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I'm the Deputy County Historian for Montgomery County, and I am here with Yvonne Kendall doing an oral history interview on June 20th, 2025, at approximately 10:30 am at Lettie Kendall Park in Clarksville, Tennessee. Thank you, Yvonne, would you please state your full name and when you were born and where you were born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=0.12,26.55228"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yvonne Kendall, actually, my first name is Gustavia, which is after my grandmother. I did not even know that that was a name other than my grandmother and me, until I went to the British Library and looked it up. It is a female version of Gustav, which is only used in a very few Scandinavian countries. And there is an island, I think, Guadalupe in the Caribbean, whose capital is Gustavia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=26.55228,55.27925"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's really cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=55.27925,57.57197"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But I don't use it. (laughing) Everybody's always called me Yvonne. I was born here at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, June 4th, 1954 and that's pretty much it. My mom and dad are from uh, from Arkansas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=57.57197,74.58907"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e From Arkansas. Can, so, what are your parents' names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=74.58907,77.73022"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Robert Kendall, Lettie Kendall, both from different parts of Arkansas. My mother's from Magnolia, which is close to Hope, Arkansas, where President Clinton is from. My dad's from Augusta, which is not far from Little Rock, and they both used to pick cotton back in the day. Fact, for most of my life, my mother would not wear cotton because she had had to pick it, and it kind of tore your hands up. Um, so they got married. He got in the military. They got stationed here, and they just decided to settle here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=77.73022,116.40659"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, what was his job in the military, do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=116.40659,118.68139"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Have Quartermasters office, basically, he organized, getting all the kind of equipment and tools out to the various troops and brigades and battalions and whatever. He was a 101st airborne paratrooper. So, two tours of duty in Vietnam, one in Okinawa. We spent two years in Germany. My sister is the only one of the four of us, I have one sister and two brothers, she's the only one of the four of us who wasn't born at Fort Campbell. She was born in Germany while we were there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=118.68139,147.19392"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow. So, um, your parents were both born in Arkansas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=147.19392,150.85067"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=150.85067,151.33418"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Both born in, do you know their birth dates?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=151.33418,153.43876"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was born in 1930, she died about four years ago. My father was born 1929 so, he's 95 right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=153.43876,161.06213"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow, ninety-five.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=161.06213,161.98558"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eUnknown:\u003c/strong\u003e He's gonna be ninety-six.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=161.98558,163.70071"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Very soon, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=163.70071,166.22036"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e He has outlived any male in the history of his family by at least fifteen years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=166.22036,173.47336"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's quite an accomplishment. (both laughing) How's that going for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=173.47336,178.88014"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I think he's passing his aging on to me. (laughing)  But, yeah, he's the oldest of eleven, and um —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=178.88014,188.75043"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=188.75043,189.4406"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, all uh, there were five boys, uh six girls, and he's the oldest but all the other boys have died, and he has three sisters who are left. The youngest three sisters are left, so uh —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=189.4406,206.87853"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know anything about his parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=206.87853,208.88842"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don't, because they died when I was a child. I'd only remember maybe meeting my grandparents on that side once, because we always lived away, and so they did not live very long. My grandmother on my maternal side, my mother, Lettie Kendall's side. We met her mother lived to the age of ninety-three so we spent time with her, and she lived with us for a while. But my grandfather, I don't remember ever meeting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=208.88842,242.00155"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=242.00155,242.56304"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, you know, you didn't live all that long back in the day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=242.56304,247.17117"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's yeah, it's so true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=247.17117,247.97363"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But my grandmother had gotten married, I think, when she was sixteen, ran away from home and ended up having thirteen children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=247.97363,256.24054"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e This is your maternal grandmother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=256.24054,257.28019"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, maternal grandmother. And my mother only told me, you know, about a year or two before she died, that my grandmother used to, in addition to cooking for all the kids and keeping house and making their clothes and having a whole garden that she farmed herself when they used fresh food out of the garden, but she also used to grow grape vines and make wine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=257.28019,279.16081"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=279.16081,280.25242"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is something I wish I had known a whole lot earlier than I did, since I lived in California for four years. And definitely got a taste for wine tasting in Sonoma and Napa and all just beautiful places.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=280.25242,295.42827"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, absolutely. So, your mother and father then, your father served in the military. What was your mom's career?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=295.42827,303.90811"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was an elementary school teacher, and she taught for over forty years. She also was a principal for a while. She was a principal at Moores [sic] Elementary School, and she was very proud, and so am I, that once she got there, she was the first African American principal they ever had, and this was not long after desegregation, not that long after desegregation. And, uh, while she was there, the reading and math scores went up across the board, and part of it was because some of the teachers would treat the African American boys badly and put them out in the hallway, saying they were too disruptive, even when they were doing exactly the same thing that little white boys were doing. And so, my mother said no child ever learned in the hallway, and if you can't handle your class, I'll find someone who can.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=303.90811,356.19939"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, that's a smart woman right there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=356.19939,358.23334"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, once that happened, then all the kids start learning more. Then she was principal at Ringgold. I should have brought a tissue I'm sniffing. Um, I um, once she got, she was the principal at Ringgold, she was the first African American, oh thank you so much, to be principal at a newly built school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=358.23334,394.1054"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=394.1054,395.90986"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Same thing. Reading and math scores go up across the board. So, it was a challenge. She was a kind of lifetime member of the NAACP, and then she later began to run for public office, the county commissioner. First time she ran, she lost but I remember walking around, carrying her leaflets, walking around the whole neighborhood, talking to everybody. She was very personable, in a way that I wish I were more like. But, you know, we are who we are. 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And how long has that been?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=439.80068,441.59877"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that was at least 30 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=441.59877,445.57668"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. I had read that she served forty-two years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=445.57668,449.06852"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That you're, you're probably right. I didn't have to look it up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=449.06852,450.97501"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Just, just wondering if I'm correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=450.97501,452.55751"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh no, that sounds right, that sounds right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=452.55751,453.62568"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I hope that I'm correct. 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Do you know for sure?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=457.58062,462.58785"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born here, 1954 so they were here (laughing) when that happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=462.58785,471.54764"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And then they, he, he was —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=471.54764,473.35208"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e We stayed here, um, except that when I was two, we went for two years in Germany and Augsburg, Germany, then we came back here and stayed here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=473.35208,483.33574"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=483.33574,483.68589"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And it was after that that he had his various tours of Southeast Asia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=483.68589,488.22586"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, okay, and so, did he ever talk about the difference? Your parents talk about the difference in living in Germany and here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=488.22586,496.55619"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e They liked it. They liked Germany. They did. I'm not, I think, you know, their tour was only two years, so they came back, and they didn't think — My father never went back to Europe. My mother went back to Europe about fifteen years ago because I had a fellowship for a semester in Barcelona, and I was doing research there. And my sister and my mother came to Barcelona to visit. 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Oh, so I bet that was quite a trip.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=530.61246,534.52525"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She complained the whole time. And then when she got back to Clarksville, all the people said, \"Oh, you're so brave to go over there.\" She said, \"Oh. Oh, it was a phenomenal trip. A phenomenal trip.\" So now the whole family jokes whenever something is kind of not really great, we just call it, \"oh, phenomenal, phenomenal.\" (Shana laughing) It was amazing how much she changed her attitude toward that trip when she got back. Because I had done some research, because I knew she wasn't gonna, wasn't gonna, like a lot of the Spanish food. My sister and I are really up on trying new cuisines and stuff like that. But I had found some restaurants that served American breakfast, for example.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=534.52525,574.21241"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=574.21241,574.99737"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And we did go to a flamenco show where they had paella and they had the crawfish or whatever those things are, with the full, with their heads on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=574.99737,587.28981"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=587.28981,589.7014"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And even though she was brought up among crawdads and whatnot, it was horrifying. 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Did she have a sense of humor?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=611.35176,616.76669"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, absolutely. We all have a sense of humor, and that has saved us. In fact, one of my brothers, my brothers, as I was mentioning earlier, autistic on the spectrum, kind of far, and they can't really function independently. But when they were kids one time, what my brother, Ronald, had sore throat, and so he couldn't go to school, strep throat. So, the next year, he didn't like getting up early, and he and I have that in common. So, he, he would tell my mother, \"Throat, throat hurting.\" And my mother was horrified, you know, because she didn't like any of us to be sick. We were pretty healthy as a whole. So, she went up and looked at his throat. She said, \"There's nothing wrong with your throat.\" He just broke out laughing. Just bust out laughing. And I thought, okay, Ronald has a sense of humor. Thought he could get away with it. He did not. So, yeah, I think that is something that has preserved us through the ages.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=616.76669,680.92421"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, for sure. And your dad, we'll go back to him for just a few minutes, um, now. So, when you came back here, did he continue to serve? And when did he retire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=680.92421,691.669"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah. He stayed, he was, uh it was twenty years in the military.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=691.669,695.12196"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=695.12196,695.66799"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, he had been drafted, I think, for Korea, but he never actually went to Korea. He did go to Okinawa, but not Korea. So, he was in college. So the eldest of eleven, rural family, one step up from sharecropping, he went to college. 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Pine Bluff, I think it was. But they would not let him have the deferral he needed to finish that last year. So, then, twenty years in the military, he gets out and decides, first thing, \"I'm going to finish that degree,\" because he's been thinking about it all these twenty years. Goes to Austin Peay, finishes that bachelor's and says, \"Hmm, that's not so hard.\" Gets a master's and says, \"Oh, that's not so hard.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=714.74527,754.56959"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Did he get that at Austin Peay too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=754.56959,755.88765"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=755.88765,756.40989"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=756.40989,756.58534"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Then he was gonna go to Peabody, but that was when George Peabody College of Education was just bought by Vanderbilt, so he ended up getting a PhD at Vanderbilt, in secondary education. 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(Talking at the same time) Except holding my arms up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=794.79531,801.37721"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Playing the flute is quite physical. That's a lot of breath you've got to do right there. 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I say that is quite physical, actually.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=809.10305,812.28265"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, yeah, but my mother did not really like the marathons, because she likes stuff where you get points. She was exceedingly competitive. And in fact, during our childhood, she belonged, there was a women, an African American women's softball league in Clarksville, and she was always a member playing first base.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=812.28265,832.53128"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they have a name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=832.53128,833.88224"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I do not recall that at all, but we went to the games. I'll never forget, because that was one of the first, uh, physical, the only physical fight that my sister ever got into, because we were at Vacation Bible School around the corner and Green Hill. Or was it, Spring? Green? Well, Green Hill's here and Spring Hill? Anyway, one of the Baptist churches here around the corner had Vacation Bible School. We went every summer. And one of my sister's friends, best friend, in fact, said that the last game that my mother's team lost was because of my mother and my sister just jumped her right there on the lawn of a church in Vacation Bible. She's a lawyer. She might kill me if she hears, but anyway.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=833.88224,883.87888"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e She got it out of her system early. 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Truth is an affirmative defense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=884.94579,890.77215"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's too cute. So, your mom, did she serve in any other like, was she part of any clubs, or, you said the NAACP, and you said she played softball, but —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=890.77215,903.05021"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She was a member of a black woman social club called the Professional Study Club. It's basically teachers. So, they got together. I never saw them study anything, but they got together, and they played spades, and they, you know, and they invited each other into their homes. And so, it was a really, she was very, very social. My dad belonged to one organization, the Thomas A. Simms Masonic Lodge, and he was grand master for quite a while, and was able to organize them so that they could get the money to buy their and construct their own building, to buy property and construct their own building, because they had had to rent from some property owners, some building owners that were not necessarily as welcoming as they could be. So, she said, if we, he said, if we had our own place. And then once they got that built, they named it Kendall Hall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=903.05021,963.37721"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=963.37721,964.06324"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, both my parents have things in this area named. That's in Oak Grove.