This is Carol Rice (CR), I'm here with Evelyn Marshall (EM). We are at her home on North Pond, Norway October 14, 2025 CR: And what is your full name? EM: Evelyn Millett Marshall. CR: What is your date of birth? EM: January 21st, 1935 CR: And who were your parents? EM: Leland and Doris Millett. CR: And where were you born? EM: On Marston Street in Norway, Maine. CR: Are there other members of your family in the area? EM: Not anymore. Well, there were in Norway. CR: But, um, were...Any of your uncles or aunts? Brothers and sisters of your parents, were they here? EM: Yes. CR: Who were they? EM: Roy Millett CR: Mm-hmm. EM: And Alice Millett. CR: That's the only brother? EM: Oh, I guess there was an Uncle Horace, too, Millett. CR: All on your dad's side? EM: All my… yes. My grandparents on my mother's side lived in northwest Norway. CR: Way far away.... EM: It's still in Norway. CR: Exactly! EM: Up the Herrick Road at the top of the hill. CR: And their names were… EM: Leland and Doris Millett. CR: The same? EM: That's my mother's... Mother and father. CR: Right, yeah, your mother, your grandparent... EM: My grandparent. Yeah. William and Mertella Brown. CR: I'm sorry that... So they lived on the Herrick Road? EM: They lived on the Herrick Road and ...when this...when they got older, they came to the village and stayed with our family. CR: Mm-hmm. And where did you live? When you were a child? EM: 82 Pleasant Street in Norway. CR: And what was that neighborhood like back then? EM: It was all boys. CR: Okay. EM: I had 4 brothers, and… There were no girls my age. There were some girls, but they were high school when I was in grammar school, and...later on, there was a girl down the road a little ways that we...got together. And she was a year younger than me, so it was good. But it… everything… there was 4 boys, they had a perfect team....2 on each side. CR: They didn't need you. EM: They wouldn't let me play. I was the cheerleader, though. Does that count? CR: It does, yes. So, who were the neighbors? Were there…nearby... EM: Helen Bailey, she was a distant cousin of my grandmother, Millett. Um… Rupert and Nellie Aldrich And… Emily and Iola Merrill. ...is that the name? CR: ...could be.. EM: ...and then later, there was the Tilly boys. CR: More boys. EM: More boys. And David Aldrich was right across the street, and that's another boy, yeah. CR: So, there were a lot of boys to play with, but not so many girls. EM: Right. CR: So, tell me about your siblings--those 4 boys. EM: Those 4 boys. Junior was the oldest one. We called him Junior all our lives, until he come back from the service, and he didn't want to be called Junior anymore. And it was very difficult. Not to keep calling him Junior, but we did, we tried, and… and then there was Bernard--name was Bun. He was…into all the sports every season, and all the boys were. And he got cancer and died at a very young age. And oh, it ...was heartbreaking, naturally. And then there was Elwyn. He lived until… into his 90s. And he was…he was a slow poker; but if we'd have a meeting somewhere, he's always late. That's enough, but it's fun, because... anyway, and then there was Gordon, the youngest brother. He lived in Turner. He was a mason. And he married a girl who I went to school with, and… we had an apartment in Portland, and uh…he was in Boston. ...was in the service, but he was close to Boston, and came home 'bout every weekend. And he stopped at our apartment. Well, they ended up getting married. It was fun. Yeah. That's.. CR: … so most of them stayed in the Norway area until they went in the service? EM: Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. Elwyn moved to Vermont. He was a contractor, and he was overworked. And unemployed. And, uh… ...he didn't have help, enough help. CR: ...under him, yeah, yeah. EM: So he went to get an easier job. ...paid just as much or probably more, and they were in Vermont for quite a while. And then they got up into their older years, and… we all have to have help, eventually. And they moved home. They moved home in one day. He had a nephew, which was a grandson of mine...who owned a big truck. And he got the truck and all the other guys...cousins... went to Vermont...loaded the truck and brought him home. And it got home, and they took a day or two to empty the truck. But… and it was one of the best things that the family has ever done. Okay. It was good. CR: So, um, tell me about the house where you grew up. EM: The house where I grew up on Pleasant Street...it was a ... 