This project received funding from Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED SENIORS and EDUCATORS AGE 75 AND ABOVE CAPTURING THE PAST TO ENLIGHTEN FUTURE GENERATIONS MILDRED REYNOLDS BANKS AGE 96 “Do the best you can, while you can because the time will come that you cannot do and you wont have to regret what you didn’t do.” ________ EDDIE CARRINGTON ELLIS AGE 81 WOW. “I would like to tell the young people to go to the church, get involved with the Lord.” ________ MARY ELLEN NUNERY AGE 88 “I always wanted my children to have a good life, a happy life and to do the right thing.” ________ GLADYS A. FLEMMING AGE 83 “My favorite subject was arithmetic sometimes I made mistakes but I did love it and after that I loved writing. I didn’t like history!" ________ AGNES ORETHA ROSE AGE 83 " My favorite subject in school was Arithmetic” ________ ANN ELIZABETH ALLEN AGE 88 “ The proudest moment of my life was when I went to the prom the little fellow had just started high school, he was my boyfriend and he invited me to the prom.” ________ GLADYS MICKENS AGE 88 “The most proudest moment of my life was when my mother and I first opened a restaurant in Brooklyn NY we served soul food.” ________ LENA NORA ROSE AGE 88 “Teach children not to do drugs go to Sunday school and don’t let the devil lead you off.” ________ LUCILLE VENABLE AGE 95 WOW. “Obey your parents, go to church and serve the Lord.” ________ ALICE MAYO AGE 90 Most important things your parents taught you “Do the right thing at all times and treat everyone with respect.” ________ EARNEST HAYWOOD WOODSON AGE 90 “ The biggest change I’ve seen recently has been the price of gas!” ________ CARRIE NAPIER WADE AGE 96 “I was a hip kitty from the city.” ________ HAZEL PHILLIPS AGE 84 “ I went to Beach Grove Elementary School and graduated from Rockfish Valley High. I have no other formal education except I graduated from the School of Hardknocks!” ________ AGNES THOMPSON AGE 78 Adial is one of the oldest churches in the valley…and the bricks from which the church was made was made on the property.” ________ CLARA SHELTON WOW. “I would like to be remembered maybe for some of the things I’ve tried to instill within my students, they said I was very harsh, very rough, and very hard but I knew what they were going to have to be faced with and I wanted them to be the very best.” WILLIAM SHELTON "I thoroughly enjoyed teaching" _________ LOUISE CLOPTON AGE 88 WOW. “Listen to your elders; whatever they tell you to do; do it whether you want to or not.” ________ CLARA HICKS THOMPSON AGE 94 “Never leave a task undone” “ I want to be remembered as a dedicated teacher.” ________ JOE MITCHELL AGE 98 WOW: "If you give the ant enough time, he will move a mountain". ________ MYRA S. WOOD AGE 96 “My mother was the most important person in my life she taught all of us things that were necessary; corrected us when we were wrong and did whatever she could to support us.” ________ LOUISE P. WADE AGE 95 "I was born in Glen Thorn, VA in 1914 in a log cabin. My father raised tobacco. I didn’t go to school full time until I was eight years old as I was sick all of the time. I went to school at the now Dogwood Inn which was my high school back then. I was nineteen when I graduated." ________ PATSY P. HIGGINBOTHAM AGE 83 “When I was growing up, you waited for things; children have so many things now they don’t have any appreciation…I think they should have to wait for the rewards.” ________ Frances L. Miles AGE 80 Happiest Moment “Christmas…just to wake up Christmas morning we would have this shoe box sitting there and we’d have toys in it, some oranges, some nuts, some candy and that was it.” ________ Massie Napier Age 90 " I helped build the Nelson County High School in 1954" |
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