Interviewee: Betty Tease
Date of birth/age at interview: 1914/ 87
Interviewers: Sally Jagoe, David Benner
Interview date: May 30, 2001
Interview location: Tease residence
Interview Length: 55 minutes
Time span discussed: 1920 to 2000
Summary: Betty moved to the area when her father retired from the railroad and needed to live in the country for health reasons. She talks of life in the area, especially in the 1920s. She discusses many aspects of everyday life in the area including attending the Solebury one-room school.
Time markers:
00:00 – (first part of tape is of poor quality)
01:16 – Solebury village, school were the best
02:23 – school days in one-room Aquetong school; water from spring
04:30 – born red house corner of Reeder road and what is now 202
05:13 – roads not named, lanes; houseswhere lived
06:08 – father and uncle worked Lorimer mill, mercerized cotton
07:13 – home-made bread
07:43 – part of house closed in winter, hard to heat
10:00 – ‘dummy malaria’ discussed; list of teachers; school days
11:00 – family situation, sister; more school days
14:30 – ice from Ingham Lake; stored at Ingham Dale
15:56 – sledding to school and home, too many accidents so stopped
16:48 – water ponds, races, and wooden pipes from Aquetong spring to mills
18:40 – family situation, children’s life
19:56 – born 1914; husband sold insurance and real estate
20:45 – current family situation
34:18 – husband’s family
34:50 – grocery shopping in New Hope at American Store, then Acme
36:01 – her many cats, dogs
44:23 – Aid Society Boys: during the depression these boys were sent to work on the Edward’s farm
45:54 – plucking chicken to make money
46:49 – fire at Edward’s farm
47:33 – sources of light in a country house, “never had electricity”
47:51 – Deer Park, cutting Christmas trees, farm life
50:50 – attended high school in New Hope 1928
51:10 – various local people, dogs, names, shops
