Interviewer
Yeah
yes sir
But one thing
One thing my daughter had done
{NW}
But I know the way you lack this kinda talk now
But one thing my daughter had done he's made it possible
that every man can be saved
if he will
if he will
{X}
if he will
first confess in his strife
{NW}
confess his sin now where did the sins go?
sin from the seed of Adam
the sins of Adam being undone
sins of Adam.
cause hell them sins done shit on us all
that where
that's what I was thinking about.
and um there
been some mighty good folk take that
them Bob Richardsman
the man had all he wanted
he he he just
always
don't uh
uh
worship that
above God
I couldn't have this old shack here
if it wasn't for God
I would I wouldn't be sat up in this chair wasn't for God.
{NW}
I wouldn't be sitting
{NW}
Thank him for everything.
Thank him for everything.
Thank him for everything.
Put him above all we say I thank God.
Put God ahead of everything
oh he is ahead.
But I
I'm an I'm an old black man that believe in the God
{NW}
yes sir.
{NW}
oh might have left them parts out there
that's another thing
{NW}
it's a mean thing for folks to have
What do you mean?
Yeah
Well what about f
different types of people?
Well
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
{NS}
Yeah
mister
{B}
What r what
what religion are you?
What religion are you?
What religion are you?
Yeah
and uh
you were young when you
Yeah
Are you a preacher?
a person
Yeah
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah
lot a people do things wrong.
Yes.
Yeah
tell me about your early days in school
You started in the what
Well I started in the
in grammar school you might say
six year I was six years old
What grade?
You started in uh
the pre- the
the primer?
Could he ever sleep?
Could he sleep?
{NW}
yeah
What happened to his other two wives?
Yeah
how many'd you have around the house?
What were their names?
Yeah
anyone named Moore? uh
Martha?
Name what?
Yeah
yeah
You remember that old song
wait 'til the sun shines
{X}
You ever heard of the-
Well
a girl's named beginning with H would be
A girl's name beginning with H
you ever heard any a a girl's name beginning with H?
Yeah
Any other ones?
Yeah
Yeah
Now he-
uh H woman's name
Helen?
{NS}
you ever heard of a woman's name beginning with N?
With N?
{NS}
Nep-
Nem-
Nel-
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Why's that?
samaritan
What road's that?
this is your what out here?
This is your what?
Well out front is your?
coming into your house
this road you turn off to coming to your house.
It's a
Yeah
Yeah.
Yeah
I'm glad to talk with you too.
Could you- Could you-
do another interview with me
sometime
tomorrow?
Would that be okay?
I can give you some money for
for your inter
for interviewing with me.
I
I like to
give you something
Yeah
Really?
what about later on this afternoon?
Would you have time then?
that'll be fine
Yeah
Yeah.
Yeah
who do you make an appointment with?
when you go
yeah who you make and appointment with
has
has he got private
She's a
se-
se-
secretary
did ya what?
Yeah
Yeah.
{NS}
What's that I hear
right there?
Yeah
Ah come on you pulling my leg.
What is that?
What is that smell?
Somebody
cooking back there aren't they?
Yeah
{NS}
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah
{NS}
um
now what sorta
let me ask you just one more
a few more questions
What sort of uh
clothes did folks
wear back in the old days?
What do you wear to church?
Mm-hmm.
if
yeah
if a woman wanted to buy a dress of a certain color
she'd take a little piece of cloth to use as a
as a what?
As a
se-
se-
Yeah.
Well do you ever get anything through the mail?
They might give you something through the mail as a free
you know
you get a bar of soap
For a what?
Through the mail.
Just give it to you
Yeah.
with no when they say that
Would they ever send you anything in the mail?
Like what?
Yeah they say that's a free
Yeah
they want you to do what?
They want you to s-
to
Yeah and they send you this as a what?
Yeah
{NW}
Yeah.
I'm gonna tell you a thing about soap now.
My mother-in-law
a good old woman
{NW]
She got old
and she couldn't keep
She didn't keep herself cleaned up good
Especially a woman in the way of her discharge
and uh
and you could smell her sometimes around the house
and I
How'd she smell?
you said she smelled
{NW}
Yeah
Yeah.
You use a towel
Mm-hmm.
What'd you say?
Yeah.
Now what would a woman wear around here in the kitchen?
Yeah.
yeah
Now she might say this is a pretty dress but this one's even
Yeah.
Yeah.
{NW}
Um
you know
she
talking about a dress she'd say
My
that's a pretty dress I can't make up my mind
That's one's pretty but I think this one's even
yeah
that's one's pretty but I
this one's even
prettier
Trying to make
couldn't make my mind up
Yeah.
When a man wears the
goes
What does a man wear when he goes to church?
Yeah or you might have something uh
yeah
Yeah.
What'd you buy?
bought yourself a
B-W
{B}
yeah
He's a nice man.
Mm-hmm.
I know that man
Yeah.
I know.
Taylor King
that's his name
I met him before
{X}
Yeah.
Where is Myrtle Grove?
Yup
{NW}
Yeah.
if you're going to a wedding
something like that you couldn't wear your
your old suit you'd have to go out and buy a
You might you know if you wanted to get fancied up you wou-
Yeah
But
you know
{NW}
but you know years ago
uh
when was it you bought your first
you bought your first
you
you know when you were a young boy
your daddy might a take you town and buy a
He'd buy a what?
Yeah.
or he
he might buy you a whole
Yeah
what would you wear around the farm?
