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Show OLIVE O'MARA 22 2 2 potatoes growing up that they had never planted. And th y had twins while on the farm. It was exciting to visit th m. Wh n you dr up th r , y u had to dodge trees and drive around them. Right now the governm nt has som huge spaces. It's not the same place. Clifton Mills was the name of the place. And the government found that this was near enough to Washington, D.C. to put up important buildings and still be away. My cousin's two kids, boys, were guards for Kennedy. BEC: Oh, really? OLI: Uh-huh. Well, those boys were stable as the West Virginia mountains and good shots (laughs). They were good, levelheaded, wonderful kids. They bought land down in Washington, DC. They became millionaires. So when you went back to Clifton Mills, they weren't those old hillbilly farmers anymore. We were talking about the Depression. That's where one side of the family went. Granddad lost his money helping people and Grandma working and he became ill. I can't help but think that that had something to do with his getting cancer because none of his other family ever had cancer. BEC: Did he eventually die from it? OLI: Oh, yes. Now days they could probably keep him going, but that was an unusual disease, so they thought at the time. Oh, yeah. I remember sitting with him for night after night after night until he died. The Depression didn't really leave. It wasn't over until the threat of the war came. It wasn't over until then, really and truly. Just before I got a teaching job, I went to Harrisburg with some friends who were married and moved out there. I went to Harrisburg and got odd jobs, like I working at a store and some babysitting. I mean, I watched a couple of boys while their mother worked. Then when I got the teaching job, of course, then I moved back to Scottdale. But in between eighteen 13 |
