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EH: I have known some girls and boys too that went away to school, and they would not tell anybody they were from Ocracoke
FW: Why?
EH: I guess, we were isolated, and maybe they-maybe somebody had laughed at something they'd said, or I don't know why, but I've always told 'em I was from Ocracoke. Never have I ever told 'em from anywhere else. And people did not know where Ocracoke was. They did not. When I went to school in Angier [NC], my daddy sent a barrel full of oysters in the shell to me, and I gave 'em all around in that neighborhood. Well, of course they didn't know how to open oysters, and nobody there had a oyster knife. They had to use any kind of knife they had. And, uh, they'd hit 'em with a hammer, to ???
FW2: Is that right?
EH: And they had never-never been to-never been to an island, so far as that's concerned, In fact, even up in Maryland. One time this lady found out that, she asked me, I think, we were talking, where I was from, and I told her Ocracoke Island, and she said, "You live on an island?"