Whether it was small or big, everybody farmed. Everybody were farmers. Everybody had a milk cow. They raised their own hogs. They raised their own beef, and that’s a thing that’s gone to the past. And we didn’t, one thing that that I made a joke in town to a lady in a store up there, I said, “Back in the day, when I was growing up, there wasn’t no trespassing signs and no cables and gates across roads up these hollers, and our old hunting dogs didn’t know where the property lines was, you know, so we went anywhere and everywhere.” I said, and she of sharing some of the old time stuff, and not knowing where this lady was from or anything, and I think she was vigilant. She told me she was from Florida, and she said, “And I moved up in one of these hollers, and I’ve got a cable across my road and no trespassing sign. But you’ve convinced me. They’re coming down this evening.”
Whether it was small or big, everybody farmed.
Gathering: Egypt Township, North Carolina
Prompt: What is something that is no longer here, but still lives on in your heart?

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