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Soliciting Garden Help
Shirille Lee

00:00 / 01:22
Date of Birth
Interviewer(s):
Darien Dixon, Amelia Han, Walt Wolfram
Date of Interview:
September 12, 2019
Location of Interview:
Transcript:
[Interviewer: Did you garden when you were coming up?] My grandmother had one [Interviewer: Did you like working in it?] Yes, we were tortured. That's why I don't like green beans and squash to this day. Yes and my maternal grandmother had a huge garden that she could not manage for herself so she "solicited" the help of her grandchildren... I love the grocery store. And it's really interesting because there--I remember having to go pick blackberries, and there were wild grapes we had to go out and collect. But the garden really stands out and it was terrible.
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