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W. WELDON HUSKE:

What did you do on a date? I mean, what was social life like?

MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:

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:

And was the park up on the hill ever used?

MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:

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:

What was it like?

MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:

Well, just like any that you've seen in parks.

MRS. ISAAC HALL HUSKE:

It was like a little round pavillion-type thing on top of the hill.

W. WELDON HUSKE:

Then the mill owned it, then?

MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:

Oh yes, they owned that land. And they used to have services up there, all the churches together.

MRS. ISAAC HALL HUSKE:

And then on Sunday afternoon they'd have band concerts, and the people would gather around and listen.

W. WELDON HUSKE:

Well, who made up the band?

MARGARET SKINNER PARKER:

We had a band made up of local people.