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When the StoryCorps mobile booth stopped in Chicago, 68-year-old Barb Fuller-Curry drove nearly 200 miles to be interviewed by her son, Craig. Fuller-Curry grew up on a farm in Whiteside County, Illinois. She returned 40 years later to care for her mother, who passed away earlier this year. Here, Fuller-Curry remembers the long hours her parents worked on the the farm.
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When the StoryCorps mobile booth stopped in Chicago, 68-year-old Barb Fuller-Curry drove nearly 200 miles to be interviewed by her son, Craig. Fuller-Curry grew up on a farm in Whiteside County, Illinois. She returned 40 years later to care for her mother, who passed away earlier this year. Here, Fuller-Curry remembers the long hours her parents worked on the the farm.
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NPR's Morning Edition 12/16/05
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CC: When I come and visit you out in the country every once in a while a
combine or a tractor will drive by out in front of the house and a lot
of times you‚ll cry when you see that. Why is that?
BFC: I cry because I'm so proud of how hard my mom and dad worked. When
I was a young child I didn't appreciate it. I think I was in almost my
40‚s or 50‚s before I really realized the sacrifices that they made and
what all it took. One spring I remember, I had to be maybe 6 or 7 years
old somewhere in that age, and my dad was getting behind with planting
the corn and soybeans. Of course then there weren't lights on the
tractors. And so he rigged up lights so that they could farm at night
and mom is the one that did the farming at night. Daddy would work in
the field all day and come in for supper and then mom would go out to
the field and my dad would stay in with us kids and I can remember af...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Here’s another installment of StoryCorps, a history project that brings us audio snapshots of American life. Today we get a glimpse into the life and times of Barb Fuller-Curry. She is 68 years old, and she lives across the street from the farm where she grew up. That farm is in Whiteside County, Illinois, and she’s interviewed here by her son, 34 year-old Craig Curry.
OUTRO:Barb Fuller-Curry with her son Craig Curry at a StoryCorps mobile booth in Chicago, Illinois. StoryCorps is currently in Las Vegas and in Gulfport, Mississippi, and if you’d like to learn how you can share your story and have it preserved in the Library of Congress, just go to npr.org.
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