began our day,

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I assumed was about eight o'clock or so. I I can't remember what time would be. Once you got to the school and before others would calm?

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I think we will be in recess outside. I can't remember a bell or anything like that. You know how the teacher got

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our attention to get us then I'm pretty sure we'd make a lot of noise and noisy out there and she had to get some kind

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of maybe even the yardstick. Do remember to craft a yardstick several times. And once we assembled in

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school, I can't remember. I know there were rows of chairs. There was a of coat room with a boy's bathroom

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was on one side and growth bathroom on the other side. We would hang our coats and hats and their lunch isn't there.

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I do remember the old beliefs though. They had remember piano and the right five the front of the school. That many rider with

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the teacher and a memoir plan. You want a music class that we had. She played piano. First gray to me,

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I think will fit on the right side going into the school. Second gray with the left of that third, fourth grade.

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Seated near the window. That's vaguely remember the setup of the school. Can't remember much more

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than than that picture right there. When you went on during the time you went there weren't just up to the fourth grade,

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if that is the asset worth gray. And after the fork Gray was thing a song of graduating song of Maryland. We go rolling down the middle town school.

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You so excited to go to the next goal which has been the Middletown, which is most are ready school. And so jackie for that school year ended.

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I remember somebody older ones coming back to the school because I sell milk cow school got before our ideals. And naval can harass us, you know,

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in a theft because they are a graduate from the school and they had a good time. Now the John take it away from us,

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having a good time again, given that's the initiation part of it. And we also did the same thing to the ones that

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graduated from the fourth grade when we were in the fifth, sixth grade, you did the same thing to them. This sort of painting.

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If you were happen after school or was this the first year you went to know ASL writing for? The first year I went to law school, yes.

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We came back to the Iowa School to harass the one that's about to leave are the ones that will still there that we still knew.

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Let me ask you, you mentioned something about your grandmother's grape arbor and we're so where did your grandmother? My grandmother had a farm right next

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to my mom and dad have Pleasant Valley Road and I can't recall how many acres it was, but it was a large large farm.

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Raised hogs, cattle and horses and barnyard animals. I do remember several things about the the form,

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the walnut trees and all kinds of goodies around their tomato field and stuff and greywater. It stretched from a few people

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my house all the way. Just appeal to a few feet from my grandmother's house. And it was a very large grape IVR

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and not a grace with on there. And the latter part of the thumb or early early fall, the grapes would be right.

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And you're not my grandmother would always that at that window and know when we went into the grapes.

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And then we will smash defense damp and one and take it Great. All of a one n for two. He knew that. And then

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she would yell, get out the grapes. Then we will run, show ourselves getting out of the Great. Now before we get to fill that.

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Haha yeah. She kind of expected that he would do. I's expected that because unless you wait, not new with time,

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we will go and do it and and we would yell. She would yell and we would get out The Great. What's your grandfather so

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alive at that time? My grandfather got in 58. So I went to school with it. Yes. I was like, yes,

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he was alive, but he was probably off in the field early in the morning somewhere. Didn't see much of him because he was always my grandfather,

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my mother's father, and he would always field work in it. Then. What would their name? My grandfather's name, Isaac Miller.

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And my grandmother than they are Bill Miller. He's found that IT IS. I yes. I guess I think my grandmother,

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our bell, ARB ALL. Okay. You mentioned about pop out in school. What was that? So Utah,

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you remember probably obviously heating. Yj will use preheating. I do remember. Maybe convert it to colder after that and maybe cope with,

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I think a couple of young boys of myself included had to attend that from time to time. Okay. Okay.

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How how how was that? I think MIT. I think it was in a room off the main main school,

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I think with a door like a heater room. And I think I can recall there was heat vents or ductwork that pushed the heat in

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the room and the other school and the back part of the school has on his side do aside of the school. Okay. I think when you're coming into

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school and you're facing the fact that the school was it to the right or to the right of the ankle once you commit

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those main door to door? Just past the girls bathroom on the right side, I remember door being there.

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You're also there to exit. Do want to on that door over there on the outside wall. And your teacher, why?

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Many rider writer at a time. Okay. Do you remember her? She was very how can I describe miss writer? She was very, very nice lady.

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I respected her very much. She paid a piano, and she always had a ruler in her hand, a yardstick type thing.

