Mitch Watras, Henry Street
"I don't know anybody here anymore. And before you knew everybody, all the farmers that were here. I mean, you have no idea of all these people that were around this whole area. "
"People would make a living here, and then in wintertime they'd go to Florida, raise 10 acres of cabbage."
"There were a lot of cucumbers here in the Valley. They were all raised for Oxford, and they had them cucumber pickers, and the kids always had jobs. What are you going to do this summer? You're going to work on tobacco or you're working on cucumbers. It was two choices. Cucumbers were the big deal. All these farmers that raised potatoes and had 10 acres of cukes or whatever. And the kids had a job. You had 15 kids working for you, depending on how many acres you're raising. But the kids, that's what they’d look forward." to. "