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=964.06324,967.44869"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=967.44869,969.5512"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And then he had them set up scholarships, college scholarships, for students and help him write the applications and judge the applications and that kind of stuff. So, before I became kind of officially a writer, I was writing for my parents. In fact, I was in Houston. I stayed in Houston for twenty years. I loved Houston. It's a great, great city. Geographically, it's the second largest city in the US after LA. And population, it goes back and forth between, um, Chicago and Houston after New York and Los Angeles. But anyway, I'm in Houston, minding my own business, teaching my classes, playing and whatnot, and my sister calls me and said, \"You need to write,\" my mother calls me and says, \"You need to write me a speech.\" I said, \"Mom, what you talking about?\" Because often she'd have a conversation in her head going, and call me in the middle of that conversation when I don't know what she's talking about, and they had invited her, when Fort Defiance around the corner here opened, they invited her to do a speech, but they wanted her to dress as if it were back in the day. And she said, \"What you mean slaves?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=969.5512,1051.10779"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1051.10779,1054.13896"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And they, for some reason, they had not put the pieces together. Civil War, slavery.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1054.13896,1059.53517"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, exactly. (Yvonne laughing) Oh, no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1059.53517,1062.53015"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, she said, \"Write me a speech.\" So, I wrote her a — \"What do you want to say Mom? Mom, you went to school, you have a master's degree. Why don't you write your own?\" Write me a speech. And I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1062.53015,1075.66943"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Well, and I think a lot of people who are in politics want that, someone to help them with speech writing. I mean, so many of them do not write their own speeches, so I can see, and she knew you had the talent for writing. (Yvonne laughing) So we'll talk just a minute. Since we've mentioned it, your, your talent for writing. You've been a writer and a musician. So, tell us a, tell me and tell us a little bit about your, your own educational journey and how you were influenced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1075.66943,1107.4836"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I was brought up here, of course, but we stayed at Fort Campbell until I was in third grade, and then we moved off base. I didn't kind of put the pieces together until afterwards, because my parents didn't really talk about issues of race, but the base was already and for ten years, had been desegregated, but Clarksville was not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1107.4836,1128.70018"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Exactly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1128.70018,1129.60692"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I moved from a desegregated environment or integrated environment, really, to a segregated environment in New Providence Elementary School, which was walking distance. They closed it down as a school now. Clarksville did attempt to give us some new schools at the time, and New Providence was one of 'em. My mother taught there. She, in fact, was my fifth-grade teacher. Challenge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1129.60692,1154.39157"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, oh, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1154.39157,1155.95034"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, so, Clarksville desegregated when I was in seventh grade, and that's when New Providence, no. Yeah, New Providence Junior High opened, and I had a teacher in seventh grade. I loved reading. In fact, my mother was a little bit worried about how much I read. I was just anytime she couldn't find me I was somewhere, hidden away reading a book. And even as a teacher, she thought that was kind of excessive, but, you know, it is what it is. But I had a seventh-grade teacher who could not look at me and could not call my name, because what Clarksville had done, it seems to me, I have kind of put the pieces together. They wanted, the federal government said they had to desegregate. They didn't want to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1155.95034,1206.38551"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1206.38551,1206.83562"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, what they decided to do in schools is started testing everyone. The idea was they would group students in classrooms based on their test scores, and they would give the white teachers the top performing students and the black teachers the lowest performing students, basically assuming that all the low ones would be black or rural. Rural white. Well, my sister and I kind of busted that mold. And so, I had this teacher who did not expect to see me in her upper-level English class, and the whole year would not call my name on the roll. And at towards, and, and we're sitting there. We're seventh grade, we're twelve years old. And my classmates, I was the only little chocolate chip in the vanilla sundae you could say. My classmates would say, \"Well, she knows, why don't you call on her? Call on her. Call her. She knows she's got her hand up.\" And I was thinking, what's going on here? I had no idea. Toward the end of the year, she began to at least point, and she would turn her head away and point at me and I could answer in class, but I went home and told my dad. I said, \"I don't think she likes me.\" And of course, he's military, so he said, \"You're not there to be liked, you're there learn.\" And I'm kind of disappointed and walk away. And he said, \"but,\" I turned back, \"keep raising your hand.\" He never explained why it was happening. He knew, but I didn't know. But I kept raising my hand. I think that her reaction to me, and another reaction that we had, my sister and I participated in the public library had a summer reading contest, and generally speaking, there were no minorities who registered to compete in the summer. So how many books you could read.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1206.83562,1328.26522"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1328.26522,1329.1622"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, my mother knew that her little girls.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1329.1622,1332.00937"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That you would win. (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1332.00937,1332.52302"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Could blow this out of the water. Because we were like reading fools, you know. And then when the award was announced, I think we were, I think fifth and sixth grade, or fourth and sixth grade, or something like that. When the awards came out and our name was nowhere on the list, my mother said, \"Oh, that can't be right.\" So, we went in and turns out we actually had won in our age groups, but they didn't believe that we could have possibly read those books. So, they started asking us some questions. Of course, we knew all the answers. And then they said that they would give us an award, kind of sub rosa, under the table, kind of, no publicity that we'd actually won. And mother says, my mother said, \"No, no, thank you. We just wanted to know the truth.\" And we went out, and she got us ice cream and necklaces, so. But we were okay with her, because they weren't doing right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1332.52302,1390.52781"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1390.52781,1391.93941"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, I think those two things, when I got to college, people thought I might major in English, but I had such a bad feeling, bad memories that I said, \"No, I'll just do music, it seems like it's more of a challenge,\" which it was. 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And I said, \"Oh, it looks lonely. I'll take that one.\" And that was that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1417.6957,1422.76181"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, you've been playing ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1422.76181,1424.19286"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1424.19286,1424.68242"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. And so, when you got to college, what was, what was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1424.68242,1429.71146"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Uh","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1429.71146,1430.48752"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Or where did you go to, what, let me back up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1430.48752,1431.8297"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Austin Peay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1431.8297,1432.92074"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1432.92074,1433.81852"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Northwest High School, though, we spent one year at Clarksville high because Northwest was just being built when it wasn't finished. So, I spent one year at Clarksville High. A very different experience. Very different experience. There's a much wider class and economic, uh, differential at Clarksville High between the poorest in Clarksville and the richest in Clarksville. Northwest on this side, near the military base, was much more even across the board.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1433.81852,1460.4921"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1460.4921,1461.69725"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Though my parents were not allowed to buy a house in Bel Air, they had put down a down payment. 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And so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1487.20984,1489.17502"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1489.17502,1489.74029"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1489.74029,1490.20619"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Between here and Fort Campbell.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1490.20619,1491.32936"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, right, right, right. That took some effort to integrate that neighborhood. You're, yes, I've heard some stories about that. (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1491.32936,1499.8957"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, we didn't live there. 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And in fact, one of the friends that I made there, we were both very determined to go to college, and a lot of girls at that age were not. And we were just we were going to go. Pam Lee, I'll never forget, because she now lives in Japan, about 45 minutes outside of Tokyo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1504.34752,1528.61938"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e You're still in touch?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1528.61938,1529.45824"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I went and visited her there. When I was teaching in Houston, I had gotten some grant money from the university because I was teaching a world music class, and I wanted to go and hear Japanese music live and in person, to see Kabuki theater, to see Noh drama, to see the puppet theater Bunraku. So, I applied for some money. Nobody else in my department was applying for these things. I uh, I was thinking, there's money, and I want to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1529.45824,1561.77617"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1561.77617,1562.72903"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I applied and got it, and I had been in contact. She contacted me after, I think, our twentieth high school anniversary, and say, \"You know, I've been thinking about you, and I found out your email address.\" I said, \"Oh, you live in Japan. I've always wanted to come there.\" She said, \"Well come on down.\" And I got the money, and I went on, flew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1562.72903,1580.02909"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Where were you working at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1580.02909,1581.53837"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Houston, University of Houston downtown. But I was teaching some grad classes at Rice and at the main University of Houston, Moore School of Music. But teaching that world music class was such an eye opener. So, I went to Japan and took the train to the little Hayama, little town she lives in, and she had a housekeeper that helped show me around. Pam had been living there thirteen years, but she was still having trouble with Japanese. And I had learned a couple of sentences on the plane, because wherever I go, I try to learn a couple of sentences like, \"Hi, how are you? Where is the toilet? Do you take credit cards?\" (Shana laughing) You know, only things you really need to know any place. I can say it in Dutch, (laughing) I can say in French, you know, \"Where's the toilet?\" Waar is ein toilet in Dutch. Cause really and truly, that's all you really need.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1581.53837,1637.37509"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e You do, you really need to know that, yes. 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And so, what were we talking about while I got completely off track?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1640.98285,1652.94235"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e We were talking, we were talking about Clarksville High School, and yeah, you had met, made her friend. You had become friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1652.94235,1658.75563"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e We're still in touch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1658.75563,1659.88846"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1659.88846,1660.73315"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She teaches at a little women's college in Japan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1660.73315,1665.78465"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, neat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1665.78465,1666.58843"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Teaches American history there, and they have a relationship with a women's college in Arkansas. So, it was like, it's a full circle kind of thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1666.58843,1677.76279"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Always beautiful when that happens, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1677.76279,1679.65906"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But I went to Northwest and got out because of my brothers. Their autism was such that changes were very difficult for them, and so I thought what I would do is stay close by for a couple of years, stay in the dorm a few quarters. It was quarters back then, and then eventually, kind of weaned them off, having me there all the time. And a couple of years after I started that process, my sister went to Vanderbilt, um, but I was still around. But then they got used to it as they will if you do things in a kind of loving and gradual way. And so, I ended up going to Austin Peay majoring in music. At that time, they only had one degree, music education, so I was trained and certified to teach K through 12, vocal and instrumental, and I've done a little of all of that since then, because soon as I graduated, I taught two years, um, back at Fort Campbell, Jackson Elementary School as a music teacher, and that was really fun, except for the getting up early part. (Shana laughing) Still have with it. In fact, one of the reasons I wanted to be a college professor was you didn't have to get up early.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1679.65906,1756.97969"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. You could choose which classes you, what time your classes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1756.97969,1759.48293"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But the counselor was uh, the high school counselor, I said, \"I want to be a college professor.\" Plus, I liked looking up stuff, finding up stuff. We had room full of encyclopedias at home and dictionaries, and sometimes I just read the dictionary just for fun, and we had those World Book Encyclopedias, all this stuff. It was just so fun knowing stuff and looking up stuff. I didn't even know it had a formal name, \"research.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1759.48293,1783.06328"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1783.06328,1783.35822"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I just not, just knowing stuff, finding out stuff. And my parents were kind of slick. They would constantly say, \"Oh, well, look it up.\" And at first, for a long time, we thought they just want us to learn how to learn on our own, to be independent learners. Then we find that, well, some of that stuff they just didn't know. So we, you know, we were very blind to a lot of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1783.35822,1806.73561"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e They're lifelong learners themselves. I mean —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1806.73561,1809.29101"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1809.29101,1809.5899"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Based on what you've said, and then, that, not everyone is, you know. (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1809.5899,1813.99254"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No, not everyone. It was, it was interesting. Austin Peay at that time, was pretty much segregated still. If you were a black person and went to college, you were supposed to go to Fisk or Tennessee State. And Fisk probably would have been a good place for me, except, you know, Austin Peay gave me a full ride, so we didn't have my parents, you know, they're middle class, you know, they didn't have a lot of money to send us places. So, if you didn't get bunch of loans and grants and whatnot, then you really couldn't afford all that stuff. They would have arranged it if that's where I really wanted to go. But I didn't think there was much difference between schools. I know better now. 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I graduated there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1857.55204,1861.38118"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e What year did you graduate? Austin Peay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1861.38118,1863.61566"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e '76, it was. Magna cum laude.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1863.61566,1867.5"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Congratulations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1867.5,1868.39439"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Two Cs. One from a professor who did not like that I joined the National Organization of Women.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1868.39439,1874.99691"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1874.99691,1876.79012"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e National Organization for Women.