In this interview, Eileen talks of her family history, her father’s work history and her father eeling to help supplement the family’s food as well as her mother cooking duck. They were a large family of eight children and Eileen walked 3 miles to school. She goes on to talk about Pahia, attending the school, the local store, hall and dances; her work as a house cleaner and meeting and marrying her husband, Jack. Eileen goes on to discuss gold mining around the area and of the Chinese miners who lived and worked around the gold mining and some of their history. Eileen and Jack killed their own meat and got their groceries from the local store. When they married she and Jack went farming and she describes how the milk went to the factory by horse and cart. She recalls local history and stories and Christmas’s where her mother did all the cooking on the coal range. There was no electricity and when telephones arrived party lines were used.