For the assignment I interviewed my Grandma - uen.org

For the assignment I interviewed my Grandma - uen.org For the assinment I interviewed my Great Grandma. She was born in 1913 and is very old. I asked her what it was like to live in Utah along time ago. She told me that life was very hard when she was a little girl She lived on a farm and they mostly ate what they could grow. Her Dad was a farmer and also worked at the sugar beet factory in the town of Spanish Fork. Her Mother stayed home and raised the children. They had 13 kids in their family. My grandma was the 10 child. They lived in a town called Lake Shore and it was by Utah Lake and the farm was down by the lake and they grew grain and corn. My grandma always helped on the farm and has a scare on her arm from a sugar beet blade that sliced her arm open. They also had a big irrigation ditch in front of their home that my grandma was afraid of because the neighbors baby drowned in it. The house was quite small and my grandma and her 2 sisters slept in one bed. Outside there was a place where the pigs lived, the big barn where they milked the cows and gathered eggs from the chickens. They had horses, cows, pigs, chickens, a dog, cats, and lot’s of mice. My Grandma said that when she was a little girl she hated the day that they killed the pigs and the chickens. It was hard to feed and take care of the animals and then have to eat them. She used to beg her Daddy not to kill them, but this was their food source. They only bought the esentials at the grocery store. There was a small store in Lake Shore that my Grandma’s uncle owned Her first experience were working out of the home was helping at the store. She used to work at the counter selling items, and helping the children buy penny candy. My Grandma says that in those days it really was penny candy! Sometimes you even got two pieces of candy for one penny. Can you believe that. This was where she learned math because she had to add up everything by hand. They didn’t have calculators back then. There was one big problem with living so far out in the country. Indians! There was Indians that lived by the lake and some were friendly but some were not. One time when my Grandma’s Daddy had to go to town to get medicine because her Mother was very sick, my Grandma dressed up like a man and walked around outside so the Indians wouldn’t know they was there alone. Most of the Indians were friendly and they would come begging for food and my Grandma’s mother would feed them. The railroad ran right by their house and tramps soon learned that Grandma’s house had friendly people that would feed them and they would stop and offer to do jobs for a free meal. My grandma said that usually they did very little work for the food they got, but they tried to treet them kindly. My grandma said that life was hard, but much simpler then. They would play games in the yard. Taking a trip into town was a big deal, and they only went when it was necesary. They sewed all their clothes, and my grandma knows how to quilt, crochet, and knit. Every thing in their home was home made and to have a store bought dress was only a dream. They only could take a bath once a week and they would have to boil the water on the stove and then into a big tub pour it. Then they would all take turns and the last person would have a cold dirty bath. They had to use the out-house that was out by the barn. They used magazines for toilet paper. This does not sound fun to me. I am glad I got to interview my Great-grandma, and have learned a lot about the old days and life in utah. It sounds hard and a little scary. Even though I think it would have been fun to live back then, I am glad I live in Utah now.