Clinton, North Carolina, United States, Sampson County
· 1938-09-18
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Stephens, Dave
4ompson Co. Clinton. S. C. sopteiber 18, 1938 w. C. F. DAVE ;MMUS car; TENANT ve la now livin in aempecn ounty, ten miles north of Clinton nt one ile from the. Clinton.mith. field highway. The 4.room cottege le the only house on a private road a ouarter of t tile frolu the public rood. 1;e ft rms vs z shere.tenant of one of the progressive leud.avners of tte section sad has been in the community one year. There are five children in the fnaily. The youngest, t girl of three, Ans playing in the…
United States, Chatham County, North Carolina
· 1938-09-24
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Smith, Hubert
ha thee County Apptember 24, 1938 O. F. 11.1/31.11T'ITh The aaLths live in the Lt. Cereal section of Chatham County, North Caroline, seven miles southeast of Chapel Hill end seventeen miles south of Durham. ,..tete dirt rood leading south from Durham runs within two hundred yards of this house. The sandy yard is dotted with large oaks end elms. Two half -rotten sheds it the west side of the yard ers used as E garage and a storage.r000. The ground slopes gently from the yard towards the barn in…
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
· 1938-09-27
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Jackson, Ed, Jackson, Mary
appearing to her fess. She walks sad Wks as though She is tired. Oa womb of my visits to the house eke bed just eeme to from bier work, grading tibeeee. Mar tray settee dress was tee aid and folded to be milled a house dress sad she sailed it, hy way of swim, Noy work eiethee," Her felks were *just AMOAOSSO* mod famers always. ?be sebeei she ettended se a girl oily lasted fear menthe to the year. As she pat it, *1 bagel' going with Id whoa 1 wee fifteen mad fess meaths later we raa off fres…
North Carolina, United States, Salisbury
· 1939
· 21 pages
Recorded by: Hennessee, William Edward, Wright, Robert Lee
February, 1939. ,iooert Lee vright, 6alisbury, C. Attorney at Law Tiilliam Edward hennessee, writer. COUN''SELOR-AT-LAW Original Name Changed Name Robert Lee Wright Stonewall Dexter COUNSELOR -AT -LAW' Slowly, along the hot and dusty Carolina road moved a battered Studebaker wagon. Sitting in the straw of its bed were Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Julius Caesar and Naopleon sonaparte. This was no assembly of the great in Valhalla nor was it a dream of past glories. These were the Dexter…
Brevard, North Carolina, United States
· 1939-04-12
· 19 pages
Recorded by: Long, A.w.
April 12, 1939 Brevard, N. C. ¶Vyploal mounta Long Or'Aiwa papposk n town twrAillew Brevard, X. C. The Transylvania Ttnning Co The Wheeler Hosiery Mill Pisgah Mills The Carr Lumber Co. The Lousto Paper Corp. Changed Nom* TMeoRY The Bluehill Tannery The Highmont Hosiery M111. The Ton:loony Cotton Will The rontvale Lumber Co. The Happy Yalley Paper Co. L!, 14 A TOW TUeony, with a present day population of about 2,000, was incorporated in 180 as the eounty seat of a newly termed mountain county.…
United States, New Mexico
· 1938-06-05
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Brook, Ceaser, Totty, Frances E
One day Charlie Bachelor came into the camp with the stage and seemed to be nervous, he seemed to sense that there was trouble in the vicinity, and after eating decided to change his schedule in order that he 070fP the Ash Creek, a little north. west of Duncan, Arizona, after night; in order to cross the creek after night he stayed at the springs until three o'clock in the afternoon. When he left be requested that some one go with him as there wasn't any extra men at the springs and Char. lie…
New Mexico, United States, Silver City
· 1938-08-12
· 3 pages
Recorded by: [Taren, Louie?], Totty, Frances E
maseacred the Genies family. I stood and wetched them.butbher smell child- ren unable to f6 them tiny .aid wnat ever. I soon sew while the .‘ndlems were SD intrested in thtr spoils and mutilating the families that could escape to to and let the people of6-ilver eity come to the ecene.i rode to town use fare es pcsrible„where the peo,le formed 4 rescue perty, but all to lete we arrived back ot the scene „as all of the peoeie are dead some were scalped pothers were bedi burned over th, fire…
United States, New Mexico
· 1938-07-05
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Coates, Morris, Totty, Frances [?]