5-bedroom house. And there was 4 boys. There was 2 older and 2 younger. It was the big boys and the little boys, and then me. So, the big boys had a room. The little boys had a room. And it was perfect. The house itself… was very active, naturally. And… I don't know, it was home. Can I say...what can I say? Um, I think at home, too, we ate a lot of potatoes. And back in the days, the…right after that, what do you all that? Epidemic? Nobody had money.. CR: Oh, the Depression? EM: The depression. Yeah. And uh… We grow our own vegetables and canned them. And we had potatoes and I can never forget it was my job to peel potatoes--not that I really enjoyed it, but I did it. And the boys all had a job, you know. It was a working family. We all did it together. CR: Did you have a garden out back? EM: We had 2 gardens. We, uh, had our vegetables. And then we had…another big garden of just string beans. This was the kids--we had to tend it ...go out and hoe it every otherday...we had to get rid of it, and we sold them to the…canning factory...over in…I guess it was down in Norway at that time, probably. CR: You look like you really enjoyed that. EM: Not at the time. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. CR: And you picked berries and things, no doubt? EM: Yeah, we had a blackberry...down… bush...down in the corner of the field. And yes, it was awful. We didn't like the berries... but we had to pick 'em. Well, one day, Gordon and I were doing that. And… I don't know why we did, really, 'cause it wasn't the right thing to do, but… we trampled down a lot of the berries so they wouldn't grow anymore. Uh, we should not have done that. Oh, yeah. CR: Why did you say that? EM: Really? But we didn't have to pick as many blueberry uh...blackberries, anyway, but… So… CR: Your mother was not… not upset? EM: Oh… I'm sorry, to say, we did upset her. Very much. CR: If you didn't like the blackberries, did you have to eat them? ...or made jelly, ...or? EM: Oh, she did. She canned them, and…she had baskets of them out, beside the road that she sold. I think they were $1.50 a box, or something like that. It was… CR: Likely a bigger box than you get now. EM: Probably. CR: Um, uh…So, what did your… I mean, your mother was very busy at home. What did your father do? EM: My father….run the logging business for Walter Cullinan. And he was… very busy. He had a crew, and they had a sawmill. And Daddy would run the saw. And the boys stacked it. You know, took it off and stacked it. And he had a lot of family that went…to working for Uncle Lee or Grandpa or Dad... whatever. He… no, he did that, it was his life, and… did good. CR: And I think you told me once that at least one winter you lived at a logging camp? EM: Yes, over in Waterford. They… they owned a big lot over there, and in the wintertime, we stayed in the logging camp. There was 3 families: the Merrills from South Paris--Clarence and Esther. ...and--a??nd then… Swallows. Fab. Can't remember what her name was. ...and then our folks. There were girls, and there's… I think we had more girls in camp than did boys at that point, so it was always good. And… We live there, but we'd go home weekends because they were building our house on Pleasant Street. CR: So, where had you lived before in Norway? EM: I really don't remember. I… I think it was on Marston Street. Um, but I don't really… CR: Yeah. EM: I don't really know. 'cause I was little, I wouldn't remember, but… I remember we'd go home weekends and work on the house. And then in the summer came, moved over. It wasn't finished. But it was finished enough...we could live in it. CR: So that was just one winter? EM: Yeah. CR: Was it cold? EM: I don't remember that it was. They had horses that…..they pulled the logs out on a sled, or whatever. And we used to get up in the windows, up over the sink, and watch 'em. And one of the horses fell... slipped on the ice. It was all ice in the yard. And we all laughed, see the horse. But we didn't laugh very long. That was, like, one of the memories you'll forget all about, and then all of a sudden you think of it, and…yeah.. CR: So, you were really young then. Did the boys go to school that winter? EM: Yeah, they did. I don't think Gordon