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Talia Carlson 0:00
Hi, I'm Talia Carlson.

Mackenzie Gamble 0:04
I'm Mackenzie Gamble

Talia Carlson 0:06
Were interviewing Celia Glover. Can you tell us just a bit about like your like your background, you know, growing up here a little bit.

Celia Glover 0:14
Sure. I grew up in the town of Bailey, I lived in this house, which is the Country Doctor Museum until I was in eighth grade. And then we moved all the way to the other end of town, like we were the last house in Bailey here, we moved all the way and built a house. We were the last one in Bailey on the other end. So there's a lot of wonderful things about bay that I remember growing up. And just as we were coming in here, saying, our long I remember going into this and Kathy, Kathy was could only be she was allowed out of the Iron Lung. I think it was an hour a day. I never saw her out. But my mom and I would visit her. Often, she was very encouraging. She learned a lot she would read. And she learned a lot of things she learned to write with her teeth. So anyway, she, she did, she was very interesting young lady. And there was an interesting thing that we lived across the woods from where she lived. And if in the summertime, you stood out where the air was clear, you could hear the Iron lung, you could hear it functioning. And if there was ever any time that my mom asked me to do something, and I didn't really maybe want to do it right then she'd say, Kathy would gladly change places with you. So quickly, I kind of changed my mind. But like I said, I grew up here went to Bailey elementary school when it was a high school, went to East Carolina, America, local boy and came back and told fifth grade at your high school for 30 years. And my mom would tell by your high school this grade before. So we got some history there. And there's so many things about this little town. I remember the first Christmas parade we had. It was just kids on bicycles. And young children, parents were pulling them in trailers. And wagons, excuse me not trailers, wagons down the street. And that's all it was. And then later it came to be a big thing. Everybody loved it. I remember Halloween, everybody felt safe. Our moms would we somehow or other i guess arranged at school where we were going to meet and we'd just walk up and down the street and go to everybody's house. And there was no danger of anybody putting anything in what you got, because you knew it was okay. And there's just lots of things that have happened, Bailey has progressed. But now it needs a rebirth, kind of because a lot of the businesses have gone. By the way. I just I've traveled a lot since I retired. But I really enjoy being here.

Talia Carlson 3:28
Alright, so this is kind of our main interview question. So think back about your life and the life challenges that you or a family member has had to face? Who are the family members and friends who may have helped them navigate the challenge such as friends, family, neighbors, church or healthcareprofessionals?

