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JA: I imagine most of your time was spent working in the fields, but...

MH: Yes.

JA: Did you have much freedom of movement?

MH: Oh, there?

JA: Uh-huh.

MH: Well, we could do anything we want, but we didn't have a car, so we'd almost have to rely on the gentleman there that was willing to take us or the daughter take us or whatever. So we did see the area, though. They drove us around and around the area and see things, stores, but it's an old country town. It's really a country town with one store here and one store here and that's it, one hotel, and that was all really what it was, but we enjoyed going around. And then the Japanese family that went with us, lived about one hour from our place. And they bought a car because they were young boys and they bought a car so they came and picked us up took us around Montana, too, so we were able to enjoy the weekends with them.

JA: And how did the local citizens of Montana...

MH: Oh, they were, they were good to us. They thought it was wonderful to have Japanese come and help with all the work that has to be done there. They needed the labor, is what it was, to get the sugar beets taken care of.

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