File: raffertyervin06-oh-changesafterwar_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP - When did the house parties and square dances such begin to decline in this area?
ER: I guess probably after the war, maybe shortly after the War. It might be probably - 50s.
KP: Why do you think that they declined?
ER: I would say, after the war it seemed completely changed. Maybe not completely but it started B When I come home in 1946, it wasn't the same [as] four years earlier. You could see the changes coming then .
KP: What kind of changes would you see?
ER: The mood of the younger people was different. In the early days you'd meet some young neighbor and if you weren't there he'd say, "How did the dance go last night, you were at it, weren't you." "Yeah. Oh, it wasn't much good, there was no fights or anything" (Laughs). But there was none of that hardly, you don't see that now anymore, no arguments or anything like that too much. I never see too many of them anyways since. But things like that seemed to change to a point now where it's mostly completely changed, or almost, as far as going back to the late 30s or early 40s.