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If you got out of line, you would definitely got your hands smack. I can't remember getting beat too many times. I do remember my hand good.

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Smack the couple of time. I didn't say a whole lot in school. I pick out what kind of quiet. One of the quiet one at a time.

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First grade, second grade. And I think I just did my work, you know, I was a thinker. I do know that according

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to my report card with the a and B student, didn't do a lot of participating. Talking. My work within my console, I guess. I know I love numbers.

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I know math, spelling. I don't know what grade it would then I'd take a spelling with it. I love spelling and

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reading with them or weak point. My weakest point, I remember to this day a word that this rod is to always tell us to break

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the word down to one word to word or whatever and making sense of it. I remember this word today. Island. When I read the word island,

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I said is late. I think I got a beating for that. Do you remember that? From this day all I knew how to spell.

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I only how many it was. You pick about it should work. Is that my my pinks? And when I read that word

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is land mili Island, I was scolded in gotten my hands. Did did miss Reiner if you stumble over something like

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that particular word for math or something, did she do anything that was supportive to try to get you to understand better

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what she was trying to teach it because I was that she did other than correcting or had a scolding should never never abusive to me.

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That stuck in my head and I remember that correctly. How to spell island. From that Dale. And of all the assignments,

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I do remember that. I can't remember anything else other than reading was my weakest point in school. I click the attention span. I did.

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I couldn't stand or even now, I can't read a complete book. And I read complete books. But if I start a book now, I will skip,

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skip back and forth or read a chapter here and go back to another chapter and put it down and come back to advance

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myself in some chapters and come back and read from page to page. I want to know what's gone on at the end. So that's me, I reckon.

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Do you did you feel class that students were encouraged not even be in the ones that may have needed a little bit more.

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How did you feel a certain support, encouragement for him or was it more just okay. This lesson is what I expect.

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She she walked around. I do remember that and I can't remember exactly how many in each row, each path. I live with at least four or five.

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In the first grade, maybe five or six. My them more in second grade and first grade or more? 1 third. In fourth grade. But he

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took her time to me and and had we had all had pair time with the teacher because I have a look back over them.

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I will report card and indicated that everything was pretty good. She's taken pretty good. And I had no problems with

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learning or paying attention. I was curious, very curious person I was so may say I will little Henri, but I really think that what I

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did my work. Did my work. Do you remember parent teacher? Because I have to realize that you are going way back,

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exhale first to fourth grade. You don't think about things to remember them that way. If you're a junior high.

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But do you remember whether or not there was conferences between your parents and the teacher the teacher for contact the parents just to kinda give them

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an update in one way or the other beyond the report card? No, I can't remember. I do remember the

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teacher come into our house. Okay. What was that occasion? I knew I had a main goals or

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something like that one time and she would prefer I do remember teacher coming to you to have for something and it might

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have been a complex, I don't know. Show the color, stay out of the adults way. When adults talk. He had to leave the room

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or go outside and play. And I filmed. There was something about my schooling. Not only with I and a school.

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My younger sister lives in the same school during the same time for my two older sisters in a school within the arpanet period of me being in the middle.

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So it could have been for any one of the four. Why she came to school, came to the house. Okay. So I'm and when she came

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to an end after she laughed and none of the three siblings heard from the parents know at the conference conversation.

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Let me ask you about school 25 school supplies and library. Do you remember whether there was a library in the school

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and what will your school supplies, books and that kind of thing. I know we all learned on runs, Valley run, Dick, dick, Jane, and Bye-bye.

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Beyond that, I think they're the bookcase in the back of his back of the school room. I remember that chalkboard being up front and one on the fly.

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Teacher's desk was in the front of the school. And she had a pointer that's used for other books that can't recall.

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She always had the assignment or some type of book that we read that do you remember that S3 runbook? Can't remember the name of it.

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I think everybody knows what I'm talking about, who had run. And think that we're seeing yeah, yeah, no big bang Valley.

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Near the books. I can't remember. I'm pretty sure there was the first grade, second grade, third grade readers in fourth grade.

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Because I know indicated reading like maybe third grade level and out into fourth grade type thing. She mentioned I want to report card.

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If I read more. And when we were young and I don't think of parent booster study time that I can remember.

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We may have done our homework. 0 is 0 as we did our homework. But I can't remember getting scolded to do it either either out of the deal.

