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Show OLIVE O'MARA 22 2 02 somehow or another he wasn't hurting that horse. I have a picture of randad Osterwise's blacksmith shop. That's in Scottdale. Scottdale was a major part of my lifl . That's all there is to it. Now during the Depression, though they used to say it was the only graveyard they ever heard of with streetlights (laughs). It was very dull. And that's one of the reasons that I joined-not the only one-but one of the reasons that I joined the service was because once they took the young men out ... there weren't very many to begin with; they were at a premium. I did go with the high school coach a short while, but he ended up marrying someone else he liked better. There weren't many men. A lot of the women, I'm sorry to say, during the war, were going with married men occasionally. That did not fit the culture of my family. They were very strict. Granddad and Grandmother were Baptists, and Mother and Dad, as I said, were young enough that wherever we lived, we were of that denomination (laughs). BEC: Right (laughs). OLI: My other grandmother never went to church. I don't think she ever darkened a door of a church. She was a character and I loved her with all my heart. She was a very wonderful woman to me. She raised flowers and she was a midwife in the mining town, and a little bit in politics, not too much, but a little bit. But my other grandmother, my dad's mother, was a very strict Baptist. In those days, in Scottdale, they knew what your grandfather and your great-grandfather did. You had to live strictly. Otherwise, you had a reputation, and as a schoolteacher, I had to live very strictly. I remember one time one of the little children brought an earring I had lost. She said, "Uncle so-and-so said to bring this to you. He found this on the street." They knew what kind of earrings you wore (laughs). I mean, that sort of a small town. That was my background. I think it says a lot 4 |
