I spent the night in what was called transient’s quarters at that time. PAUL: I’m Paul Beardsley I arrived here on the on the 29th day of December, 1943. I haven’t done anything but taught school it was a Hutment School. Then when they sold the houses they would not sell us half of it well we said “Okay we will find something else so we bought a “V” House a 3 bedroom Precut we lived in it until we built our present home in 1963.” I taught school, at the John Ball School, out in North Richland course a lot of you might know it as (inaudible). Then we had a 3 bedroom Prefab and we live there for awhile then moved into a “C” House when they were built. We live in a trailer for a little while because we could not get a house at all. MARGARET: I am Margaret Fortune, and we washed in on the Flood of 1948. We lived in a Prefab a 3 bedroom Prefab for 2 years and then bought a Ranch, a “Y” lived in that house until 1965. So we came here as honeymooners to Richland that was in 1956. JOAN: I am Joan Sherwood my husband came out here in December of “55”and came back to Schenectady, New York in April to get married. It has been a very interesting situation I think. So that is when we moved back in where we are now in a “Q” House we have lived in a “Q“ House ever since they were built right across from Chief Joseph‘s. It took an hour to get to work so it took two hours one-way. It got so it took an hour to get to Richland after the, this is after the war, and the construction had started at Hanford again. We stayed there until after the War our oldest son, Tom, was born there then we moved out to Kennewick and we bought a farm out there moved out there. We got married in August we moved into a “B” House in December we took the first one we could get. They gave me enough gas stamps to drive out here from Ohio I had some of them left over so I took a vacation in June and went up to “Lazy F Ranch” up in Ellensburg and there I met my wife in Seattle. TOM: I am Tom Clement When DuPont transferred me here, why I wasn’t married. Then when we got married we moved into a “B” House, and then we moved to Kennewick. STEVE: My name is Steve Buckingham I first lived in the dormitories’. If you could introduce yourself and what letter house you did live in or currently living in and what year you first moved into one of those houses. What I would like to do is have our group here introduce themselves starting with you (Steve Buckingham) and going around. I know we think we have dust, but you might hear some stories that there was dust and then again there is dust. What we will be talking about tonight “What it was like living in the Dust”. Tonight’s program we have some very special people here many of whom volunteer for the Museum. We have a number of different education programs many of them geared toward children and some of them for all ages or family. TERRY: My name is Terry Andre I am the Education Coordinator here at CREHST. INTERVIEWED: STEVE BUCKINGHAM, TOM CLEMENT, JOAN SHERWOOD, MARGARET FORTUNE, PHYLLIS GRANQUIST, PAUL BEARDSLEY
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