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1876.79012,1878.4025"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1878.4025,1878.87408"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, he, he was in clown, and he was very upset in class that he thought we were undermining the fabric of society or some kind of bullshit. So, that's how it was, and I did not ask him to change the grade, even though I did complain to the department chair about him, and he was forced to apologize, because at that time, my mother was an elected official.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1878.87408,1906.55934"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1906.55934,1906.81727"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, there was a little kind of community clout going on there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1906.81727,1909.70612"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, for sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1909.70612,1911.16068"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But it should not have mattered. But, in fact, it did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1911.16068,1914.10734"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. As far as, like, playing music and, how did integration affect you in that in that regard?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1914.10734,1924.8766"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you know, I could play in churches because I also studied piano a little bit, so I could play mostly in black churches. And when I, I auditioned — The summer after I graduated from college, I spent the summer at Aspen music festival because I wanted to find, I was lucky to get accepted, because it's really competitive, and I had played in some master classes. I'd played in a master class run by the principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic to see if I had enough talent to be, to put some effort into this. You know, if somebody at that level says you've got something, then you can continue, if they if you don't, maybe start looking around for a different career.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1924.8766,1968.32988"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1968.32988,1969.8475"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, he was very funny and very kind, and thought, yeah, \"You got something, but you need to spend more time working on such and such.\" So, the two years that I was teaching elementary music out at Fort Campbell, come home, take a power nap, practice for two hours, and then drive to Nashville every week for a lesson with the principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony. And then I moved to New York for a year. Then, because I had auditioned for the New England Conservatory, which is the place I wanted to go. It was one of the very few independent conservatories in the US that had always, from day one, accepted students regardless of race and gender. And I wanted that vibe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=1969.8475,2016.57321"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2016.57321,2017.18914"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And at the, when Juilliard started, it did not accept black people. A lot of people don't know that. So, I auditioned. I had auditioned and I hadn't gotten in. They said, \"Oh, you're really good, but we have too many flutes.\" I said, but if I were good enough, I would be one of those people that did not make the too many flutes. So, I practiced for three years and auditioned again got in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2017.18914,2037.28634"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Congratulations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2037.28634,2038.32434"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e The master's program there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2038.32434,2038.95564"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful. Yeah. What was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2038.95564,2042.43827"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e It was wonderful in many, many ways. To meet so many people who played so well was exciting. It was stimulating. Now, Boston historically has not been all that welcoming to changes in demographics. And in fact, a few years before I moved there, they had turned over in South Boston, a school bus of black kids. So I wasn't that excited. And it was really weird moving there, because people knew I was from the south, so they say, I bet you're glad to get away from all that racism. I said (laugh) frying pan, fire. I mean, really. (laughing) Really. But it was interesting being in such a historic city. The conservatory was welcoming. I didn't have any, no, only one kind of issue that I recall. A professor who was from New York State was one of my music history professors, because I was already taking the courses I thought would prepare me for a doctoral program. So, we're reading this article about 16th century German keyboard music, and the professor, apropos of nothing, says, \"Oh, you know, this author is black, and her work is so good I didn't even realize it for many years.\" And the class kind of froze, because it was a very mixed a lot of Asians, a lot of everything at New England Conservatory, and they're freezing, kind of looking at me like, \"should we, are you going to say anything?\" And I already knew kind of where she was coming from, so I didn't say anything. It wasn't worth my time, and it was Eileen Southern who had written that article, and there's a history behind her. She was the first African American woman to be hired as a professor at Harvard, but she had graduated from Harvard, but they would not let her teach her specialty, which was Renaissance dance, German Renaissance dance music. They would only let her teach African American music, something she had no training in out of the African American studies program. So, she ended up writing one of the most iconic histories of African American music, the Music of Black Americans. But anyway, this teacher, this professor at New England, was a Renaissance dance specialist, and I thought that would be a perfect research area for me, because I come from a culture that dances, and a lot of people who study historical dance don't. There's a difference in your approach to research and dance, if dance is a part of how you've always lived, because that's the way it was in 16th century Europe. You were not considered a person who could go out in public at any level of society if you could not dance. Same thing with black people here. You just can't, you know, the idea of not being able to dance, it's just not a thing that you consider. In fact, a lot of histories of African music don't mention dance because it's assumed as part of the musical experience. So, it was really interesting. I ended up becoming her, I would say, most successful student, and at one point we were both invited to speak at a conference in London. So, it was really interesting that, yes. And then later, one of the biggest, well, I guess, the biggest English language, music, dictionary slash encyclopedia Grove Music asked me to revise two of her articles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2042.43827,2271.04008"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e So (laughing) you became the master.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2271.04008,2273.83"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I ended up replacing (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2273.83,2275.56658"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes. The pupil has —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2275.56658,2279.29126"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, she had spent some time in Tennessee. Now she was Jewish. She had spent some time in Tennessee. It was a bad time. She did not enjoy her experience. She had taught at Peabody, and she was, she felt that she wasn't treated well. I don't know how I was responsible for that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2279.29126,2296.01542"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2296.01542,2296.74931"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, but she just had a bad experience in the South.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2296.74931,2298.57905"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Psychological displacement there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2298.57905,2300.99763"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, exactly. But ended up not too long before she died, she headed a session in New York, and at a conference there, and she invited me to participate. So. You know, waiting it out kind of got us to a different place. And I sat down and say, \"You know, I think we've always had this problem. Can we work it out? What's the problem?\" And then we talked about it, and she had some misconceptions. No surprise there. (laughing) But we worked it out, and I thought that was, I was glad that we could work that out before she died.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2300.99763,2338.5036"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Yes, absolutely. So, you mentioned dance, and dance being a part of, can you, can you talk a little bit about that, like dance being a part of your life, and?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2338.5036,2348.06019"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e It just, I really can't kind of describe it, because it's just kind of, you know, like breathing and eating fried chicken. It's kind of, just is one of those things. But it was interesting to apply that visceral, physical knowledge to the understanding of how movement works with music. I had, when I was at Austin Peay, I joined the Chamber Singers, which was new at the time, and George Mabry was the director, and he was, I don't know how many people know, originally a percussionist. So, all his choirs did the thing that I had, maybe in a biased way, I thought I had never heard a quote, unquote, white choir sing on the beat, sing in rhythm. It just seemed like there was rhythm that was beautiful sound, but the beat, the heartbeat of the music, was missing. In a Baptist Church, black Baptist Church, that was never the case. So, George maybe, as a percussionist, the rhythm was just with him. And a lot of the pieces we sang were madrigals and other pieces from the Renaissance, and they were based on dance rhythms I found out. They felt dancey to me, and then later, when I went to New England, I found that they were dance based.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2348.06019,2428.2927"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2428.2927,2429.05964"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I thought, well, I have a unique perspective. And so, I ended up a friend of mine who's a harpsichordist, whose father was from Siberia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2429.05964,2440.07466"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2440.07466,2440.67101"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e (laughing) And I met him, Boris. What is a more Russian name than Boris. So, I met her father, Boris, and I said, \"You know, I thought Siberia was a place they sent people to not play, where people were from,\" and he just big, boisterous laugh. He still ate as if he were in the cold. And so, he ended up having a quadruple bypass, but that's another story. But anyway, my friend Vera and I both decided that Stanford was a place we wanted to go because it was a one of only two universities of any status that placed performance and research on equal planes, and that's what we were both looking for. So, we both got accepted. We, we only, both only applied to the one. We had thought about applying to Yale, but Yale had kind of a different way. The research was kind of separated from the performance, but we wanted it to be fused.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2440.67101,2499.87836"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2499.87836,2500.47092"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, so, we both got accepted, and we both went out there, and it was really one of the best experiences of my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2500.47092,2506.45681"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I was about to ask, what was it like, and?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2506.45681,2509.50951"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e First of all, it was beautiful. Just, Stanford campus is really glorious. You know, they have that Rodin Garden, sculpture garden. I mean, everybody's just smart, not so many, not so much, all the undergraduates. They're more privileged than smart, um, sometimes, but the grad students from all over the country, one of my best friends turned out to be a kind of lapsed Calvinist, Jewish friends, Hispanic friends, guy from Ireland, you know. It was just an amazing, I felt very at home with all those people who were so smart. And I found a place in a household of graduate students all from different areas, couple of biologists, couple of engineers, couple of guys from MIT. They were, it was really, and we ate together. Once a week, you were responsible for um, cooking for the whole household, because we thought people needed to get out of the library, get out of the lab, get out of the practice room, and come and have a community. So, there were six rooms, two bedrooms, two, six bedrooms, two bathrooms, and so six nights a week, we — Five nights a week we would just come home, eat, go back to our business, because one person would be in charge of cooking for everybody. We shared the household funding and cleaning and all that kind of stuff. So, you got to know people from Long Island, one of them raised from Canada, one from Louisiana, one was Florida. Baked the best bread that, I mean, he was just and we're a lot of them and I are, are still in touch. One runs an engineering lab in Germany, and his brother lives in Canada, and when I went up to participate in a Baroque music festival in Canada I stayed with his brother, who lives walking distance from the University of Toronto. So, I mean, so there's a place for me, if it gets too rough here in the US, I can go to Toronto! 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They really, really, I love. And I've been to different parts of Canada for summers, and I've just loved it. So, that was a great experience. It's almost like a little bit of a kind of a Camelot experience. So, left me completely unprepared for leaving. 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And I also was able to get a job playing at the Santa, with the Santa Cruz Symphony. Um, I was the first piccolo player to get a contract there, so it was really wonderful. It's a big drive, about an hour and a half drive from the Bay Area, but I got to play music that I had never been able to play before. You know, I'd been introduced to some of it at New England when I got to play principal a couple of times, but it meant that I could further my experience as a player while also learning how to do serious world class research. And because, and this is really the difference between schools. It's not so much the professors, because you can get good professors most, most places. But it's the competition with your fellow students, the fact that they're all committed to learning. There are no slackers, or they drop by the wayside, and so you're constantly moving at full speed. And when I would do, doing solo recital was part of my degree program, and that my, all my housemates would come, and they sit in the front row. We could have probably done something about that, but, but, you know, I had a little community there that would support me, so it was really nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2658.55202,2744.5076"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Where'd you go after that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2744.5076,2745.87759"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I got a post doc at Chapel Hill.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2745.87759,2749.50555"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2749.50555,2751.11212"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, I spent two years there. Um, it was, I don't know. It feels like race comes into this so much, but in this case, it really did. Chapel Hill was a state school, but kind of like Austin Peay, it had never really sincerely been desegregated, so they were still working on that. So, one way that they kind of evaded things was to have post-doctoral fellowships. In the music department, the post-doctoral fellowship was two years. The idea of it was supposed to give you, prepare you for a full-time job. That meant you were not supposed to teach any more, really, than one class, and then get, it would get, that would give you enough time to get a major piece published in a peer reviewed journal. So, what they would do is give the fellowships mostly to African Americans. That way they could say they had a black person on their faculty, but in two years, you'd be gone. They'd have a different one. Their numbers wouldn't change, but you were not. The original idea was that there would be a test drive, which is insulting in its own way, and then go up for a tenure track job there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2751.11212,2832.64436"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2832.64436,2834.0182"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And then if you go for a tenure track job, you know, then six years later or something, you come up for tenure, and then you're a permanent employee. But that never happened. In fact, the one time where they, the couple of times they actually tried it the way it was supposed to be, someone I knew while I was there, actually did get a tenure track position there. And uh, but it was interesting because I liked it there. Chapel Hill is a really interesting place. The madness about the Tar Heels is astonishing. You found out that when you when there was a game, especially basketball game, you just stayed at home because traffic, you wouldn't be able to get anywhere, go anywhere, do anything, because it was just madness, left, right and center. But I got to perform in Playmakers Theatre, which is a theater that I think that Andy Griffin, Griffith had supplied, if you've seen the Andy Griffith Show, or Matlock, or whatever. He went there, and that was a theater he had performed in. So, we were able to work with a theater company to get costumes and stuff, so I could bring the research that I had done on 16th century dance to life for audiences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2834.0182,2908.21477"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, you did that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2908.21477,2909.13354"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2909.13354,2909.55046"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, oh, wow. I bet that was quite a performance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2909.55046,2912.62443"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Some students from Duke came over to Chapel Hill to take my Renaissance dance, Renaissance dance course. Because one of the things, in fact, one of my students became a rabbi later. All kinds of stuff happening, but one of the things they asked me to teach was an African American music course. Well, I had never taken one. Now, fortunately, in universities, there are a couple of things that make you qualified to teach a course. One is to take courses in the stuff or have a degree in the area. One is to have life experience, life experience in the area, and the other is having taught the class successfully, even though you had no training. So, I had the life experience, but it was in the past, other post docs in that department had refused because they said it would take me, out of respect for the music, it would take me so much time to prepare that that would take away from the research time that I'm supposed to be devoting myself to at this point. But I had always wanted to teach the course, and thought I would teach it somewhere down the line, maybe a decade or two down the line, but, but I went ahead and did it. I will say that I had some students in my class, little rural, white boys who knew the blues more better. In fact, some of their papers they wrote on the blues, I ended up using for my research later, because they knew much more about the blues. My father listened to jazz and Debussy and some of everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=2912.62443,3005.91708"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3005.91708,3006.48965"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And my brothers listened to all kinds of stuff. And the Grand Ole Opry, whenever Dolly Parton would come on the Grand Ole Opry or Porter Wagner Show, they'd yell because they knew I wanted to hear.