{NW}
Yeah
Well
a man
might wear what?
bib
Yeah but around the farm he'd wear
yeah
yeah.
{NS}
and did you ever see them
Them things that they'd wear that become
Yeah.
They call them over
Yeah.
Yeah.
These are what?
These are blue
britches?
Have buttons
or
a shirt
a shirt's got what got
buttons on it right
Um
now
you might say
if your old suit wore out
you'd have to buy a
a what?
a what
Yeah.
um
Yeah.
You know if you had a coat
you might say
Now
this coat won't fit
this year.
I can't understand because last year it
{NS}
Yeah.
and his clothes
Yeah.
Yeah.
his clothes
um
{NW}
after he lost weight
they didn't
they didn't fit him right?
what does a belt say on it when it's cow hide?
What's it say it says
Yeah what does it say?
Ge-
it says uh
it'll say what?
Gen-
{NS}
this is not imitation it's
Yeah well you say
guaranteed
yeah
it's not fake
it's
it what
genu-
Yeah
I thought I had one written on my belt
but I
but I don't
Um
Yeah
Well
you know
after that man had lost weight his clothes didn't
{NS}
Clothes didn't fit him but but
before
they
they fit him
Yeah
yeah
{NS}
you know
when you
when you're going buy a pecan tree
and you put a lot of
stuff a lot of pecans in your pockets it makes them
makes 'em b-
makes 'em
Yeah.
You know what
what would happen when you put say a cotton shirt in
in
the water
in hot water it made it.
it made it do what?
It made it sh-
draw up you say it's
wool
you say
I put my
wool shirt in the water and it
shr-
or it'll shr-
it'll
Or else it'll shr-
it'll
shr-
Yeah
Well
You said you never did
you never did
go to them
Yes sir
what do you mean?
at the end of school when school
Yeah.
Uh
{NS}
well sir
Um
{NW}
when a girl
like to say when she'd getting ready to go
dance or something like that when she like to
put on her best dress you'd say she was
Yeah
Yeah
and they start
{NW}
Yeah.
You'd say they're
Yeah.
{NS}
You'd say they're doing what?
Spend a lot of time in front of the mirror
yeah
she's all
She'd get all
you
she'd get all
what
folks would say she's all
Okay.
and a man he would
what would he do?
He would
Do you like to uh
do that?
Excuse me?
Yeah
You say you were
pri-
uh
You'd say a woman was
{NS}
primping up or
Yeah.
Say he's doing what?
okay
A woman might wear
might carry a what?
She'd carry a
or a
pur-
uh
Yeah
and
around her wrist
she'd wear a
or a
just a
an ornamental br-
uh
Um
around her
around her uh
Yeah. thing a beads
Yeah
would uh.
Now what if they were
if they were pearls?
Yeah.
something they'd say. They're not imitation they're
those aren't imitation diamonds
you might say those are thats a
Genu-
Yeah.
But some of them rich folks
might wear a
They wouldn't have a fake diamond they'd have a
gen-
uh
You'd say they had a
a genui-
yeah
right.
What would a man wear to hold his trousers up?
yeah
yeah
and a woman
yeah
they call them
they call them
now
when it rained a woman would hold a
yeah.
now
I know you farm some
uh
I'd like you to tell me a little about the land here.
uh
is the land very
is the land very good land here?
The land's not
if uh
if the land itself
is good
you say
yeah
you say the land is very
fer
fer
fer
fertile?
what?
fertile land.
um
now
the kind of low
flat land along a river
it's
{X}
Why is that?
and the soil doesn't
What about water?
what about water on the soil?
yeah
really?
Can you drink it?
can I drink some of it?
What it's dry?
now a branch is
a branch is a what?
yeah where two creeks'll come together.
yeah.
you ever seen the place in a river where
it'll kind of
fork
or something like that? You'd say that was the what of the river
yeah
yeah
yeah
around here?
have you got any
what about the water in the neighborhood?
Did it
did you got a place right down there?
What is that back there?
Just over the hill?
yeah there's bridge across what?
yeah
yeah
back up on the
on the
was it on top of a
do you want me to
what?
the door's open you want me to
yeah
okay now
right here we're down in the what
yeah.
But there's some
this kind of rolling land here.
yeah.
uh
is it flat now above here or
yeah.
{NW}
yeah.
yeah
what do you call them?
{X}
yeah
{X}
what different types of
sweet potatoes?
yeah
yeah
yeah
now what are yams?
yeah
you say pumpkin?
yeah
yeah
you're raising little red vegetables?
yeah
you got those little
fresh ones maybe
yeah
yeah
what kind of vegetables would you like in a soup?
yeah
how much
what do you raise
how do you raise lettuce?
How much do you raise?
yeah
yeah
yeah
you raise how many you raise
you might go to the store and buy
two
if you're going to buy lettuce you go to the store and buy two
but if you had a lot of people coming you might buy
or you might buy two
two what?
yeah
but
yeah
you raise a lot?
You raise a lot of
Ca
yeah
you raise a lot of
ca
yeah
yeah.
what
where all the what
all the
where all the ca
you say where all the
cabbage
will
cabbages will
yeah.
talking about the sides you'd say they
these
yeah
how big do they get here?
do they get big here?
uh
now
you uh
okay other vegetables you might raise
you mentioned tomatoes you got them little
huh?
tommy?
yeah.
You know what a
tommy
tommy toe?
the little ol' tomatoes you ever hear
tommy toe?
Tomato?
or
what do they call those little ones?
yeah