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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
This is May 9, 1996. Today's interview is with Doris Harris of Marsha Road and Saint Laurent Maryland.

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[Doris chuckles]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, Doris, where were you born?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Calvert County.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, what part of Calvert County?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Lusby.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Lusby?

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Uh-huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What was it like growing up in Lusby, Maryland?

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Oh, it was kinda rough and I did a lot of playing, and stuff like that.[[Appears to whisper something to herself]]
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, uh, tell me about your mom and dad, Doris, about your family. How many sisters and brothers did you have?

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Six sisters and three brothers.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And tell me about your mother and your father.
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[[?]] We was poor. They had raised about ten, eleven children.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh goodness!

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
She did housework and my father he did working on a farm.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK. What type of work did your dad do on a farm? Is there a particular job he had to do, or did the job vary from day to day?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Day to day.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who were some of the folks that your mom worked for?

{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Well one woman named Liz Grover. She did housekeeping for her, uh, yeah. An' I can't remember all of them.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Tell me what were some of the things you did when you were growing up, some of the things you did as a child.
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}

Play, mostly; and I helped my mother work round the house, help her cook and things like that.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is all your sisters and brothers living today?
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