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Transcription: [00:16:13]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Thank you, that was W. Guy Bruce of, uh, Trion, Georgia.
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[00:16:31]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Mr. Bruce will be back on this stage, along with the other musicians, the Tanners and uh the blues musicians, uh, Jimmy Lee Harris and Neal Pattman at 4 o' clock and they'll play for an hour, so um, hope to see some of you back then. Thank you very much.
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{Unknown speaker}
Check, check.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Good afternoon and welcome to our first narrative session in the food preservation and community activities area. Today we're going to talk about a topic that is a sweet one, and that is the making of cane syrup.
[00:17:12]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
I'm sure you've probably all watched them doing the grinding and watched them boiling the syrup, and you might want to know a little bit more about the process, so we invite you to join us this afternoon for our half hour narrative session.
[00:17:25]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
We have with us today Mr. Grady Bryan and Mr. Carl Pafford, both of whom are from South Georgia and have been making cane syrup for a few years, and they're going to talk about a little bit today.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
One of the fine South Georgia food traditions is cane syrup making. Grinding the cane and cooking the syrup is both a form of food preservation and also a local community festival of sorts. Mr. Grady Bryan opens up his farm and his home on Thanksgiving day and he invites all of his neighbors in to watch the grinding and the cooking of cane syrup.
[00:18:01]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
They're invited to have a taste of the juice when it comes right out of the grinder, and they're also invited to buy their year supply of cane syrup, so that intrigued us and we were happy to be able to invite him up to our festival today. Mr. Bryan, when did you first start making cane syrup?
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{SPEAKER name="Grady Bryan"}
In the fall of 1940, when I first started, come time to cook syrup I'd just got married in January, my father made me cook mine first and then I had to cook his, I'd come out with my own. He didn't ever cook that much after that. I probably missed, I was in the Navy a little while, I probably missed 3 years since that, all total.
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