Gathering with friends to make and listen to music
Young people today do not know how to have a good time, Parker asserts. She remembers gathering with friends to make and listen to music.
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Oral History Interview with Margaret Skinner Parker, March 7, 1976. Interview H-0278. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- W. WELDON HUSKE:
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What did you do on a date? I mean, what was social life like?
- MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:
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Well, that's a good question. Well now, really young people
today don't know how to have a good time like we did. There
weren't anything for maybe six of us (three couples) to get
in a car and maybe go over there and sit on the rocks, you know, at the
dam, and sit there and sing and all like that.
- W. WELDON HUSKE:
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And was the park up on the hill ever used?
- MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:
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That was there. And Mr. C.E.B., in the summertime they had what they
called a vesper services up on Park Hill. You know they had a bandstand
up there.
- W. WELDON HUSKE:
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What was it like?
- MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:
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Well, just like any that you've seen in parks.
- MRS. ISAAC HALL HUSKE:
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It was like a little round pavillion-type thing on top of the hill.
- W. WELDON HUSKE:
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Then the mill owned it, then?
- MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:
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Oh yes, they owned that land. And they used to have services up there,
all the churches together.
- MRS. ISAAC HALL HUSKE:
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And then on Sunday afternoon they'd have band concerts, and
the people would gather around and listen.
- W. WELDON HUSKE:
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Well, who made up the band?
- MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:
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We had a band made up of local people.