Susan Gamson and Michael Gamson

Recorded January 14, 2009 34:41 minutes

Id: mbx004789

Description

Susan Gamson, 66, is interviewed by her son, Michael Gamson, 41.

Subject Log / Time Code

1:44

Susan’s father went into the service for WWII; she grew up with two sets of grandparents; 1945 father was wounded in Germany

4:18

father passed away nine years later; posthumously received the silver star; mother was 32 years old with 4 little kids; mother had a nervous breakdown

16:07

mother loaded up the Chevy stationwagon and headed to Florida; everything fell off of the roof halfway to Florida; Susan remembers her first experience with racism; stopped at a bus station in the south with two water fountains, “We thought one actually had colored water

22:30

Michael is a wonderful father; thank you; people don’t tell each other that they are proud enough

29:00

“We should all move into a house together.” “Yeah, NO!” (joking)