Interviewer: How do you spell your last name? {B} {B} mm-kay And your address? 662: P-O box {B} Schriever Interviewer: And the name of this Parish? 662: Teraborn {NS} Interviewer: And the state? 662: Louisiana Interviewer: And where were you born? 662: Schriever Interviewer: You've always lived here? 662: I've lived in Thibodaux and I am right back in Schriever again. Interviewer: How long did you live in Thibodaux? 662: ah {NW} seventeen years Interviewer: How far away is that? 662: three miles {NW} um And your age? thirty-five Interviewer: And Occupation? 662: Domestic Engineer Interviewer: Okay Have you ever worked outside of your house? 662: Yeah Interviewer: What sort of work did you do? 662: Uh I worked for the newspaper I did different jobs I was a proof reader Interviewer: What newspaper? 662: {NW} The Daily Common in Thibodaux Interviewer: And religion? 662: Catholic Interviewer: And tell me about your education and the name of the school you went to. 662: Uh went to Thibodaux Elementary. Interviewer: #1 You were living in Thibodaux? # 662: #2 # Interviewer: #1 # 662: #2 In Thibodaux # Interviewer: #1 # 662: #2 uh-huh # Interviewer: #1 # 662: #2 # Then I switched over to Mount Carmel academy in high school and I graduated from Mount Carmel. Interviewer: So you went to Thibodaux Elementary through the seventh? 662: No I switched over in the 10th grade at Mount Carmel. Interviewer: mm-hmm Mount? Car 662: C-A-R-M-E-L Interviewer: and have you ever been um active in clubs or groups or very active in.. 662: I belong to home demonstration club and the P-T-C Interviewer: What about church? Are you very active in church? 662: I'm not active in church organization. Interviewer: Have you done much traveling? 662: I went to San Diego for three months and the only other place I went to was in Florida Tampa. Interviewer: And tell us some about your parents where they were born and 662: My parents were born right here in Louisiana. One in Thibodaux one in Schriever Interviewer: Which? 662: My mother was born in Schriever and my father was born in Thibodaux. Interviewer: And what about their education? 662: My father graduated from high school and he went to business school. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: My mother quit in the seventh grade in Schriever. Interviewer: mm-hmm What sort of work did they do? 662: My my father still working he works for um a company in Thibodaux he's um office clerk. My mother sells Avon. Interviewer: What about your grandparents on your mother's side? 662: I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side I knew my grandmother. um I don't I don't think grandma {B} had any education. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: I know she couldn't read. She could tell time she could give change you know things like that. Interviewer: um 662: She ran a boarding house on a plantation for years. She was an excellent cook. Her cooking was well known Interviewer: Was she from Schriever? 662: She {NW} Grandma was born around Labadieville. Labadieville in nine miles from here. Interviewer: Lab? 662: L-A-B-A-D-I-E-V-I-L-L-E Interviewer: uh-huh {NS} That's in this parish? 662: That's in Assumption Parish Interviewer: What about um your grandfather. Do you know where he was born? 662: uh uh I don't know Interviewer: And What about on your father's side? Do you know where? 662: I think they were both born in Thibodaux. I'm really not sure because I never knew my grandfather on my father's side either. And my grandmother died was I was very small. Interviewer: Did you ever hear about what sort of work they did or their education? 662: No not really. Interviewer: What about your husband? How old is he? 662: He's thirty-six Interviewer: And catholic too? 662: mm-hmm Interviewer: What about his education? 662: He quit in the ninth grade and went on into the Navy {NW} in the fifties. Interviewer: Where was he born? 662: He was born in Grandal. Interviewer: #1 Where is # 662: #2 and he # he was raised in Homer. Interviewer: What parish is Grandal in? 662: Grandal is is Jefferson Parish believe it or not. Interviewer: It's right it's right down from New Orleans? 662: #1 Oh no it's # Interviewer: #2 {D: is?} # 662: you have to go down by Lafourche. you know which they claim is the longest street in the world and right after you get at the very end you have to cross a bridge and then you you're in Jefferson Parish. It's not Lafourche Parish anymore Grandal is Jefferson Parish. Interviewer: Jefferson Parish is also goes up to New Orleans. 662: Yeah Jefferson Parish is on the west bank you know the west side of the river. So like if someone has to have any legal matters done or anything like that they have to go all make the round go all the way around you know through Lafourche Parish through St. Charles Parish and go to the parish seat which is right there by New Orleans. Interviewer: {NW} 662: So they are out of the way. Interviewer: They don't have those roads down there are really funny. I mean you can't just they don't 662: #1 You have to follow by Lafourche and turn off in Raislin. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah # 662: You see? Interviewer: Yes I see. 662: There isolated really and there's just one road going down there that's why its hectic when the hurricane hits down there because that is the only excavation route I mean that is it. And the cars are bumper to bumper getting off that island. Interviewer: Do they have hurricanes down here very often? Hurricane warnings 662: uh Were always tense at hurricane time because we had a few bad ones you know and if we don't get the full force of it sometimes we get the gale winds like if it's hitting ah Texas. If you are east of the hurricane you can get the gale force winds. If you are west of the hurricane you hardly feel anything. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: See when the hurricane hit Galveston or Lake Charles on that part. Well we still get bad weather. Now when Celia hit Biloxi and just about flattened down Biloxi a few years ago we hardly got anything at all because we were west of the hurricane. Interviewer: mm-hmm When is the hurricane season? 662: Hurricane season starts June first and it ends in October. But they start getting bad around September. That's that's the month you have to watch. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: August and September Interviewer: What is that area like down um around Grandal? 662: #1 Uh # Interviewer: #2 Is it mostly shrimping or # 662: Uh The people in Grandal are they like to keep to themselves but they can't really because they have the biggest fishing rodeo. The Tarpin rodeo they have people from all over the place that come to Grandal for the Tarpin rodeo. They have red fish rodeo and then what keeps Grandal alive well the oil companies because I mean you have your humble dock down there and you have you know because they can get to the rigs out there Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: and uh seven miles off of Grandal is the sulfur platforms it's the only sulfur mine over water. uh free port sulfur constructed that my husband worked on that one time. Interviewer: Isn't there a place called Port Sulphur? or something 662: Port Sulphur is in Plaquemines Parish. That is by Burus and Triumph and {NS} down there below New Orleans. By the mouth of the river. Interviewer: What's that area like? I was thinking about going down there. 