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Waln Brown interviewing Annie Maloney
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8/12/72
Tape 3-[?]

been teachin' till he retired, Andrew was some kind of professor in Connectious[?]
you know Mike was an engineer down in Mauch Chunk you know he had 3 brothers and they
were all smart, I'm tellin' you Wally there was a hell of a lot of people smart look at Mrs. Dorchak
she has 6 nurses that's right and John a professor and a little woman like her and she's fast don't
you believe me there she's a good worker

WB: Most women in Eckley are good workers.

AM: You went through the houses, you seen

WB: I know they're immaculately clean inside, all the houses are clean, very clean

AM: Very seldom you could find a patch like this

WB: But where did you learn to clean so well did you have to clean the house when you were a child?

AM: No I don't know, our mother made us work

WB: When you were a child, what kind of jobs did you do when you were about 10 years old

AM: Well help mother with the wash, help mother with the clothes to hand, help mother how
to clean the stove, help mother with everything, each one of us had a job, I would do this
and Barbara would do this and Helen would do this and then we wouldn't fight

WB: Besides some times you'd be sent out to pick huckleberries and pick coal off the coal slate

AM: Oh them huckleberries don't mention it because I remember my huckleberries if I ever tell,
our boys there when I was lost but I'll never tell 'em

WB: But you'd also go and pick coal off the slate heaps

AM: We picked lots of coal, indeed we did, I said My God, I said, $43 for 2 tons and maybe
it's goin' to go up again, huh, if the men hot the raise, I don't know

WB: That was a tough life on the children but the learned to work

AM: Oh yes