Tennessee 15

Listen to Tennessee 15, a 54-year-old woman from Claxton, near Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 54

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/04/1967

PLACE OF BIRTH: Knoxville, Tennessee (but raised in Claxton)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: White

OCCUPATION: secretary

EDUCATION: high school graduate and one year of technical study in dental assisting

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

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RECORDED BY: Kathryn Cunningham

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/02/2021

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I grew up in East Tennessee in a little community called Claxton. I was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and when I was six weeks old, my parents moved out here to Claxton, and I’ve lived in Claxton all of my life.

Well, one thing I, I really enjoyed was my grandmother — my mamaw and papaw — lived, um, three houses up from us. And we lived on a road that, although it was pretty busy, you could walk. And you could walk on the road. And so, I would walk up to my mamaw and papaw’s house and stay up there for a little while. And sometimes, um, my mom would let my brother and I walk down to this little store that was down about a mile from the house. Uh, and we — and she’d give us a dollar a piece, and we’d go down and buy a Coke and some candy, and we’d walk to the store, and then we’d walk back. It was just a little country store, and he just had like, Coke and candy, and s- chips and stuff like that.

My mamaw and papaw lived in the country, of course, close to us, and then my granny — my mom’s mom — lived in the city of Knoxville. And so, it’s kind of — I always kind of thought it was funny that my brother and I grew up like, um, we were the country mouse but yet the city mouse too, because on the weekends we would go to my granny’s, and we would get on the city bus and ride the city bus to uptown, and on Saturday and we would go to Market Square and buy flowers and food and stuff like that. But during the week we lived in the country and, you know, played outside and had like the country life. A small town, small community. So I always felt like I lived two separate lives as a kid growing up.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Kathryn Cunningham

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/06/2021

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