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FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
ADDRESS
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SUBJECT
1. Name and address of informant
2. Date and time of interview
3. Place of interview
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4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with
informant
none
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
6. Description of room, hcuse, surroundings, etc.
MOO
';.Asidulm lase oott4ho, bi t year* ago but well kept u, Avt
yard. rouse Olean, ::.odorn %lad mlooly tastsfull furn7,shed
B
onal History of InforAnt
JORT 10DRESS 1120 6
DATB Jan. 195V afIvcr7 Folklore
Oa, N. B0194 aft
AD:032. ,737' TIIPOROANT r. i1i Pahrsr HastiAlet
1. Ancestry Lnglish
2. Place and date of birth ter1iu, July 10, 1669
wife1 one son. one Ainghter
4 ylace lived in, with dates Sterling, ill, to all some Sollows
E;. Eduoation, with dateo Attended country school near ~lust III
sevAmal terms. inished about 6 grads, he tout, as ashoei*
were ;lot Graded then as now.
C. 0o0upations and aecolishmenti, with dates inner' flaw
now retired
7, opsoial skills and interests
S. Community and religio,e aetivities Methodist
zoscri7tion of informant A remarkably well preserved nano 60.
active, alert. 40,1d pass ror .40 in any crowd. Aloft OM*
built. a.r ist rra-ing (as he says.
10. Other .oints gained in interviww Townsend ',ion worterip &OM
reader. 1:'ollows horse misinG, taking ::agnaine on BMW*
'Zhe leach or ash box was ab
CI foot hieh C f
long, 4 foot wide
at to ',S-lerint down to snail aoeninr at bottor:. under this built
a .rourh, bilt n tho 2 rDot bilk! u1ztfor-. The whole thine; was
bil on a ali;7ht slant to 1,)t the lye ran in a tub or se big cou..
tamer. .ator was cured on the ash and rma thru to troughs into
tho tub. ease lye cooked, was t in boxes and it was real
a day or two was out in bit; bars. 4he lower Art of (moll
box or =all barrel of soap would cAt mob timer or hard like lt
wvJd in tit,,s „.,st quite harti. TLie soap was arranged in rows, side
by side, done piled fa:i top of each other,
t in the basement
for Dab)re ;loathe, would shrink a little and et hard. 1st soap
thus ,..lado really cleaned olothos geed' WdmIld now seem hard for tAnde
awld faoe but it done the job.
Palk about school days. There wasn't any graduatinc. I started
at 7 and quit at 16.
student as old as A. j.lenty or Allskors F. loner wide
sidobt,rns. 11 in on. blv roou,twe to a seat. 30%,e owae to school
only at certain seasons. Sme staid abort, em• lancer persodee it
first depended on the season, the weather and what had to be dome
at he.
.Juld the professor se had, if i live to be a idilion, I'll never
forget that devil., (r• Rohrer then Get up to demonstrate) It was
ray 2nd day a', school. 1 snickered at another kid who shot a well
ohowod pieoe of paper at another kid. i didn't know a thing: about
tho r los or
The Ivofesaor was behind me. e didn't see
seen that.
what th:s kid done but ray little s .441, ,tod knows he
I had long may hair. Lip he stepped. lankod ao out of the
scat by the hair. ,;rab...ped one foot and the way we went to the trent
well about IL foot Moro Then that devil boupod Liy head against tho wall
7 or El tines.
out still see those oolorod stare. Ly head got sore
and I had a Stiff nook for a weok. Kids today sure have et it soft.
It ,icke readi arithAptio u nd a hiokory stick. 1111
tell you how all that hickory st-uff started and "tat it !:-want
to us kid", in 4-..hoce days.. I've aecit irls ret hickory plenty toe.
had a slate blaoltheard across the front wall. ;Ibout 4 foot fra.n.
the floor. Thal hlokory sties. Thor were abut the also of vent little
finror at the -end and site of ball bat handle at the other end. '6sod
these to point out haw we got arittailetio answers, sx,.lain a map and
profsscor to dationstrato and to ipuni.th -this .seholaro.
'Coy that lie is. The kids wore tough, the girls too but the
professors wore tow,her.
oiezb r 01100 V. 1dd was at he board drawing Acture of an
onnc. nothc.r lad threw a big paper wed at &ILI but z.issawl and it
ovnolccd acainst the wall. i'Vorossor heard but didn't sae who throw it.
.rabbod a hickory stick and the 1dd hs thou
ryllty and
did he ot it. tofessor hit !IL; aver: where s couldn't fol'sw
tic st!olc.
•other tir.e a 1-irl lied ttk st,int and flat devil went after
he. th those da.;:lcod hickory stIcks.
.rabbocl or hand and she L:,ot
one hard rap you oould hear a le across TAil. of or',aid. Mere was
a hole in this stick 5.1.nd should of coon the boil it raised.