did. He was the youngest boy, but Elwyn Bun and Junior, yeah. Yeah. CR: So they came to Norway to go to school, or they went in Waterford. EM: Waterford. CR: That makes sense... EM: The school bus picked them up and... CR: Now, if there was anything that was a typical day before you started school, what was that? EM: I don't remember. Yeah. We had… CR: But had all of the boys ...had started school and you were still at home at some point? EM; Yes, I was home alone for a whole year. CR: Helping out, or trying to stay out of the way? EM: I think probably I had chores that I had to do, and probably took on some of the boys' chores, because I'm home all day. Yeah. My mother used to do laundries for neighbors and people...took in laundry, and she hung everything on the… clothes line--year 'round. And… I do remember coming home from school. And going into the house, and it always smelled so good...with clothes that had hung out all day. CR: It is a very good smell, yeah. Don't get it very often anymore. EM: No, we don't....dryers are too easy. Yeah. CR: ...and dryer sheets are not the same. EM: No. Yeah. No. No. CR: Uh…so your mother was very busy, and Dad was very busy, and you kids were all very busy. What did you do in the winter for play outside? EM: Well, when we got a little bit bigger, we had skis. And we had a big hill in our field. And we had skis, and we… hold them on our feet with jar rubbers. And naturally, they kind of slip off and whatever. And I would go back up top, come back down, and we just did it. And I remember one time my mother called us early in the morning, 'cause it was a frost. And we went sliding before we had even had breakfast...in and eat breakfast, go to school, that's… Oh, I don't know, what else did we do? CR: There was… was there a hockey team or anything? Skating? EM: We had a skating rink at the school, and we used to do that. We used to go down and skate there. CR: But you had plenty of opportunity at the house. EM: No. CR: Well, no, to ski and to… EM: Yes. CR: Ever have a snowball fight that… the boys, ganged up on you? EM: I think we had teams. By that time, probably the big boys are gone, and… yeah, Elwyn, Gordon and me. .. It was… yeah, we had a few snowballs, I think it was. And then one….one year... ...we didn't… I don't know, we didn't have something to do, so Gordon got a can of tuna fish that had been used. I mean, they'd eaten the tuna fish, and he stuck it up on the wall out in the shed. And we had a ball, and I can't remember if it was just a tennis ball or what it was, but we… we… played basketball. And go out right after supper, and go play basketball before you had to do the dishes or whatever. But… it's… and naturally, it was good for us. Just the exercise, plus lining it up with the can… And… yeah. CR: Not very big, EM: No, it isn't. But we got so… we could hit it pretty good. It was fun. CR: What are some funny stories you remember about your family? EM:: ...funny stories? CR: ...or whatever... EM: I remember 4th of July. Daddy always took off for the 4th, and we always went to Keoka Beach with a picnic and spend the day. ... and this was so unusual. But he just worked. Five kids... he had to work. CR: The Cullinens were not noted for holidays... EM: Well, no... CR: For the workers... EM: No. CR: ....as I recall. CR: Well, did your folks get you involved in, like, church or civic organizations, or… EM: Did they ever. They both belonged to the Oddfellows and the Rebeccas. And… they… They had a lot of kids that… people who were members, and they decided it was time to get the kids involved and... social meetings. So they started a girl's… Rebeccas ...what did they call them? And then they had a boys group, too. And to promote interest, the Norway lodges were invited to go to Bar Harbor for a gathering. And we went up on the top of Bar Harbor--Cadillac Mountain, is it? And we had to explain what it was. A girls group and boys group. So… Gordon had the guys. I had the girls. And I was scared to death--not scared, really, but just nervous, I guess it was. But they were very active, and…got a lot out of it, really did. And yes, the church…..we went to the Universalist Church, and we got very involved in that, too. And as the years went on, they started youth groups. And naturally, we belong to the youth groups. When I outgrew them, Lee and I worked with the church, and we