Oral History Interview with Sibyl Bennett Sutherland, October 26, 2000 Page: 51 of 137

                                
A new well had been dug at this place and my hand and
footprints were placed with the date in the soft concrete. I was 15
mos. old then. I was perhaps 2 when I remember living there...I
used to go with grandmother to gather eggs and she would want
me to crawl under the corncrib to a nest she couldn't reach. I was
afraid because corn shucks and corncobs made the crawling
rough on my hands and knees. I like to play in the horse trough
though.
September 14, 1958
2 a.m.
Grandmother and Grandfather moved to Center Point about this
time. He bought 10 acres about a block from town. This place
practically became my stationary home for many years. I was in
and out and back again for one reason or another. I developed
quite affection for this place. I still feel it whenever I see it. I
think I was about 5 now...
Granddad's land was an orchard. (There were two houses on the
place.) There was practically every kind of fruit growable in this
region in it...In the springtime the orchard was heavenly. The
pink and white blossoms spangled the trees and the petals drifted
down like snow. Bees and birds were everywhere, and the
fragrance could be smelled blocks away if the breeze were right.
I liked to lie on the bare earth, the sunlight sifting down making
rainbows on my lashes. The petals drifted down so lightly I never
felt their falling until I lay lightly covered with them. It was so
beautiful I almost felt pain to see it...
Sept. 16, 1958
I started to school in the first grade in Center Point. Miss Mary
Holdsworth was our teacher. It was really a combination 1st and
2"d grade room...
At recess we played "Red Rover," "Pop the Whip" and "Wolf
over the River." All the school played together. The big high

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