ave a clean heart. Folks does things cause
they's ignorant and don't know no better and they shouldn't be crowned
with it.

"But I'll tell you the truth--I've heard my mother say she was happier
in slavery times than after cause she said the Dillards certainly took
good care of her. Southerners got a heart in em."

Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins
Person interviewed: Henry Long
Home 112 East Grand
Age: c. 71

"Yes, 'um, I owns my own home--and what's more it's on the same street
with the Mayor's house. Yes 'um, I owns a good home, has my own
chickens and my flowers and I has a pension of $50 a month.

"Just the other day I got a letter. It wanted me to join the National
Association of Retired Federal Workers. I took the letter to the boss
and he told me not to bother. Guess I'd better spend my money on
myself.

"I got some oil stock too. Been paying pretty good dividends since I
had it. Didn't pay any this year. They are digging a new well. That'll
maybe mean more money. It's paid pretty good up to now. Yes, me and my
wife, we're getting along pretty good. Nothing to worry about.

"Where was I born--it was in Kentucky, Russellville it was, just a few
miles from Bowling Green. Yes, 'um, Kentucky was a regular slave
state----a genuine slave state. Lots of 'em there.

"The man we belonged to----his name was Gabe Long. I remember hearin'
'em tell how they put him up on one block and sold him. They put his
wife up on another and sold her too. Only they both went in different
directions. They didn't see each other again for 30 years. By that
time he had married again twice. My mother was his third wife. She
lived to be 102 and he lived to be 99. Yes, 'um, I comes from a long
lived family. There's four of us still living. I got two brothers and
one sister. They all live back in Kentucky----pretty close to where we
was all born. One time, when I had a vacation----you know they gives
you a vacation with pay----30 days vacation it was. Well one time on
my vacation I went back to see my sister. She is living with her
daughter. She is 78. One brother is living with his son. He's 73. My
youngest brother owns his own farm. He is 64. All of 'em back in
Kentucky, they've been farmers. I'm the only one who has worked in
town. And I never worked in town until I come to Arkansas.

"Been in Hot Springs for over 50 years. Law, when I first come there
wasn't any Eastman hotel. There wasn't any Park hotel. I don't mean
that Pa