Audrey: Yes,  until she moved back to the city where she died. (Anna Jane’s family was growing and she needed more space in Gramma’s house.) Rachel was the youngest daughter and she was serious and everything had to be just right. She sold silk stockings (at the Outlet, a department store in Providence) so everything was proper in her space. There were long stockings and garters and long stockings with seams down the back. She married Walter, a comical man who was so funny and smart. He had something to say about everything. He died long before she did.

Audrey: Grandma told nursery stories to me. She sang a song, one-half a story and one-half a song. Grandma would fall asleep, but I was first.

Aunt Jeannie was a second mother. Vaughn went over there as it was a second home. Vaughn didn’t like Aunt Di at all. She took his toys and put them on top of the ice box, where Vaughn couldn’t get them. Addy hollered at her to not take Vaughn’s toys.

Aunt Di had lived in a mansion. When Di’s husband died, she couldn’t live there alone. She was miserable to everyone. Aunt Jeannie was older than she, so aunt Jeannie had to boss her around.

Aunt Di kept out of Dick’s way. He hollered at her. If Dick would get a hold of Di, he would shake her. Addy kept out of Dick’s way. Addy was named out of a book that Aunt Jeannie was reading.

Dick blamed his mother, Aunt Jeannie, for letting the doctors do an operation on him. The doctor said Dick would be cured, but in the end all Dick could do is walk with crutches. (He had polio as a child.) He could drive his car. Here he was an old bachelor and he never harmed any of us. He always said we girls were his legs. He was a wonderful old bachelor. He was always reading. Addy didn’t care to read. Addy didn’t even have a car. Dick would back his truck to the grocery store and they (grocery store help) would put the food in the back of his truck. Addy would bring food into house.

Audrey: Mae. Grandma just liked it. MaryJane (no space between Mary and Jane) was shortened to Mae. Everybody called her Mae. Grandma’s mother was Edith Spencer who married Charles Vaughn.

Audrey: Aunt Edith lived with Aunt Martha in the city. Martha lived on Greenwood Avenue. Aunt Edith sold jewelry when she got of age. Aunt Edith was very pretty so when she smiled, everybody ran after her.

Audrey:  I’m fine. It’s very sunny out here! I can’t remember everything. It comes and goes. We had a Price is Right game and I won a pocketbook. I think it is pretty. It is braided and has a brown leather handle. I use it all the time with my mirror and napkins. I always had a mirror with me. I always had a mirror tucked away in my pocket or pocketbook. I was always trying to look at my hair. I always thought I was ugly. I thought my eyes were nice, but I had a long chin and a long face, so I wasn’t happy with my looks. If I looked cheerful, I’d get along O.K. Way back, when kids picked me to the most beautiful, way back at Rocky Hill Grange, I was so surprised. I was a Sunday School teacher. The kids liked my actions-not my looks (I thought).

Recently two or three people mentioned my good looks and I said, “What can’t they see?” (to myself). When old clothes make me look funny, I feel funny. But when I dress up. I feel better. I kind of felt I am a little bit different. I was always inventing things to make me look better.

After I got married, I didn’t feel so bad about myself. I caught somebody and that’s all that matters. I always had a beautiful little child with me, and they didn’t look at me. I always had pretty kids.

Audrey: I swan but very funny. I’d keep my head above water. I can’t stand my face in water. We swan in Carr’s pond. We used to walk up to Carr’s Pond. Edith, Ed and I used to go there. I was under ten years. I would sit on a big stone in the middle of the sand. I watched Ed and Edith swim. I went with them. They went swimming and I sat there. I didn’t learn to swim. I don’t think they ever offered to teach me. Dad could swim and I think Grampa did, but I don’t think Grandma liked the water.

Audrey: No, it was fun to dress up little girls and they are so pretty. It was fun with kids, both boys and girls.

Audrey: I carried out the food to the help. They would sit on a rock, I guess. It must have been a big pan with a handle that I carried out. There were only two or three men at the most. I was under ten years old. I must have made two or three trips if there was more than one.

These people with no folks, they knew our house had a nice mark on it. The mark was on the edge of the barn, I think. Coming the road, the mark was very showy (visible). My mother always made good meals and they all knew it. They had good meals while on the farm and grandma would pack them sandwiches to take them along. Grandpa would give them money when they stayed for a long while. They would get some money from Grandpa. He would pay them when they left.

Audrey: Yes, my mother could do all the chores as good as a man. I guess when there were no hands, she would help.

Audrey: No, I was under ten. I was always holding the lantern! I got up in the morning and fed the dog. Grandma had gruel for the dog.

She brought gruel in Arctic (a shopping area in West Warwick) . Anthony (a village in Coventry) had a store or two– a post office and a store. Arctic was called Jericho and before that something else. I can’t remember now.

Everything changes. Moves up. I don’t know where we are going next. We’ve been down in the sea and up in the sky. What next?