662: Ah Orange country. They grow a lot of orange trees and they have like I said it is in the mouth of the river they you know they have docks and everything for the ships to transport the sulphur an what have you I- I- I'm not too familiar with Plaquemines Parish. Interviewer: um So you are telling me that your husband what sort of work does he do? 662: He is a welder Interviewer: And is he very active in church or clubs or anything like that? 662: uh uh The only thing he does is {NW} When he leaves work he likes to come home and do the same thing he's getting he's started last weekend to build a little shop in the back to build a little welding shop so we can clear up his back and he wants to start welding on weekends trying to make a few extra dollars. That's what he likes to do. That's his main interest. He loves to fool around with machinery and welding and stuff like that. Interviewer: um Were his parents born in this area? Were they 662: His mother was born in Grandal and his daddy was born in Gibson. Which is a small community just a few miles from here going toward Morgan City. Interviewer: mm-hmm Tell me um what this area is like how much it has changed in the past few years or what you know most of the people do for a living here? 662: Well like I said before most of the people depend on oil Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: you know oil, seafood, and sugarcane That's that's the main industries down here and ah well you have a lot of shrimpers you have ah ah men that catch fish you have oyster fisherman um and then you have your sugarcane farmers. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And then like I said oil is related to so many things you have your wire line services you have your fabricators you have um oh ah food services that thrive on oil industry well you have now further along the river you have a lot of chemical plants because of there location on the Mississippi River. I have a brother-n-law that works a chemical plant American {X} Interviewer: Is this um what is the plantations like here? Are they mainly owned by large companies or individuals? 662: Uh large companies. Your smaller farmers lease land you know but most of them are owned by large companies. Interviewer: And you said it is about fifty percent black here? 662: Not well I don't the school is you know because of I don't know how to describe it. The school right now is at just about fifty fifty. Interviewer: What about just in general? Just in Schriever 662: Well like the black people are concentrated in three different areas around here you know they are not spread out they are concentrated. Like in the little community of Gray then they have Johnson Ridge and then they have Levi {D} town. Interviewer: So this this general area #1 would you say it is about forty or fifty percent # 662: #2 Yeah # Interviewer: #1 black? # 662: #2 I would # Interviewer: Um I would like to get an idea about what the house you grew up in looked like just sort of the floor plan just sort of sketch it and tell me the names of the rooms. 662: {X} that was on McCoy street {NS} um let me see {NS} I might be off a little bit. This was the living room and this was the dining room right there Interviewer: Right behind it? 662: uh-huh There was a little petition there this was a hall. Okay this was the kitchen. This was one bedroom. Well I goofed this was the bath right here and the door went there this was my bedroom and this was the little sun porch back here. Our a third bedroom Misspelled porch this was a patio back here and the garage. She also had she had a front porch here. {NS} There were the box wood hedges we used to always Interviewer: {D:this is the front} What about the house you live in now can you sort of sketch that? 662: This house is seventy years old. It was an old hotel. We bought this from my aunt I'm goofing up somewhere. Let me see this is the boy's bedroom and this is the girl's bedroom and I'm not in proportion at all there this is a hall this is our bedroom. No that's off that's off something terrible. Living room except our bedroom goes all the way like this. I am off real bad. This is the living room this is wall here and that is the bathroom this is the kitchen this is the table and the hall is right here {X} I was really off this is the porch. Interviewer: Which? 662: This bedroom goes all the way across. Interviewer: Which room are we in now? 662: We're in the living room right here. {NW} This way {NW} Interviewer: What what's this? 662: This is the sewing area right here. Interviewer: And what about this? 662: This is the rest of the living room. Interviewer: Oh so this shouldn't be here? 662: Right right just disregard that {NW: laughter} {NW} Interviewer: Okay {NS} 662: As many times as I drew my house plans I don't know why I goofed up because I want to build a hall in the front. Interviewer: Do you remember a hearing an old fashion name for living room? 662: Parlor? Interviewer: uh-huh What about for porch? 662: Veranda Interviewer: What's what's a veranda now? 662: I don't know but {NS} you know {NS} all I know is that we call it a porch. Interviewer: mm-hmm Did you ever hear of a gallery? 662: A gallery yeah my grandma used to call it a gallery. Interviewer: Was Did that mean just any kind of porch or was it a certain kind or what? 662: Ah I don't {NS} it was just a porch you know that's all that I know. Interviewer: I noticed you um talked about a a sun porch or a patio. 662: Well a sun porch is enclosed and has just you know like windows a lot of windows. Interviewer: What about the patio? 662: A patio is open. {NS} When you talking about a patio down here mostly you talking about just a cemented floor you know and and furniture and a barbecue pit Interviewer: mm-hmm {NS} 662: you know Interviewer: Um Did you ever have a house that didn't have a fireplace in it? 662: Yes. This one we tore it out Interviewer: What about um you know on the fireplace the the part that the smoke goes up through? You call that the? 662: Chimney Interviewer: And you know the open place on the floor in front of the fireplace? 662: No Interviewer: You ever hear a name for a maybe it be made out of rock or bricks or something that place down on the floor. 662: The hearth? Interviewer: uh-huh 662: yeah Interviewer: And what about the thing that you set the wood on in the fireplace? 662: I am not familiar with that. Interviewer: Did you ever see little iron things that? 662: #1 I have seen it # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 662: #1 yeah # Interviewer: #2 # You've never heard a name for it? 662: #1 No # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 662: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 # What about the thing up above the fireplace? 662: #1 The mantel # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 662: #1 # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 662: mantel Interviewer: okay and say if you were going to start a fire what kind of wood would you use to start it with? 662: I wouldn't know {NW} something {NW} that would burn easily I guess I don't know. Interviewer: Do you ever hear people talk about kindling or lighters #1 anything like that? # 662: #2 mm-hmm yeah # Interviewer: What what did you hear them say? 662: Well I you know like someone will talk about you'll hear these things but it doesn't soak in you know. Firewood that's all I know is that you need firewood and that's it. Interviewer: Did you ever um this may be way before your time but uh did you ever hear uh people take a a big piece of wood and set that sorta towards the back of the fireplace they would burn maybe all night? 662: I am not familiar with fireplaces that much. Interviewer: Okay I was saying do you ever hear of back stick or back log? 662: No Interviewer: And the black stuff that forms in the chimney? 662: Soot Interviewer: And what you have to shovel out? 662: Ashes Interviewer: And talk about things you'd have in a room um something that you could have to sit on something you would have there to sit in? 662: A chair Interviewer: okay what about something longer than a chair that? 662: A sofa Interviewer: Any other names for that? 662: I always call it a sofa some people call it a couch. Interviewer: uh-huh Did you ever hear an old fashion name? 662: I can't recall Interviewer: Divan or davenport or? 662: Not down here. Interviewer: What about the sort of things you could have in your bedroom for keeping clothes in? 662: A closet Or an armoire Interviewer: Okay what that's that's a 662: #1 That's an armoire yeah # Interviewer: #2 That's # What about something smaller than an armoire? 