“When I was a little girl, we didn’t have television, we didn’t have radio and you just…you family, you’d just sit around and talk so we’d sit around the table. And the table was in the kitchen and my mother would tell stories. And at this time it was after…no…it was during the First World War and…it was sort of a depression, you know? And the only time you got a newspaper was anything important. They would announce it. There’d be a paperboy ‘n you had to go clear up to the boulevard to get it there but they would say there was a special and…you’d get the news that…happened a long time ago. And so…umm…anyway, we would set around the table and always we’d get…I mean we’d get kind of discouraged and think, “Oh dear, the world’s goin to an end…you know, these things. Instead of that why…we’d get this box that my dad had made; a cement box and we used it as a safe because you kept all your papers that were valuable in it. And we’d get out the deed to the house, cause we owned the house. We’d get out the deed to the farm; we owned a hundred and sixty acres in western Kansas that was nothin’ but, umm, buffalo…buffalo grass…aaand…and then we’d have your…your wills. And everything; all the papers that were important. So you’d…kind of feel like, after you looked at all these things, we weren’t as poor as the neighbors around us cause they didn’t have all these things. And so we were…we were in pretty good shape…and…just didn’t have a lot of money. So, after you get all this and you talked about it, why…everybody felt a lot better. And then you got up and did dishes….. Too bad you weren’t there; we’d put you to work.”