supervised the youth group. And that was a... challenge. I know it was… it was a good challenge, but… Yep. It was fun. CR: So, where did you start school? EM: I started school on Lower Main, in Norway, Main Street. Um… I don't know, there's a… free clothing place there now. You can take clothes and they'll give them for the needy. CR: So you didn't go to the one right at the base of, you know, the old… well, it used to be red, but now it's yellow. EM: No, I, uh, we went to first and second grades--Kindergarten and first grade. Second grade, we went to the yellow schoolhouse.... CR: ...that was, like, across the road on the… well, I mean, but at Lower Main Street. Yeah. EM: Yeah...just past the road that goes to South Paris. CR: Mm-hmm. EM: But we had to…we had to walk up to the…..regular school to get papers and supplies for the little…schoolhouse. And.…another girl and I seem to be chosen very often to go, and I don't really know why. But… it was. ...a good thing. We liked it. ..and so. CR: So then you were at the yellow school, or the primary school for…a number of years. EM: ...8th grade and 8th grade graduation. And then we went to Guy E. Rowe School. CR: That ...was 8th grade graduation at the school? or was it…. EM: Yeah, at the gym. CR:...at the school? EM: Yes, the school...the gym...the high school CR: So you were marching from one to the other .... on to high school. Yeah. Yeah. And you all graduated from high school. EM: We all did, yes. CR: Uh, and graduation then was…..was that in the Opera House? EM: No. CR: ...it was in the gym? EM: It was at the gym. CR: So what did you like about…school....other than EM: ...basketball practice...Basketball. CR: Well, it was that tuna fish can that got you all geared up for basketball. EM: I, uh…I wasn't really a very good student. I passed, but it wasn't with all A's. And I took bookkeeping, 'cause I decided what I wanted to do for… a living, and I'm going to need to know how to do bookkeeping. Well...I didn't like bookkeeping. And I wasn't very good at it. And Mrs. McAllister, the teacher, told me I either had to do this. ..one deal that you could do, and she would pass me if I did it. So I did it. I had some help. But I got it done. And passed it in, and it was okay. So I got my diploma. But, you know, it was funny, when you walk up to pick up your diploma, you really… You know how you feel. And I felt, I...I hope it's signed. I just hoped it's signed. I shouldn't be in here anyway. CR: But it was signed? EM: It was signed. CR: Yeah. So I think some of these stories are the things that sort of make for a really rich fabric of what goes on, you know. Because not everything is, like, smooth sledding. EM: No. CR: Right? And… So why not share a little of the bumps? Over time, most of the bumps turn into funny stories. EM: Well really. There was one teacher that...He had a…stick. ...a long stick. And he wouldn't hit you with it. But he would get your attention. He'd snap it on the floor, he'd hit a desk or something and.... CR: Who was that? EM: I was scared to death of that. I won't see his name?. CR: Oh! He's probably dead... EM: Yes, he is dead. John Roberts. CR: Oh..… EM: He taught history...and.. CR: Mm-hmm. EM: And you know, after you graduated from high school, they always knew you, these teachers...they… they always remembered you. And he was one of the nicest guys, best teachers. Really memories.... it's good, it's all good. CR: That's a good story. It's a good John Roberts story. EM: Wow. CR: Well…it's OK. EM: I just hated to go in that room because I was not a good scholar anyway. CR: Now, did the rivalry between Norway and Paris impact you at all? EM: No, that's always been that. ...um, in sports, especially. Yeah, and… Bun and Lee were playing one time. They were on the same team, naturally, but…they were good players. And Bun had the ball and was running for a touchdown. And some of the South Paris guys caught up with him and ripped the shirt right off him. Well, that didn't help with liking the neighbors. CR: I guess...he didn't get the touchdown. EM: No, I don't think he did. Yeah. CR: At least not that try. EM: But they… they were good teams. I mean, both of them have good teams, and….with a lot of… CR: So there was bas… there was football and basketball. And baseball? EM: Baseball, yeah. Archery. CR: And the girls had basketball. EM: We had basketball, but