Grandmother
Grandmother
In this oral history excerpt, Rob Amberg questions Stan Hyatt about growing up in Madison County, North Carolina and living with his grandmother on her farm.
Audio Transcript
Rob Amberg
Was there farming in your background at all?
Stan Hyatt
My grandmother had farmland and leased it out, and I helped with the tobacco chores and gardening and growing corn, things like that - feeding the pigs and feeding the chickens, milking the cows - when I was growing up with her.
Rob Amberg
So you had all of those things. And would you classify your grandma as somewhat self-sufficient on the farm?
Stan Hyatt
She was extremely self-sufficient. She lived after she raised six kids of her own. I lived with her a while, and she would have me go out to the woods and get roots and things out of the ground that she made medicines out of. I hunted. I would bring squirrels and fish back, and rabbits. My grandmother could fix anything. When her husband was still alive she cooked for a sawmill up there in Dillingham area. She was the most self-sufficient woman that I ever knew.
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