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Mackenzie Gamble 0:00
Okay all right. I'm Mackenzie and and who are you?

Charles Sherrod 0:10
Name is Charles Sherrod

Mackenzie Gamble 0:13
All right. Tell me about what it was like growing up for you like where you grew up that he grew up with?

Charles Sherrod 0:23
Well when David was a cold when I grew up a sharecropper was he tended to farm for man and own the land and he tended that as long as I can remember it, like actually till I got married I have stayed in basically Nash county like out of my life and I should grew up making poor growing up was you in the color green pod community up in a grip in that area. So we farmed when I grew up, you know, when I could come along and keep work worked on the farm. And most kids worked on the farm they grew up on farms, kids in towns like here in Bailey to when they got old enough to work otherwise I have a job whatever most of those got a job in town working in store or global restaurants or whatever around town. But if you mostly I would say if you grew up in on the farm you work on the farm at guys and girls I grew up working on the farm, basically until I got married when I got married I got a job working, public work.

Mackenzie Gamble 2:03
um So think back to when you were growing up? Um, what were some of the challenges or hardships that your family had to go through and who were there to support you through those challenges?

Charles Sherrod 2:20
Well by then you didn't know you had challenges like you do now.

Mackenzie Gamble 2:26
Right?

Charles Sherrod 2:28
Like said you've it was more of a family oriented environment so the he did have the where you want to call it the non committed or non family oriented type things you can now now is everybody's going to go back then you grew up on a farm or the guy or girls here in town it was family I mean everybody hardships you didn't really have to me he didn't have the hardships on the day I knew these families that had hard times. But you don't have all our shields back then because everybody up everybody and so when I was growing up, I really didn't really consider having hardships or anything. I mean, we had work all around for that hardships. Not like it is you had a problem you could you could talked to your mom dad in your body is about to be glad you're here. Adults are glad and happy give you advice, or whatever.

Mackenzie Gamble 4:14
Did was your family based on like, Did y'all go to church? Did your family based around religion?

Charles Sherrod 4:24
[Inaudible] My dad was involved in church. When I was smaller, I probably got around 10, 12. He got involved. He was involved in church but Mom always went to church. So yeah, we were family already. We both grew up in church and I went to church and even after I got married a long time. Whereabouts I lived we were very church oriented.

Mackenzie Gamble 5:08
What would what would you give what would be a piece of advice you would give someone like our age?

Charles Sherrod 5:24
If you have a problem, talk to someone don't try and hold it again or not. Work through it, get find an adult that you feel comfortable talking to, or fill out if you can get a good advice from and talk to them and let them help you have a problem. And is it just know that you have someone that you can talk to? For the church or the pastor in the church? Or the family member? Anyone that you feel comfortable? You feel like, well, I can confide in them and, and they can help me solve a problem or work on problem. If I've got one that would be the main thing. Don'r try and do it all yourself, because at 15, 16, 17, 18 years old years old, you won't work feel like you won't work through feel like you haven't. But at that age, you don't really know how to. I didn't know how to handle it at my age I mean, we didn't have problems back then that kids have today. I mean, y'all have problems today that when we would come along, we wouldn't even have any concept of having a problem like y'all have today. I mean, just the peer pressure today is unreal compared to what it was when i was growing up. I mean, you grew up in small area, you know, you had friends maybe in another town, like Spring Hope or Middlesex or somewhere like that. But now kids are from so many different areas in school. Just like some. You see when I come along the schools were by Middlesex, Spring Hope, Cooper's. You basically you grew up that's the school you went to school until you got until they consolidated the high schools puts out some put all the schools at southern name when you got set my first year school of senior year was first year southern Nash. And we had we had guys and girls there. We knew him from other schools, but we didn't actually ever because we get ballgames you see. But you've never interacted with them like in classes or activities stuff until we actually got to Southern and then you have all these communities started coming together. And so that was one of the things that that helps out. When I was growing up it makes a difference when you grow up and you got to say now , see now all these days, so you got you got people friends from Rocky Mountain. All around Zebulon and Wilson when I was growing up you didn't have all these that you went to. So y'all know thank you. Thank you Nick car driving to Rocky Mount, Raleigh or Greenville, somewhere like that. When I was growing up, if you were somewhere like Greenville or Raliegh, and you were you were a long ways from home, it wasn't like, you know driving now driving to Rocky Mount, Raleigh going somewhere like that. You don't think of anything like that as far as, whatever is a long ways away. You get more than that was a half a day trip for you. Once you've had it planned, you planned for that day around that trip now you're just ready to go with Rocky Mount I need to go Greenville, Raleigh, get in the car and go. It makes it this thing now is everything is now set at a pace faster pace than it was back then just like whatever you're doing farm all day well you got through the phone you just kind of relaxes home around the house dressed because you know the next day was coming in sometimes next day you had to do the same thing and on weekends based on time you've done anything other stay around the house and relax around the weekends your friends get together and maybe go to Wilson, Rocky Mount something like that somewhere Saturday night or Sunday afternoon stuff like that. So