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3006.48965,3017.61876"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you all listen to the radio programs?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3017.61876,3019.66364"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e My brothers did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3019.66364,3021.78866"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. And your brothers, I'll mention them just because you're mentioning, they're twins.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3021.78866,3026.47741"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3026.47741,3026.67715"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think we said that on here. You might have, but they're twins, and they're a bit younger than you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3026.67715,3033.84188"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Seven years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3033.84188,3034.6225"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, so, so you have been here at times, like when you were at Austin Peay, like you said, waiting to go away from them so that, so that they're more prepared for that, and you're still in relationship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3034.6225,3047.723"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm their legal conservatory with my sister, and so, we check on, we found a family model home for them. A person who specializes in taking care of a couple, maybe two, no more than three, special needs adults, and they're in Gallatin now, and very happy and healthy and uh. So okay, about once a month, I take them out to lunch or a movie or something, and since I've been back here in Tennessee, and I took them to the Grand Ole Opry, their first trip to the Grand Ole Opry with me, and I had never been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3047.723,3083.94218"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3083.94218,3084.72262"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And I thought, I'm a musicologist living near one of the iconic music sites in the universe. Not all my kind of music. I love bluegrass. That's my favorite kind of — Oh, sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3084.72262,3098.7451"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e He'll just fix it back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3098.7451,3099.91782"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I think I screwed this up. All right, let's see if I can replace this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3099.91782,3107.49396"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e So, do you play some bluegrass ever?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3107.49396,3109.70326"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, flute is not really so much of a bluegrass instrument, but you know, Béla Fleck turned the banjo into a jazz instrument, so anything can happen. I'm waiting for my, big, my big opening opportunity in bluegrass for the flute, because I really do. That's my favorite. Bobby Osborne and Rocky Top X-Press, and, you know, just Flatt and Scruggs used to listen to them because Earl Scruggs could work that banjo, and Alison Krauss and Union Station. They're all educated music, formally educated, conservatory educated and bring that sensibility into kind of a fusion of bluegrass elements with other and so it's fabulous listening to them. So, I really, what I owe my dad most I think, is he listened. He did not judge between music. To him Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, it's all the same. So, I did grow up in an environment that music is music, that there's no disrespect for spirituals as opposed to opera arias. And so, that really opened me up in my research and in my performance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3109.70326,3185.37338"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yeah, for sure. And you have, I know you've, I've got a little note here that you did first performance of Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms. Can you talk about these first performances?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3185.37338,3196.23255"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it's, these are famous pieces.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3196.23255,3197.80246"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3197.80246,3198.53473"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That are, you know, people have bucket lists, and you have bucket lists of things you always want to perform. The Debussy Afternoon of a Fawn opens with an unaccompanied, lengthy flute solo. All flutists learn that solo. Most never play it, but everybody learns it. And I got an opportunity. While I was in California, there was a Stanford summer orchestra, and I got selected to play that, and it was magical. It's hard, it's a long solo, and it's completely unaccompanied, and then the orchestra gradually comes in, so you just kind of think, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3198.53473,3239.60296"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, wow. That's just you, out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3239.60296,3241.8926"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, alone, all alone. And then —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3241.8926,3246.41842"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you ever suffered from any stage fright or anything like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3246.41842,3249.8845"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e You get a little nervous, but um, yoga breathing kind of helps you calm down. And you think it's more about the music than about you, and so you try to make that work. For the Symphony of Psalms, we got to play that in San Francisco. And that piece, I always loved Stravinsky. Stravinsky is kind of wild, really wonderful Russian composer, and that's one of the few sacred pieces he ever wrote. And I just always wanted to play one of his pieces, but never thought I would have the opportunity, but it turns out that I did, and it was, it's just really a deeply emotional piece. The Laudate, if anybody ever listens to that, it's just gorgeous piece. So, one of my, the composers who's kind of stayed with me throughout the ages is Paul Hindemith, who's a German composer who became an American. He immigrated, I think, during World War Two, to the US and became an American citizen. He thought that every instrument ought to have good music by a good composer. Not every composer thinks that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3249.8845,3323.85885"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3323.85885,3324.62852"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, one of the best flute sonatas that exists, he wrote. One of the best woodwind quintets, which we played, I played here in Clarksville. When we got, the Cumberland Winds has a woodwind quintet, and we played that piece. Challenging, challenging, challenging. But when I was at New England, because there were a lot of flutes, we only got to play principal with the orchestra once, each of us that were master students, and the piece they were playing was by Hindemith, called Symphonic Metamorphosis. Long flute solos throughout every movement it seems. That I was nervous, because one movement ends with the flute hanging onto a note where everybody else drops out. And my friend said, \"Oh, there's a there was a little wiggle in your vibrato at the end, but otherwise,\" you know, because musicians tell you the truth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3324.62852,3378.31797"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3378.31797,3378.57348"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e They have to, because you can't get better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3378.57348,3380.14197"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e No, you can't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3380.14197,3380.78898"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e You learn to criticize yourself and that was one of the things I really valued. That was a wonderful experience. I love him, his music. I love his esthetic. He's a fabulous orchestrator. He understands he played a lot of instruments and understands like JS Bach. They both understood how a lot of instruments work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3380.78898,3402.01933"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, you also wrote down Carmen on here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3402.01933,3404.57167"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3404.57167,3406.00823"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3406.00823,3408.06052"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Houston had, oh, Houston's so wonderful, so big. It had a group called the Ebony Opera Guild. Houston Ebony Opera Guild, and they would do a major opera. Their job was to try to train African American singers to be ready for big opera companies like Chicago or like New York. So, you're doing a major greatest hits kind of opera. They had not hired me before, but I worked with one of the percussionists on, who was also the contractor, thank goodness. The contractor is the person who hires musicians for various things. So, she was in charge of hiring orchestra members for the opera each summer, and I had worked in a newly composed piece of chamber music that was really challenging, and so she hired me. So, I walk, and this was at Big Houston amphitheater where they have, it's outdoors, but Houston is air conditioning, because otherwise she would just die. So, two wonderful things happen. I'm heading to the orchestra pit for the first performance, and a woman comes up to me with a child, and she said, \"You won't remember me, but ten years ago, I was one of your students in music appreciation. That's the first time I'd ever heard opera. And now I'm taking my kids to opera.\" And I think because they always chose a popular opera, Carmen is a great starter opera. If you don't know opera, it's a great, it has men's chorus, women's chorus, children's chorus, catchy tunes. You know, the story is compelling, the whole thing, and it has a piccolo part to die for. It's hard, and I just never, you know, I hadn't had that much orchestra experience. They didn't really have an orchestra at Austin Peay while I was here, and I got the one shot in at New England, and then I played mostly chamber music, so. I'd been playing the piccolo. I mean, in fact, when I lived in Boston, I spent a summer there, and they had an, something similar to Cumberland Winds, kind of a retired Army guys had a community band, and I played with them one summer. I was the only non-military, well, I mean I was Army brat, but it was exciting to play with guys with all this experience. And we played all these marches, and, you know, all these marches, the Sousa marches, especially, you're all over the place. Piccolo was, flying above the crowd, and so really it challenges you, and you know, they're not going to give you any slack. Nobody's going to pat you on the back or encourage you in any way. But if you do a good job, they'll say, \"Okay,\" and then you know, so that was the most piccolo experience I really got, other than marching band, but this was more exposed and iconic. Everyone who knows any opera knows Carmen. So, you're on your own, and you're the only one. You only, most other instruments there's more than one person playing that instrument. Piccolo is always only the one. And so, if you mess up, it's just you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3408.06052,3604.11347"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e It's just you. You're on your own. 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So, it was interesting to play with them while they were young and beginning to make their name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3606.272,3638.14861"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yes, yes. And now you mentioned Cumberland Winds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3638.14861,3642.29669"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3642.29669,3642.65939"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Cumberland Winds is a local, Clarksville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3642.65939,3647.47968"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Mike uh, Ritter started it. He's from Pennsylvania. He told me he met his first African American when he joined the military as a young man. Man, not teenager, not child. How is that possible? But, but I think he ended up as a career military, traveling around the world, and literally around the world, Russia, Hawaii, all over the place. He came here, and his, a lot of Fort Campbell soldiers retire here, and a lot of the military bandsmen retire here. And he saw that there was a niche that could happen here, much like the band I played in in Boston. So, he started it up. Started with the Jazz Project, actually, and now it is, it spread into the wind ensemble, which is about forty piece. And we also split up into chamber groups that go out to assisted living spaces and play. We play in different counties. It gives me an opportunity to keep my fingers in shape while I'm doing the kind of caregiving stuff here. And one of the, one of the things I think, that we are proudest of, back in the day, when I was growing up, my parents did not allow me to go to the Roxy theater, or because it was segregated. And it stayed segregated for quite a while. My parents said we're not going there, but they didn't tell us that was why, because, and they just said, \"Well, you know, we can go on base.\" So, we went to Fort Campbell and watched movies, and that made sense to me, that you would go where you go, and it was cheaper, and all that kind of stuff. I didn't find out, of course, till I was an adult, that it was because it was segregated, and we would have had to sit in the balcony. And to this day, my dad won't sit in the balcony. Even though I love the balcony, but he has associations. He won't do it. So, when I came —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3647.47968,3764.93973"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Anywhere, he won't sit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3764.93973,3765.66959"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No, no, he won't sit in the balcony.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3765.66959,3767.12605"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3767.12605,3767.59934"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Period.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3767.59934,3768.04418"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, exactly. Has he been back? Has he ever been to the Roxy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3768.04418,3771.41101"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, he was there. In fact, a couple of weeks ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3771.41101,3774.31718"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, to see you perform?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3774.31718,3775.71738"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3775.71738,3776.45603"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3776.45603,3777.02131"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yep. What I, when I came back here, I said, \"You know what? I want to do something.\" And so, I told Mike, city wide there's no performance for Black History Month. There are smaller performances in churches and this and that, but I want something bigger that the whole city might be welcome to. He said, fine. So, he and I worked together and put together. He does the kind of logistics, the program, the scheduling, that kind of stuff, and I get the music together and the players, and we did a Black History Month concert at the Roxy, and I thought, you know, this is historic. This is symbolic of positive change that has happened here in Clarksville, and I'm alive to see it happen, which is wonderful. Mayor Pitts and Mayor Golden both came and gave remarks. So, I mean that put kind of a imprimatur of legitimacy. I guess it doesn't need legitimacy. And why am I locking myself into this table? Um, but and we always left it open. I chose the best musicians that I could find, and that meant we were diverse. When you go simply by talent, you end up with good people and so, it was really wonderful. We got, played a lot of, one of my friends in Houston, who's still in Houston, is a composer, and he wrote a woodwind quintet. He got his doctorate at Rice, but he's originally from Mississippi, so he wrote a quintet, and we played his quintet here, he was so excited. So, we have been able to introduce the audience to composers that they would not otherwise have known. And we always open with a version of Lift Every Voice and Sing. And it reminds me of this kind of funny story. I don't know if you know about the thing that happened down on the docks in Birmingham, Alabama, where there was a big kerfuffle. There was a little pontoon boat that was parked in a space for a big tourist cruise boat, and they wouldn't get out of the way. And it ended up being kind of a fight. At the same time a black fraternity, guys in their 60s were there for a, you know, reunion meeting, something or other. And so, it got into big, kind of a brawl, really. So, sometimes called Alabama boat brawl. A comedian on YouTube put together a revision of Lift Every Voice and Sing, lift every chair and swing, but nobody got hurt.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3777.02131,3955.03986"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3955.03986,3955.56536"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Some people got doused in the water, but it's really, I think the sense of humor again, comes back as something that saves us. Everybody was so relieved the police didn't get involved until the end, and they arrested the people who started the problem, who were the people in the pontoon boat who were illegally parked. But it was really, it was fascinating how many people — They one of the people on the tour boat jumped in, a little black sailor, kind of jumped into the water and swam. And, you know, there's all these myths about black people can't swim. A lot of black people cannot swim. My mother was told she could not swim because her body was weighed differently, or some kind of fool. I don't know how she even brought her, she was, one of the few things she might have been insecure about and um, but I wanted to tell her, whales swim. You're certainly not as big as a whale, so. (laughing) But they named this guy, Swimmy Hendrix. I mean, there were all these kind of nicknames that came out. It was so funny, because everybody was so relieved that nobody got hurt. These things can escalate, and (unintelligible)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=3955.56536,4026.44372"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure, absolutely, absolutely. Did your mom ever learn to swim?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4026.44372,4029.3751"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No. But she made sure my brothers did, and that my sister and I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4029.3751,4033.4135"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. So, she took you to swim. Where did you go swim? Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4033.4135,4038.18498"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No, have no, no recollection whatsoever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4038.18498,4038.64892"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e (talking at same time) Okay, just, just curious. And, you also have written on, a Music City Review, arts reviewer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4038.64892,4048.35492"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4048.35492,4049.11008"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, tell me about Music City Review and how you got started with that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4049.11008,4050.97124"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I've been trying to, as, as, as you know I've been doing, I came back here basically because my parents were getting older and they needed care, and I needed to find, uh I worked with my sister to find good housing for my brothers, because my parents were getting to the point they couldn't take care of them, and they needed taken care of. Then, I got them both through the COVID without getting sick. So, very proud of that. In fact, working with Cumberland Winds. In fact, we set up musical groups to play outside the vaccination point. So, it was really fun. But I, while doing all this, I wanted to make sure that I preserved some aspect of my own life independent of caregiving for relatives. So, part of that was playing with Cumberland Winds, which I'm very grateful to have that as part of what I can do, which happened, kind of by accident. Mike had called someone, a flutist I know in Nashville, and asked her to come down and play because they were playing some music beyond what was, the people in the group could play, and she told him, \"You got somebody right there in town.\" He didn't know me. I didn't know him. He called me. The rest is history. I'm still with the group. So, in addition to music, though, after the last two years I was in my tenure job in Houston, I went back to school. I'd always wanted to see if I could get into an Ivy League school. I mean, Stanford is called, Ivy League West or whatever, but you know, one of the kind of traditional ones. So, I applied to Columbia, and I got accepted for their MFA program in nonfiction writing and literary translation. And so, when I came here, I thought, I want to keep writing. I had been doing some writing, in addition to the research stuff that I did. I had been writing a couple of poems here and there and writing a couple of, there was a online site called Chocolate City. For a while I wrote political articles for them, and then they went out of business. So, I decided, I saw the ad for Music City Review. If you're interested in writing, contact us. The editor, Joseph Morgan, has been wonderfully supportive. He is a professor at MTSU, so I said I'd like to do it, so they get you free tickets, and that's really, originally why I was doing it. I wanted to, I couldn't afford to spend money on stuff because I really wasn't working. I wasn't working full time at all. I was complete doing some Adjunct Professor stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4050.97124,4210.47281"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I imagine caregiving was taking up most and still has, is taking up most of your time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4210.47281,4214.58252"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah, and you can't depend on the agencies to regularly send people. They just kind of disappear and all kinds of stuff. So, I really couldn't have a full-time job. So, I quit full time working about ten years earlier than I had planned to. But you know, I can get a night away. I can get an evening away, I can get, you know, do a matinee. I can do these things. So, he invited me. I reviewed the Nashville Symphony. And then, you know, because I'm dance historian, he asked, you know, have you done, you know anything about dance? I said, a little bit. So, I started reviewing the Nashville Ballet. They hadn't had anybody who could do that. Martha Graham brought her company here last year to Nashville, and I reviewed them, so I get to see really wildly interesting things. Alvin Ailey came; I reviewed them. This group, modern group, really interesting group called Tribe. If you ever get the chance to see them, go to see them, because they are just technically perfection personified, but emotionally they explore profound depths that is just astonishing. I got to review, they started doing video interviews, also kind of like this, and I did that with the director Shamel Pitts. So, I, and I also got to review the Kodō Drummers of Japan, and a group called DakhaBrakha.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4214.58252,4313.72952"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4313.72952,4314.16626"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is from Ukraine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4314.16626,4315.52748"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4315.52748,4316.61745"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I found them during the COVID era, looking at the Tiny Desk concerts on YouTube. And I thought, \"This is so weird. This is so great. I love this.\" And it had some of the stuff I like about Stravinsky, kind of the Russian rhythm. They have nice grooves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4316.61745,4331.96488"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e They do, they do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4331.96488,4332.6121"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e In Russia, Eastern Europe, really nice low bass grooves. They love those bass singers. I love that too. Funk, one of my favorite kinds of African American music, has that same kind of esthetic, that low base groove that just stays where it's, right in the pocket. So, they're fantastic. The Russians are looking for them because, you know, they are, they protest through their music. So, Nashville was the only spot in the South on their tour two times, I reviewed them both times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4332.6121,4365.78209"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e They came to OZ Arts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4365.78209,4367.12913"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, that's where I went to review them. Yeah. But then I decided also that I could contribute more, also to the Clarksville community. So, I've done a couple of reviews of plays at rock, at the Roxy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4367.12913,4377.7816"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, great, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4377.7816,4378.734"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And also, for the Cumberland Winds, not really a conflict of interest. The Jazz Project yearly does Radio Days. And that's a afternoon program where they pretend they're in a radio studio. They have a host who does a little, little toy xylophone thing they do made up ads like, you know, camels are good for your health. These are real things that used to happen, that Tootsie Rolls are nutritious. I mean it's hilarious. Mike writes them. It's hilarious. And then they play this big band. They have a singer dressed up with these kind of victory roll things. I mean, it was, and I had always meant to go, but I had never gone. And finally, the stars aligned. I had a caregiver who was available. I had an afternoon available. I went and I said, this is fantastic. I'm going to write about this, because I have a notebook always with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4378.734,4437.20078"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4437.20078,4437.62866"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And I wrote about that. And so, they got some additional publicity. And then, I think Mike and Dewey Browder asked me to write one of the Road to 250 pieces about groups in Clarksville that promote unity. To me, Cumberland Winds is it, it really is. All kinds of unity. You get featured if you're good, and you don't ever have to worry about that, you don't have to worry about being treated unfairly. Our tuba player is Hispanic, and he is hilarious, always featured at our annual recital, and just can play anything you put in front of him. And so, we got people from different countries. And so, it was really, it's exciting to be able to write about that as a form of unity. And it's also kind of town and gown, because we have Austin Peay people involved, and band directors involved, and retired military and sometimes active military involved. So, all that represents the community, the greater Clarksville community, is part of what Cumberland Winds represents. A lot of the band directors loved playing their instruments in college, but they don't get that opportunity here. They can show up. They don't have to tell anybody what to do. They don't have to plan anything. 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I noticed on their list that they did not have NAACP, so I volunteered and said, \"Oh, I'm sure it's just an oversight. I will take that off your hands.\" And I contacted the local leaders, because I know my mother had been active. They had been very active in helping my mother. They had been very active when the first two African American police officers were hired in Clarksville to promote and help and support them. When Wilma Rudolph was banned from a local restaurant, they were, you know, supportive of her, and they also kept being supportive, trying to make sure that state regulations about parity and educational resources make sure that was actual parity and not just lip service. So, I thought, and I think they also contributed to the non-violence of this desegregation era in Clarksville. 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Lot of writing that you've done, and you just recently got some things that are coming out new publications?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4614.66384,4623.39042"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, we had last night, Juneteenth, a launch for an anthology called Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora. It's, it was, I just found that last night and an international competition with hundreds of people applying, and I was first runner up. I can't believe it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4623.39042,4647.65084"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow, bravo, bravo!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4647.65084,4649.92999"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Can't believe it. So, what they did was a bunch of us that they had, had to read. We got five minutes to read an excerpt from our work last night, and a number of people came and supported us. The book is out. Now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4649.92999,4666.11246"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, all the book sellers, I'm sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4666.11246,4668.20962"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah! It's really, and so, write a review and mention my name specifically, because they're going to have a little competition to see how many authors, which authors have the most mentions in the reviews. Fortunately for me, because there's one editor, and the, the grand prize winner, and then first runner up. So, there are spots in the advertising for three people, you know, on Amazon, and I'm one of the people mentioned, so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4668.20962,4695.01085"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. That's perfect.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4695.01085,4696.29191"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That means my name does get a little more attention, than a lot of the other writers who are on this, and um —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4696.29191,4703.08039"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And you wrote a fiction piece for that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4703.08039,4704.66535"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That was a fiction short story based on the kind of the family and community conflicted reaction when a young child disappears. And then I'm beginning to write episodes of escapades of caregiving called Dr. K's Caregiver Chronicles, Tales of a Reluctant Caregiver. 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That won second place in a new competition online on the Medium platform.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4730.90186,4738.67308"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Aren't you doing a reading for that as well?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4738.67308,4741.56969"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Not that one. That was, this is something- When I was at Columbia, I took a class. You know how geology is often called rocks for jocks. And at Columbia, there was a class, poetry for non-poets. And a poet, William Wadsworth, taught that class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4741.56969,4763.03658"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah, that's a good poet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4763.03658,4764.59706"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And I wrote some poems in that class, you know. And he said, \"You know, I think you're a poet.\" I said, \"Get real.\" I mean, I honestly just said to his face, because we're, we're of an age I was older than most of my classmates. I said, \"Get real.\" Then a couple of my poems got published, and I had to, kind of tail between my legs, email him and say, \"Well, you know, when you said I was a poet, you might have been a little bit right.\" He wrote the most gracious response. And then I kept sending stuff out, and four of my, three of my poems, got accepted for this literary magazine called Marbled Sigh. They have a spot at this summer's New York City Poetry Festival.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4764.59706,4809.92684"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's the one I'm thinking of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4809.92684,4810.70679"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And they have invited me to participate and read some of my poems.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4810.70679,4814.74315"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And that will take place?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4814.74315,4816.19033"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e July twelfth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4816.19033,4817.45497"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. Congratulations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4817.45497,4819.26334"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e South of Manhattan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4819.26334,4820.04897"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, that's fantastic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4820.04897,4821.71459"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDemetrius Hnarakis:\u003c/strong\u003e We have about two minutes of footage left. Did you want to take a break and start over or continue, put another card in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4821.71459,4829.13807"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Your choice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4829.13807,4829.87207"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e We, we will, if you want to. Yeah. We'll just pause for a second and then, because I'll wrap up now with talking to you about caregiving, how that's been. The death of your mother, we didn't talk about that, and then the places that are named after your parents, because we didn't specifically mention that. So, I think and that, that should —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4829.87207,4851.40727"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eUnknown:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's stop right here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4851.40727,4852.55231"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. But since you got too, you know, you can pause it if you want, if that's what you want, go for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4852.55231,4858.61324"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Important organization. In fact, the predators have set up a program to try to teach men not to be violent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4858.61324,4865.69209"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, all right. So, you mentioned your care, caregiving many times in our talk. (Yvonne laughing) And so, when did you officially really start doing that? When, when you moved back, or?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4865.69209,4880.95801"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, when I moved back, one of the things my sister and I wanted to do was to make sure my parents, who were still really healthy at the time, had some years of their own that they didn't have to take care of my brothers, and they were beginning to eat a lot of fast food because my mother was tired of cooking for; She never really liked cooking. I like, I'm the person in the house and my niece Vivian, who liked cooking most. My niece Vivian is, she writes contemporary romance novels and is an editor and ghost writer. In fact, she was one of the writers to help with Ann Coulter's conservative memoirs. (unintelligible) Yeah. She worked for penguin for a while. Now she's freelance and living in Florida, so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4880.95801,4927.09338"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's fantastic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4927.09338,4929.39177"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, so, it was a few years after I got back, we found a good place for my brothers to be. My parents were kind of on their own, and I was teaching. And I taught for nearly a year at Austin Peay full time, and uh —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4929.39177,4945.70303"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm assuming in the music department, sorry to interrupt.