E: This is Emma Echols, 5150 Sharon Road, Charlotte, North Carolina. I am recording
 the oral history of the Catawba Indians, working with the University of Florida, Dr.
 Sam Proctor. I was in the shop, on Sharon Road, of Carson Blue yesterday and I
 have a tape of his mother that I am very proud of and I told him that I wanted to
 come see his wife, that I want to get more tapes of the women that married into the
 Catawba nation and what they have contributed to it. So that is what I am doing
 today, August 28th. So, I am going to let her put her name on my tape.

B: My name is Susan Tennant Blue.

E: And how long have you and Carson been married?

B: We were married June 10, 1966.

E: Carson told me that when he grew up as a young boy on the reservation that there
 were some pretty girls down here, but if he had married one of them, they would
 have been his cousins, so he went down [to] South Carolina. Tell me how he
 happened to find you and how you got together.

B: Carson and I met at a dance in Cornwell [South Carolina] which is below Chester
 [South Carolina]. It was near a fire department, it was just sort of a community.
 Some of his cousins had started coming down and they would play music and so they
 brought him down and I happened to be there when we met.

E: Did you dance together that night?

B: I do not think so, not the first time I had seen him. It was a square dance and then
 they had some rock and roll music there too for the younger people.

E: Then after that did you write or did you just visit?

B: We would just see each other at the dance on the weekends and then we started
 dating and we would date every weekend.

E: Then how long was it after you met him before you were married?

B: It was probably a couple of years. I was still in high school and I had to finish school
 before we were married.

E: He had already finished school.

B: Yes.

E: Was he already in business then or what was he doing?

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