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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
I, one I can remember, his name was Handsome Driscoll—

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

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
—that was over on [[Lower Marlboro Bay]].

[00:06:03]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, your mom farmed also, or just your father?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
The whole family.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
The whole family? Okay.

[00:06:09]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Did you live on the farm, or—?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Yes.

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

[00:06:12]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, do you, did you know your grandparents, your mother's mother and father, or your father's mother and father?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Yeah, I knew my mother's mom and my dad's mother, and slightly my dad's father. Slightly, cause we was little kids when he passed.

[00:06:37]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Did you live with them, or—

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
No.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
No.

[00:06:40]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Could you give me a little bit of information about your grandparents? What were they like?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Lovely.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Lovely?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Lovely. The one thing I liked to do, we used to like to go to both of them's house and eat, and the sports — how do I put it — the sports, you know, activities we just loved to be around them, period.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Tell me a little bit about your mother and father. What were they like? What type of people were they?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
They were beautiful parents. They was beautiful, lovely parents.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Um, also, um, did you know how your parents met? Did they ever talk about how they—

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
No, they didn't. [[both laugh]]

[00:07:28]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, what type of family values did your parents instill in you as a child?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
[[sighs]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is there particular things that they wanted you to do or didn't want you to do, as a child, that you can remember?

{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
One thing, well, my mother was a person, that she didn't have too much to say. My dad, he was the one.