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I wanted to do it. Got it down. I can't remember my parents than you better get in and get your homework done.

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When I was yeah, I can't remember then. Just the general expecting one there. I've dress code was required way of dress. And did the teacher kind of do a inspection,

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so to speak, in our care. For their children to be kind of neat and clean when they came in. Remember anything that was away with what

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our family we were CLI I don't think they would address. I do remember my parents bought me a suit jacket and blue pair to pair paint,

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one jacket to per pant. And I were those who passed the school. One day. And as boys like to play marbles, cared of pocket of marbles.

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And we would draw the circle for a marvels down and start play a marbled. So obviously you gotta get down and ate. And so when you get down,

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you may, you get up, you need to get out to me anytime you need the threat to us, the thing. And I will hold in my hands and my feet.

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And of course, when I got home, I got a little bit. But wearing the suit pants, school sort of dress code,

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we work whatever genes wouldn't. Yeah, I guess we did where King be rolled up cockpit thing. There is no holes that are

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closed because that was a no, no. Hold you close. I like today, Matthew was really core and nobody really wanted to be core.

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Even though we didn't have a whole lot as children have today. Here we're describing the classroom a little bit.

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Do you remember if there what was on the wall behind a teacher with our blackboard behind the teacher's desk and pictures or do you remember?

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I remember the blackboard with the ABC, uppercase and lowercase. And I can't remember anything else about the school.

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I hadn't been to that school since I went back and harass them. They wanted to do with about to leave that go.

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I can't remember anything else that over the ear again. Still standing at the Museum of Natural History Museum.

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We're counting time, took it over. And I think that's the reason. I don't know that history very well. They maintain the integrity of the roof.

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And that's why the building and planning. It's a totally different from what you remember. Oh, yeah, It's all animals

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and plant life kind of thing. International history of cases of rock shelter. And that's what's going to be all moved out.

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I write either a lot and you know, course. Look over their memories. The flagpole and the maypole where they had over there and the swaying.

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They have remembered that area. And I think a pole still over there, Whether it's to wrap the mapo amendment of girls is to get

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on that thing and put the arm through that little loop and go around there with the leg, the fly in circles.

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And you've gotta get out there way. They kick you. I do remember that way. Yeah. Hi. You can go and play and jump out.

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Doing there a big ol pine tree down in front of the school, right cloud of school. Okay.

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So faith, based in a school B on the right side, and we play tag. And I do remember a friend of my ready,

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ready, ready, retinal Greenwich. And I would rather put base. And next thing you know, we flipped each other and I go

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the veneer and he come down to be right in my head and it bled. And I still have that mark today in my head somewhere.

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Hairs cabinet. Some of the covenant. That right there. Just a little bit. A tiny little. Yeah. And I got pitches from it,

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but he into pit my head and I don't know part B to the base or whatever, but now he didn't maybe

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to develop games we played and remember, I didn't get knocked out. We played a lot outside again, going to wreath that.

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You ran away. I played baseball. We have some trails of duty. Would we do play in the woods a little bit? Kickball, dodgeball

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course to swaying the knee, the maypole in battle baseball, boys play baseball bat or other activities. Do you remember that involved outside.

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I think they used to have field any something. Where did they have that? Yeah, they had made a compromise.

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Okay. Don't you know, all alumni, we'll come back and I break the law, never come back.

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We will have all day outside doing activity. Do you remember at the school with used for anything other than yes. It was used for a pony with

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a polling place for the political parties. I do remember on the political parties would come around and pick up our parents and care.

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I'm too late the boat. And there will be about apple cider and oatmeal cookie, not oatmeal cookie, the gender Snap Core.

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First thing. I do remember that during the fall it a year. Okay. Other than that, I don't know if it

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was used for anything else. Okay. So when the political party members but combined to kick the parents up,

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do you remember if there were any other infinity, Any other they encourage parents to vote a certain way or

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they just made sure they got to the point. I think the game cares. Parents divorced certain way because that party was the Democratic Party,

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for instance, and they did pick up the the parents. And I assume that's why do you pick them up? Make sure you voted my way.

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Remember taking any cash? Not not per se. Taken a test? I'm pretty sure we did. Pretty sure we did. But whether they'd be

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written test or all tests. But I knew we had spelling tests and I didn't know that. That was good at spelling.

