Author’s Note: My sister found these tapes after my grandmother Carol passed away, and gave them to me to preserve. My great grandmother LuElla is 75 years old when she recorded this in 1994, and I found the process cathartic, re-listening to the warbling voice of my great grandmother while the familiar sound of their wind-up clock ticked on endlessly in the background.
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Speaker: LuElla Frame Rice (1919-2005):
“I was 75 years old yesterday. Jan 15 1994. I was born in Portland, Oregon during the big flu epidemic. Born at home while father was out trying to find an available doctor. Married Thomas Fredrick Rice April 4th 1936 on McCoy Street, Hollywood District, in Salem, Oregon at Aunt Ruthie’s house. Honeymoon at the Rices’ Cabin on the Little North Fork. I was a homemaker–I AM a homemaker.”
Of the North Shore 