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A. Varen. inter. H. Fed. -25- 8/23/72 Tape 29-1

neighborhood would sort of stick together and we didn't go wonderin' around so I
couldn't really say, I got to the Main Street went I finally went to school up until then
we didn't do it and we had to be home at a certain time

AV: This structure there was a square made of bricks then rounded top, the back oven
itself

HF: Well really Angela I couldn't say exactly, from what I can remember or picture it was
made like a mound round this way like an igloo, like a Mexican igloo

AV: And it was located would you say about 10 feet back of the shanty

HF: Oh probably more than ten feet, more than 10 feet back of the shanty

AV: Just to get someplace to get the proper place for them was

HF: Well some of them had them built right out on the garden, anywhere at all away
from the house because you had to be careful of fires they watched very carefully
in those days, you weren't allowed to have anything around that would be flammable,
even in the outside shanty's they were called the summer kitchen well they were used
in the summertime but they weren't used in the wintertime you couldn't it was too
cold but everyone had the cows, pigs, geese, chickens, well you had your stable
naturally where you could store your feed in there but you didn't have where to put
all that feed or even hay for the cow if you thought you could put it in the shanty, now
you could stand on your head and nobody would say anything but once a month one
of the foremen came around, I forget what his name way, I heard his name a million
times, came around and he had the right, you couldn't stop him from goin' in, you
couldn't say like today, why I'm payin' rent and you daren't go in there, that was their
property and he had the right to go in and look and if you had a lot of thrash in the
shanty like I have now, I have a lot of trash that shouldn't be there, and if you
had hay or feed or anything that could catch fire even tho there was no stove
there you were told about it

AV: This was when you were small