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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
So the skimmer room, is that what you call it? I know there's something called day hands, are they considered day hands, or what are day hands?

[[silence]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
No? Ok. Where do you work now?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Ben Franklin.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ben Franklin's. How long have you worked there?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
It has been 10 years, the first week in August.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. Tell me about your family. You have one child?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
One son.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Son. And your son?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Freddy. He's 49. [[ ? ]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
[[laughs]] Ok.

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Ok, I have 1 son, I have 6 grandchildren—

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mhmm.

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
And I have 7 great-grands.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh wow! And your husband?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
I've been a widow for, gee whiz, uh, 20, probably 30-some years.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And his name?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Whose?

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Your husband's name.

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Bernard Smith.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok, ok. Is there anything else that, uh, you can tell me in reference to the oyster house or your family? Uh, anything, anything you'd like folks to know about you and your community? Who are some of the folks in the community that you, uh, were some of the folks, uh, in the community you grew up in who are some of your neighbors now?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Well, I've been living all to my self so long. In fact, I've only been here, a year July. I was living over on, uh, Henry Hutchins Road right off of the Sixes Road and I [[ ? ]] about twenty-some years, and they said [[ ? ]] over there because everybody over there was white, which was the, the Hutchins family, the Hutchins and their [[ ? ]]. They was there the whole time, you know, when I was over there, and here,