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Item Title
"I only sleep at home."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Levitas, Susan, 1961-
Created/Published
August 11, 1994
Notes
Interview with Easter Benson, owner of E & A Soul Food Restaurant.
Summary of audio segment: She doesn't cook at home because she can't cook a little amount, just for two people; (Is this second home to you?) "To me it's the first -- I only sleep at home. It's been, what -- like I got home last night at a quarter to nine. I was in bed by quarter to ten. I got up this morning at 3 o'clock, by 3:30 I was gone, so tome this is my home. That's just the place I sleep, out there. That's just the place I sleep."
Subjects
African Americans
Hours of labor
Interviews
Oral history
Sound recordings
Restaurants
Foodways
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
E & A Soul Food Restaurant
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Benson, Easter
Medium
Digital Audio Tape
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-SL-A009; B: 14:33
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-SL-A009
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip sla00904
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.sla00904