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- A. Varen. inter. H. Fed. - 26 - 8/23/72 Tape

HF: I don't remember this bein' done but I remember but I did hear my Dad talk about it
and he said how they took care of these homes you were not allowed to drive a nail
anywhere in their property without permission and if you were caught doin' it you were
warned and if you were caught doin' it again you were suspended from work and if you
did it again you were fired, there was a man by the name of Mr. Greegor my dad boarded
in his place and he was a very good blacksmith and he was livin' a house about where
Mrs. Timko lives well already in my time there was a road that went, the office was in
the back of where we lived, I'll try and show you where the office was, there was a
road that went right from the breaker it came down across the tracks and up around
the office and up about the field out to Buck[?] Mountain and the boss made his trip
at regular times it was no - it's rainin' or somethin' of that sort - it had to be done, and
Mr. Greegor was a blacksmith and to get to work it was easier for him to walk up the
garden and go out the back way and right up that road, the road was right above his
place up that road, up to the breaker to the blacksmith shop but he had to go out
around there was no gate and he wasn't allowed to build it, he wasn't allowed to make
a gate but being a good blacksmith he made hinge and without anybody seein' him
he cut the fence and he put the gate in there and my dad said you would never know
by lookin' at it that there was a gate there that's how well he had it done now whether
the boss saw him come out there one one day or how it happened but he was told about it and
he was fired, fired from his job so that's how thing were in those days around here, in
later years Mr. Coxe didn't care about what happened to the homes Mrs. Coxe was gone.
Anybody that felt they don't have enough room well they start tearin' down buildin' and
and you look at this place here and you'll see that as far as a board would come that's
where it ended there's no tryin' to make it even or make it look presentable or anything
under there until I got the carpet in the kitchen there