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At one time he worked for the WPA building roads in the Five Forks area, “with a pick and shovel.” However, mostly he worked on farms. “I worked for [D. Lyle] “B” Miller for 13 years,” he
This meant mostly work in the large orchard and apple packing plant. He also worked with cattle and helped with crops like corn.* They worked with horses and later he drove a tractor, but he never drove a car. His pay was usually no more than 50 or 75 cents a day.
“Nobody is hiring much now,” he said. “Farmers that were doing that work, a lot sold out or died. Farmers that are coming in are not doing like that.”
He notices that the hollow is much less open than it was. “Sixty or 70 years ago, most of this was cleared land. A lot of land that used to be cleared is grown up now.”
He notes that a lot of land on his own eight acres is grown up that used to be open farm land. A younger friend, Junior Johnson, keeps a garden on his place and gives him some of the produce. Mrs. Johnson’s wife cans some, and Mr. Jordan gets some of that also. He used to do his own canning.
He says that there are also fewer people living- in the hollow than when he was a boy. “All of them are gone,” he said. “I’m about the oldest one in here now.”
Social life was less rushed, he said. “You’d go visit someone and sit and talk, maybe play dominoes.” He doesn’t remember much dancing. There is one dance he does remem-1 said.
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