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AV inter GF & HF -4- 7/7/72 Tape 24

HF: right in the front of the yard and it didn't hold the apples but the apples were very good, they were very good baking apples but they seemed to start rotting and then they'd drop off well a lot of the apples were good layin' on the ground and this cow she came around, and one day she came around the front there and she came over to the fence and she was tryin' to get some of the apples well I went out and I started feeding her some of the apples and they were on the sour side and I thought it was great because I would hold the apple in the palm of my hand and tha't when I saw the kind of tongue she has it's real rough and she would get this apple off the palm of my hand and she would eat it and she would look for more and dad came out and he said, what were you doin', and I said, feedin' the cow, she wants apples and she can't get them so I'm feedin' them to her and he said, you'd better not feed her too much because those apples are sour and she'll get sick and M are going to give it to you because she's liable to die, you'd better not giver her no more, well the poor cow she wanted more apples but I couldn't give her no more, because the old people undersood those things, we didn't so I had to stop feedin' her.
GF: Angela are you a graduate student at Penn
AV: Yes I am
GF: Are you working for your PhD
AV: Yes
GF: (name) landed here in Eckley about 1868 and he lived directly where Alex (Gavala?) lived, directly across, a little below the clubhouse he was married when he came and he had a daughter, naturally one of my aunts and he worked in the mines and he was very frugal, thrifty saved a few dollars and it was difficult in those days and he want down to Sandy Valley and bought a piece of land and in his spare time he cleared it and eventually he built a home, farm and then left the mines because to farm there's where my father was born now I was born in 1899 I was born in Buck Mountain where the