Mackenzie Gamble 11:08
Do you think do you think if you didn't have the family you grew up with? Do you think you would be a different person than you are today?

Charles Sherrod 11:17
Yeah, definitely. That would be different because growing up with the mom dad I had they, I won't say strict, but they had rules that you had to live by. And that's you know, if you didn't follow them rules you had to answer for it. Right? And I don't think kids are that way now, I think it's more you know, as long as you don't get in trouble or have a problem with Mom Dad, everything's fine. But do you have problems with school you had to answer for it when you got home. Just like grades, my grades weren't or didn't study up, I had to answer for it , my dad wanted to know why my grades weren't up because he didn't go to school to play in fourth or fifth grade minicamp long long depression stuff once you got big enough to work you were in no matter how old you were and he wanted more for his kids than what he has right so he loved us but he wanted us to be anything we don't we we shall be no we got to trouble we have back then. So and I saw kids that the parents didn't care for them or didn't take time with them, is there a better way to stay on I guess and some of those kids had a rough life, they were in trouble a lot of times and they were more problem kids than you found well we can no you can you can look at the kids in school in your group and everything you can tell which ones that have it he likes it easier but go along parents could talk and parents would listen or they have didn't have worry about what if I got a problem my mom there to help to me. Some kids who grew up where they have problems are motivating me notice there's no use don't just don't bother me. No problem. I got nothing. So it was growing up in a slower time than it is now everything to the faster pace. Like there's one reason like it is now and even even I thought about growing and got married. You can see the times the pace increase. You didn't really know think about it. But I think you look back man is doing is not like was when I grew up is different now. I mean, you enable the kids, like my daughter Tracy, when her son Kristen, third time as teenagers and and getting into being young adults is completely different and what it was I come along it was just more of a faster pace, than what it was when I grew up.

Mackenzie Gamble 15:56
Alright. Well, that's all the questions I have for you. Do you have any questions? Do you have anything she would like to add or say?

Charles Sherrod 16:08
Well, not really. I mean, I'm glad to see the kids work, do stuff like y'all do in groups, everything. It kind of helps y'all see responsibility to each other and lead. Even if you get out of school, go to college. It helps you doing stuff like this, it helps you realize things that you've talked to people, it helps you realize that you sure is always some help if you need it no matter where you may not think you need help, but everybody's even people my age need help some days, sometimes there's not a problem with talking to somebody sometimes, it's always easier to talk somebody give a help, listen and look at some of their perspective out may be different than yours or theirs. They might be able to give you an answer to something that you didn't think you'd be able to give an answer to see in a different way. So it's always always good to kind of stand back and and if the kids your age, they that's what people my age or teachers are for, thats what they're there to help and try to give you a little leadership and helping along the way.

Mackenzie Gamble 17:58
Thank you for coming. I enjoy listening to your story.

Charles Sherrod 18:03
Glad I was able to live I mean, might not give you a whole lot, but maybe it'll help you a little bit any insight in what you're looking for.

Mackenzie Gamble 18:13
Yes sir, so you helped a lot actually. Alright, well, we're done.

Charles Sherrod 18:21
Thank you. Have a great day.