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A. Veresano interviewing Frank Zahay -13- 8/21/72
Tape 27-2

FZ Scrapple keeps a long time when I moved in here before I had a refrigerator
I had a big pot or something. I sat it down on the bare ground
in the cellar, put your stuff in there and put a lid on and keep if for
quite awhile, instead of refrigerators.

AV Wha't scrapple made of or what did they make it out of here?

FZ Buckwheat flour, and some cornmeal, that's all.

AV Well the way my mother used to make it is most of the bologna they used
to boil it in a wash boiler, only you didn't boil the sausage they used to
smoke the sausage and that would preserve it all the other stuff
(names different kinds of bolognas and worsts) you used to boil, sometimes
the casing would bust and some of the meat would get out of it, the meat
that you had in the water that you'd boil your bologna in that's what
they used for scrapple, mostly buckwheat flour.
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AV Krafsberg?

FZ Krafsberg was the foreman.

AV Down at the carpenter shop?

FZ Yeh, he worked in the carpenter shop and on houses and the only thing I
know is what he told me and he knew what his father told him.

AV And that was the saw mill, what about it?

FZ Well that the lumber that they cut was from the forest right from the
Sonderdam and that is what most of the homes were built out of.

AV And that's where they made their shingles from?

FZ Yeh, I think so.

AV Do you remember if anybody mentioned that anytime that the saw mill was
made of wood or stone or bricks?

FZ Oh no, well I remember the saw mill that Mr. McGinty had at Magruton
and I imagine they were all built in that order in those days the saw
mill [blank space] that's the cuttin' part but the power was steam
power and they used the slabs to fire the boiler to make steam and the
[blank space] like most of the saw mills they're not enclosed they're just
supported and a gable roof and the sides are open all around.

AV That's it?

FZ Mr. McGinty finally had 2 and that's what they were make like.

AV So all these homes on Shanty Street were surrounded by a fence shaped like
a picket fence with upright boards?