Vol. 3-Interview-Timko

Mary Zurko/ Agnes Kascak Women's Role( circled) [ 7/19/?] 100-[?]

Women's role ( words next to bracket for next paragraph) [Sc?] carpet on [Ben?] or [ Poll?] take carpet out to hydrant - rinsewring it out (3 women to do this) Later done with hand wringer - "Z- fold" ( drawing of how to fold)

Housing [In??] ( in left margin) Early rugs were coarse bags (burlap) Early chairs were benches (horizontal line across page) Games Amusements ( arrows pointing to each paragraph below)

- Square Dances / Virginia Reels at [Laur?town] 50 yrs ago + before - Fri. & Sat - nites Warned - boys would accompany the girls in goups - often teased about what the dangers were - ghosts, snakes, etc.

Sleigh ride parties in winters - groups of boys & girls would organize - 2 horses pulled sleigh ( like Currier & Ives Prints)

Ice skating parties

Some evenings boys would take girls in mine cars down in to mines. Boys would clown & show off a lot

D.Mo[??????] Mary Zurko

House Architecture Margaret Maloney 7/26/72 Welsh mine foreman Mr. Crabtree ordered the house down from Nicholas' to be torn down! - Capricious action on - his part -- Now site of Co. store.

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- Coxe's - Fixed houses anytime anything went wrong with the interior or exterior - colliery carpentry crew always took care of it. Foreman was Mr. Keller, as Mary recalls it.

If your toilet went bad, the CO. Built a new toilet on the site "if it was good" - if not, someone from the colliery dug a new hole and the carpentry crew came in. "Owner" had no say as to how it was built or what style it would be.

- " Huss never gave us a nail."

Mary Wilko # 130 Occupations other than mining( all words underlined) Carpet making a good pastime Arrow pointing down - Gyurko - Timko - Mary Adams' Relatives

The Yerkos lived next door for 50 years. They put up the present porch in 1936, when they built the kitchen. Before they only had a roofless stoop. She doesn't know much of their interior except that it was generally the same in furnishing + decor as her aunts home was. Shandy ( underlined) Was used as kitchen in summer. For summer use, they carried the kitchen stove in there for the hot weather. It was never papered the walls were boards + were scrubbed every year Ceiling was bare boards. There was a small wooden table by S + W wall + chairs. Many people had homemade benches to use with the tables, not chairs. A window ( 12 panes ) was in the S wall, where the closet door is now. In E corner, she kept a cupboard later on. At first she had nothing there. In N corner, had coal buckets flour bin, in W corner pans were hung on nails on beams behind door to present kitchen + on W wall beam near ceiling. ( On nails, lined through) Window had shades + "lace" curtains she made (dotted swiss). There were

plain hemmed curtains hung from rods. Kerosene lamp kept on table Floor had pine boards, till they got linoleum in the 1920's or a bit before.

Wash tubs were stored in one of the backyard sheds + brought into shed on wash day. This was used for bathing, too.

Dishes were washed in a dish pan on shed table, or a chair. Washboard was kept in shandy in corner behind door.

She got an electric washer in 1928, this was kept back of the door in shandy, + it was used in shandy.

Note: By "lace curtains", in shandy + farmer kitchen + ( word scribbled out) bedrooms, she means the white, then veil - like stuff that came either plain or with tiny designs woven in it.