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E: You were closer to the mill from here to Rock Hill?

G: That's right. But I remember I had lived down here at the reservation.
 I could catch a ride to town on a second shift, but I had to walk back
 at night. I mean I walked from Rock Hill Highland Industrial Park a
 million nights back. After getting off at eleven o'clock, I'd walk
 back down here. Then go back to work next day.

E: That was a hard schedule. Your children were educated where?

G: Here in Rock Hill.

E: In Rock Hill?

G: They went to Northside and Richmond Drive; Charlie, JoAnne and
 John and Susan went to high school when it was there, and I think Wayne
 did too.

E: When the land was divided up, did you get your share of the land or did
 you take yours in money?

G: I took mine in the land.

E: Where is your land located?

G: I don't have any now 'cause I sold it 'bout a year ago. I held on to
 it as long as I could, then I just sold it.

E: You're renting the house you live in now?

G: Yes, ma'am.

E: You became a carpenter. You still get some part-time jobs doing that,
 couldn't you, if you wanted to?

G: Oh, I can get all the part-time work that I want right now if I want it.
 But see, being retired, I've made my quota, and I can't go back to work
 till after the first of the year. I only have $1680 I can make. I
 wish it was where they could make all they wanted to and you could make
 a living.

E: Yes. When you retired from the mill, you don't get any retirement pension
 or anything from the mill, do you?

G: Oh yeah, you get a retirement pension. I guess you do. They may have a
 retirement fund now, I don't know. But I retired from carpenter work
 on social security.