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And I was good at spelling. And go on about health care. Did done where they are. Do you remember nurse

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who would come by Gandhi? Well, yeah, that doctors, yes, they would the medical system would come by. I don't know how often they would come,

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but they will combine and give out needles with the polio shopping. I finally got my polio shot. And the other vaccinations you would

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get that would come to the school. And I do remember some of the ones. I was never scared of anything like that. But somewhere scared again with a needle.

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And it was, it was exciting to see the expression on some space. Who's going to get the needle

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either will make me want to go just to see how who had arrived from the nato or he was held down or, or whatever. But yes, the common checker or

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help give the shots and the dentist used to come on one once it usually a nurse and a doctor or a nurse or just to die.

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I don't really know, but the doctor, I assumed it was just the like acrylic future Wilson would just the nurses alert

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helpers could have been a doctor or I really don't know, but I do try to take wine.

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And we're continuing the conversation with minster moist about the health care that hearing members and students receiving a gift,

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the hygiene with very important, you know, we always I know we had wash everything we or wash their hands. Well, it came from outside

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and look and nurses. I do remember them bring in their older instruments and setting up into back into school.

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And we can go from gray degrading, get our vaccinations. During that day. I think to me it came to a three day just to get everybody.

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So we'll make it as thick. And I can't remember. Not be in there for any of them. It wasn't all day or it was

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just a certain hours of the day and then they would come back if they met somebody. I assumed it was part of the day. I wrote. Can't remember or recall

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every detail that I think that part of the day. I don't think they give us a whole day and not doing anything.

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But a amazes me. Now that the teaching, that one room classroom setting and you had poor grade

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and four or five or six students in each class made me thou, the teacher taught without work, great. Interrupting the third grade or whatever.

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They might go on to spit ball are going up and at each other piece of paper or felt in each other. Like we got caught a little thing we did

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the teacher be in various kind of to the class. And I can't remember any disruption while I

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was there from one to the other. They will call the teacher to not want to come back the next day and teach. So don't miss rider commanded I mean,

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she had enough skill if you were to command the respect of the students or was it a combination of that and the time Shogun came to school,

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and that was their background and children came to school to learn. And this many Rider was a teacher, understanding that, you know,

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and she knew your parents as well, and she could spank as well as when you got home, you got spanked.

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So we can learn and not feel that her being a teacher to what she was. We did not disrespect her in any way they want.

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And I remember there may have been times that there was a problem. I can't remember. The writer. She changed her name when she got

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married during the time I was in school. I think I might have been a third grade. Her name may feel. He married a Makefile.

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And I do remember him coming to the schools, have a type and an other and that we deal with under control because she had to go

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outside to greet him and meet him and we always had something to do. Donate time. Did he going back to she knew your family. Does she live in the community?

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Because she got married. She never does. She know she lived in New York. Pick a name and a rude New London.

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She made it there for a long time because I do remember we I don't know if it's after school or you want a period of time

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made a couple of friends, went to the two. There are two or how? Pick up something. I can't remember now,

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but I remember going through that how pick up something, whether woodwind or a husband or wife or whoever.

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I can't remember now exact what I remember going to the house. And that was in New York guy? Yes. Yes. Yes. Each row, if I recall right,

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you with a diploma, 50000, by the name 57, financial crime. Blue and white? I can recall. Yeah.

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Yeah. I do remember a car. They're colored card. Okay. That brings to mind automata color here. Remember what they look

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like? Like what color? It with a rough big yellow or something like that. Okay.

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Okay. Yeah. With the yellow film back. Okay. Not much different. Now. Okay. Not much different in color.

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We want one person we interviewed. Remember thump, an old railroad read until I mean, it could be painted over.

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I'll go with yellow. Yellow. Me. Okay. I can care. Laura will be glad to here. That would be interesting.

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Okay. And prior to that and make and I don't know how long my 1920 without me, I don't want to go on my pain.

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I'm trying to think I am here with 23. I think it was a time period. In 1923. There was a time period when pulled up and down.

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And I think high inhale look up an important thing. But it great, I think, than what their room was,

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what 30 years later, the first color could have been reddish or whatever again. Oh, you're wondering about

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my lunchtime recess. I think you already did. They come about after outdoor activity? Yeah.

