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FH: And then the year came, I don't know what year it was, but all the small grade schools were converted into one big, one... we were to go to Winslow School, and they had a Model T bus. Oh, first, we went to Pleasant Beach School on a little bus that took about seventeen students. Had a school bus, that was fun because we got to ride a car. Then they started building the new high school. Before, there was only one high school, not... anyway, that high school was to be grade school, junior high and high school together. So for half a year, we went to Winslow because the new high school was not ready. And then we were the first class to go in, I mean, as the seventh grade, I guess. My sister was the first, in 1928, she graduated high school. That was the first class that graduated from high school. And we were a seventh grader, we were the one that went to Bainbridge High School, which was also a junior high, I guess. We went to a new, new building, Bainbridge High School. We were so happy, we just ran up and down those stairs. We thought the school was wonderful, and big, and with the auditorium. But that, later, I heard it was burned, now they have a bigger school now. I haven't been into that building, but I did go to see the play one time with my niece. I liked to see it much better, much bigger, wonderful school. It's still my good old high school. I know... we used to sing that Bainbridge High School song. I still know that.

I'm still Bainbridge by heart. And have grown, changed... I never thought there'd be signal lights on Bainbridge, but now there's stop and go signal lights, it's completely different. All these condos coming up. I'm, it's a city now, but I don't know, I like the country life. It's a good city, small city, but after all, island is island, same size. So my son gave me one-year subscription of Review, but it's all stranger to me. It's hard to believe that such a place like Bainbridge could change like this. But it's still my hometown.

DG: Do you remember when you were younger what you did for fun? Growing up when you were in school?

FH: For fun? We just walked... of course, we didn't drive, I didn't drive. We had to take the children sometime to Girl Scout, Boy Scout, we walked all over. We walked to the Lynwood Theater, walking, go to a matinee. There was a bookmobile that stopped at Island Center, we'd go down to the bookmobile every other Tuesday, I think it was, something like that. We walked a lot, and took the children all over. It was good, it was good exercise. We didn't even think of exercise those days. We even walked to Lynwood from Island Center, that's quite a ways.

DG: And growing up, did, what did your parents do to make a living?

FH: They were farmers.

DG: They were farmers? Did you have to help on the farm?

FH: Of course, after, I married a farmer but we didn't work on the farm at all because we had the children. So they didn't expect us to work at the farm.

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