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A. Varesano interviewing Bertha Falatko -16- 8/17/72
525 Tape 26-2
AV: Do you know any one going there?
BF: Didn't the Allisons go there? (-? Flossie)'s father and mother used to
go to that church.
AV: How about the style of that church? What did that look like?
BF: I was never inside of that church, never.
AV: What did the outside look like?
??: (There seems to be a third person speaking at this point) Something like
this one up here.
BF: Yeah, like the one you see up here.
AV: Was it about the same size?
BF: Um-hmm. On the outside that's what it looked like.
AV: Painted white?
BF: Was it white, or was it I think grayish.
??: It was like a greyish
AV: What about the other church, the Presbyterian church?
BF: I don't remember that one. I remember they had two churches, one alongside
the other down there, didn't they?
??: Yeah.
BF: Weren't they right across the Allisons there?
??: Yeah.
BF: But that's all I remember. We never went down that way.
See, when you live in these towns in them days, you just stuck around your
own home. You didn't even go to the end of the town much. Until later on
when they had picnic ground down there, and once in a while you went down to
537 take your mail. But you really didn't go down there much otherwise.
AV: Where did you get the mail from?
BF: They had a post office in the store.
AV: And the mail was given out at the post office? Was it passed out right at
the window?
BF: As you came in, you went to the window, and they gave it to you.

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BF: And then she says/ how do you make/, she knows how to make/, she made it
for her daughter's wedding. And she says. you take...
AV: This is your father's whiskey for special occasions?
BF: She said you would take goose lard . . . .
AV: Yeah! Okay?
BF: And you would put a little bit of, now it's not garlic and it's not onions,
it's in between, I have some that I took from my sister's garden, we call it
in Slovak : . And you cut that up and fry that a little bit, don't
brown it just fry it a little bit. Then take and put sugar and brown the
sugar in this. . .
AV: In that stuff. Is that what you call scallions, by any chance?
BF: No, it's not scallions either. No, it isn't. It looks like a garlic, a
clove of garlic, but it's not a garlic. It's in between a garlic and an
onion. You brown your sugar in this, then you take it to the side of the
stool, and put your whiskey into it. And you bring that to a boil, and then
you put a little water in it, and that is delicious.
AV: What do you eat it with?
BF: You drink it. It's a whisky. It's a drink. It's very good, though,
honestly.
AV: How did your father meke whiskey?
BF: My father never made whiskey. He drank it, but he never made it.
AV: Did they make wine?