662: A chest of drawers. Interviewer: mm-hmm The the armoire you can hang things in can't you? {NS} 662: mm-hmm Interviewer: Is there anything similar to an armoire that you can also hang things in? 662: A closet Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a chifforobe? 662: A chifforobe yeah Interviewer: What's that like? 662: A chifforobe to me in in my opinions some people might disagree a chifforobe is like an armoire but not as ornate as an armoire. Interviewer: Is it about the same size? 662: A chifforobe is usually smaller. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: It's plain. Interviewer: What about um wardrobe? Did you ever hear of them? 662: I've heard of wardrobe being used but not often not down here Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: Usually they will either say armoire of chifforobe. Interviewer: mm-hmm but a wardrobe is something like the the chifforobe? 662: It would be. {NS} Interviewer: And um What else besides a chest of drawers would you have with just drawers in it? 662: Dresser Interviewer: How's that different from the chest of drawers? 662: Well a dresser has a mirror Interviewer: mm What about you were telling me about 662: That's a side board Interviewer: What's that used for? 662: I really don't know {NW} {NW} I went to a meeting not too long ago and we um with a guest at a furniture store {NS} and this guy is an interior decorator and ah he says all these people that have these hundred year old monsters in their house doesn't have anything well naturally he's trying to sell furniture you know he is trying to sell um Tell City and Ethan Allen and all this stuff but down here uh old furnitures really getting more popular. Interviewer: mm-hmm I guess it went in the 662: I think it went in the dining room really A mirror is supposed to go in the back of that thing. We have to get it resilvered but I guess it would be used in the dining room. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of old pieces of furniture called chiffonier or bureau? 662: A bureau would be like a chest of drawer. Interviewer: Is it just an old fashioned name for a? 662: I think it would be Interviewer: What about something that um that you could have in your windows so to pull down to keep out the light? 662: Shades Interviewer: mm-kay and the top part of the house with covering on the house is called a? 662: roof Interviewer: What about the little things along the edge of the roof that carry the water off? 662: Gutters. Interviewer: And something that if you have a house in an L the place where they come together. 662: The ease Interviewer: mm-kay and a room at the top of the house just under the roof? 662: The attic Interviewer: And um You mentioned the kitchen um did you ever hear of different kinds of kitchens like a kitchen built separate from the rest of the house? 662: A kitchen built separate from the rest of the house? Interviewer: Like a kitchen out in the yard or something? Aux: Yeah I know 662: uh uh Aux: {x} In case the kitchen catch on fire cause they used to have these open fireplaces you know they would have to cook in there. If the kitchen would catch on fire it wouldn't burn down the whole mansion or the whole house. Interviewer: uh huh 662: I never heard of {NW} Aux: Mostly in mansions. Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear an old fashioned name for kitchen? {NS} A cook house or anything like that? 662: It was always the kitchen to me {NS} {NS} Interviewer: And the little room {NS} 662: It's the train {NS} Interviewer: off the kitchen {NS} um where you can store can goods and things? {NS} 662: Pantry Pantry Interviewer: mm-kay and um you said you have a lot of old worthless things like old broken furniture and stuff you said well that's not good anymore that's just? 662: Junk Interviewer: okay and a room that you can store things that you don't know what to do with? 662: I had one like that I called it the junk room. Interviewer: okay and um if you had a two story house to get from the first floor to the second floor you'd have uh? 662: the stairs Interviewer: What about outside to get from the porch to the ground? 662: The steps Interviewer: And um talk say if your {X} Say if your house was in a big mess you'd say you had to do what to it? 662: Clean it up Interviewer: okay and the thing you'd use to sweep with? 662: A broom Interviewer: And say the broom was in the corner and the door was open so that the door was sort of hiding the broom you'd say the broom was? 662: Missing Interviewer: Was where in relation to the door? 662: Was behind the door. Interviewer: And the 662: Cause I couldn't {NW} it would be missing cause I couldn't find it {NW} {NW} I wouldn't think about closing a door to look. {NW} {NW} Interviewer: um say a long time ago women would maybe on Monday women would get all the dirty clothes together and do the? 662: Laundry The laundry Interviewer: huh? 662: The laundry Interviewer: uh huh Did they used to call it the laundry? 662: Do the washing. Interviewer: Then after they do the washing they bring the clothes in and do the 662: {NW} Interviewer: and get the wrinkles out and do the 662: Ironing yeah Interviewer: uh huh Do you remember um hearing about something they had out in the back yard to use for heating water to boil the clothes in you know a big black thing they had out in the yard? 662: uh uh Interviewer: What about um something you could you could use to heat up water to make hot tea and all that up a tea? 662: #1 Oh a teapot # Interviewer: #2 or # 662: #1 or a tea kettle # Interviewer: #2 # okay Did you ever hear of a wash pot or a wash kettle? 662: mm-mm no Interviewer: And um say the door was open and you didn't want it to be you'd ask somebody to? 662: Close the door. Interviewer: Or another word you could use? 662: Shut the door. Interviewer: And you know some houses have have boards on the outside that lap over each other. Do you know what I mean? 662: Siding? Interviewer: uh huh any other name for that? 662: wood siding is all I know Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear of weather boarding or clapboard? 662: Yeah Interviewer: clap 662: Yeah Interviewer: What did you hear it called? 662: Weather board Interviewer: uh huh That that's the same as the siding? 662: That would be. Interviewer: And say if you wanted to hang up a picture you'd take a nail and a 662: Hammer Interviewer: And you say I took the hammer and I what the nail in? 662: Hit Interviewer: Or I what the nail in? 662: Drove Interviewer: mm-kay and if it didn't get in far enough you'd say its got to be what in further? 662: Driven in further Interviewer: mm-kay and you say you take the hammer if you want to what the nail in? 662: Hit the nail {NW} Interviewer: What the nail in? 662: Draw the nail in {NW} {NW} Interviewer: And before they had um bathrooms inside the villas that they had outside they called a 662: Outhouses Interviewer: Any other name for that? 662: Outhouses hmm outdoor toilets Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear any joking names or sort of crude names? 662: {NW} yes {NW} I prefer not to say what it is though. {NW} Aux: {NW} Interviewer: What about a building that could be used for storing wood? 662: A wood shed. Interviewer: Okay what about tools? 