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LH: Okay. You and your family moved back to Bainbridge Island and tried to work the land again. That was at your farm.

FH: Uh-huh.

LH: And, the farm was in a, not in the condition that you left it. What did your family do?

FH: Well they rented a place out in Mount Vernon, Conway, and start a farm there. But, the strawberry you could only pick in the second year, you can't pick berries second year. Plant was good, real nice plants, but it didn't bear enough fruits. Whether they put too much fertilizer -- the ground is different from Bainbridge, you know -- or they planted the wrong kind of strawberry. It was not a very good crop. All that work was, they lost, lost the crop, and they just stayed there and moved back to Island, then quit.

LH: If I could ask you about what happened right before that. So, your family tried to move back to Bainbridge and farm that land. And how long did they stay there before they moved to Mount Vernon?

FH: Oh I think they must have, we stayed two years I think.

LH: Two years on Bainbridge?

FH: Uh-huh. We tried...

LH: And then you, and then you tried...

FH: And we moved.

LH: Did your whole family move to Mount Vernon?

FH: No. No, we still, us women, we stayed at the house. Just the menfolks went.

LH: Okay. So how did you communicate with your husband in Mount Vernon?

FH: We wrote letter, or telephone, that's all. 'Cause we were busy with children.

LH: I see.

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