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FK: So how did, when you first came to the island, then where did you live?

NK: I think they lived right up here on high school road, going down towards, just across the road from that, is that Madison?

FK: Uh-huh.

NK: Yeah, just across the road from Madison.

FK: So somewhere around where the library is now?

NK: I think about where the Catholic... no, what church is that?

FK: Catholic church?

NK: The church on the left-hand side as you go down High School Road.

FK: That would be... going toward...

NK: Going east on High School Road.

FK: Yeah, Catholic church, yeah.

NK: You cross the Madison Avenue. Well, they were down on that road somewhere. The first house that I remember was on High School Road, just half a block down on Madison Avenue.

FK: So did you farm there, then?

NK: They farmed right there. They had strawberries on the left and the right -- you know where Sakai is, land was over there? They're just on this side of that.

FK: Now, the house you lived in, somebody said it had a stone foundation or something, is that right?

NK: The house they moved to.

FK: Oh, okay.

NK: But the original house was just wood, wood all the way. Then they moved across the street, High School. They were on the north side of High School Road, then they moved to the south side when the house became available down there.

FK: Was there a special story about that house as far as the one you moved into, about the stones or something?

NK: About like what?

FK: About the stone foundation? Was there a special story about that house?

NK: Not that I know of.

FK: Okay.

NK: It was a pretty solid house. I don't think it's there anymore, I'm not sure. I know there's another house there. I don't know if it's the same one or not.

FK: So when did you move to that property that you ended up farming on that's Meadowmeer now?

NK: I think I was about a junior or a senior in high school. 'Cause I remember going by bus to school from there.

FK: Did your parents purchase that property right away, or did they lease it or what did they do?

NK: The one over...

FK: Where you're living now?

NK: I don't know if they bought that place... I don't know when they bought that place. We moved in there and they started to build over there. I don't know what year that was that they bought the place.

FK: It was before the war, though?

NK: Oh, yeah.

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