662: #1 # Aux: #2 # 662: #1 A tool shed # Aux: #2 Tool shed # 662: #1 That's what my husband has. # Aux: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What different buildings would they have on a farm? 662: On a farm? The thing that comes to my mind first is a barn. Interviewer: mm-hmm What would be kept in the barn? 662: Just about everything down here. Aux: pig tools Interviewer: Did did you grow up around a a farm? 662: No Interviewer: You always lived right 662: Right in town #1 in Thibodaux. # Interviewer: #2 Wait # wait your you were born here and then you moved to Thibodaux? 662: To Thibodaux right now I am back over here again Interviewer: That is a pretty French area isn't it? I mean the 662: Oh yeah everything is French down here. Interviewer: Your parents spoke spoke French you said. 662: mm-hmm Aux: mm-hmm Interviewer: And your grandparents just spoke French. 662: Right Interviewer: What about um the name Schriever sounds German to me do you know if it is or not? 662: I don't know where the name Schriever came from really. {NW} I know Thibodaux was named after scholar Thibodaux you know who founded the little town but I don't know how Schriever got it's name really. Interviewer: Well the way 662: Well Schriever first was first a farm project you know Interviewer: What do you mean? 662: Well a lot of people would lease property and uh they would farm out here and then then they got a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger but mostly it was a farm project first Interviewer: The people who who live here if they need to do some shopping or something they just go into Thibodaux. 662: Right Interviewer: Don't they? I mean this is it's the same parish as {X} but it's 662: Right Interviewer: It is really closer. 662: We are closer to Lafourche Parish. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: In Thibodaux I mean you know that's where all of our money is spent in Thibodaux. Interviewer: yeah 662: mostly. Interviewer: This is then right just on the Parish Parish line. 662: Yeah right it's close to it. Interviewer: um What different animals would they have on the farm? 662: cows horses pigs chickens ducks Interviewer: Where would they keep the cows? 662: {NW} Out in the field and bring it in the barn at night I guess. Interviewer: uh huh What about the horses? Where would they stay? 662: Well they would graze out their in the field to and come back in the barn at night. Interviewer: uh huh and the hog the pigs 662: #1 Well the pigs usually are in a pig pen. # Aux: #2 in a pig- # Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And the chickens usually have a chicken house. Interviewer: What about a place just for the mother just for the uh mother hen and the little chicks? You know a little small place just for the? 662: Well down here usually chickens are just like in the little yard all of their own you know. With with with a fence made out of what they call chicken wire. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And then they have a little small house for the hens to lay in and everything. Interviewer: Well what about something that maybe would be built kind of pointed up like this just a small thing for shutting the little chicks up in. 662: I don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a chicken cub or coop? 662: a chicken coop yeah. yeah Interviewer: What would that be built like? 662: uh would be a chicken coop it would be like a small room and um they'd have like nests built up about three feet from the ground and it would have hay in it straw in it you know for the chickens to ah lay their eggs. Interviewer: mm-hmm and it would just be for laying. 662: That's what I think of a chicken coop. I don't you know I might be wrong I don't know I am not too familiar with farm animals. Interviewer: And a hen on a nest of eggs you call her a? 662: A hen on a nest of eggs? Interviewer: uh huh you know whose waiting for the eggs to hatch would be a? 662: She'd be a hen. Interviewer: Well did you ever hear of a setting hen or? 662: Oh yeah yeah Setting hen. Interviewer: okay and something um you could put to get a hen to start laying something you could put in her nest? 662: Now I remember that my aunt had one she used to have a glass egg. Interviewer: uh huh 662: And it would look just like a real egg. I think it was glass or porcelain or something like that. Interviewer: What about if you had a real good set of dishes they would be made out of? 662: China Interviewer: What about an egg made out of that? 662: An egg made out of china? Interviewer: mm-hmm It wouldn't be a glass egg then it would be a? 662: {NW} I don't know . I don't know what you call it. An egg made of china. Interviewer: uh-huh It would just be a china? 662: A china egg? That doesn't sound right does it? An egg made of china. Interviewer: And you know when you are eating chicken there is a bone that goes like this. 662: A wish bone. Interviewer: uh-huh Any other name for that? 662: Just the wish bone. Interviewer: Did you ever hear any um sort of superstitions about that or? 662: Yeah you each one wraps its little finger around each side the one they break it the one that gets the longest piece they would first you make a wish and if you get the longest piece your wish comes true. Interviewer: mm-hmm And um a place where where you could store corn that would be called a? 662: A bin I guess Interviewer: mm-hmm Did you ever hear of a corn barn or a crib? 662: I have heard of it but it I don't think it is used down here too much. Interviewer: What have you heard of? 662: Mostly it is in stories Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: Corn crib Interviewer: What about a a place for storing grain did you ever of a? 662: A a silo. Interviewer: mm-hmm what about a grainery or granary? You ever hear of any? 662: No. Interviewer: And the upper part of the barn where you could store the hay? 662: Loft Interviewer: And um you know when um when you first cut the hay you know and it's you let it dry out in the field. Did you rake it up in little piles? Did you ever hear a name for those little piles? 662: Hay stack Interviewer: uh huh Wha- what's a hay stack like? 662: It's just a mound of hay. Interviewer: mm-hmm It's something that with a hole in the center or? 662: No just piled up and just a mound of hay. I've never seen one but I you know other than in stories television what have you. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a a hay shock or hay tumble? 662: No Interviewer: cock or anything 662: uh-uh Interviewer: And um did you ever hear of any other way of keeping the hay outside besides the hay stack? 662: The only thing I have ever seen is the little machines that come along and neatly bundle them and wire and everything else and you have bails of hay. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about um you know when when you cut the hay off a piece of land and then enough will grow back again so you can cut it again that year? What would you call that? 662: I don't know. A second crop. Interviewer: mm-kay and um a place where you would turn the the cows out to graze? There would be a? 662: A pasture Interviewer: And do you ever hear see a fenced in place out in the pasture where you could leave the cows over night for milking them? 662: uh uh Interviewer: Did you ever think of a milk gap or 662: #1 No # Interviewer: #2 a cow pin? # 662: uh uh Interviewer: And the place around the barn the fenced in place around the barn where the animals can walk around? 662: I'm thinking of a corral I don't know if that would be the same thing. Interviewer: What is a corral like? 662: A corral when you think of a corral you think of horses enclosed by a fence. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And that would be close to a barn too. Interviewer: mm-hmm Did you ever hear of a cow lot or a barn yard? 662: No A barn yard. The barn yard would be in general the barn yard though. As far as I am concerned you know. I'm not famil- Interviewer: The barn yard something around it would be the barn? 662: Yeah to me in my eyes it wouldn't necessarily have to be enclosed. Interviewer: uh-huh 662: You know? Interviewer: Just just that area. 662: Yeah the general area right. Interviewer: And um say if you planted a just a small area of say sweet potatoes you'd refer to that as a sweet potato? 