Marella Mayberry McDavid: --[[anythin' in the area, excuse of farm work??]] park sawmills. They had sawmills. Out in them swamps.
Pearl Bowser: Mhm. Marella Mayberry McDavid: We would call it-- Well, the wood area, we would call it swamp back then.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: And they would go down there an cut timber, and they would take it up to the little town,
Marella Mayberry McDavid: as we called it, "Sawmill Quarters," and we still have those up there now; the Sawmill quarters. Louise Spence: Mhm.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: but they don't make any lumber up there anymore. So, we called [[??]]
Marella Mayberry McDavid: But we had a log train, is what we called it, that would go down in the woods.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: but the trucks would bring it out too the train, you know, where the train could get it? Louise Spence: Mhm
Marella Mayberry McDavid: And so they'd bring it into the sawmills.
Louise Spence: And most of the people that went to your church were involved in farming and sawmills?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Oh, yes, yes, yes. All of those that didn't work at the sawmill, some years up.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: you know like, I said late 10s, 30s, back in the 40s they went to the sawmill back in the 30s and 40s, they worked in the sawmill.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: 'cause I lived south in the 40s. And Northern state for 30 years. Then he came back.
Louise Spence: He came back. Before we talk about the North-- uh,
Louise Spence: Can you tell me, uh, when they showed films--movies in your church
Louise Spence: the religious movies, did someone come and talk about them with you? or was it just the film itself?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Uh, they would talk about it in the church, I would imagine.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: But they didn't come 'round-- Louise Spence: uh huh.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: --they would come and talk to us 'cause I guess we were too full in between, you know.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: so when they had anything they wanted to entertain us. We usually had to go to one of the churches in the neighborhood.
Louise Spence: Right. Did they show the films on Sunday in the churches or another day?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Usually it was in [[?]] time. Louise Spence: Oh.
Louise Spence: During the -- yeah. And the minister talked?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: No. I never s[[?]] they talked. They had somebody that would bring the movie, you know, from the little town.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: You know, from Canton. Or from some other town.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: But they-- we didn't have one in the neighborhood. It was way, way, way later years before we got movie theaters wantin to take them [[??]] white.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: You know, Louise Spence: #Uh huh. ]