Megan: Why did you decide to build your house here?

Julia: I guess I liked this place. We used to come up to the Raywiches. I always said, “I’d like to live up here.” 

Patricia: Besides the Raywiches, what other houses were here when you built?

Julia: No, there weren’t any. There was one other, but they were never home. They tried to put a street in up further, but it was too rocky, so they brought it down here (next to the house).

Kathy: Did you ever think about leaving this house?

Julia: No.

Kathy: I didn’t think so. I never heard you talked about it.

Julia: The only thing was I would be afraid at night because there were parkers! There weren’t any houses past us besides the Raywiches, so the cars would be parked there. You know, lovers!

Kathy: Oh, and Dad was working nights? You were here alone with John, and then Pat.

Julia: I wouldn’t go to sleep until he got home.

Megan: How many years have you been in this house?

Julia: Oh...

Patricia: Who was your first baby in this house?

Julia: Pat, don’t ask me that. You? I don’t know.

Patricia: Well, you were in the house a year before I was born, and I’m going to be 65, so you’ve been in here since 1952! Do you remember what month you moved in?

Julia: Pat, I can’t remember those things!

Kathy: I don’t remember, I was just dust under the bed.

Patricia: Ma, Mary Ernst died. Her obit is in today’s paper.

Julia: Well, that’s a surprise!

Kathy: No, it’s not. She was 93 years old.

Julia: I guess there’s going to be a house for sale next-door now. Unless her kids decide to come live in it.

Kathy: I don’t think that’s going to happen. They’ve been out in Utah for almost 40 years now.

Julia: I don’t know, Kathy.

Kathy: You’ve had a lot of kids here to keep you company.

Julia: I remember Judy used to hide in the garden. Then, I remember I was out taking the clothes off the line, and then I hear someone yell, “The coast is clear!” I looked and it’s Judy! She was up in a tree. 

Megan: What do you remember about me here, as a kid?

Julia: I remember they’d bring you down, and Pat would take you on the couch and lay you on her chest to get you to go to sleep. And Grandpa would walk you around the Circle (street that circles the house) and he would get tired, but you’d say, “C’mon, c’mon!”