662: Patch Interviewer: What else would grow in a patch like what other kind of patch can you have besides a sweet potato patch? 662: Strawberry patch Blackberry patch anything would be a patch because it would be a small area. Interviewer: And what different kinds of fences um did people used to have? 662: Wood Interviewer: mm-hmm How what kind of fence would you have around your yard? 662: Now y- you you mean like a picket fence? Interviewer: mm-hmm What's a picket fence? 662: Pickett fence is a small slats of wood. Interviewer: mm-hmm Is it pointed? 662: Pointed at the end. Interviewer: mm-hmm How's is it woven together or nailed together? 662: It's nailed together and most of the time the design is saw tooth at the top. It is in different lengths. Interviewer: mm-hmm Did you ever hear of that called the tail end fence? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: What about the kinda of wire fence they have around the pasture now a days? {NW} 662: Nowadays? Interviewer: Yeah it would catch your crows on it. 662: Oh a barbed wire fence. Interviewer: uh huh and if you wanted to put up a barbed wire fence you'd have to dig holes for the 662: For the posts. Interviewer: And you'd take the the wire and nail it to the 662: To the posts. Interviewer: mm-kay and um Talking about several of those you'd be talking about several? 662: Posts Interviewer: mm-kay um What about a fence that went in and out like this? 662: Basket weave. Interviewer: No it's it's made out of wood the real old fashion kind. 662: I don't I don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a a worm fence or a rail fence or? 662: Oh a rail fence yeah. Interviewer: uh huh 662: That would be like small logs. Interviewer: uh huh 662: mm-hmm Interviewer: Did they used to have those in this area? 662: uh I- I don't know I think so I'm not really sure. Interviewer: What about um you know uh um a big farm uh now a days where they have a lot of um milked cows and they? 662: A dairy farm? Interviewer: mm-kay Did you ever hear that word dairy used to mean anything else besides a commercial farm? 662: Dairy products. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about um a place where where you used to keep where people used to keep milk and butter before they had refrigerators? Did you ever hear of people talk about that? 662: Before they had refrigerators? Uh uh no Interviewer: And what about potatoes and turnips? They'd be stored in the winter. Did you ever hear? 662: uh uh No Interviewer: And did you ever see a fence or wall made out of loose rock or stone that you could get from the field? 662: A wall made with that? Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: {NW} Yeah I have seen a stone wall. Interviewer: mm-hmm Do they have those around here? 662: No not really. Interviewer: What about um you know when your um if you wanted to to plant something to break up the ground to get it read for planting? 662: Plow it. Interviewer: mm-kay Did you ever hear um of different kinds of plows people used to use? 662: No Interviewer: What about something that had a lot of teeth in it and would break up the the clots of dirt break up the ground finer than a plower would? 662: The only thing I know that would have teeth and it would be a rake. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: But that wouldn't be a large are Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a {D: hara} or harrow 662: mm Interviewer: What about um you know when you are plowing the the trenches where they are cut by the plow you call those the? 662: I don't know what you'd call it. Interviewer: Well you know the the deep sort of the ditch thing that it cuts. That would be the? 662: I I don't know I really don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a fur 662: uh-uh Interviewer: Fur? 662: No Interviewer: What about um you know the um some of these questions they they might not be. 662: I'm really not familiar with farm terms too much. Interviewer: Um I am just going to go ahead and ask you. 662: Yeah Interviewer: just in case in case you have ever heard of 662: It's sad how we don't know that much about you know things that were not too many years ago right? Sad Interviewer: um Did you ever well I know they didn't raise cotton in this area. 662: No Interviewer: Is sugar cane um when they used to um you'd have to get out there with the hoe and sort of I don't know if they would exactly thin it out or do try to kill the grass thats that's growing up there. Did you ever what would they say they were doing when they'd get out there with the hoe? They'd say they were going to? 662: To get rid of the the you mean the weeds? Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: It would be weeding it Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear them talk about um chopping it or scraping it? 662: Of with a hoe yes scraping it. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about chopping did you ever hear that? 662: Chopping the dirt yeah. Interviewer: uh huh um what what different kinds of grass would be growing up in the? 662: The only thing that I can think of is Johnson grass. Interviewer: What does that look like? 662: uh It gets tall Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: and I've never seen wheat up close you know just in pictures but it kind of has the characteristics of wheat you know it has like a bloom it it's green and then right in the middle is like a bloom and it has like little uh greens on it. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about the that flower sort of that they that yellow flower I see it everywhere you know? 662: The ones that are blooming right now? I don't know what you call that I know there's some that comes out later in the spring they call railroad daisy's Interviewer: Railroad daisy's? 662: uh huh Interviewer: Do they have to kill those? 662: Yeah Interviewer: I guess they would they 662: Yeah Interviewer: they can't let anything else grow there. 662: Everything looks pretty clean by the time it's time for planting. They clean it up pretty good. Interviewer: um What did people used to use to carry water in? 662: A bucket Interviewer: Made out of what? 662: Wood Interviewer: mm-kay What about something they would use for milking? 662: A milk pail. Interviewer: mm-kay What's a milk pail made out of? 662: I don't know Interviewer: Is it wood? 662: Um I imagine metal. Interviewer: mm-hmm You think of a bucket and pail being two different things or? 662: Well it's not too different things it is just like you would a it's association I guess you think of a milk pail and you think of a bucket for water you know. Interviewer: What about the thing they've used to carry food out to the hogs in? 662: I don't know I know they'd say they'd go slop the hogs that's what they'd say they do when they go feed them go slop the hogs. Interviewer: Did you ever hear it called a slop bucket or slop pail? 662: slop bucket Interviewer: uh huh And something you could use for frying eggs in? You'd call that a? 662: Skillet Interviewer: What would that be made out of? 662: Metal Interviewer: mm-hmm The heavy iron? 662: Cast iron Interviewer: uh huh um did you ever hear of a something like that only it has little legs on it you can cook in the fireplace with it 662: I know what you are talking about those big black iron pots Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: Those kettles like that's what they call a kettle with a iron handle the wire handle. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of something called a a spider? 