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Referenoes s Interview with ~unt Lucy end her son, Lafayette Brooks.

	Aunt Liio‘y, au ex-slave, lives with her son, Lafayette Brooks, in a shack on the Carroll um Springe property at Forest Glen, Montgomery Co~mty, Md.

	To go to her home frc~ Rookville, 1~v the Coure House going east on Montgomery Ave ~ aiid follow US Kighivay No. 240, otherwise biown as the Rockyille Pike, in its southeasterly direction, four and one half miles to the junction

with it OU the 1~tt (east) of the Garrett Park Road. This junction is directly opposite the entrance to the Georgeto~ Preparatory School, which is on thewest of this road. Turn left on the 9arrett Park Road and follow it through that
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place and crossing Rook Creek go to Kensington. Here cross the tracks of the

B.	& O. R.R. and parallel theia onward to Forest Glen. From the railroad station in this place go onward to Forest Glen. From the railrc*d station in thia place go onward on the same road to the third lane branching off to the left. This lane will be identified by the sign “Carcoll Springs Inn. Turn left here and. enter

the ground‘ of the inn. &it do not go up in front of the jim itself ~1iich is one quarter of a mile from the road. ±netead, where the drive swings to the right to go to the inn, bear to the left and continue dom~v~rd fifty yards toward the swi~wiing pooL Lucy‘ ; shack i. on the left end one hundred feet west of th pool it is about eleven miles froii Rookv~ille.

	Lucy is an usual type of Negro and moat probably is a descendant of less reliLotely remo~red African ancestors than the avrage plantation Negroes • She does not appe~ to b. a mixed blood - a good guess would be that she is pure blooded Senega~tbien. She is tall and very thin, end oonsidering her evident great ag., very erect, her head is very broad ‚ overh*ngin~ ears ‚ her forehead broad en~ not so receeding as that of the average. Her eyes are side apart and are bright a~.