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I had time. We guarantee you'll have bag lunches or a shiny little lunch bombs with care lunch boxes.

00:37:42.030 - 00:37:50.510

If you didn't hear him up, laughed at all year. But like me, apparently mine didn't last all year.

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We had a brown bag it, I guess. And then you put your lunch in the lunch room. Where you put your coat and hat.

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And in each time, somebody we have something different and their lunch. And you always be curious with somebody,

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you know, within their lunch, you know, apple or orange or candy bar. It's something different being someone else, like, you know, I think he got Canada,

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are they so I think I'm going to tell myself, I did go into one lunch and knew the what. And I gotta add an app, Wow, nice shiny apple. Or eat an apple.

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And a teacher come in and kind of caught me at a fat, though I, I try to meet the app and they've gotten

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lodged in my trip of sliver got lived in my throat. And I'm fit in there. While that happen, it wouldn't go anywhere and that was choking.

00:38:49.390 - 00:38:58.910

It was cutting my throat. I felt all I thought about drinking water to drink water that down. And I've never tell

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anyone else with lunch again. I'm never Du Bois would try to sneak in and get the girls lunch. And they do grow their crops,

00:39:09.880 - 00:39:20.930

they can get the voyage much. But I did get caught myself doing that. The owner come ever did that. And I paid for it again.

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I did the teachers see how much stress you rounder? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. If it's odd you currently going back of my head

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and I couldn't breathe and I'm cutting my growth and maybe drink some water, drinking water and it kind of went down. So instead of scolding you,

00:39:36.980 - 00:39:44.870

she she she figured she figured at that with punishment. Punishment enough. I can't remember. I don't know if

00:39:44.870 - 00:39:53.150

the other classmates knew about. Okay. I approached, you know, I get caught in that

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looked like he was a very caring person. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. I feel like yes, she wrote.

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What about on a lot of time, certain times a year, there would be special activity, especially like round of feedback.

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Do you remember anything like that? Like on Play or under Title? I hate to do that square dance. And we had to go through DOE with the girl.

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Okay. And and I didn't dress. They like to do that too well. What I did do it I kind of wanted a girl Doctor feet today, a fall now.

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Fly would fit in a corner if that out and not do it again. I don't know if that's once a week apart that the curriculum that

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we were doing music and they had bad. I hate to do that. And coloring the another, I hate the color too.

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I hate it if they had thought a lie or coloring or hidden, didn't like coloring to well, any other activity and thought,

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I can't remember the fee and do remember that square dancing. The data with dance with the girl. And at that age, you know,

00:41:35.910 - 00:41:53.630

you didn't want to be with the girl when you're 7891011. Change that base. I remember about the other and correct.

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Any holiday celebrations? That's pretty much it. Other than the Thanksgiving pilgrims stuff? Halloween. Vaguely remember

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Halloween celebration. Pretty sure we carve pumpkins. Christmas. We always made the people of loops out of construction,

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paper and trim the tree and may be out of the buried in the holly leaves to go pick the holly out as five new and it would really,

00:42:35.120 - 00:42:48.560

yeah, I make these Dakota the Evergreen. Yet another name for to give the Evergreen, the growth low to the ground. To make wreath. We can make

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wreath. Going to Christmas. Yeah. We'll call it growth. Would've felt like yeah, something like that. We called it.

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And we go get it and make reef make a circle and dress were buried and hotel chain and wrap the tree and bring it home.

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You'd after the phases over and make Thumper home? I do remember going Christmas, Easter. Can't remember going to a show we did.

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Those were the norm going at time. Christmas, Easter, halloween, Christmas about it. Do you remember what the lighting with

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like in the fall? I'm going back into the school. We define picture of your work when you were

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there and what you remember it look like? Well, they had windows on that one side. And I do to blinds are pulled down every evening. And I'm doing that.

00:44:02.030 - 00:44:11.120

I couldn't live up in the morning. Delight far as the lighting itself electrically, I can't remember whether it was bulbs,

00:44:11.120 - 00:44:23.030

fluorescent, or any light. Now, remember that there had to be electric like yeah, yeah, it's definitely a kid.

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You don't pay attention to that unit. You push a little button for going back on whether a death and life incandescent or whatever.

