Carrie Howell Scruggs and her daughter Betty Howell are interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1909, Scruggs discusses attending Hill Street School in Sylva and Allen Home in Asheville. Scruggs and Howell recall church services, wakes, and celebrating Fourth of July and Christmas. Scruggs also remembers washing and ironing in homes and her husband working in the tannery
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