662: uh-uh I'm not familiar with that. Interviewer: And if you cut some flowers and wanted to keep them in the house you'd put them in a? 662: Vase Interviewer: And if you were setting the table for people to eat with you'd give everyone a? Next to each plate you'd give everyone a? 662: A fork and a knife. Interviewer: And a? 662: Spoon whatever's necessary {NW} {NW} pizza nothing {NW} Interviewer: And if you serve steak and it wasn't very tender you might have to put out steak? 662: Knives Interviewer: And if the dishes were dirty you'd say I have to? 662: Wash the dishes. Interviewer: And after she washes the dishes then she? 662: Dries the dishes Interviewer: or 662: picks 'em up Interviewer: In clear water she? 662: Rinses the dishes. Interviewer: mm-kay What about the cloth or rag you use when you are washing dishes? 662: A dish towel or a dish rag. Interviewer: and the cloth or rag you use to bathe your face with? 662: A face rag. Interviewer: And to dry yourself off with? 662: A towel. Interviewer: And something that um if you wanted to pour something from a big container into something with a mirror amount to keep it from spilling out you'd pour it through a like if you wanted to pour something into a coke bottle or something you'd? 662: Oh a funnel? Interviewer: mm-kay And nowadays if you were carrying clothes out to hang them on the line you'd carry them out in a clothes? 662: Clothes basket. Interviewer: And if the lamp wasn't burning you'd have to screw in a new? 662: Light bulb Interviewer: mm-kay and um you mentioned um people raise raise sugarcane around here what do they make with the sugarcane? 662: Sugar both white and brown sugar syrup Interviewer: What about something similar to the syrup? 662: You thinking of that la cuite. Interviewer: What's that? 662: It's it's like syrup but it it crystallizes. I guess its a the process they must stop at a certain process or something. Interviewer: They call that? 662: La cuite L-A-C-U-I-T-E I believe that's how it's spelled. Interviewer: What about um black strap? 662: Molasses? Interviewer: uh huh What's the difference between molasses and syrup? 662: Molasses is darker thicker. Interviewer: Did you ever hear um that called long sweetening or short sweetening? 662: uh uh Interviewer: What about um say if you wanted to buy molasses what would it come in? 662: A can Interviewer: Did you ever hear that called a stand of molasses? 662: uh uh Interviewer: or stand of lard? 662: No Interviewer: What about um you know when they take they take the sugarcane and they grind it to get the juice out what do they call that stuff that they have left over once they've ground? 662: Bagasse Interviewer: mm-kay Did they do anything with that or not? 662: Make paper Interviewer: They did? 662: Paper products. The newspaper in Thibodeaux is made of bagasse. Interviewer: huh Is it just the same as as any other kind of? Can you tell the difference between? 662: No uh-uh They made paper products from bagasse and it is also used for flower beds it's supposed to make a good mulch too Interviewer: um and something that um that nails used to come in? 662: Keg Interviewer: mm-kay And something bigger than a keg that? 662: A barrel Interviewer: mm-kay and the thing that runs around the barrel to keep the wood in place? 662: Bands Interviewer: Or another name for that? 662: I would just call it bands that is the only thing I can think of Interviewer: What about hoops or {D: houps}? 662: It is it it's hoops but I wouldn't associate I always think of bands something that goes around. Interviewer: Yeah 662: You know Interviewer: What about um did you ever see a water barrel or a water keg? 662: A water barrel? Or a water keg? I have seen barrels that hold rain water. Interviewer: mm-hmm Well do you know um or maybe a beer keg or something you know the the thing that you can turn to get the water or beer or whatever out of? 662: The spigot Interviewer: mm-kay What about something like that out in your yard that you can hook your hose to and turn and get? 662: Faucet Interviewer: mm-kay And what about at your sink? 662: That's the faucet. Interviewer: mm-kay and um say well this this would be before your time but I'm gonna ask you um you know if you took corn to the mill to be ground did you ever hear people um how would they refer to the amount of corn that they could take at one time? 662: I don't know. Interviewer: Did you ever hear the expression a turn of corn? 662: uh uh Interviewer: What about if someone went out and got as much wood as he could carry in both his arm? he'd say he had a? 662: He had a load. {NW} Interviewer: Or an arm? 662: An armful Interviewer: mm-kay And you'd say on a wagon that didn't have a full load of wood he just had a? a what of wood? 662: If he didn't have a full load of wood? Interviewer: Yeah if not a full load of wood on his wagon he just had a? 662: I don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear of the expression a jag of wood? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: And something um nowadays if you went to the store and bought something the grocer would put it in a? 662: A bag Interviewer: Made out of? 662: paper Interviewer: And um something that that flower used to come in? If you bought maybe 25 pounds of flower. 662: A sack Interviewer: mm-kay That'd be made out of? 662: Burlap or a not burlap a material Interviewer: just cloth you mean? 662: Cotton material Interviewer: mm-hmm What did they call those um things made out of burlap? Any special name for them? 662: Just a burlap sack Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear of croker sack or toe sack or gunny sack? 662: Down here it's burlap sack Interviewer: okay and um if you opened a bottle and then wanted to close it back up so that the liquid wouldn't spill out you could stick in a? 662: A stopper Interviewer: Made out of? 662: Cork Interviewer: okay And something that um you could play you blow on it like this 662: Harmonica Interviewer: Any other name for that? 662: Mouth organ Interviewer: mm-kay What about something like this? 662: Oh I know what you are talking about I don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear juice 662: uh-uh Interviewer: juice harp? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: And say it's um there's a log across the road you say I tied a chain to it and I what it out of the way? 662: Pulled it out of the way. Interviewer: Or using another word you'd say I 662: Moved it out of the way Interviewer: Or talking about dragging you say I 662: Oh you drug it out of the way. Interviewer: mm-kay And you say we have what many logs out of this road? We have? 662: We have dragged drug I don't know {NW} {NW} Interviewer: Which sounds more natural to you? 662: We have Interviewer: to say 662: Drug Interviewer: mm-kay and you say you have to a a tie a chain around it to 662: Pull it Interviewer: or to 662: Drag it Interviewer: mm-kay and um say if a if a man had a load of wood on his wagon and he was driving along you'd say that he was? Doing what? 662: That he was driving along? Interviewer: Well Yeah he say he goes to the wood pile and he fills the wagon up and then he goes to his house and unloads it goes back for more you say that he's? 662: I'd say he's busy {NW} {NW} Interviewer: Okay would you say he is carting wood or hauling wood? 662: I don't know {NW} I know I don't know I'd just say he was busy that's all. {NW} Interviewer: What about hauling wood or drawing wood? 662: Hauling wood Interviewer: huh? 662: Hauling Interviewer: mm-kay And um if you have a wagon and two horses the long wooden piece that comes between the horses 662: {NW} I don't know {NW} I don't know Interviewer: What about um just on a a child's wagon you know the the handle. Did you ever hear of? 662: No I don't know of any other word for that. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a the tongue of a wagon or a pole or sphere? