Tonight we taped our first oral history interview with Don's step-dad. I think it went pretty well, and I'm looking forward to the future interviews. One of Walter's stories involved his experiences of working on the sugar cane plantation. He quit school after the 8th grade to help his family - there were 13 living children (three had already passed away) - one of his jobs on the plantation was plowing the sugar cane field behind a donkey. He told of how the sugar cane was as tall as the donkey, and as he walked behind the animal to plow the narrow section the donkey would sweat profusely, and the sugar cane would rub against the animal on either side, and hit against Walter as he went by. Walter said when he went home at night he smelled horrible.
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