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JN: Okay, let's go back to, can you tell us how life was, what life was like in Bainbridge in the early days before, before the war? What you did for fun, what, how was, what was your school routine, and the kind of friends you had and all that?

MN: Let's see. We did lots of walking. Everywhere we went, we walked. And then everyone would pick one... we were all friendly, so we walked and walked and walked. And then we had some, once in a while, we had a neighbor that had a wagon, and he used to take his vegetables down to the stores, so we used to sometimes ride on the wagon and go to Winslow. And then we had... and then we went to Sunday school and then we started at the Congregational church, Sunday school. And so, and then from there we went to Lincoln School and...

JN: What did you do for fun?

MN: For fun? We'd go visiting friends, and when it snowed, we went sliding down the Wyatt Hill, which is still there. Wyatt road. And they had dances, they had a Japanese Boys and Girls Club. So we had rallies, we had church youth group, and we'd go to Rolling Bay, the, from Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, they used to come to Congregational church and we were from Baptist, so we would use the Congregational church kitchen and the Baptist church, and the Alliance church leaders would come and take charge of the Songfest and things like that. We used to have a nice rally where we, and then afterwards, we always served a spaghetti dinner, and that was really popular then.

JN: Tell us, you once said something about the, you had friends in your neighborhood, then they'd pick you up to go fishing and just doing those kinds of things that I kind of remember, who they were and what other kinds of things did you do?

MN: Oh, remember I used to go trout fishing down the creek. And there was a Sakuma boy, and Kojima, Tats Kojima, and Tsukasa Sakuma, that we used to go fishing down below, catch trouts. That was lots of fun, in the still water...

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