Recorded in Lawson, Missouri.
This snapshot was gathered in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street program at the Smithsonian Institution and its "Stories from Main Street" initiative. The project is intended to capture Americans' impressions and stories about their small-town and rural neighborhoods, waterways, personal experiences, and cultural traditions, and work histories.
What's your favorite memory of living in a small town?
"Well, I worked on a small family [inaudible 00:00:02] growing up. My brother-in-law that's a big city boy was back for a little bit and he walked up to a mud puddle at [Sommo 00:00:09] and asked my two twin brothers what they were doing poking around the mud and they looked at him and they said, 'We're going fishing!' He says, 'Right. Tell me another one.' About that time they reached in there, pulled out this great big old catfish out of that mud puddle. He didn't realize that the pond above had flooded the week before and all these mud puddles had fish that had been trapped. So, his eyes just shot wide open and after that he never knew what to believe and what not to."
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