Loose lines of demarcation of the town's borders
According to Holt, there were no spatial lines drawn among the various towns that composed Cane Creek. She expresses that she remained ignorant of the distinct areas within the community until outsiders illuminated the precise boundaries.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Nancy Holt, October 27, 1985. Interview K-0010. 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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- FRANCES E. WEBB:
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I sort of heard that there's sort of three different areas -
isn't there something called Teer and Oaks and Orange Grove?
Doesn't, doesn't that make up Cane Creek?
- NANCY HOLT:
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Yeah.
- FRANCES E. WEBB:
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But you, you sort of see the whole area as one community...
- NANCY HOLT:
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Yeah, yeah. Never, never has - you see, we didn't even know
that these things were called Oaks, Teer and Cane Creek until somebody
from the outside told us. It's like when I went to school I
came home one day and I said "Mama, what's
poor?" She said "Why?" I said
"Somebody told me I was poor today." And
it's like having to go to school to find out you
weren't rich, cause we'd never given it any
thought. And until somebody from the outside came in and told us we were
three separate communities, hell, we didn't know it
[Laughter] .
