Naomi Trammel talks about long hours and playing in the mill
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Naomi Trammel talks about long hours and playing in the mill.
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ALLEN TULLOS:
People have told us that it was little easier back then.NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
Well, I remember, after I was grown, now, in the cloth room, we played in that cloth room. They had it upstairs, where they kept all the cloth, and they had a shoot come down, you know. And when the boss man go to his breakfast, we’d play all the time he’s gone. [laughter]ALLEN TULLOS:
What would you do when you played?NAOMI SIZEMORE TRAMMEL:
They had samples of cloth, little remnants, you know. Little things ’bout that wide, done up in bunles. We’d set on them, slide down that thing. Us grown! I enjoyed it to death. The only worry was that my parents was gone, I grieved—I just grieved all time about that. I’ve heard girls, you know, talking about “Mama done this” and “Mama done that”, and it’d just break my heart. Because I didn’t have none. They didn’t know they doing that, you know.
