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Missouri Ten - Text

Caucasian female, 41 years old. Born and raised in Kansas City. Actress and Medical Office Manager. Reads The Rainbow Passage, then discusses a summer camp that she attended. Recorded and edited by Shawn M. Muller on 7-23-00. Recording length 00:01:30.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

Camelot is a summer fine arts camp for children and it’s in it’s thirty fifth year or just completed it’s thirty fifth year. Um, children ages pre-k through tenth grade go through morning classes of art, dance, drama, vocal music…..guitar and uh, there are three divisions, uh, junior division is pre-k through third grade, senior division is forth through eighth grade and apprentices are ninth and tenth grade and all at the same time within a six week period, we are doing musicals. Oh, let’s see, we used to have overnights. Every thursday night after showcase, which is a performance the kids do, and some of the campers, who shall remain nameless, used to sneak off with other campers, who shall remain nameless and Gina, who’s the director, used to go around the corner and scare them half to death because she’s triple jointed and she can make her hands look really silly and, uh, it worked. It frightened everybody.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY PHIL HUBBARD 21 MAY, 2008

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