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4945.70303,4947.96539"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Not always. I also taught English Composition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4947.96539,4951.0636"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow. Okay, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4951.0636,4952.28033"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, it was nice because — So, I taught a couple of graduate courses and upper-level courses in the music department, but English comp is kind of the basic level, because that, to me, seemed like the class where you prepare students best for a successful college experience. Most classes require you to write. Most English comp classes only prepare you to write about literature. But that's not the only kind of writing, and matter of fact, that's a small portion of the writing you'll do. So, I set up my English comp classes to make sure that they learned how to do a research paper, that they learned how to do reviews, that they learned how to do, you know, product reviews or arts reviews, that they learned how to do political, political narratives, personal narratives, all those kinds of things, so that the breadth, or at least something close to the breadth of writing, could be open to them, and then they could use when they go in their other classes. Learn how to write a science paper, for example, and it was very exciting. Time consuming because that's a lot of papers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=4952.28033,5021.29134"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e It is. (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5021.29134,5021.70941"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I never had to grade that many papers in any music class. And I, you know, had them turn in drafts and stuff like that. So yeah, I was doing that. I taught, actually it was interesting, because my parents were, I was independent of my parents at that time, I taught an English comp class at Belmont. Of course, Belmont is known for its music program. Its English department wants each English comp class to have a theme. They had never had music as a theme. So, I was perfect, it was perfect. All the, all the essays that we wrote were uh, had to have a music connection. So, for example, when we did product reviews, one of the students did a review of Gibson guitars. So, how to write about the field that you will be, because all the people in there were music majors of some sort. How to write about the science of vocalization, you know, just all kinds of things. And it was exciting because they were all super into it. And then, you know, things kind of went downhill with my parents, and they started needing more and more help, and so, I couldn't do that. But it was, I still taught a couple of classes for Nashville State, and I taught some Austin Peay classes out at Fort Campbell. I keep; Fort Campbell is kind of a life motif. I keep going back to Fort Campbell, and I liked going out there. A lot of the adjuncts didn't like going out there, but I liked it. I liked the military mentality. Let's get it done. So, I haven't been doing that recently. Dad's been a little bit more fragile, so, I've got to take a little more care and get involved more with the kind of nuts and bolts, making sure, you know, he has a dozen doctors, and you have to make all those appointments and go and monitor the meds and, and I always, because of my brothers, have had some unfortunate experiences with some of the meds prescribed for them. I'm always keeping up and reading about the meds so that I know about side effects that are possible that often the doctors aren't thinking about, because I have such a limited clientele, so to speak. And so, it's been really, you, I never, I was, people thought that I would go to either medical school or law school, because people are very limited in their notions, and I wasn't interested in either of those in any way, especially medicine. Blech, I didn't want yuck. I didn't want body parts. And now I'm doing all that stuff. So, it must be some kind of karmic thing. I wasn't interested in law school because I thought the law was sometimes unfair, and I didn't want to be involved in unfairness. It's a limited view, but I just, I wasn't that interested. I was interested in someplace where, what I like about academia, it's always about the truth. Even when people do years of research and find out that their basic premise, their basic hypothesis, was not right, you can make a research paper saying this is what I thought. But as it turns out, this is what happens. The truth is the thing that you want, and that's why academia was perfect for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5021.70941,5229.91218"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, and yeah, you can see that as a thing that in academia is allowed. If, I don't know if allowed is the right word, but that there's this permissiveness, to re-evaluate where you stood, you know, and, and —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5229.91218,5245.10688"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, you have to. And if you were wrong, if you find out more stuff, you got to change your ways. And, and there were a lot of people I was interested in that the musicology world was not necessarily, there's a lot of major dance manuals, and nobody had translated. My, my doctoral thesis was translating an Italian dance manual. The author was from Milan. Published it in 1602 and it was perfect for me. It's one reason why, when I went back to school at Columbia, I also got a certificate in literary translation, because this book had all the kinds of translation you require. It opened with several poets, poems, and translating poems are different than translating anything else. It also had narratives about all the famous people that dance in productions this dance master put together, so there was a prose section. Then there was a pedagogical section where all the dance moves and steps were explained. So, it was like the perfect amalgamation. My skills just came together for this particular. I wish I had all this training when I started it, but now I'm doing it now and working currently, possibly, hopefully getting published with a publisher in Toronto that specializes in Renaissance and Reformation translations. So hopefully that will all work out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5245.10688,5329.66491"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e As you're balancing all of these things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5329.66491,5331.9992"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That's why I can't get it done. Because of the way I had been, 'cause I'd been single, I was used to having big blocks of time where I could really concentrate and focus, and now I'm having to relearn my methodology, and we have bits and pieces of time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5331.9992,5350.40649"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Did you help care for your mother before she passed away?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5350.40649,5352.99918"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Yeah, and it was a lot, and I didn't know anything. It was so frustrating, because especially she was third from the youngest of thirteen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5352.99918,5365.53504"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5365.53504,5366.83951"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e (laughing) Only eleven lived to adulthood, and she and her brother, the youngest, were very close. He lived in Richmond, Virginia. They talked on the phone every day. When he died, and she was the last of all the kids surviving, that's when she just kind of gave up. But it was peaceful, and so that's good, but, you know, dealing with the onset of dementia, dealing with infections, dealing with diabetes, you know, just, just combination. Fortunately, the skills that made it possible for me to publish in peer reviewed journals, the same kind of skills I can bring to this. Do the research, do the, and the organizations of being a musician, planning concerts, made it possible to kind of schedule all these appointments and make sure that all their medications are ordered, dealing with the VA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5366.83951,5427.78109"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5427.78109,5428.85392"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e The VA is wonderful when you finally reach somebody. Reaching somebody is a nightmare, but they offer a lot of good services, and they got him that the ramp we have outside our home, they installed that. They renovated one of his bathrooms to make it more walker friendly. And so, being in touch with them, being in touch with Social Security, being in touch with all the bills. All his bills, plus, you know, my little bills, keeping all that together and then monitoring the care for my brothers. The agency that's in charge of their autism medications, depression and that kind of thing. Turns out they had assigned them to a nurse practitioner, but people kept calling her doctor, and she never corrected them, so I thought she was an MD. Turns out she was not. She prescribed something that, based on my reading, I thought was, I don't think that's right. And I also know them, their behavior is changing. That's not, now some of it is aging, because these medications efficaciousness changes as people age. But I found out she wasn't an MD, and I found them an MD, and now we have weaned them off the medications they didn't need, weaned them onto education, medications they do need. But somebody's got to monitor that stuff, and it has to be somebody who knows them and knows how their behaviors have changed in a non-positive way. So, it takes up pretty much all my time. So, when I have a couple of hours in the evening or during the day, I usually have some caregiver available for my dad. My brothers are doing well. I, you know, sit down and get things off my list, because I want to keep my friends. You know, I had to leave all my friends behind in Houston and this and that, and some of the friends that I made here, I would say, during the MAGA administration, they said, \"I'm not going to live here anymore,\" and they left Tennessee. So, friends I had made here, a lot of them left. So, it's really phone calls and emails now with people and rather than hear me rant all the time, people, interestingly enough, are not fascinated by catheter bags. So, I just write about it. Get it out of my system. Just write about it and send it to a couple of friends, and then they read, and they laugh, and they have fun with it, because I think most books that deal with caregiving, for me, it feels like they're heavy on the martyrdom. They're also sad, and it is depressing. It can be depressing, but there are moments of hilarity. There are moments that things are so nonsensical that you just have to laugh to keep from crying, or that you just have to laugh because they're funny. You know, there are people that do weird things. We've had people break into my parents' bank account and then I have to kind of be boots on the ground with the police detectives and the bank and all that kind of stuff. So, there's a lot involved that I was completely unprepared for. So, I'm hoping through my writing to help other people, and I've had some folks read sections, and they say, \"This is exactly how I felt.\" I don't have to feel bad, because sometimes you do feel resentful, sometimes you do feel left alone, because it's really kind of a solo. Usually in these situations, one sibling steps up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5428.85392,5661.59249"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And you've got that, you're so, throughout your career, you've been so focused on truth in your studies that I can see writing about caregiving, you're bringing that in in a way that maybe other people haven't so much. The humor, the, the, you know, resentment, all of those things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5661.59249,5682.28813"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think you have to be honest with yourself. You have to also take some time yourself. You feel very guilty if you take time to yourself. But I said, I can't, you know, I was preparing for a sprint but turns out it's a marathon. So, I've got to have a vacation every summer. I take seven to ten days off every summer. It takes weeks and weeks to organize, you know, all the stuff I need to organize before I can go. And then I block my family. 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I went to Hawaii with some friends of mine, some, two other flutists that we've known each other for, you know, decades and decades, since I lived in California in fact. Last year I went to Florida, one of my housemates two, two of my housemates from the Stanford days have a condo by the beach in St Augustine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5714.24827,5736.14499"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Beautiful place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5736.14499,5737.93659"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e It was lovely, lovely. It's like we hadn't seen each other in multiple decades, at least thirty years. And it was like — Well, we had kept in touch, you know telephone, occasional email, not that much, but it was like that we just didn't, nothing had happened. No years had interspersed there and —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5737.93659,5756.5456"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e It's always beautiful those friendships, and —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5756.5456,5758.81617"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, it was really fun to be with them and to, because they just know me. They are not related, and they're old enough that they have had to do some caregiving themselves. So, about everybody, even some people much younger than I am, have had to have take care of their grandmothers or something. And the books that I have read are so depressing and, oh, I found a different spirituality. There's nothing spiritual about this, let me just tell you. 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Dad, his one pleasure in life, he just worked hard. He didn't ever, they didn't ever club, they didn't ever do any of those things. Didn't have much of a social life. They belonged, he belonged to the Masons, and my mother belonged to the study club and that kind of thing. But then, so, but what he did like was having a nice car and going out and driving in his car, and when the neurologist said he could not drive anymore, I had to hear that noise for years. Oh, my goodness gracious. I felt bad for him. But on the other hand, I saw the battery of tests. I witnessed the battery of tests. The reflexes were gone. We have children who live in this neighborhood. We can't, he said, \"Surely she did not mean that I can't run up to,\" No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5803.89855,5865.23982"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, just for his own self too, because you never know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5865.23982,5868.38494"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But now he's gotten used to it, and I drive him wherever he needs to go, and his lodge brothers, the Thomas A. Simms Lodge, have been really wonderful, because when I play a concert, occasionally he wants to go. I can't take care of him and play. I found that out after doing it a couple of times. I was just too frazzled. I couldn't focus; I couldn't concentrate. So, the lodge brothers have said, if you ever have a concert, we'll come and take care of him, and that's what they do. They do. They pick him up, they take him they bring him back. I don't have to do anything. I can focus completely just on what I have to do that night. It makes a huge difference. They have been really wonderful and steadfast. And when my mother was alive, some of her former students come by and they would help. They would sit with her if I had to take dad to the hospital or whatever. So, I have had to learn, one thing my parents weren't used to, asking for help. I asked for help, when I needed, I asked, because I have to. I'm trying to survive myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5868.38494,5933.84054"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/361","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. Both of them have places named after them here in Clarksville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5933.84054,5938.10964"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, we're sitting in my mom's park, which is just. She took so much joy. She could walk here for a long time and hear the kids giggling and laughing and playing, and that was just music, literally to her ears. They had the Parks and Rec people originally wanted to put a basketball court. She said, no, you, that would attract older teenagers, older men. She said, this needs to be for children, where families could, and I see families with strollers walking down the street, bringing their kids here, and I can hear them from my place past these trees. Just, you can kind of see this house right here. Just, the one just passed it is where my cottage is. I keep it, even though I spend a lot of nights with my dad, especially if he's been having kind of episodes of falling and stuff and trying to keep him from bribing people for sweets. He's diabetic and non-compliant. Says, \"I'm 95 I should be able to have what I want.\" Said, \"Dad, you want to be in the hospital?\" \"No.\" \"All right, take this Nutri-Grain bar instead of this jumbo honey bun.\" \"Oh, okay,\" but then he will give twenty dollars to the lawn guy or to the garbage guy, or to, you know, his lodge brothers, or to his church deacons trying to slip behind my back to get sweets when I have his blood sugar under control.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=5938.10964,6024.86991"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6024.86991,6025.53531"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/364","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And it's not like, I don't want him to feel like he's living in a gulag. So, I find sweets that he can have. But part of the issue, especially combination of age and the diabetes, is there's no impulse control. So, the most he gets, the more he will have, so. He's under control now. The VA says he's doing well. We have a gerontologist. We have a member of the pharmacy team who talks to me every three to six weeks, and we monitor his blood sugar, his A1C, all those kinds of things. I'm having to learn all these things, and I find you, that doctors and nurses are more cooperative when you show them that you can pronounce all the names of these meds, which some of them can't pronounce. So, I mean, I, you know, I'm interested in words. I've studied a lot of languages, so kind of keeping up with those medications. And I will ask the doctors, do you think he really needs this? Because here's what I'm noticing. You know, I'm not one of these. I did my research, and you Google until you find what you want, and then you stop. I know how to do actual research. So, sometimes, if his blood sugar was out of whack, he would fall and start bleeding from the brain, and it wouldn't stop, because he was on a blood thinner for his heart. So, I'd talk with his cardiologist and say, \"Can we take him off his blood thinner? Because I think that the harm it's causing is worth more than whatever it's trying to solve.\" And the cardiologists agreed. But I wondered, had I not brought it up, if that would have ever happened. So, you really do, once your loved ones become older, well, really and children too, you need a health advocate, because for anybody, it's too much to take in. There's too much stuff you have to deal with. And you need somebody to say, \"Does this need to happen? This medication doesn't seem right. \"I do that with my brothers all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6025.53531,6147.41834"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, and it's true. When someone, even someone who's, you know, let's say median age of, if you're worried about your health, sometimes that can cloud your thinking too, I think, you know, so having someone who's maybe-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6147.41834,6162.85937"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/366","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e More clear eyed. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6162.85937,6163.38733"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/367","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes a big difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6163.38733,6164.26649"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/368","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I have a friend whose parents are older, and his brother is the one who lives in town with them. Um, he's my composer friend, and so, he calls me up. What do you think about, what should we do this, but we do, and hopefully I'm passing along some of the knowledge that I have gained. You know, when you go back and stay with your parents, you know, let your brother know, give him a break. (laughing) Yeah, you know, take up some of this. Don't criticize the decisions he's made just because they're different. How you would do it because you're not there doing it. And a friend of mine went to cumberley [sic], Columbia, one of my friends there was from Connecticut, and she was taking care of her mother and still trying to go, in Connecticut, trying to go back and forth to Columbia. And she had two big Catholic, Italian Catholic family, and she was the only sibling doing anything, and they all lived there with the mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6164.26649,6226.27521"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6226.27521,6227.68572"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She, the one that was single, going back and forth from New York City to Connecticut, was trying to take care of everything. And you do find out that generally one sibling steps up. A lot of people in Cumberland Winds are older. They have older parents. They, you know, we talk about that, so I've learned from pretty much everybody about how they've taken it. And it's kind of like the other day, the plumber wanted to charge $250 to fix a toilet that wouldn't keep, stop running. And I said, that just does seem like too much. So, YouTube to the rescue, got on YouTube, looked about five videos, said, \"Huh, that's, I can fix that in ten minutes.