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A Varesano interviewing M/M Joe Sulkusky
- 4 -
8/8/72
Tape 30-1

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AV: And why do you think it's good to have the holy pictures in the sitting room?

MS: Oh, I just feel that it's more place there, you know? Like, you take that
picture there, that's the Last Supper. Well, you take, it's a big picture
and when anybody comes it's noticeable, you know, to see that picture there.

AV: Yeah, yeah. It is. And you think it helps to have holy things in the sitting
room, and all over the place?

MS: Well, that's why I think it is. It's the place for them.

AV: Why is it important that people that come notice the pictures?

MS: Well, becausse there are very few families have pictures any more in the homes
already. Like, you take the young generation that's gorwing up now, they
don't believe in that havin' holy pictures in the home, you know, they just
get any kind of an ordinary thing in, like that, and they don't bother with
the holy pictures.

AV: That's right. And then, you're gonna put them up no matter if they have them
or not?

MS: Well, if they like them or not, still and all I like the picture, so I put it in.

AV: Yeah.

MS: I still like to have them.

AV: Do you thhink it's a blessing that you got, too?

MS: Well, I think it's a blessing you, you take now, that's your home, well
that's your blessing already. You have all these pictures, that's the blesssing
you are getting for your whole family.

AV: Hmm.

MS: Don't take my picture, now.

AV: No. Maybe if you'd stand up, I could..... What's the thing of St. Anthony
over here on the wall? That wooden plaque. Where did you get that from?

MS: I got that from New York. My daughter, when she was visiting New York, she
bought, she all the time used to bring some kind of a little token for me
that I, that to remember that she was there, to remember that she brought
something for me. She did that, she didn't forget us, you know? Well she
was to New York, visiting New York, and that was a state-world, I think, the
Fair or something was going on, and they went down to New York, and so that
was, my daughter Margaret....

AV: Oh, that's the Pieta there.

MS: Yes.

AV: And then this wooden plaque with the holy water underneath, where did you get
that from? It looks to be pretty old.

MS: Why that was a mission goin' on, in church.

AV: Your church?

MS: Yeah, ad, ah...

AV: St. Kasmir's?

MS: St. Kasmir's, or St. John's, I used to belong. And, there were there,
and you picked that, and you thought that was--see, before, they used
to have every fountain every this here home had a fountain where you used
to, like, you know, you're goin' in church, well, you dip your fingers in the
holy water. That's goin' in church. Well, that's the same way they had
those things in your home. When you're comin' in somebody's home, they have
it on the wall, you can dip your, this here, and bless yourself. You know
what I mean?

AV: What's that supposed to do, then?

MS: That's, you're gettin' an honor of the blessing of gettin' in the home.

AV: I see. It blesses the people in the home, beside yourself?

MS: That's right.

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