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Mrs. E: Oh at Christmas, yes. I usually gave each of my brothers red handkerchiefs. I can remember... (she leaves the room and comes back with a set of miniature china dishes that she owned when she was a young girl) Back in my mother and dad's room at that time and I wanted to get up and see what Santa Claus brought me. And my father wasn't ready to get up yet. I guess he'd forgotten to take the sleigh out or something but he said, "No Santa Claus hasn't come yet. He won't be here yet." But after a while father got up and I was allowed to go downstairs and see this shiny sleigh. I was so pleased with that. We always had some simple thing. These are what I remember. Joanne: Did you get together with you relatives at all on Christmas Day? Mrs. E: Oh, always. That's all we did in the winter time, you see. The men didn't have anything to do on the fields. All they had was chores to do. My father had quite a few brothers and sisters you know. And sometimes we'd meet each other. Maybe Aunt Susie was coming to see us and we were going to see her. (chuckles) We'd meet each other. There was no phones, you understand. Joanne: Do you remember when the phones came in? Mrs. E: Oh yes, um--in the country, if three persons in a mile would take a phone they'd put it through. And in our mile my father took it and the Burtches and the Cunninghams but my Uncle Meriton which had the next farm would¬n't take it. So he'd come sheepishly over every little bit to use the phone. Finally he got one in. Joanne: Did you used to celebrate Halloween at all? Mrs. E: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Joanne: How did you celebrate Halloween? Mrs. E: Oh, we'd dress up. I remember going down to Helen Bonham's--so that was just a little ways away. And over to the Cunninghams. And we didn't have the things they do now. We just put on old clothes and that. And I remember, mother did buy a mask for me once, but not a face mask. Yes, we used to celebrate Halloween. Joanne: Do you remember any sort of pranks that maybe the boys used to do? Mrs. E: Oh, only when we were older. My father kept a store, as I said, in Oakland and of course when--there was no inside facilities. Everybody had an outhouse, you know and the big boys in the village would shove over every-bodies outhouse. That vas their Halloween. But one year they never pushed ours over and one of the boys came in and said to father--it was Earnest Graves-- "I told them to leave yours alone. It was getting pretty rickety." (laughs) But they did something one night to