we couldn't play other teams, except the girls from Norway High. Plus, when we were freshmen, we practiced with seniors. They took us under their wing, and, we did good. Yeah. And..it was good. CR: But you couldn't play Paris EM: No. CR: No. EM: The boys did... CR: Yes, yes, well. Yeah, they did a lot of things that the girls couldn't do. CR: Did… did any of you go on ... the Washington trip? EM: Oh, yeah, we all did, I think. Well, I don't know if the older boys did or not. And.. Elwyn and Gordon and I did, yes. And it was fabulous. We've never been much out of the state of Maine, but… CR: Yep. EM: It was the bus ride ...all the way. CR: Long ride, yeah. EM: But it was good. CR: And you all had to earn some money to do that? EM: Each class had to, yeah. CR: Okay, so the class, or… yeah, most of it, EM: yeah, yeah. I think we were all in awe of it, because it is so beautiful. Really. CR: A lot of bake sales. EM: Yeah, we had a lot of bake sales. CR: And I'm sure your mother contributed a lot of baking between… .. EM: Oh, gosh, yes. CR: …church and… the Rebeccas, and schools and da-da-da-da-da. EM: Yeah, she had a drawer in the kitchen cabinets… There was a top drawer with silverware. The next one was towels. The next one was…break food... cupcakes, and cookies. And that was the first place we went when we got home to school together. CR: ...and it wasn't all pre-packaged or anything. EM: No, it wasn't. And pies, they would keep some pies in there. CR: Pies were a real staple back in the day. EM: Yeah, apple pies, she would make 6 or 7 a day. And I think every day she made cookies. I'm not exaggerating...honest to God, they… liked sugar...sugar stuff. CR: And, um, what size bag of flour did your dad buy? EM: 50 pounds, is it? 20 pounds. CR: I think it was 25 pounds. EM: Oh, it was a big… the biggest one you could get. CR: He might have gotten 50. EM: Probably 25... CR: The 25-pound ones were about that high. EM: Yeah, that's probably what it was. Yeah. Yeah. She'd have an extra bag in the closet. Their bedroom....yeah, yeah...my parent's bedroom was right ... right off the kitchen. And sugar. There was always a couple 5-pound bags, 10-pound bags, of sugar in the closet. Well, they had… CR: Well, they had lived through sugar rationing, probably. EM: Yeah, yeah, with the green stamps and everything, yeah. CR: And… what did you do after high school? EM: After high school? I got a job for the summer. And then I went…to Pelletier Beauty School, which is on Main Street in Lewiston. I had a deal set up with a family. I could live with them, if I would tend the two children...babysit the kids... CR: Mm-hmm. EM: It was a real good deal. And it… was 9 months of training I had...so about a year. And two little kids were…good little kids, except the little boy was always in trouble now and then. But it was good. And then I went to Portland, with my future sister-in-law. And she got a job in a beauty shop, and I… I was in envy of hers, because the one I was with....for older people. And when you go to beauty school, you get younger people to work on, than older people. And… But eventually, I got… ah, into a shop that was good. It was…more my cup of tea. CR: And then? EM: I think I was only there for…one winter, because John was in the service. And… when he got out of the service, we were gonna get married. CR: So you knew him in high school? EM: Yeah, we were high school sweethearts. CR: Yeah. EM: So…I got a phone call from him. I think it was, like, Monday or Tuesday of the week, and he says, I'm going to be off this weekend. I'll be home. We'll get married. Okay? I already had a diamond. So we did, and it was…My mother, honest to God, she was fantastic. Get everything organized so quickly. And we… they were painting the upstairs in the church. So we had to have our wedding down in the…where the dining room is. CR: Mm-hmm. EM: But it was perfect. CR: So your mother was cooking furiously also for the reception, EM: You think? CR: Well, I don't know. EM: Yes, I'm sure she was. And the Church ladies helped, too, right. That was…yeah...good. CR: So then you went back to Portland, and he went back to wherever. EM: He was stationed on Cape Cod. Yeah...Well, he didn't then. He went for his training in New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico, and got his training, and then he was assigned to the base in Cape