“I am left-handed and when I was in second grade the teacher tried to make me write right-handed. My mama got mad and put me in the Organic School. I quit school in 10th grade started working at Greer’s when I was 17. I worked there for 53 years. I started out making 50 cents an hour, but I made more money in tips. When I retired I was making $7 an hour. After I retired, I just go around town watching everything grow. I watched the town change and Mardi Gras come to Fairhope and now there four parades a year. There was Cain’s Hardware, Gaston Motor Company, Piggly Wiggly, an A&W root beer stand and the Fairhope Ice Cream Company where my aunt gave me ice cream. Where the library is used to be was the Sherman Pecan Company. There used to be a pool hall on Fairhope Avenue. I never went there, but I have heard some stories about that place.”