or:uocitbs age 84 irteces e.Totty July6,193f Wogollons of the iiarly 'aye. elegollon is a proper noun and and a common noun alsoothe mountein received their name from the early Jesuit Fathers from the parasitical growt of mistletoe ueon the oaks, cottonwood and other tree of the forest for the word mogollon ,aeans a "hence*, on 0 a parasiteonthe Jesuit fathers were in the district in 1876 end thie be really the soures from which the plies rece eivee the -demo of Mogollon but nearly a century…
New Mexico, United States
· 1938-11-17
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Chaves, H. F., Totty, Frances E
Prances 3.:otty Sov17„ aords 3ouroe ELF.Ohavess The Trial of Oliver lee for the Murder of 001.ronntaine NOV 3F In 1901 a jury was selected in Hillaboro,Sierra County, Jew Mexiosi, to hear the ores of Oliver liee,Bob Raileyeamd Jim Gillon for the murder of 0010ne1.-r. Fountains who was murdered Yebruary 1896 by three unknown menothe above three mere tried on oironmatanoial evedence. The members of the jury that i remember tere;Martin Luminerresident Johnie lay,Searetary,E.Phstea, interpeter,…
United States, New Mexico
· 1938-02-16
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Brock, J. C., Totty, Frances E
,.7.2es E. Totty inted by J. IL Erock Ai7e "577) 75. Feb. 16,197g. '%-ords 2190. Early Days in the Southwest. "y neorle came to the Mesilla Valley in the early days. They lived at Fort Seldon when they first came to the valley. They had a meet market and run the ferry across the river. '7e stayed nt the Fort a short time then moved to Mesilla or the present Old Mesilla. In 1877 the worst cold sell came to the Mesilla Valley that was ever known in history; there has never been such a snell…
Vermont, United States
· 8 pages
Mari Tomasi Montpelier, Vt. UMBRELLA PAT Snow was piled high in the park square. It was February; Amok /bright sun warmed the bendiest. VI melted the snow from the elm branches, so that the par sounded with a cheery drip»drip. An old man sat on a corner bench where he could watch the life of Barre on the main street, from the granite bank facing the park to the dingy wooden and brick business blocks. The policeman stopped beside the old man. "This is Pat Mainn," he said. "Re's been in and out…
Vermont, United States
· 8 pages
Kari Tomas/ cice, t.t ftts+ Writers' Secth,n *TF Qtych-Ar.-ke. UMBRELLA PAT February snow was piled high in the park square* A bright sun melted the snow from the elm branches, so that the park sounded with a cheery drip -drip. An old man sat on a corner bench watching the life of Barre on the main strest..-from the granite bank facing the park to the dingy wooden and bridk bus- iness blocks. A policeman stopped beside the old man. °This is Pat Maims" be said. "He's been in and out of Barre…
United States, Washington County, Barre, Vermont
· 1940
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Tomasi, Mary
Tomasi viArrRESS Recorded in Writers' Section Files 73\TE:__AUG _ "Se...ay," the waitress. drawled, "am I tired! There's only two of us on this late at night. And Lou, she's the other waitress, parks herself in the kitchen most of the time. She's kind of sweet on the cook. Always hanging around back. It gives me a pain. There's no use squawking about it. This restaurant's a sort of family affair, I guess. The cook's cousin to the boss. Cousin to the kitAlen helper, too. It's a wonder the…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-07-31
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Frangini, Alberto Vittorio, Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomei Wrters Sectic: ales luL 31 194U DATE: THIS VINCENZO WHO IS MY GRAN 'FATHER "Parlatanto?" The old man chuckled over the name. Ee smacked his lips. *No, Parlatanto is not my real name. I am born Pip Alberto Vittorio Frangini. Pio for the pope we have at that time, Alberto for the king, ant Vittorio for his son who is born the same day I am, on November 11. Today Vittorio is king an' emperor, an' me hah, I got me two names, too, no? I think if Mussolini was show' his famous face at…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-07-03
