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Rabbit Boxes
Mark Ellington
00:00 / 00:37
Interviewer(s):
Jose Alavarez, Matthew Champagne, Mia Shang
Date of Interview:
July 31, 2019
Transcript:
"At one time, Chatham County was famous for an abundance of really big rabbits, and really great tasting rabbits, according to most people. And the story my dad said was, all the kids around here, in the 30’s and 40’s, that’s how they could make some money. And I’ve actually still got some of my dad’s original rabbit boxes at home, that he built out of wood, scrap wood, and you know the rabbits gonna get trapped. And at one time, he said you could actually hang your rabbits on the mailbox and the mailman would pick em up for you, carry them to town, and drop them off in town to the guy who bought rabbits. And that meat would get packed into a train car, and a lot of it went to New York, and it was on a menu up there supposedly for the “Chatham Rabbit”. It was famous.'
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