\" And in fact, went to Lowe's got the equipment, and when I flushed that toilet and that water rose and it stopped when it was supposed to, uh Stravinsky, and that plumbing. 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I still drive a stick shift, so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6322.54175,6326.55251"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/375","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That is so true. It's a dying art.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6326.55251,6327.12507"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/376","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I got; I used to (unintelligible) for his love. He got it, uh he got a job with the corporation in Europe, and they flew his car over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6327.12507,6336.40369"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow, nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6336.40369,6338.56706"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e He wanted to drive down the Autobahn, where there's no, speed limit, exactly, but I used to mock him about his love for that car, until I drove it and that power... Oh! (both laughing) Give me the vapors. That '63 Corvette was fabulous. I don't even know if he can drive anymore, because it takes, you have to have leaded gas, so I don't even know if you can get that. But yeah, it was, I've had some really fun times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6338.56706,6365.65273"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/379","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes, you have. And so, we haven't talked about your sister. I know your sister is Sharon, right? And is she here in town, or?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6365.65273,6375.91578"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/380","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She's in Nashville. She went to Vanderbilt. She was able to leave when I was kind of doing my gradual ease out. Um, majored in economics, loves money and Amazon mailing loves her. She got a law degree also at Vanderbilt and is married to a psychiatrist. After decades in the corporate world, working for companies like AIG, she left and now runs the YWCA non-profit Weaver Domestic Violence Shelter in Nashville, the largest domestic violence shelter in the state.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6375.91578,6417.68741"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6417.68741,6418.64498"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/382","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And um, she had a friend who was murdered by her ex-husband, and I think that that really affected her desire to give back in this particular way. So, she's now CEO, and she's been able to get a significant amount of grant funding, including funding from Amazon to open an adjacent pet shelter, because we find out through research into domestic violence. In fact, Tennessee is one of the top ten domestic violence states. A lot, interestingly enough, a lot of the top domestic violence states are former slave states. So, I don't know what that means exactly, but it makes me wonder.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6418.64498,6462.75983"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e It does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6462.75983,6463.41281"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/384","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And they're also usually high in infant maternal and maternal mortality. I did some research on this, because I was interested in what she was doing. So, but they found out that a lot of women and their children especially don't want to leave home if a beloved family pet is going to be left behind with the abuser. So, they were able to get the money to open the shelter, so they have been able to expand their mission to help. And then they also have worked with the Titans, the football team in Nashville and the Predators, the hockey team in Nashville to help train young men, especially teenagers, to grow up to be men who do not go into the violence, who learn how to deal with their feelings, address their feelings. They help kids finish school, help them get college scholarships, help the moms or the sisters or whatever, learn how to dress for success and interview and get jobs. And I think it's important to note that this happens at all economic levels. A lot of people think that this is a poor people thing. That poor, ignorant people beat up on their spouses. But lawyers, doctors, you know, CEOs, this is kind of a not being able deal with your feelings thing, not an economic thing, and it's hard to get people, especially if you have been financially dependent on your abuser, it's hard to get them to leave. It usually takes four to seven times, attempts before they leave, and that's when it's very dangerous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6463.41281,6560.36405"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/385","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I can see when you're mentioning pets, it's something I don't think people talk about, but using some other, something that's, that the, the victim would care about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6560.36405,6570.97064"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6570.97064,6571.42974"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/387","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, to either harm it, threaten to harm, all those types of things. So, you know, what a what a huge accomplishment to —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6571.42974,6580.56333"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/388","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, one of my students at Austin, Peay, her brother shot her dog. I'm sorry for you to hear this, but he was having trouble dealing with his emotions, dealing with his feelings, and their father had left them, and the mother wasn't dealing very well. And the student would come by to my office and talk about it a little bit. And you know, you know, I had no function there, just except to listen and say, you know, well, you could write about this if you like, get it off your, get it out of your system. You're not responsible for what other people do, but those pets can be the only love that someone has in a home. So, I think that's really important. So, and now that you know a lot of funding for humanitarian things is disappearing from or possibly disappearing from the federal government. I mean, Cumberland Winds is thinking about that, because we get some money from the National Endowment for the Arts, so we are thinking about funding, and that means less funding to states, and so that means some arts organizations are going to have to hustle. Same thing with domestic violence organizations are hustling to try. Fortunately, I think the relationship with the Titans and the Predators is going to help with that. And some other nonprofit organizations that help with funding for such things can help them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6580.56333,6667.54732"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/389","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, when did your sister start that? Do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6667.54732,6670.28338"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/390","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, a while ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6670.28338,6671.82032"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/391","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Was your mom still?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6671.82032,6673.28021"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/392","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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How, how, because I want to know, what was your mom's feedback to you about your life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6675.06295,6685.2262"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/394","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e (laughing) My parents were all about education. If you get education, they didn't care what your degree was in, just get the degree. They both flew to Boston when I got my master's there. They didn't really like fly anymore. My dad had been a paratrooper. They both flew up there. They both flew to California. When I graduated there with my doctorate. Um, my dad flew a couple of times to Houston when I was teaching there because he wanted to see Dr. Kendall on my office door. He would sit in on some of my classes, waiting for some of the students to say anything other than Dr. Kendall. And I joke with one class, because I think one student said, Miss Kendall or something. A lot of students, especially first-generation college students, see women and they think marital state. That's just how they think, and it used to upset me, but then I kind of turned it into a joke, and I said, \"My dad's here, and he's very proud of this doctorate that I got. I'm not saying anything would happen, but if you don't call me Dr. Kendall, I can't be responsible.\" And they broke out laughing. And he laughed everybody like, but in fact, then they remembered it from that point, because he was very proud. And, you know, they went to Vanderbilt, one sister, in fact, they came out. My niece went to Rice, and they came out to Houston when she graduated from college. They weren't flying when she got her master's in publishing at NYU. They did come to Nashville when my nephew graduated with his master's from Vanderbilt. So, he's computer science.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6685.2262,6803.44244"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/395","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. So always very supportive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6803.44244,6806.41641"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/396","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e They, oh, they loved it. They loved and they loved hearing me play. My dad, in fact, had, at one point, was almost offered a music scholarship when he went to college. He ended up taking the track scholarship, more money, but he's, he had a nice singing voice. My brothers have nice singing voices too. All the guys have nice singing voices. None of the women, (laughing) they have nice singing voices.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6806.41641,6829.34527"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/397","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e But you're trained, right, too in voice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6829.34527,6832.85291"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I am, but I don't generally sing in public.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6832.85291,6836.10942"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/399","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Did your mom sing? No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6836.10942,6837.56528"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/400","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6837.56528,6838.05618"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/401","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Just your dad. And you said the boys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6838.05618,6839.49028"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e She could, but dad had a really nice voice. And so, no, she didn't. 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My dad, at one point, was trying to learn the piano. But no, they were, they were very, they liked hearing us speak in public. My sister is occasionally on TV talking about the shelter, and so we tuned in and were supportive in that way. But yeah, they just wanted us um- You know, when brothers were in Special Olympics, we showed up. They were in a baseball league for a while. One of my brothers doesn't like to run. He can run if he ever starts. He's very fast, but he just doesn't want to. So, we'd be out at the baseball games, and he'd hit the ball, and then I'd be pushing him, and he'd be laughing as I pushed him to first base. I'm running and he's walking. 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Your mom was given a major award by the governor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6897.21201,6903.17178"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6903.17178,6903.99577"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Were you —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6903.99577,6905.2581"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e For being a long, a long serving a county commissioner. She was also the first woman on the Budget Committee for Montgomery County Commission. They thought women didn't know money, but my mother was all about the cash. (both laughing) And my sister is taking that up. And my sister both is also very into decor. Their crafts, very creative. She and my mother were both very creative in that way. And in fact, Laura Dowling, who is, who was the chief floral designer for the Obama White House, came down to Cheekwood and designed their Christmas decor for the house. I interviewed her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6905.2581,6948.43783"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6948.43783,6949.50192"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And then reviewed the exhibit. And my sister decorates her house like something out of Better Homes and Gardens every year. So, I took a picture one of her trees and used that in my um, in my review, because Laura Dowling had started doing something else. She worked for nonprofit organizations, kind of like my sister, and then got into design and studied it, and then ended up as a designer. So, I was thinking, there is a connection here. They broke, both grew up in families with strong, determined women. 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He taught us how to change a tire, how to change our oil, how to change out the battery, because those are things that any person who drives by themselves needs to know how to do, back in the day. Now I can afford to have somebody else do that stuff for me, so. (both laughing) So, I'm not gonna do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=6998.34498,7020.55773"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e But you know how that was the most important thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7020.55773,7023.14402"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e It saved me a lot of money when I was just out of school, you know, when I was on that post doc in Chapel Hill, I remember changing the oil. I had a little gully near the apartment where I was, and I was able to park the car so that I could get under.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7023.14402,7035.95163"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, so you have to get up on something. Yeah, that's so smart. 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So, dad had a little pickup truck, and he put some cinder blocks in the back, and I've just zoomed through ice and snow to get to work every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7040.2533,7062.25986"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/419","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, it's so true. I mean, we have two daughters, and we taught them both to drive a five speed. And I said, you know, people say, \"Why are you doing that?\" And I if they go to another country, chances are they're probably going to have to learn, to know how to drive a five speed. I want to be able to drive anywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7062.25986,7078.50184"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/420","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And you learn to listen to the car better. I think you learn an understanding of how the car works. I think that was why I was able to drive that Corvette, because I was the only one, I think one other guy in the house could drive a stick. But now the problem is I usually drive my dad's Toyota, regular automatic sedan, because if I do something like when I go to OZ Arts, they some they have valet parking. A lot of valets can't drive sticks anymore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7078.50184,7106.02466"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/421","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's the truth. I was gonna say that, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7106.02466,7106.70719"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/422","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I forget, because I'm the last one to get my car back, because only one person —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7106.70719,7111.12017"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/423","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e They have to go find the person who can drive the stick. That's happened to me a couple times too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7111.12017,7115.67583"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/424","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm gonna have to stop taking my car to stuff like that. Now what I do now is I'd usually park somewhere else and take a lift over. So, that will change things. 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And you've had Terry's support, active support in doing that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7146.9376,7165.18963"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/429","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7165.18963,7165.72719"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/430","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And the work of Nick Nicholson to preserve our history, these things, and I'll mention Jackie Collins, also trying to preserve the history. 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I'm right about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7200.09992,7201.77659"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/438","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah! Yes. They got some stuff wrong, but uh —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7201.77659,7207.01755"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/439","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, did they change your marker?