Cod. And… so then I moved to Cape Cod, too. And I worked in a…5 and 10 cent store, and I upgraded myself and got into a clothing store, which was…a lot nicer. He spent his 4 years, and then we came to Maine. CR: Hmmm. So then what… where did you settle in Maine? EM: Right, got an apartment in…South Paris and… we had Beth, our oldest daughter. And I guess we were there maybe 4 years? And I got pregnant again, and we couldn't afford... Not to. We had a… We're gonna move. ... So, we moved to Norway and had a real good house to rent. And we stayed there, and we got to talking about building a home. So, Daddy helped us get a lot. And… your father offered to do the…tractor work that needed to be done. He dug the well, and he…..made the foundation....dug the cellar hole back there. And… and they… the whole families showed up to build… help build. CR: And where was this? EM: This was on Pleasant Street, in Norway....like, just a mile out of town. CR: Mm-hmm. EM: And we lived there for, what, 25 years or something? It was, it was a nice house. 3… 3 bedrooms. It was good... CR: And you continued to work? EM: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I worked in a shop. And then... CR: In what shop? EM: Ona Tyler. The sweetest lady. And after she passed away. I decided I'd do it myself... and I did for a while. And then I decided I…have kids at home...John really wanted me to stay home. So I did. And I… went to people's houses. And it was good. And thank God for grandmothers...they babysit. The kids were in school by then, too. But, it all worked out quite well. CR: But you don't live on Pleasant Street any more, so… EM: I ride up by it, though. CR: I know.... but what brought you to your current residence? EM: Oh, well… John had a customer who wanted to sell a house lot, or a camp lot, on North Pond in Norway. So, he brought me up here in the middle of Fall. And… it was dark. I don't know, I guess we… Anyway, it was dark, and we had to walk in from the top of the hill... so we walked in ...and… stood in front of the pond. And he says, look at that. Don't you think this would be an awful good place for a camp? And I…I said, no, not really. It was just thick woods. And I said… and at that time, we had $500 in the bank....and this was going to cost…300 to buy the land and that I didn't want to spend all that money. I was brought up to be conservative. But anyway, we got it. And then, uh, our life changed. And it was wonderful. And we have this for…20 years? And decided, kids were all grown up and gone. We don't need those 2 extra bedrooms..so we built the camp. We had a tent and a hut.… and now we needed a camp. So we built the camp... CR: What year was that about? EM: Oh, gosh. First..We bought the lot in '65. ....and I don't know, I can't remember what year we built the house. CR: But all the kids had graduated from high school? EM: Yes. Yeah. We didn't need two places....and ...bills in both places. So… We moved up here. That was probably 15...15 years ago, or something like that. CR: Well, let's see. At least, because you certainly were here in 2012... EM: Yes. CR: ...when I came back. And pretty well settled in, as I recall. Yeah. So, yeah, it's been a while. EM: I probably got it somewhere. CR: It doesn't matter. The point of this is not, like, that kind of stuff. It's just like… No. EM: Well, you know, we are always… both of us agreed that it was one of the best moves we'd ever made. Because it's… us. Uh, or it was. CR: Yeah...John's still pretty much around here. EM: I talk to him all the time. CR: See, exactly. Yeah. CR: And you folks did a lot of snowmobile work? EM: We did. We snowmobiled....that started... long, long time ago....years ago, when I was going to church, and I was taking the kids to Sunday school. And he didn't... And he finally says to me, why don't you… come with me today? We'll go snowmobiling. We can go with the kids. And I said, well, I can't, I gotta go to church. And he said, you go to church....I'm gonna go snowmobiling myself... You go to church... you do your church work...And I'll do the…playing. When you think about it, the kids weren't seeing him...when it's fun. So we talked about it, and let's try it. So we did. I got done running the church group, or whatever....and….it was good. We went snowmobiling. We bought… we had two machines...and we bought another one. That way, the girls