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: What about um you have a horse pulling a buggy you before you {X} you back them between the. Do you know what I mean? There's the two wooden things then you back the horse between. 662: I know what you are talking about but I don't know what they called. Interviewer: mm-kay And on a of the wheels the thing that runs across and holds one wheel to the other. That's called a? We have it even on a a 662: On an axle. Interviewer: mm-kay and you know on on the wagon wheel the inside of the wheel you have the hub 662: hub Interviewer: and the spokes come out and they fit into the 662: Onto the wheel. Interviewer: uh huh But what would you call that? They come out from the hub then what do you call that part they fit in? But what do you call the part of the wheel that touches the ground? 662: The wheel. Interviewer: mm-kay And um you know when a horse it hitched to a wagon the bar of wood that the trace is backed on to. Did you ever do you know what I mean? 662: You going back to the tongue again? Interviewer: Um with the you have a bar of wood like this and the traces come back and fasten onto the? 662: uh-uh I I don't even know anything about that. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a singletree or? 662: uh-uh uh-uh Interviewer: um doubletree? 662: uh-uh {NW} On to a Cypress tree oak tree maple. {NW} Interviewer: What about um if someone wanted to chop a log they could take a x frame like this you know drive things into the ground and make the make a x frame you set the log into chop it. What would you call that? 662: I wouldn't know Interviewer: What about something um they could have like something like this 662: That's an A frame Interviewer: uh huh You'd call that a? Did you ever hear of a saw horse or saw buck or wood rack? 662: Oh a saw horse yeah Interviewer: mm-hmm Is the saw horse the the A frame 662: Yeah it's it's an A frame Interviewer: mm-hmm And something you'd put in a pistol you'd call that a? 662: Bullet Interviewer: Or another name for that? 662: Round Interviewer: Or you know in the um the kind of ink pen that has the can you think of ink that you put in it you know? 662: Cartridge Interviewer: mm-kay And you straighten your hair using a comb and a? 662: Brush Interviewer: And if you were gonna use that you'd say you were going to? 662: Brush my hair. Interviewer: And um what they used to have to sharpen a straight razor they'd call that a leather? 662: Strap Interviewer: What about something that's um smaller then the small thing that you could sharpen a small knife on? 662: A stone Interviewer: mm-kay What kind of stone? 662: A wet stone Interviewer: What about something bigger that you could sharpen an ax on that would turn around? 662: Oh a a grinding stone. Interviewer: mm-kay And something that children play on they take a board and 662: See-saw Interviewer: And if you saw some children playing on that you'd say they were? 662: See-sawing Interviewer: And um did you ever see anybody take a board and fix it down at both ends and children would jump up and down on it? Sorta like a trampoline I guess. 662: No Interviewer: Did you ever hear of {D: joblin board} or? 662: No Interviewer: And say you could take a board and and fix it um in the center and it spin around you call that a? 662: A merry-go-round Interviewer: mm-kay Any old fashion name for that? 662: No Interviewer: And you could tie a long rope to a tree limb put a seat on it and make a? 662: Swing Interviewer: And something that um you could use for moving bricks or something heavy? It has a little wheel in front and two handles. 662: A wheelbarrow. Interviewer: And something that um people used to use to carry coal in? Did did they ever burn coal? 662: Oh Interviewer: Did they ever burn coal around here? 662: Ah not that I know of. Interviewer: What about you know on those old fashioned stoves the thing that would come up and run from the stove to the chimney? 662: I don't know. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a stove pipe or funnel or flue? 662: A stove pipe. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about um the thing people drive now days you call that a? 662: Car Interviewer: Any other name for car? 662: Automobile Interviewer: And if something was squeaky to lubricate you'd say you had to? 662: Oil it Interviewer: Or you put the hard stuff on it you had to? 662: Grease it Interviewer: mm-kay and you say yesterday he? 662: Greased Interviewer: mm-kay And if grease got all over your hands you'd say your hands were all? 662: Greasy Interviewer: And something that people used to burn in lamps? 662: Kerosene Interviewer: mm-kay Any other name for that? 662: Coal oil Interviewer: And did you ever hear of people making a lamp using a rag and a bottle and some kerosene? 662: A rag and a bottle and Interviewer: you know they they take the bottle 662: The only thing I can think of is a molotov cock- {NW} Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a flambeau? 662: uh uh I've heard of flambeaus yeah. Interviewer: As what's a flambeau? 662: That's what they carry in the parades in New Orleans in Mardi Gras parades but the flambeaus you see are the um it's I don't now I don't know what it's made of but it's a long pole it's like a T and Interviewer: #1 It's like a what? # 662: #2 then the flames. # It's it's shaped in a T. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And flames are shooting out from the top I don't know what what it's made of. That's what they'd call the flambeau carriers. Interviewer: huh 662: In the Mardi Gras parades. Interviewer: What about um inside the tire of the car? 662: Inner- inner tube Interviewer: mm-kay And if someone had just built a boat and they were going to put it in the water for the first time you'd say they were going to? 662: Launch it Interviewer: What different kind of boats do they have around here? 662: Lafitte skiffs Interviewer: The what? 662: Lafitte skiffs Interviewer: What's a Lafitte skiff? 662: It's a flat boat that a lot of shrimpers use Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: and it's wide. You have down here you have pleasure boats you have pleasure boats of all kinds you have um Pirogues. Interviewer: mm-hmm What do they look like? 662: Pirogues are very small and narrow and you really have to have your balance to stay afloat. Interviewer: Are they pointed at both ends? 662: They pointed. And then you have your Joe boats. Interviewer: Your what? 662: Joe boats Interviewer: What's a Joe boat? 662: A Joe boat is a flat bottom boat with um squared off nose. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: Now other people will call them Jon boats but down here they call them Joe boats. Interviewer: huh How's that different from the skiff? 662: Oh well Joe boats are a just plain you know a pleasure fishing boats. Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: And a and a skiff is used by your shrimpers. It doesn't have high sides and everything so they can pull the trolls over and and work. Interviewer: The the the skiff doesn't? 662: The skiff doesn't no. Interviewer: Is this you said Lafitte skiff? 662: Lafitte skiff Interviewer: Is that a specific kind of skiff? A certain 662: A certain kind of skiff uh huh It's it's the style. Interviewer: mm-hmm Is it a brand or? 662: No it's the style. Like a catamaran well this would be a Lafitte skiff and they come in all sizes. Interviewer: uh huh So Lafitte was a pirate wasn't he? 662: mm-hmm Interviewer: Um say a child was just learning to dress himself the mother would bring him the clothes and tell him? 662: To get dressed Interviewer: Or here 662: Here's your clothes. Interviewer: mm-kay and if you were taking a child to the dentist and he was scared the dentist might tell him um you don't need to be scared I what gonna hurt you? I 662: I'm not gonna hurt you. Interviewer: mm-kay Did you ever say I ain't gonna hurt you? 662: mm-hmm sometimes I guess Interviewer: How would you say that? 662: Well down here we don't say we don't say I too much either we say ah Interviewer: uh huh 662: A-H I ain't gonna do this and I ain't gonna do that. Interviewer: uh huh 662: I ain't gonna {NW} Interviewer: You say um ain't much yourself? 