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7207.01755,7208.74203"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/440","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7208.74203,7209.766"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/441","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, they do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7209.766,7211.79652"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And I don't think they, I think if I were to do it again, I would make sure that I get to look at the final draft before they go to print, so to speak, because sometimes they don't understand what you're getting at. And sometimes that could, that could be my fault, the writers fault, if you're not clear or, yeah, sometimes you just really so, I've written a couple of, of markers, and I do oral program notes for a lot of the, all of the Cumberland Winds concerts, because we want the audience to have some connection historically and musically to what we're playing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7211.79652,7248.99054"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/443","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, you do such an excellent job with that, by the way. I mean, I think that's a to put it in context sometimes, I mean, sometimes for those who don't know in the audience, it's so helpful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7248.99054,7260.30481"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/444","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, and you want, it's like reviewing, you're writing for intelligent people who aren't specialists in the area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7260.30481,7265.36771"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/445","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Exactly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7265.36771,7266.44849"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/446","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e And how you do that is a challenge that I think I have improved over the years. I think it's much better. And using humor, I can kind of recognize the humor and also taste. In this environment, there are things that I don't bring up that I would if I still lived in Houston or if I lived in California or New York. Um, you know, like in the Revolutionary War, a lot of black people and Native Americans wanted to volunteer. They were put in the Fife and Drum Corps because we weren't trusted with guns. I'll leave that part out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7266.44849,7305.94968"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/447","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7305.94968,7307.2363"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/448","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Even though, not possibly, the audience could take it. But this is not a purple state. So, there are some facts that I feel like I can, depending on the makeup of the audience, I will tell or not tell, because I do want the audience to enjoy the music. That's the most important thing in that context. I do feel a little bit restricted, but you find a balance between remaining true to your ethical base and remaining true to the audience, enjoying what you're trying to present, and keep them coming back. Because then, when they start trusting you, then you can slowly give them more and more information, and they're ready because they trust you. In fact, some people in one of the groups I was in, two older white guys said, \"You know, some folks in my family used the word colored. Should they do that?\" No, but I was so pleased, kind of keeping it under wraps, that they felt comfortable enough that they knew, even if it were a bad thing, that I wouldn't blast, put them on blast or anything. And I could tell them \"So, you know, I understand your relatives probably don't mean any harm, but that word is associated with a period that brings back bad memories, so I would suggest using these terms instead.\" \"Thanks, thanks, thanks. I'll tell them.\" And that was that. So, I think you can build trust to the point that you can make one on one some positive, progressive changes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7307.2363,7413.12334"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/449","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. What are your goals you got? What are your next goals, let's say? 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I would like to finish a book in musicology that I'm working on called the Myth of Stylized Dance. There are people who think that, for example, minuets by Johann Sebastian Bach should not be danced to because he's too high level, but they were minuetting during his, the time he lived. Why would he call something a minuet and not want it danced to? It doesn't make any sense. So, I would like to finish that. That will be controversial to a lot of people. I want to finish my Caregiver Chronicles. I've actually sent a draft out to an agent. Who knows what might happen. I've written a book on kind of tongue in cheek, how to deal with the new manifestations of racism using kind of historical and personal examples. I read some excerpts to students when I lived in Houston and the students, this was during the Obama era, where they thought everybody was told that racism is over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7419.18237,7509.80511"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/451","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7509.80511,7511.63961"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/452","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Believe what you want to. And they said, \"Wait a minute, that happened to me. That's what that was?\" They couldn't even recognize racism and, and I give kind of tongue in cheek ways of, and some practical ways of dealing with it. You know, like documenting, keeping those emails, you know, noting when the call came and what the person said, all the promises made, and stuff like that, so that, so that, hopefully you can avoid some of the situations. So, it's been my niece, who is an editor, read it and gave me some great comments on it, and one of my professors at Columbia, who has won a Pulitzer Prize, read excerpts of it, and she thinks is extremely useful, and she's the one and I resisted for a long time who wanted me to put more personal anecdotes. She thought that my personal anecdotes were really both funny and poignant and useful, but I didn't want myself to be foregrounded. But, you know, she was right, so I started doing more of that. So, those are kind of big projects. There are a couple of pieces of music that I would still like to play. There are a couple of woodwind quintets. Our quintet has kind of fallen apart. Our bassoonist, moved out of town, and oboist went back to school to become a chemical engineer. (laughing) So, we're trying to rebuild.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7511.63961,7613.20134"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/453","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7613.20134,7613.75123"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/454","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e We'll see what happens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7613.75123,7614.28214"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/455","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And hopefully you'll get you'll get to that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7614.28214,7615.43505"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/456","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e There are a couple of pieces that I want to play, some pieces that I played in the past, that I don't think I played well, that I would like to return to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7615.43505,7622.80114"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/457","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7622.80114,7623.87349"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/458","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e We'll see what happens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7623.87349,7624.64216"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/459","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Well, you come from a rich legacy, and did you feel that, like, did you feel that pressure ever? I mean —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7624.64216,7632.06748"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/460","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e No, everybody was just expected to do their part. And, you know, because my mother, especially when my dad was in Vietnam, he had two tours, one a year. The year was minimum, it was usually 18 months. She was raising four kids and doing her job, and two of the kids with special needs. We, you know, everybody's supposed to do their share, and our share was to be good in school and to not cause any kind of hassle or headaches. We weren't ripping and running out late or anything like that, we just felt like our job was very clear. It wasn't pressure or force, but just the expectation of excellence and being proud that we achieved. Because a lot of girls I went to high school with, their fathers didn't want them to go to college, because if they got too smart, then what man would want them? My parents were not like that. At all. At all. My sister ended up marrying, you know, her husband was a Columbia undergrad and Meharry med school, so, you know, she found her equal, and he's very supportive of her career. So, I think that good relationships build you up. They don't cut you down. I've told some of our caregivers that when some of their, you know, boyfriends and torn t-shirts come around to the job, which is inappropriate. So, you know, you might, I was channeling my mother, because usually I'm not going to get in anybody's business, but she was always in people's business. And they loved her for it, I just don't even. If I look at people sideways, they get all upset and intimidated. She could say anything to people, and they would just accept it. I don't know, she had a magic. My sister has a little bit of that magic too, but not me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7632.06748,7737.63466"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/461","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e With general, anybody they meet?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7737.63466,7740.9131"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/462","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e They can say whatever they want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7740.9131,7742.57681"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/463","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And the person takes it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7742.57681,7744.37815"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/464","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, they don't take big offense. They don't, but if I say the least little thing, it seems like people get really upset, so I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7744.37815,7751.81335"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/465","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I don't know how that works either with personality, but it's a interesting thing. So, I think your parents' legacy, I know, is still being, celebrated here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7751.81335,7760.46055"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/466","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah. They still use Kendall Hall for their Masonic meetings. Kids still come in the park with their parents and enjoy the beauty, and they've installed restrooms even.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7760.46055,7772.29424"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/467","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And I know they're listed and slated, I think now to be on the civil rights —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7772.29424,7776.97126"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/468","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Are they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7776.97126,7777.63354"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/469","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I think, I think they're up for that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7777.63354,7779.90786"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/470","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e They were nominated, I know. I didn't even write the nominations. I was very pleased that somebody else did that. (laughing)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7779.90786,7789.23671"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/471","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e And so, but I know more nominations came on, came in, there were, there were a few people, I think they got.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7789.23671,7796.38582"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/472","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, serving on some of these committees, like the Arts and Heritage Foundation, or Council, or whatever. I should know after all these years and the public art committee, I think what I have been able to do is encourage more inclusion. Often people would know somebody who could do something and, but their, their circle of associates was very limited, so, you know. And so, I got a lot of support from Billy Wrinkle, for example, and Tony Morris to expand the call for artists so we could have more, we possibly have more women applying to have some of these opportunities, have more minorities applying. And in some of these monuments, I noticed that something, some of the same men are honored over and over and over and over again. With Dr. Burt, for example, who Burt School was named after, I started doing some reading, partially inspired by you your writing, and said, you know, his wife was beside him the whole time. She was a nurse. She also was an administrator. She was also chief anesthetist, which doesn't get out that much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7796.38582,7867.96043"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/473","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7867.96043,7869.21372"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/474","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Why are we constantly honoring him and never mentioning her? He couldn't have done it without her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7869.21372,7873.99478"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/475","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e No, and he says it himself, repeatedly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7873.99478,7876.95216"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/476","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I say it, you know, because I'm at a point where it's no skin off my nose, what they do, but I can simply say, \"I can't approve this. If she's not included, I'm not voting for this.\" And then people slip out from under the, \"I kind of agree with you, but I wasn't going to say anything.\" Well, okay, I have become more profane once I've become a caregiver, cause it's a way of venting, but what is wrong!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7876.95216,7905.41892"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/477","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, exactly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7905.41892,7906.51316"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/478","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Say something, say something, but they support me after I've made the fuss.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7906.51316,7909.90602"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/479","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, right. A lot of times, do you find that's true that because you're willing to speak up, it's sort of like, they're waiting for you to do it, and then, okay, they'll support you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7909.90602,7920.86824"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/480","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, with Billy and Tony, sometimes they'd bring it up first, and that was so wonderful. Now we're all off the committee, but they would bring something up, especially because Billy's an artist, and he wants more artists to be, have that opportunity, such a great opportunity, to be commissioned to do something like that. It shouldn't just go to a few limited, same people all the time. And so, he would say something, I'd say, \"Oh, thank you for saying something.\" (truck beeping) And I'd jump in and say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we're not doing that. No. We don't want to do it this way. We don't want to have people to come in and have made all their own decisions without consulting us and then want us to pay for it. Want the citizens to pay for it. No, it's not gonna work that way. And a lot of businessmen want to do it that way. They just want the money they don't want. And even if they did know something about art, which generally they didn't, it's not the way I think citizens money should be spent. So, so I got a little bit of my mother with the money portion, you know, let's spend it on the way that supports a democratic process.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7920.86824,7990.81784"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/481","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7990.81784,7992.614"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/482","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e I do believe democracy is the best way. As Benjamin said, Benjamin Franklin, \"It's good if you can keep it.\" Did he say that or was that Lafayette?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=7992.614,8001.83857"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/483","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that's right. I think, I think, I think you're right, that it was Franklin. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8001.83857,8006.11871"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/484","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e But anyway, yeah. It'll be the best way if we can survive it. We may come out better on the other side, who knows.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8006.11871,8013.94539"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/485","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's hope. (both laughing) Let's hope you, you know. Amen on that one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8013.94539,8020.19584"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/486","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. But anyway, thanks to you for all the work that you do, and thank you for inviting me. I appreciate this so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8020.19584,8025.72391"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/487","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you for talking to us. Thank you for really sharing so much about your family, about your experience with the citizens of Montgomery County that that's who this is for, and so I hope this helps a lot of different people with research, with art projects, with inspiration. You know that, that's, it's, it's, it's for everyone. So, thank you. It's been just an honor. (Yvonne laughing) I mean that. I mean what you have accomplished is really incredible and —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8025.72391,8057.38958"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/488","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, just trying to survive, like everybody else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8057.38958,8058.98161"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/489","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you for all that you've done. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8058.98161,8061.71319"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/490","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eYvonne Kendall:\u003c/strong\u003e That's it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8061.71319,8062.51129"},{"id":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427/transcript/84870/annotation/491","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eShana Thornton:\u003c/strong\u003e That's it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://montgomerycountyarchives.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3373/collection_resources/154681/file/293427#t=8062.51129,8063.51129"}]}]}]}