Gladys Hollar discusses her grandparents and farm life
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Gladys Hollar discusses her grandparents and farm life.
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- Jacquelyn Hall
- Did you see very much of your grandparents then when you were growing up?
- Gladys Irene Moser Hollar
- Yes, I did. We would visit quite often with them. They raised all kinds of animals and their own pork and beef. They had cattle, chickens, and everything that you have on a farm. And they raised all their food. About the only thing that was bought back then was sugar and coffee, rice, and things you couldn’t raise on the farm. And usually they would exchange eggs and butter and things they had to sell for those things. That’s the way my mother did. I can remember taking a little basket of eggs to the store and getting sugar and coffee, and so happy that there was a couple pennies left over that would get a piece of candy or two. [Laughter]
- Jacquelyn Hall
- So that wasn’t unusual at all, just to take your eggs to the store?
- Gladys Irene Moser Hollar
- No. That’s the way we did back then.
- Glenn Hollar
- That’s the only money you had.