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You don't think about that. I got it on the desk with a movable or when they attach. They removable.

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Okay. Yeah. The little death a movable go. With that. I think we had it moves

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with death to do that. Where they do. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Do you have any recollection of parents being

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involved with the pole in any way? Like who do the maintenance, that kind of thing. For them to think about them.

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I'm trying to think of a person. I'm trying to think of an adult. I've been at the school any time I was there to even grant that.

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We've got a graph cut felt if they now it didn't take him all the time. I remember running through the call graph and I can't recall

00:45:37.700 - 00:45:43.490

anybody doing a maintenance. Yeah. Okay. I wanted to call that time just talking

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about the 50 mentally pithy if that with the county to decrypt the file. Because I did remember seeing

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horses and stuff like that when you're cutting graph along the road candidate that had the the forces that pull the grasscutter?

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I can't remember. I can't really remember what type of gravity of the blade. I know had little quirks and sharp.

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Sharp. Neither if something on a blade on it. Do we live in a horse, it's cool and the grasscutter at the end of the road not

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forthcoming from the school yard? I can't remember thin and I don't know how they got the grant. They did it and

00:46:32.480 - 00:46:40.370

made that a big tractor or something? I don't know. The tube with it. Yeah. Agenda to horses will pull

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the graph along the road. To remember that. Do you remember what a crossfade more kind of classroom look like with it, with an orchard feel for how unfair it was.

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Pebble. Watch it there. Okay. We never went across that way.

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We have fetch a long area, a large area to prayer. We never play too much on the left side of the pavement because they

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were the pavement went straight down to Obama pi from the school and we only paid on it right. Fraud where the driveway work and had

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the pointy looking at rock, I guess it's like a war against Iraq. Reddish looking. Jag it. Okay, lot a lot of stone all over the place.

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And you would find one anywhere really it a little more than any kind of art or reddish looking stone.

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I guess since then they pave gravel that really paved the drought. We have a rod way, It's gravel gravel that before it is a walkway to

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children from school and the direction of more tied to I can't remember. I don't think it goes all the

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way down to volume. Are you going oh, it out to the road. And the flagpole is just the way down the steps, right?

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Think of it with my partner. To the left of it. They let go of that payment. I mean, there were

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the home on the how fun the other thigh. On the right side of the school down near the end of the road. Facing the faith in a school?

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Yeah, down near the Obama pipe on the right hand. Pick the people's name of Burke. I'm not sure if Burke.

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I remember one of the boys lived there and he was going our class. I think the name of Alan. I think our Tony,

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our painting, our ALL END. Yeah. Okay. And I think he only went to school there for a couple of year.

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Okay. I can remember him. Out of the third grade or fourth grade or second or third grade. He went there school.

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I can't remember him fourth-grade graduating whatnot for relieving. And they had a cup of apple orchards over there.

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And we go back and forth, compounded thought that the only close proximity with any other, how does the area at

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the main camp they sell what was thinking school, what was to the left of it? It was okay.

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It was all wouldn't be a trail to do. The honest Gould all would to the right side of the school house down there.

00:49:59.210 - 00:50:10.690

It might have confined to your right of the school. But was lack of buy-in country with inbetween adventure

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on that front too much. So what with it like, what, what will your memory of living growing up and

00:50:21.140 - 00:50:35.720

living in community with that like for you? The only thing we knew really they kept we never went anywhere else. We've to walk everywhere.

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We had to go Begin. And they can be on 10-year though now. We're not when I was 67, go to school. Apparently. We went to school.

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We went to Bible class. There. The bus, the same bus would take us to the Congo. Houses grade on a pike.

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And we will have have funny or not, someday it'll be at the school, bible Claire. And we would do things there for an hour, hour and a half or one.

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Identity buffer take a okay. So the bottleneck that just for him, it was after school. I don't up with once a week.

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I do remember going there. And I do remember a permanent Bible class. I do remember one burst that I feel quote some time.

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And I know that Bob a class. And that's the second Peter 318. We said it grow in grave. And, and NOT of either to therapy,

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to try to Him be the glory that the BioBrick I lurk there. And I guess it all tie to what we were doing

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in that kind of stuck in my head all these years. And since then I've been growing angry and feel learning of them.

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And so that to me, is the essence of why Bob's good with it, either for us to learn. And and I pick that up.

