top of page
A Thriving Population
Lyn Perry
00:00 / 00:44
Interviewer(s):
Matthew Champagne, Cali Powell
Date of Interview:
July 15, 2019
Transcript:
"Yeah, at one time, they would catch and sell rabbits during the Depression. You know. And they sold more rabbits than anyone else around. And that’s the reason they said the Chatham rabbits. So, you know, that’s uh, that’s where that comes from. It’s all in the history books about how they had to maintain the rabbit population and everything. And--[Has it depleted now?] What’s that? The-- [The rabbit population?] Oh well...you know, Chatham county still has rabbits for sure. But uh, it’s-- you know, they raise them for food. They, they would catch them and raise them for food because there was rabbits everywhere… that’s what I’ve always been told. But, uh, hey, you know, there was a thriving population at that time, you know? [they have like some rabbit boxes in the, in the, Chatham--in the historical society, they have like two]"
bottom of page