could learn to ride, too, and they'd go round and round and round. There's a little island out front here, and they'd go round and round it. But, uh, like...when it got so they could drive good, we bought them… each one of them had their own snowmobile. And it worked out quite well. We went on trips and weekends for snowmobiling. Yup. And then the neighbors next door, too. We were very close. CR: And who were they? EM: He is a cousin...the parents of Mark who owns it now....his father, who was my first cousin, Roy Millett's son. And uh…..they had 3 kids, too....two boys and a girl. So… we just… we were the Milletts and the Marshals. It was good. ....put lots and lots of miles on snow machines. ...It was terrific. CR: A nice way to spend the winter. EM: Yes it was. Yeah, well, we never liked winter, nothing to do. CR: Well, there is, you can go snowmobiling. EM: Well, this is before the snowmobile.... CR: Yeah, well, but then you, you know….When you were growing up, you were skiing and sledding... EM: Yeah, true...but...yeah. CR: That's good, it turned out to be fun. EM: Yeah, it was. Yeah...and good. CR: Well, you wrote down some things there. What did… what had come to mind as you were starting to think about having this little discussion? Anything we haven't covered? EM: I think we're pretty much done. ... We used to slide down the hill and end up down in the woods down on Pleasant Street, where I grew up. No, I think… I think it could explain our family as being very fortunate to have each other. And all 5 of us kids did three sports a year. Um, I did archery, softball and basketball. I didn't care for… softball that much. But...we did it. CR: That's what the girls were allowed to do. EM: Yeah. That was good. CR: What do you remember about Main Street as a young person? EM: As a young person...Newberry's was there. I worked in Newberry's. CR: Um… EM: Wilson's was there. It was another 5 in 10, but better quality than...some 5 and 10s. And there was a nice restaurant....Barjo's...Josephine... CR: Those three, yep. EM: I was telling somebody the other day, we were talking about May baskets. And I said, when we were teenagers, a bunch of us went out together and we stopped at Josephine Stone's house. I don't think we even knew it was her house. And we knocked on the door, and she came to the door. And we trick-or-treated. And she said ....don't you people think you're old enough, you don't need to go begging candy? She was okay with it, but…we got the message! She was a sweetheart. CR: What do you remember about the Opera House and things that went on there? EM: We did all of, uh, high school... drama there. CR: Mm-hmm. EM: Each class, I think ..did each...each class have it, or is it the whole… Junior high? I'm not sure. Yeah, we had plays we put on every year. And yeah, the Opera House was… the go-to place. ....trying to think what else we did there...I think we did...I don't remember... CR: About how you got down… other things that happened there? What don't you remember? Well… EM: We used to do the high school. .... And it seems that we went for something else, and I can't remember now what it was. ...that was a group... doing something. CR: I think there were… other people came and performed, I think... EM: Yeah, maybe that's… CR: Someone… I think Charles Longley, said that he remembered music coming out of the… you know, you could hear it on the street.... EM: Yes, yes. CR: ....that you didn't have to attend, necessarily. You could just hear the music. EM: Yeah, yeah.. .boy. CR: What about your mother or father still just makes you laugh out loud? EM: Oh, gosh. I don't… I can't think of anything. CR: Okay. Oh, there's always that drawer with all the treats in it.... See, there you go. EM: Okay. That may be. Yeah. CR: And the Keoka picnics, and whatever. EM: Yeah, the Keoka picnic. Yeah. That was… That was just so special. That was… And we get into the car. And… it was…four boys in the back...and me in the front with Mom and Dad, and…the boys would always…pester each other. And I remember Daddy saying, okay, you guys...you can make up your mind right now. ...you're not going to get into a row or, we won't go. So...they all behaved themselves. We really wanted to go to Keoka Lake. CR: Yeah. Anything else you want to chat about, or… EM: I think that's enough. CR: That's about enough. EM: I think so. CR: Okay.