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Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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Raymond remembers the agricultural life of his childhood

This excerpt offers a bit of agricultural history. Raymond English, now over ninety years old, remembers growing strawberries (as his father did), cucumbers, tomatoes, and tobacco. He makes strawberries seem like an essential community crop—the first money he earned came from picking strawberries.

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Interviewers	Charles Thompson
	Rob Amberg
	Charles Thompson
Interviewees	Raymond English
	Eunice English
	Charles Russell English
	Wayne English
Excerpt Length	0:08:25
Start Time	00:24:23
Stop Time	00:32:48
Subjects	Environmental Transformations > AGRICULTURE > History and Memory

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Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. 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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