662: I don't not too much Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: At lest I am not aware of it you know. Interviewer: What about um say if I ask you was that you I saw in town yesterday you might say no it? 662: {NS} No it wasn't I Interviewer: mm-kay we generally say no it wasn't me. 662: No it wasn't me. Most of all I just say no. Interviewer: {NW} And if a women wanted to buy a dress of a certain color she'd take along a little square of cloth and use it as a? 662: A sample Interviewer: mm-kay And something um say she sees a dress she likes very much she'd say that dress is very? 662: Pretty Interviewer: And does very pretty she'd say the dress was just? 662: Beautiful Interviewer: And something that she could wear over her dress in the kitchen? 662: An Apron Interviewer: And to sign your name in ink you'd use a? 662: Pen Interviewer: And to hold a baby's diaper in place? 662: Pin Interviewer: And something that um kind of a metal that uh well soup you buy comes in a can made out of? 662: Tin Interviewer: mm-kay And a dime is worth? 662: ten cents Interviewer: And say if I ask you if you know a person you might say no I don't know 'em but I what {X} I? 662: I've heard of 'em Interviewer: mm-kay Did you ever hear hear you tell of them? 662: uh uh Interviewer: and um say it's something that you do everyday if I ask you do you do it frequently you'd say yes I? 662: Yes I do it often. Interviewer: okay And if you are asking me if he does that sorta of thing you'd say? 662: Does he do it often? Interviewer: mm-kay And you'd say well I don't smoke cigarettes but he? 662: Smokes Interviewer: You say 662: #1 He does # Interviewer: #2 {X} # huh 662: He does Interviewer: mm-kay And you say well I don't know if he did that or not but people. 662: People say he does. Interviewer: mm-kay And say if I ask you about something you say well I think that's right but I'm not? 662: Sure Interviewer: And um something that a man would wear to church on Sunday? 662: Suit Interviewer: And if he just bought it it would be a brand? 662: New suit Interviewer: And do you remember when they had a three piece suit? 662: The vest the pants and the coat. Interviewer: mm-hmm Any other name for pants? 662: Trousers Interviewer: mm-kay What about something a man would wear if he was working out around the barn? 662: Coveralls Interviewer: Do coveralls have sleeves to them or? 662: No Interviewer: One way you would 662: Coveralls yeah I guess it could. You have different variations of a coverall. You have the all in one with the sleeves and then you have the ones that just have the little strap and the bib. Interviewer: mm-hmm Any other name for the one with just the strap and the bib? 662: No Interviewer: Did you ever hear over? 662: Overalls Interviewer: uh huh Is that different from the coveralls or? 662: Not that I know of. Interviewer: mm-hmm And if if you went outside without your coat and you were getting cold and you wanted it you'd say? Would you run inside and 662: Get my coat. Interviewer: And what it to me? and 662: Bring it to me Interviewer: mm-kay So you'd say so then you went in 662: Got the coat and brought it to Interviewer: #1 mm-kay # 662: #2 me # Interviewer: And you say here I have? 662: Brought Interviewer: mm-kay and you say that coat won't fit this year but last year it 662: Fit Interviewer: mm-kay And if you stuff a lot of things in your pocket it makes them? It makes them stick out you say it makes them? 662: Bulge Interviewer: mm-kay And {NW} you say that shirt used to fit me until I washed it and it? 662: Shrunk Interviewer: And every shirt I've washed recently has? 662: Shrunk Interviewer: And I hope this new shirt won't? 662: Shrink Interviewer: And if a woman like to um likes to put on good clothes you'd say she likes to? 662: Dress up Interviewer: Would you say that about a man? 662: Yeah Interviewer: What about if she likes to you know stand in front of the mirror and 662: Primp Interviewer: uh huh Do men do that? 662: Yeah nowadays they do {NW} Interviewer: What would you call a man who primps a lot? 662: Nowadays? Interviewer: Yeah 662: Fashion conscious I believe. Interviewer: What about a a back then? what 662: Sissy Interviewer: uh huh Did you ever hear the term jelly bee? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: For a man who primps. 662: uh-uh #1 never # Interviewer: #2 and # something that um you could carry your money in? 662: Purse Interviewer: mm-kay What about the little leather container that has a clasp on it? Would you call that a purse too for coins? 662: Oh the coin purse Interviewer: mm-hmm And something that a women would wear around her wrist? 662: A watch Interviewer: Or 662: #1 Bracelet # Interviewer: #2 okay # And say if you had a lot of little things um strung up together you put around your neck you'd call that a? 662: Beads Interviewer: mm-kay You'd call that a what of beads? 662: Strand Interviewer: mm-kay And something that you'd hold over you when it rains? 662: Umbrella Interviewer: And something that men used to wear to hold up their pants? 662: Suspenders Interviewer: mm-kay Any other name for them? 662: For suspenders? Interviewer: Did you ever hear of galluses? 662: uh-uh Interviewer: What about um the last thing that you put on a bed you know the fancy cover? 662: The bed spread Interviewer: Any um old fashioned kinds or did you ever see people make them themselves? 662: Quilts Interviewer: mm-hmm But but what about a quilt that uh something like a quilt only it's not not really quilted together it's just sort of tacked together you call that a? 662: I don't know Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a comfort or county pin counter pin? 662: I've heard of a comforter yeah Interviewer: What's a comforter like? 662: A comforter is lighter it's it's quilted but it's light it is usually made out of light airy Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: material where a quilt would be heavier. Interviewer: What it is it you say it's quilted together just? 662: The comforters I've had Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: would be you know would still be quilted. Interviewer: It is just not as heavy. 662: Yeah I'm working on a quilt right now. Interviewer: You make quilts? 662: W- the clubs making one. {NW} Interviewer: What? 662: We have a quilting bee every week. Interviewer: Like the home home 662: Home demonstration club mm-hmm Interviewer: huh Can you make the real fancy kind? 662: The one that we making right now is ah it's not it's cute it's not the real fancy one though they call it the shoofly pattern. And the middle square is your solid material and each member that worked on it embroiders her name on there so ah after we finish with the quilt we gonna raffle it off and whoever's gonna win it is gonna see who worked on it you know the names are gonna be on it. Interviewer: How long is it gonna take y'all? 662: Seems like it's gonna take forever. It should take us about another month and a half cause we are quilting right now and that's Interviewer: mm-hmm 662: That's done by hand. Well everything has been done by hand. Interviewer: Do you have the quilting frame and everything? 662: We using a frame that is over a hundred years old right now. Interviewer: Gosh Do you enjoy quilting? 662: I love it. It's so relaxing. Except when you get knots at the bottom.{NS: phone rings} Interviewer: Is this your brother? 662: Jimmy's brother my brother-n-law {NW}