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Different things were rationed, but we didn’t have a car so that was that. For the most part we were able
to get what we “needed”. Sugar was about the only thing I can think of that was in need for us. I didn’t
have a car, so I moved into town and rented an apartment. Later, I shared an apartment with another girl.
I worked and helped keep the bank open during the war and that was considered important.

When the war ended everyone was excited. The girl I shared an apartment with had a brother in the
service. She had a car and we just drove up and down the streets celebrating the war’s end and his
homecoming.

We played music for entertainment.

I would say to the young girls of today that they live in a wonderful country. They should work hard and
know that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to do.

NOTES

1. Rolley-Hole Marbles: What’s rolley hole? Most people are familiar with ringer, which pits one
player against another in a marbles ring. Rolley hole is a team sport played on a rectangular,
groomed dirt marble yard, 40 feet long by 20 feet wide, with three marble-size holes positioned
along a center line about eight feet apart. Incorporating elements of golf, pool and croquet, it
combines strategy and dead-on aim as one two-person team competes against another. The
object is for each team to move the marbles around the field, hitting three holes in succession,
repeated three times. Knocking an opponent’s marble away from a hole is part of the strategy and
spanning – moving a marble the length of your hand – is permitted. To stop a marble short,
players put English (backspin) on it. “It’s possible to grow up here without playing rolley hole,”
says Bob Fulcher, manager of the Cumberland Trail State Park, “but not likely, given the fact that
everyone’s grandfather and almost everybody’s father played it. It would have been truly
impossible 70 years ago when rolley hole was the game of the schoolyard, with marble yards at
the courthouse, scattered about home places, everywhere really.”