Transcript: Ol' Bill

GIRL 1: This is our grandma Alice.

GIRL 2: She grew up in Mississippi.

GIRL 1: Did you have a television when you were little, Grandma?

ALICE: No. We didn’t have no television and we didn’t have no electricity. And so we used our imagination on everything. We had our own little rodeo. The kids use to come over and we use to ride the billy goats.

GIRL 2: Grandma could you tell me about Ol’ Bill?

ALICE: Yes I can! Ol’ Bill was a mule. He went to jump a ditch once. And Ernestine and I fell off of him. I got up and got back on, but Ernestine wouldn’t get on him no more. And Ernestine hadn’t ridden a horse or a mule since. And Ol’ Bill was a mule, he was a sweet heart.

GIRLS: Ask someone in your family to tell you their story.