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Transcription: [00:24:36]
{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
My cousin [[ ? ]] Parker live here, his son lives here. [[ ? Hearst ]] which is my landlord live right, just across the field.

[00:24:46]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, what church did you attend when you were growing up?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Uh, Patuxent.

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

[00:24:53]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
You were once a member at Brooks Church—

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Mmm.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
—was that as you got older, or your mom and dad switched to Brooks Church?

[00:24:59]
{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
No, as I got older, and I moved down in this area. So I moved my membership from Patuxent to Brooks.

[00:25:07]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who was the minister at Patuxent when you attend Patuxent?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Lord have mercy. Uh, Reverend Davis.

[00:25:18]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And at Brooks, was that Reverend Collins?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Reverend Collins.

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

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[00:25:27]
{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
I beat him. I don't feel bad. And, 'cause he won it the first year he went to [[ Arlen ? ]]. He won it in [[ Arlen ? ]]. And he came back here. That second year, Conroy [[ ? ]] won it over him, then they both went to [[ Arlen ? ]]. The year, the third year, I had gotten into the contest, and I beat him, and then I went. [[ So, I was good.]] For three years straight, I won it and went to [[ Arlen ? ]].

[00:26:07]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Was it, uh, a monetary prize from winning, or were you given awards?

[00:26:13]
{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Ok, from here, uh, it was a, a 500 dollar cash. And a week, expenses paid. And I didn't win anything in [[ Arlen ? ]] because I lost by 5 seconds, and, uh, I got,