North Carolina Four - Text
Subject is African-American male, born Winston-Salem, Forsyth County 1947. Was recorded by Pat Toole 12.08.99 and edited by Paul Meier 02.04.00. Subject recalls details of his childhood. Running time: 00:02:43
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Uh, I was born and raised here in Winston-Salem. My mother, she worked at Reynolds, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for twenty-five years. Uh, she was born and raised here in Winston-Salem too. Sh-well-she was born in the Stokes county. Uh, my father, he was originally, he was from Pennsylvania. Uh, when I was growing up me and my brother...she...when she worked at Reynolds we would meet mother every pay day uptown, get some money from her, go to the movies, uh, go out and eat and just generally mess around. Uh, we used to uh like to play cowboys and Indians, me and my brother, he had a bee-, he had a, we both had bee-bee guns. We got for Christmas and we'd go play cowboys and Indians and we'd shoot at each other with 'em. We wouldn't shoot to hurt each other. We'd just shoot people, shoot each other in something like the leg or something and that's about it.
Transcribed by Emily Ann Beste, March 2001. EMENDATIONS BY BRIAN MAHLER, 24 JULY, 2008.