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Boccini, Steve, Tomasi, Mary
Vary Tomasi *THE BOCCINIS ARE ,:;.00L HARRIERS" Jc ction Files -4: '14' 'le 14/ rItck ^it+ CYCk I got only two rooms," Steve B000ini says. It is not an apology. He rube the swollen, ohisel-distortod knuckle of his little finger against tho gray stubble of his Ohba; a calloused index finger caresses a hoavy moustache. His dark eyes travel the cimbination kitchen -living, and bedroom. *What uso I got for morote he asks. "There's only me hors.* Steve Besoini's apartment is on the secrnd floor of…
Vermont, Montpelier, Washington County, United States
· 1940
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Lavalle, Joe, Tomasi, Mary
rI TOL1481 We Eat Good Re,corded Writers' Section Fits It 1.) joe Tvalle has a sign in his field. A w:Ite-washed plank nailed to a broom han[Ile noses up above the yellow of butt-rcups anJ reads- Joe Lavolle. Berle° for tale Pick them Yovrself, MS. The July sun is hot. lurninL hot. Joe Lavalle sits on t. e running board of ,is carobloting his viet,leathery face with a biL blue han&erchief. Ten feet away is his woodsLed lean-to, a shaded spot under a giant spruce wheA) Joe could sit in the…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-07-29
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Sacrosanto, Mario, Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomei K Me, I Vote For The Best Man Recorded in Welters' Section Files _ Mario Sacrosantois oar was one of the dozen parked in the stoneshed yard. Gond cars, Not new, not expensive makes. But good cars. Mario slapped the stone dust from faded denim overalls. he pulled the powdery, visored cap from hle matted hair and whacked it heartily against the runninE board before squeezing his chunky body behind the wheel. As he drove past a cemetery entrance at the edbe of town he pointed to a pile…
Montpelier, Vermont, Washington County, United States
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Ann, Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomasi LIVIMG Oi THE HILL 1 940 She was taking care of the Alexander babies for the afternoon. The three Alexanders sat on the lawn, their legs straight out in front of then, their baeks to a hedge of purple and white phlox. Ann, a few feet away, was toseL., thea a rubber ball. LI plaid playsuit, her head a cluster of tight black curls, she might have been of graded school age. "I graduated from Spaulding High last June," Ann said. "Office work is what I wanted typing and shorthand, but…
Vermont, Barre, Washington County, United States
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Peddler Jenny, Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomas i Recorded in Writers' Section File AUG _ &nil, a season rolls by tbe Winooski valley wAhrut the homely aiTsaranee of Peddler Jou,. in sleet, anew, rain, or scorching sun, few have not heard her high,vitched„ nasal ohant. "You buy something today?" she sings. "A s 1 of tread, maybe? Everybody need treed to home. Blank tread for the memesuits, white tread for the ladies and babies. You buy today, heir bbs pass ploughin down the business street, her ruVoir-solied, canvas shoes scuffng…
Vermont, Barre, Washington County, United States
· 1940-08-23
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Leotri, Joanna, Tomasi, Mary
Liss Mari Tomasi Wgtirr' 6 24i i044s hA PAfty 'werf Ove.JILAIL" A BABEE FAMILY After four in the afternoon the Italian north end of Barre's Main Street became a confusion of traffic noises. Pedestrians lined the walks, many of then granite workers in chalked cloth- ing, loud -voiced, glad to soak up the air. A sun, unusually hot for early May, beat upon the din. The florists window was a haven of still beauty and coolness. A young woman in a flowered smock bent over a vase of tea roses. Ber…