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TI: You know, your time in Twin Falls, did you spend much time just visiting other parts of Idaho and getting a sense of the community, of different things to look at? I mean, what was Twin Falls and that area like for you?

EBA: Well, Twin Falls was a small town. I do remember vividly of going to an area which I thought was a long ways away from Twin Falls, but since I've revisited a few years ago, it's just on the other side of the Snake River. But it was a place called Blue Lakes and it was just a pristine area of these series of lakes that were very, very beautiful and the setting was beautiful. We did, there's, well, near Sun Valley there's a Baptist camp, at least there was at that time. And we did, on occasion, go to this Baptist camp in the summertime for the, part of the Idaho Baptist Association or something like that, for a week-long camp. And many of our Japanese friends were there also. Now how, I assume they had some sort of permission to do that, to be there, but we had a great time at the camp there. And I remember playing with some of my friends and some of the adults playing badminton which was a favorite sport, something I liked in my later years, to play badminton. That was a great sport. My dad loved it, too.

TI: So was, what was the reception of the other Idaho Baptists, of not only your family but the Japanese?

EBA: It's hard to say. I think, my dad being -- probably the Caucasians in the Baptist denomination were receptive to my father simply because he was Caucasian. I'm not aware of any prejudice among other Baptists to the Japanese at that time.

TI: Okay.

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