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 TELL THE STORY

 (Ms. Stephanie Wanza): This is Stephanie Wanza and I will be

interviewing Ms. Dorothy McKellar, I am in her home. Today's date

is August 4, 1997. Okay Ms. McKellar, I going to start asking you

a few questions regarding your family life.

 (Mrs. Dorothy McKellar): Yes.

 (Ms. Wanza): Okay and then I'm going to ask you some

questions regarding employment, the Overtown neighborhood, 1-95,

Metro-rail and the future of Overtown and also some other

questions. We'll start out with the family life. Where were your

parents born?

 (Mrs. McKellar): My parents were born in the Bahamas, Harbor

Island is the name of the place.

 (Ms. Wanza): Did they ever live in Overtown?

 (Mrs. McKellar): Oh yes. They left Harbor Island, I'm not

too sure what year and went to Key West and I know that they were

there like 1900 because I have a brother, older brother who was

born in Key West and a sister who was born in Key West; Dr. S.H.

Johnson was the brother and Mrs. Elaine Adderly, the sister, those

two were born in Key West. Then they came to Miami in 1903 and I'm

not too sure where they lived, somewhere near where the Lyric

Theater is now and then from there they moved to a place called 124

Florida Avenue near Tenth Street.

 (Ms. Wanza): So what are the years that they lived in

 Overtown?

 (Mrs. McKellar): What are the years?


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