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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, let me ask you again.

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Mrs. Smith, where were you born?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
In Huntingtown.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is this where you grew up at?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Yeah, basically.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Describe the home in which you grew up in.

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Whew, madhouse.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
[[laughter and clap]] Madhouse? [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
[[laughter]] Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How many sisters and brothers did you have?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
All together was 19 of us.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
19? Okay.

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Ah, is your family still living? Sisters and brothers?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Um, I have 3 brothers living, and, {SILENCE} 4 sisters.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
4 sisters? What about your mother and father? — Are they still living?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
—They passed. They passed.—

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
They passed.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Your family home: Is there any members that's still living in your family home now?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
No.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Where is your sisters and brothers now? Are they still in the county?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Um, two of us is. The others lived in, ah, as you recall, [[inaudible]] up around Severin.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Describe some of the things that your sisters and brothers and you would do together.

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Everything.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
For example?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Well, we didn't have too mush leisure time, I tell you. Um, you know, we played ball together. Well, I had one brother. We shucked oysters together.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, how would your family celebrate the holidays?
What are some of the things that you would do?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Oh just a normal family dinner 'n' chatting.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Name something that you and your family would do on Sundays as children.

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Well, we didn't do too much together on Sundays, no more than a normal, during the week, you know, we just stayed together.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Well, what are some of the special places that you would like to play as a child?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Always at my cousin's house.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
At your cousin's home? Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What are some of your favorite childhood stories? Can you remember stories that you were told as a child?


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