A mill family grows their own food
Cline remembers his family's foodways. They raised animals, tended a garden, and put up fruit preserves.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Paul Edward Cline, November 8, 1979. Interview H-0239. 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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- ALLEN TULLOS:
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Did you all ever have a garden?
- PAUL CLINE:
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Sure, we had garden. My daddy had a garden all the time. Had plenty to
eat. We had a cow, had hogs. The company'd let you have it them. My
daddy always had a cow. He raised some of the biggest hogs you ever
seen. It really helped out.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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Would your mother do things like preserve foods?
- PAUL CLINE:
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Yeah. I miss them good old preserves. We used to fuss, me
and my brother, about doing this and that, but boy, when
winter come, we didn't mind eating it. Kids, you know, growing up, but
after we got a little bigger, we wanted to do all there was to it
yourself. We picked blackberries, peaches, and put up beans, canned
sausage, and all that. Very seldom, there for years, we didn't buy too
much stuff out of the store. We was more fortunate because daddy was a
go-getter about working side jobs. He could farm, he could do anything.
He'd make money on the side.
