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“So many people were out of work in the city. I think that country people actually heard more about the depression from their relatives in the city than from each other.
"The people who lived near here would go up on the mountains and pull green oak splits. Then you'd see them on the road with a great long pole, 15 to 20 feet long with a stack of baskets on it.
"The price of apples went down then, to fifteen cents a bushel. After the evaporator plant at Sperryville was built, we could sell apples there for 25 cents for 1(H) pounds. There they were peeled, sliced, sulphured, packaged in doth sacks and sent up north somewhere.
“For recreation we had horse shoes and marbles not the little kind that chil dren play with now. but the great big, marble kind. This was especially popular up at Ktlan and Peola Mills. Sometimes the games of marbles would start Saturday morning and continue all weekend, even under lights at night.
“There were tourist buses to Nethers. A lady up there served Sunday dinners to bus loads from Washington.
"People in the country were fairly well-contented and happy. There was a slow pace then and nobody got in a big hurry because there was nowhere to go. Everyone enjoyed themselves.
“Of course, folks had to be very enterprising. We had a small orchard and I would peel apples, slice them and dry them on the chicken house roof. I’d get 5 cents a pound, and I’d drive twenty miles to sell twenty pounds."
Kilby farms in the F. T. Valley near the Madison <’ninth/ hue.
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