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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
PARKER: What, do you have any type of family memorabilia, heirlooms, that you keep today, something that you consider valuable?
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DAWKINS: Only thing that I have ah, is dolls that my mother gave me. And a beautiful quilt that she got for me. I keeps that.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
For in your oyster shucking, what, what to you is the most, I won't say 'valuable', what's most important to you as far as shucking oysters, whether you, I mean, what is the one thing that you hold onto, the one thing that give you the speed, as far as shucking oysters?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
What I hold onto?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yeah. [[they laugh]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Nothing that's precious to you as far as, memorable to you, as far as shucking oysters?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I just shuck oysters. Give me a nice sharp knife and I can shuck the oysters.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh your knife!
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Do you have family photos?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Some.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. [[tape clicks out and a sound of shuffled papers]]
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Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
I heard she's pretty fast!


{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Oh yes.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Do you have any other, besides the paper?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I got a video of those, those are the only things I have are those papers

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
You have several of these?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I brought a whole bunch of them. My kids got 'em but I told them "keep them ugly things away". They said I look like some old bunge woman.
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
That's all I have in the Oyster House. There's some more oyster shuckers in there too.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh, OK

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
On page 16. That way too many and I'll go in there and um, in this booklet a little bit. She come in and interviewed me there and [[?]]. Here you go, oyster shuckers. Who is there? That's my sister-in-law, Hannah. That's Ivy Sanders. Yeah, We [[?]]. Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Do know the guys who, who, ah. How did they bring the oysters in? Where did they get them from?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
by truck

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
From where?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Eastern Shore mostly

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Eastern shore. OK. And when they, you guys shucked the oysters, and the drivers that take them out, are they taken to certain seafood houses, or
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
yeah, certain markets. Oh, mostly Eastern shore, that's where they take them all. New York and they take them all over the place

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
To New York. Who usually packed the oysters?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Packs them - the Mexicans

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
The Mexicans?

[[tape noise]]

Do you think that he would have a problem with the Mexicans? I've talked to Norman Durrell and I told them about the project. Do you think he would have a problem with the Mexicans, or the Mexicans would have a problem being interviewed?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
You would have to have an interpreter

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
None of them speak English?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Very little. They're not, very little English they speak.
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