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MINNIE EVANS

it I would love very much to have their names.To let them know I did not forget what they did. They were very interested in me and I am sure they would appreciate it very much because the girls was- taken all girls their age and everybody they could to see my paintings and 

NHS  I wanted to ask you questions.

M.E. That's right. I want you to

NHS  Now that dream, remember when you were asleep in the daytime across your bed (M.E. yes) and your husband came home? Do you have a picture for that dream?

M.E. I do not.

NHS  No picture? What was that dream like? Do you remember?

M.E. That dream? Well that dream was like this. It was shown to me what I have to do. Of paintings the whole entire horizon all the way across the whole earth was put together like this here picture. All of my yard, all up side the trees and everywhere were pictures.

NHS  Were you in this house then?

M.E. No mam, I was not in this house. This house wasn't built. This is a new home that was built. I was down in Pembroke Park that's when I had and then everything happened mostly down there. And I looked at those pictures and something within me spoke like "Minnie you got this to do" and I say to myself, Have I got all of this to paint? And I am here to tell you indeed I haven't started if I've got that to do. And so that was the dream I tell you that day I had.

NHS  And?

M.E. What?

NHS  Was that the first time you ever did any painting after that?

M.E. No, I had did lots of paintings before that.

NHS  About what year was that?

M.E. Now all of this was in '44

NHS  You mean that one time when you went to asleep on your bed in the daytime? That time you went to sleep on your bed in the daytime?

M.E. That's when I woke up that day.

NHS  and your husband came home?

M.E. Yes

NHS  What year was that about?

M.E. I slept and started to paint that picture there. That big picture. You see that the same day I did that. All of that in about