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Attachment H <br />a~ <br />Excerpt from interview of Miss Nannie Blackwood (January 31, 2002) <br />Nannie Blackwood: This used to be sort of called an inn, what you'd cal] an inn. People <br />stayed here over night. The old country road is right out there in front, Now, you can see where the <br />old road was. <br />Kerry Taylor: So this was an inn for travelers a long time ago, <br />NB: Yeah, an inn for travelers a long time ago. I don't know what year it was, <br />KT: But that was all before your time, of course. <br />NB: Oh sure it was, It was before my mother and daddy ever got marred. <br />KT: Now, I'm wondering did you know like your grandparents? <br />NB: I never knew, all my grandparents died before I was born. <br />KT: They had passed, <br />NB: The last had passed away in 1912, and I was born in 1913. Some of my older sisters <br />maybe remember a little something about my grandmother, but I don't. <br />KT: Right, Your father, was he born in North Carolina? <br />NB: My father was born down at a place called Blackwood Station, and that's on down off <br />the railroad. After my daddy bought this place here, some of his brothers sort of wanted him to go <br />back to Blackwood Station where he was born and run their little post office and little country store. <br />So my daddy moved back there for nine months, and he was miserable my mother said, So he moved <br />back up here. <br />David Blackwood: You know where Blackwood Station is? <br />NB: Right there by the railroad, <br />DB: Across the railroad tracks on 86 going back to Chapel Hill is Blackwood Station. <br />NB: The mail office is a little farther down the road because I used to pickup the mail and <br />take it to the post office for him, <br />KT: So was your father sttictly a farmer? <br />NB: Yes. Strictly a farmer. <br />KT: Tell me about what he grew on the property and-- <br />NB: Well, we had, we sort of had a small dairy too, We had everything in the vegetable line, <br />corn and sweet potatoes here, We had sweet potato house built one time that got burned. That was <br />one that Bob Strayhorn and my daddy stayed in a lot. Bob said he ate potatoes, and my daddy talked <br />anyway. He was just a boy. It was burned. I don't remember what yearn was burned. Because we <br />had corn, potatoes and anything in the vegetable line we had, We also had a little dairy, and on <br />Fridays he would go to town with vegetables and also milk and butter in Durham, He always went to <br />Durham for his-- <br />DB: Eggs. You grew ( ), Sold eggs. <br />NB: Eggs and chickens and sometimes when they wanted chickens, <br />DB: They grew the crops mainly were corn and oats and wheat to feed- <br />NB: And cotton. <br />DB: Did some cotton. <br />NB: Had a lot of cotton. I had to pick a lot of cotton when I was a child. <br />KT: Is that right? <br />NB: And I hated that job. <br />KT: Whyrs that? <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />