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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How has, as far as you can see, you have children?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
One.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
One. How has school changed now? How is it different now from when you were in school? What changes have you seen come about?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Awful lot. Discipline, for one.

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

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
And, they don't have that mandate. I mean, from-from the time I was in school, everything's sort of different. You did what you had to do. It's as simple as that.

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

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
You did what you had to do.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. Do you belong to any organizations?

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

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. Which church do you attend?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Well right now, I didn't have a home church. [[??]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What are some of your hobbies?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Being a [[??]]. I don't have any.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Really? [[laughter]] You don't have any hobbies?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
No, no I don't.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok, ok. And, what was your first job at a oyster house?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Shucking oysters.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. What oyster house did you first work at?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Warren Denton. That's the only one I worked at.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. How long did you work there?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
I was there about 23 years.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How did you, how did you start working at Warren Denton? How did you get started? Who told you about working there?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Nobody! I needed a job--

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

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Yeah, and I went there.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is there any other family members that worked at Denton now or when you were working there?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
When I was working there, yeah, I had a brother.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. How many-I'm not really sure how to phrase this, but how many oysters did you shuck a day, how many gallons? It's done according to gallons, right?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Mhmm.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How many did you shuck a day?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Well ok, that's all depend on how the oysters were. Some days, we'd have some very good oysters and some days not. I have shucked as many as-anywhere from 28-30 gallons a day.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ok. What would be the average amount, if you turned-shucked 28-30 gallons a day, moneywise, how would that-that rank?

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{SPEAKER name="Ruth Smith"}
Oh, anywhere from, like