Carolyn Brooks
“I just loved living in the country. At that time we had a house that had a porch. We would play together underneath the porch. We used to make little cars – we had the real match box cars. We built all the roads out in front of the yard. We used stones as people and put them in the little boxes. [Parents] couldn’t afford to buy you the real things so we were creative. We used to put lightning bugs in jars, and at night we’d be sitting out there watching them lighting up. It was fun.”
“When we were little, the men in the area worked on farms and each man had farm that he worked for. And they would go out in the morning to do the tomatoes and corn and stuff and then they’d go on to their regular job in Delaware. In the evening, they’d come back and go on the farm and finish up. And my brothers, when they got a bit older, they did that as well.”
Photographed by Ken Young and interviewed by Lani Seikaly
Editor Note: The Chestertown Spy and RiverArts have partnered in 2016 to share the art organization’s community arts project “Humans of Kent County,” designed to celebrate the wonderful, unique folks who live and work in Kent County. Citizens are invited to interview and photograph from young to old from all corners of the county and to submit a photograph and brief story to be part of the project. It will be posted on the Spy each week and each quarter the most interesting photos and stories will be enlarged and produced for an exhibition at the RiverArts gallery in Chestertown.
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