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And it's taken me today. Did you with that effort that was chosen for you, did you pick that birth?

00:52:32.510 - 00:52:42.440

Why did that day in your personal meaning for you? One thing. I don't know which reading reading that book.

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Okay. Theater nevertheless. One in the book. I don't remember how I got to know that one. Remember battle.

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Okay. This one at a time when you had graduated from iron, you know that you're telling me about now,

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do you feel it on Hill iron may have been or gray. Okay. Okay. And then thereafter on Hill death,

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the only other activity we would do and then we would go home. Then after the bucket that's up at home, we would play ball or

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outside or if we had homework to do, I guess we would do it or coming out and do it before we went to bed or company. After we did our chores,

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I was going to ask you can get your yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We had chores to do the cut grass and take out the trash and then we burn our trash at

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that time IDO been burrow and we take it out of the bag and dump it in there and enlight the trash and burning burning trash up.

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And then my dad and matric periapical, five-gallon got bool. They would take it way down and it would go up at a GIF.

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And that took a long time. We had to make sure the stove was filled with care thing. And then if you turn to fill up,

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it was your turn to fill it and you let it run out. You get up ten o'clock or 11 o'clock at night and go

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get it in an area with Greg West thought it dark time. No NO street light. Now, it's black up there at nighttime.

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And so we stayed around our area. Most of the years. From the 10 them as well, your though, slugger though, you know,

00:54:36.350 - 00:54:48.830

GitHub six grace, I'm at other people. We walk the route of on Hill for my house. About a mile, two miles to two next neighbor time,

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not a neighbor's house and my friend's house. And we will walk from that his house to another 23 mouth, another frame out.

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And then then we walk from here out to 3 mod going swimming. And we did that all day. And then we have bi-stable from time to time.

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We ride bicycles, the mainly the course, the walking. I'm talking. Five or six guys who get together,

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worn at one time and look like a little gang or group, whatever it would be today. But then we will walk and nobody really,

00:55:24.290 - 00:55:30.910

really mess with in the second stanza, throw things in. There. Never happened while I will work with anybody.

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So when you said you would do this all day with this on weekend, you're talking about obviously thumb or caught me

00:55:37.400 - 00:55:47.280

at a school during the school year with that with that color. Though it is on the weekend, mostly some rapid schools over here we would

00:55:47.280 - 00:55:57.250

have to school with definitely go first order of business was gone swimming. We will leave the to school. They put the half a day of school.

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We will all get or a slimming clothes and we would walk two miles to go to the old cobra on the train bridge. Could go swimming.

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Now let's shrink this straight up towards the North. Elton red rice competitive right up Chapel Road.

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Trade off there a change at all now, but yeah. If the train station now when the train station able to bridge. Okay.

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Where under the bridge there was a creek and leads to the women waited in a creek and we

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always warned not to go up there. Parents always wanted to narrow to go up there, but we always did.

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The only really had one summer and learn to swim and from all advocates of snakes away with them in a hole.

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And so then we start to venture from place to place in that circle, that circle. Complex, Valley Road to Joppa Road, up to iron saw.

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Whilst shack wrote, Einstein would occur road. And back down, whole bottom of high growth economy,

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kinda traveler then we will venture to when we got older, we've got two down further down to old corner plank which was Elton area.

00:57:28.590 - 00:57:38.540

Got older, but just as centered around that area. Okay. A lot of Miranda, we hang out a lot.

00:57:38.540 - 00:57:54.090

There will be younger. What was the name that some of the buddy William or 0, 1, 0 and Bill, Eva best buddy the con,

00:57:54.090 - 00:58:08.810

Ronnie Earl than other one. Cow town with older but they all might be like two years old. And I remember I had

00:58:08.810 - 00:58:20.690

a cousin was next door, icky the ROI. We will pick him up and he and I would take off and walk up through. And I had a nephew to come down during

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the summertime AND or OR latter part a year when he was gone vacation eight from his school, the left and one with an area.

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And his name is John Lewis. John. And we'll call him Butch. And he would come down they the weekend or whatever with me.

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And we would venture with the guide, moving and would go play baseball and play put bot all day. Helping and goes to me.

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Of course we were like 12 and 13 here though this time. I have a couple more questions. If I want to repeat this end,

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decide to take one.