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Logan Saunders 0:00
All right, I'm Logan Saunders here with Mr. Carlton Lewis with the country doctor museum interview. Where like where did you grow up at and kind of your career path.

Carlton Lewis 0:11
I grew up in Middlesex, North Carolina went to school at Middlesex school graduated from Middlesex High School worked is with my my dad had a garage and Middlesex called Middlesex Motor Company. I worked there, still work there so I've been there forever I did paint and autobody till my dad died and then we had a different uh, different roles so we're still there

Logan Saunders 0:47
As you think back about your life and maybe like the challenges you face maybe a family member I had to face a year like a part of who were they and who helped them like trying to get over this challenge such as maybe like a friend family neighbors deal with the Community Church Health care professionals things like that.

Carlton Lewis 1:04
Well I guess the biggest thing I've had to deal with was a son born with a skin disease, incurable Epidermolysis Bullosa I can't spell it but I can give you a thing that's got it on him. Anyway, he was born in Wilson they didn't know what was wrong so they sent him to Duke but two days after he was born and then the called in a doctor from Chapel Hill Dr. Brigham and from then to his whole life he went to Chapel Hill and they did studies on his disease up there so.

Logan Saunders 2:03
As you're going through this who were maybe where they came like right around you like every Friends Family Well,

Carlton Lewis 2:09
Everybody was supportive. His mom and I we took care of him every day he he did some they did allow us a lot of things any young child would do or any child growing up would do some we didn't really want him to but he wanted to he wanted to try it so we let him Let him go you know like playing baseball and or Little League Ball, T ball that kind of stuff. But when his skin condition in mind if he would fall or someone would hit him pretty hard he would it would cause a blister and you know skin skin on his stuff and it was it affected his whole body you know, inside as well as outside so he had to be very careful what he ate just he had he lived life to the fullest but he left for the 28th

Logan Saunders 3:13
As like you're growing up in like a rural area like you said Middlesex as you like went to elementary school middle school high school what were like what was kind of like life back back then is has changed today.

Carlton Lewis 3:26
Wow, it's a lot different than it is today. Back then people could get along you can leave your doors unlocked. We had freinds, if he knew as a friend he was a true friend. You know handshake was like a contract. But it's not that way now.

Logan Saunders 3:50
I'm kind of just thinking about like growing up in this area when you first started working with your dad and helping out and doing you know, bodywork and repair and things like that. What were some of the like, the challenges you face doing those things?

Carlton Lewis 4:06
I don't know, you know, it was it was a lot easier because anytime you work with the public, you know that's a challenge because you know, you got to you got to be careful what you say and be nice. Do you know you won't have you will run your business off you know, of course they can be people can be not kind to you but you got to be kind back to service until you can't anymore. But yeah, I mean it was I mean like then life was life was good. It was it was like I said, it was you could you could depend on people and do what you needed to do. So

Logan Saunders 4:57
Like as you had the shop and things like that, did the community kind of help you out with these things or, you know, community always, like willing to lend a helping hand or things like that?

Carlton Lewis 5:09
As far as business? Yeah. I mean, the people in the community, you know, they were they were you, they, they, they did business with you and, you know, kept you going. So, some wouldn't, would not, but most, a lot of them would. So, I mean, we have people, you know, our community would come into.

Logan Saunders 5:36
I think there's somewhere out there. [Non-Interview discussion]

Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. As you were growing up, was there anything that maybe, you know, like, some of that happened in the community when you were younger? Like, like, teenage years, then, like, people in the community helped out? Things like that?

Carlton Lewis 6:03
Well, not really. I mean, everyone together, I mean, like, like going to high school. We had sports, baseball, basketball, the whole community, you know, would pretty much be involved or, you know, go support. So

Logan Saunders 6:24
what do you think has made those things change from you know, when you're growing up to now?

Carlton Lewis 6:29
Well, I'll probably keep telling you in this interview

Logan Saunders 6:37
as you were as you go through your entire life from a young age to now, do you think you leaned on like your family and your friends? Or did you kind of just, you know, kind of be independent had to do things like how you wanted to do.

Carlton Lewis 6:51
You know, friends and family will always support you, whatever, but there's a lot of things you have to do on your own. I mean, if you don't do it yourself, you know, someone can't do it for you. So you got to you got to put your big boy pants on and do what you what you need to do.

Logan Saunders 7:12
Yes, sir. Do you have any closing comments or anything you want to add?

Carlton Lewis 7:17
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Logan Saunders 7:19
All right. Well, I appreciate it.