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TI: And so describe life like on a weekend or a day when there's no work. What would happen in Selleck? I mean how would, what would people do?

TT: I don't know what age bracket you're...

TI: First let's talk about maybe the men, the bachelor men. What would they do with their time off?

TT: Drink, gamble a lot.

TI: And when you were growing up as a boy -- let me ask you this. What did your mother or father tell you in terms of your interaction with the bachelor men? Things like, I mean, did they say you shouldn't go there when they were drinking? I'm curious what kind of relationship you had with the bachelor men.

TT: Oh, we got along with them.

TI: Any interesting stories about, experience with one of the bachelors that you recall? Like anything that you did with any of the bachelors that was interesting?

TT: Not really. When we were kids, we all stuck, more or less stuck together when you were a kid. When I was little, that was the height of the Depression. We didn't have toys or anything, we made our own.

TI: How about things in the outdoors, whether it was like fishing or hiking or around Selleck, it's not too far away from like where you'd go matsutake hunting. Did any of that happen?

TT: Well, actually, they did have mushroom in the area before it was cleaned out, I guess. Then we used to go fishing, there was a couple of streams there. When we were kids, we just cut the willow poles, piece of string. 'Cause we didn't have money to go out and buy any fancy equipment.

TI: And so when you went fishing, it was more you and your buddies.

TT: We were fishing trout. Trout fishing.

TI: Yeah. And this is with your friends, usually, about the same age? And tell me about that. When you say streams, how big a stream?

TT: Oh, a regular creek.

TI: And you'd catch just regular, like, trout?

TT: Yeah.

TI: And then you mentioned the mushroom, did you ever go mushroom picking?

TT: Not around there. They used to go down into Covington, you know where Covington is. That area used to have mushroom before the war.

TI: That's interesting, it's now all residential.

TT: Now, yes. Before it was all woods.

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