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10. Freeman says Rinzler asked him to document the Baltimore Arabber community. Freeman says he grew up in that community. 11. Long: Are you saying that Arabbers sometimes conned people? Freeman: yeah. Long: And you were an Arabber? Freeman: Yeah. 12. Hunt: talk about your work as a team. Long: I was doing fieldwork in Mississippi and Roland was sent in to do photography. Led to Exhibits + Book: "Mississippi crossroads" (?) 13. Long: 14. Hunt: Once I got down there, a hurricane came. We kept running into such loads of folklose, folks said the we hit a "folklede" 15. Long: What did you photograph? Hunt: guy with a guitar - Scott Dunbar Long: It was a cigarbox fiddle that he made for you Hunt: He was singin' that song. "The Roamin' song" (?) 16. What other photographs do you recall? 17. Hunt: I was spending the day with him [[strikethrough]] , but he had become such [[/strikethrough]] 18. Long: Hunt: "Sweet mama rose" song Hunt- when the high waters care in '63... 19. Long: what photos stand out in your mind? Hunt: Photo with his son Stevie Abraham Itanna + his son Stevie, who had learned to make a horse collar out of corn... Hunt: "Hog-killing in Percy Creek" 20. Marjorie: Roland + worth Gave back to community Long: Hunt would sometimes use a Polaroid camera to show people the image he was making. He presented the families with a photo, and you can find those all across southwest Mississippi today.
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fixed some typos in transcription(ex: "Exhibitst" to Exhibits and 'wake i herse' to 'make a horse') & added missing words
unsure if it's Abraham Hanna or Itanna