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June 22, 1972

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MINNIE EVANS

N.H.S. Say Grace, shall we?

M.E. All right

JO KALLENBORN: I was thinking about, she said you were writing

N.H.S. I'm not writing. So if you want to try it go ahead. I'd loved to get it done. I got millions of material. Minnie

M.E. Yes

(NAG'S HEAD OMITTED)

M.E. It was like   a storm coming up and I would go out and stand up and watch those clouds. Talk to them. They would vanish away. It's really funny. That's when my husband told me I was going crazy (laughter) when I told him that. He said I know you funny. 

N.H.S. Do they always vanish? Does the cloud always vanish?

M.E. Oh, yes. They will vanish. I see these small clouds. They would come and I would stand right still - don't move, and I would look and in just a minute they gone. 

V. CRAIG: Do you reckon that could do with the catarracts?

M.E. George he says the same thing.

V. CRAIG: So much staring into the sky does that.

M.E. And that is why the children late in the afternoon sometime see the clouds you know, beautiful clouds. One like rainbow. They call me to the door to look at it. They say 'Mama, come look it up there.; I says oh yes I go and look for awhile and say they are very pretty. And they would say why don't you stay out here and watch them dance? I'd say, Oh, I ain't got time now. If I do they will go. They won't stay. I don't know why (laughter). If I do, they will go away.

A man once told me it's a good thing you weren't living back here a hundred, nearly a hundred years age. He said they would have put you to a stake and burned you. (laughter) (Voice: oh). He said no