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Betty Nora (5/28/00) 27.24 (1:19:31 / 73.1 MB)
The Overnightscape Underground – April 2010 – Track 24
“Your Late Night Broadcast” online at onsug.com
Created by Frank Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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Today, April 13, 2010, would have been my grandmother Betty Nora’s 100th birthday. She passed away at age 97 in May 2007. She was a very important person in my life, so to remember her, I am posting this interview I did with her back in 2000 (released here for the first time). By listening to it, you will get to know her a little, too.
Topics: Rileys, Pennsylvania, childhood, family history, scary movies, ghost stories, the kitchen as gathering place, teachers and school, the newspaper from New York, novel time, bullying, a light in the sky, using a cannon to shoot ice in the sky, Sears Roebuck Catalog, coal miners, fossils, sharing candy bars, mining accidents, hear the foxes going by in the snow, food for the winter, brothers and sisters, wars, black lung, honesty, welfare, Civil War, farmers, peddlers, bread, flour, coffee, soup, food, watermelons, chores, pets, hunting, garbage, snow, radio, baseball, cars, bootlegger, Bella, bathrooms, The May Queen (May 17, 1930), The Cranberry King, flies in brandy, Barr, end of World War I, bonfire, tar and feathering, Juniata College, working in the dining room, telephones, The Great Depression, shakedown, Latin, rumble seat, coming to NJ, the mountains, Florida, Metuchen, construction company, World War II, Pearl Harbor, inventing things, the house, Good Housekeeping article in 1952, television, Howdy Doody, talent show, penniless at the shore, trip to Europe in 1954 on the Andrea Doria, boiled potatoes, bread and sugar, rest stop, pets, Mercedes, TV set, Girl Scouts, return to teaching (1955-1970), riots in New Brunswick, staying overnight at the house, and indecision regarding toys.
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com