244

A. Vare. interviewing H. Susk.

7

8/23/72

Tape 29-1

AV: And then where did you keep that barrel with the salt meat

MS: In a cold place, in a cold storage

AV: Which was the summer kitchen maybe

MS: It was out in the outside more in a cold spot, like a cold place

AV: Oh right outside

MS: Yea, you'd have a shanty, or some kind of a shanty you know and keep it cold in there

AV: In the summer kitchenor some other small building

MS: Toward the back of the property line

MS: Yeh.

end of Mary Sulkusky

A. Varesano goes into talking to another woman without introducing her, I'm sure it isn't Mary Sulkusky so I guess it's Mrs. Banas, volume up high yet her voice is very fair.

AV: Tell me something about how the marriages were arranged around here

MB: Well before the girl, they used to all got married at 15 years, 18 years they were married already when they were 15 years they used to

AV: Did they choose their own partners

MB: I don't know they used to get together they used to meat, you had a boy friend and you went for him for awhile and if you wanted to get married you'd get married you'd have to ask the consent from the parents, you know.

AV: Did many parents arrange the marriages of their daughters

MB: I guess so

AV: Even in that time yet

MB: In that time

AV: Did you know of any of your friends that were married just with their parents arranging it and without their consent

MB: I couldn't tell you because I don't know? was married the same time she was