Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten

Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten

Recorded September 9, 2009 40:20 minutes
Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
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Id: MBY005691

Description

Marie tells her daughter, Donna, stories of her childhood and family in North Carolina.

Subject Log / Time Code

00:48
Marie’s first memory is of Mary, a black woman who came to take care of her mother when she had a gall bladder operation. She was beautiful with Indian features, and everyone loved her. She came and took care of Marie when she had her first child.
8:10
Marie’s mother would sit on the front porch and drink lemonade with her friends. They talked, bragged, gossiped, and played old maid. Her mother smelled so good and wore starched sundresses.
16:30
The kitchen at her grandmother’s house was separate from the house and Marie remembers smelling bread cooking there. Thanksgiving and Christmas meant the family came and ate a feast at the long dining room table. Her grandfather killed the turkey and they had ham.
22:30
Her grandfather Henry was the oldest living confederate when he died. he said little about the civil war but she remembered he said he carried a country ham with him because food was so scarce.
30:20
marie’s uncle made himself a banjo from a box. Marie remembers her mother playing the piano while her father danced the charleston in the hallway.
36:42
Marie sat on stage during a performance of Rachmaninov. She thought he was handsome.

Participants

  • Marie Hinton
  • Donna Gershten

Venue / Recording Kit