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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[[?]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Is it more women than men?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, more women.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
who's usually the fastest, men or women?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Women.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
The women are mostly the fastest? Who's the fastest for the women?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Christina Grey.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And then after Christina it's?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Me, and then Murdoch.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh-huh, okay.
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[[Doris laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What's the age range?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
I guess the oldest one would be, oldest one would be Murdoch I guess.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who's the youngest, what's the youngest age?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
That would be 35.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Youngest would be 35. Any Mary's about how old?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
69.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
69. Is there a lot of young people that's shucking there?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
No, not a lot.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Why isn't there a lot of people?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
I don't think they want to do that kind of work.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Why is that? Is it because it's messy or they think it don't make a lot of money?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Don't make a lot of money. It's not a all-year-round job, you know?
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mmm-hmm.

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, that's right, so that's why we don't have too many young people.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. And are men and women pretty much treated the same?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, they're treated the same.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. And they do the same type of work?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah. Men shuck clams too.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. But you think [[tape fault]] [[?]] women.
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Oh yes!
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What else, what other types of jobs is there, besides shucking oysters and clams?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[[?]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
at the oyster house?

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
That's in the summer.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Are there any other types of jobs that's done there?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
That's all, just crab in the summer. Crab and the clam in the summer. Oysters in the winter.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. What about packers for the oysters and clams?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Oh yeah, we have[[--]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Are the oysters cleaned and packed and all that?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
We have some mens in the skimmer, we call it the skimmer, [[is?]] do that.
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Yeah, they're packed too.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Have you always just worked on the [[?]]
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