Celia Glover 3:44
Okay. Um, we had the polio was there was an epidemic of polio during that time and our community came together. And I remember going to school at a school lunch room once I think it was a Sunday afternoon, all the children went in there and we had a square it was kind of like, really tastes like sugar, but I think they put the Salk vaccine, you know, Joel Salatin, okay, they put the Salk vaccine into that and put it on our tongues. I remember having to go back and stick your tongue out like that. And they just put it out there for you. And that's all there was to it. And then every summer, we had to get typhoid shots, I guess, for the area was must have been frail at that time. But the county nurse would come from on a certain day everybody knew what it was. And you'd go to the town hall and they vaccinated all the children so you wouldn't get typhoid fever. And that's the health part of it. And my mom was always really encourager for anything that we wanted to do. And she was very much into history. And I learned a lot from her when she first started out teaching. She taught at Coopers, which is a school in Nash County. But she had a hot plate in the back of her room. And of course, it's been a farming community every day, the children would bring a quart of canned vegetables, and they just put it in the pot in the back of the room. And she made a game out of it. And that's what they do every day, whatever anybody brought and made soup out of it. And she said, even fifth graders, she could interest them in making it a challenge for who was gonna stir the pot all day long until they ate and make sure that it didn't stick. Well then she said on special special days when she got a little bit of extra money for sale, that would clean that big pot out and make hot chocolate. And they felt that was the biggest strength they had ever. All of our kids in school love that. So I remember her telling me all about that. And it was just just interesting. It's just your neighbors. If you need anything, you could go next door to them, they would do help you in any way that they could. You were not afraid at all to walk anywhere to go anywhere outside and in play. It was the first safe community. And I was lucky enough to go to high school here and meet my husband and then come right back and live in the country right outside of Bailey where I live right now. And we would in the summertime I helped him. And in the wintertime he helped me when I was teaching school. So in the summer I farmed tobacco, I picked cotton. In fact, the very interesting thing about picking cotton was there was a local farmer here that were I remember, I was in third grade. And he would come after school and I guess it was arranged with our parents, you didn't have time to get permission slips then. And we would go to the girls bathroom after school and change clothes and put on some everyday clothes, we'd go and we'd go pick cotton until dark. Let me take you make cotton they did by how much it weighed. And you know what how light cotton is. So I'm sure I don't remember how much I made. But I'm sure it wasn't a lot at all. The only thing that I really do, I suffered tobacco because my husband had tobacco. Is pick cucumbers, cucumbers had not come around as a cash crop at that time. But our children, our children picked cucumbers. But I just had lots of memories when I went back to Bailey school to teach to go into the same room that I had had a science class and and then it was my fifth grade classroom. So I tried to teach, I'm a yard person and a flower person. So whenever anything was blooming in my yard, always carried it school and all the kids do not know what the flowers were they didn't know a rose. And that's about the Name the only flower they would know. But I would carry on and I had a place near where I lived that had a whole bit of Lady slippers and Lady slippers are almost extinct now. But it's looking at it is a beautiful flower. And this year was the first year that I can remember my sister and I did rode down that path that we went and we saw the two shoes come up. But we went on a trip. And I think that lady's slipper comes equipped. Thier two leaves come up first and then the lady slipper comes up. And it just hangs down like this beautiful. It's pink. But it's almost extinct now. Anyway.

Talia Carlson 9:23
So can you think of like any? Maybe like struggle that you've had as a kid like personally or maybe some of your family?

Celia Glover 9:33
I guess really, we everybody just looked after everybody. And I don't really remember. I remember that when my grandmother died. My grandfather had to come live with us because people didn't put their parents in a nursing home then they just kept them at home. So I remember he came and live with us and that that kind of enriched my life because he was just really history. But I always had my parents for support with anything that was going on at school. And always had good help And so I really am thankful that I haven't had any major struggle.

Talia Carlson 10:20
But it's good. It's good. It is. Yeah, so what would you say is like the biggest support for you, like growing up in an area

Celia Glover 10:34
when I was growing up, okay. Um, my family first and then my church. This was a small community and the Methodist church and I went to the Methodist Church, and the Baptist Church in somehow another the grownups would decide when to have Bible School in the summer. And all of us from the Methodist church, we'd go to the Baptist Church, we didn't have it the same week, and then they come to our church and have it. so that was a good support to have them and to have my family and I was in 4-H. We had 4-H club that came to the school. So I was in 4-H . And that was a that was a nice, that was a nice learning experience.

Mackenzie Gamble 11:24
4-H is real nice.

Celia Glover 11:25
It is, are you in that?

Mackenzie Gamble 11:26
I was, I was in it when I was little

Celia Glover 11:28
yeah, it is. I think it teaches a lot of good values. And that's what we need. We need things that that teach the values that will follow you all through your life.

Talia Carlson 11:42
Alright, so do you have anything like that you want to like say like, was it now?

Mackenzie Gamble 11:48
Do you have any? Do you have any like words of encouragement or something to like? help encourage like the younger generation?

Celia Glover 11:57
Yes, I certainly do. I have a young, our grandson who's a junior in college. And he came actually one day this week, and helped me in my yard the whole day. And I see a lot of young people that have the same values and and that's what we have to do, to be honest. And whatever you did, to be honest and kind. I would always tell my kids at school, I say be kind, be kind to other people because you never know what somebody's going through. But I just see a lot of potential in the younger generation. I do. They're going to rise to high places.

Talia Carlson 12:11
All right. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. We really appreciate it.

Celia Glover 12:48
You're welcome. Where do you live?