George: Capitol.

Carole: Oh wow. They said something about you're the employee...

George: Employee.

Carole: Of... maybe of the year, George.

George: Of the year.

Carole: Yeah, so how did that make you feel?

George: I don't know.

Carole: You were happy with that?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah? George you also mentioned to me that there's flags that they gave you.

George: Yeah in the capital.

Carole: And there's also a flag here, right?

George: Out front.

Carole: Right.

George: And there's a light on the wall.

Carole: Wow.

George: It's out there.

Carole: Yes.

George: There's a light out front.

Carole: Right so if we were here at nighttime...

George: Nighttime.

Carole: Would we be able to see that, your flag out there?

George: We see it at night when it gets dark and it comes on.

Carole: Wow.

George: That's at night.

Carole: It'd be wonderful to see that, George.

George: That's a new light.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: The old light got broken.

Carole: It did?

George: Yeah, they got rid of it.

Carole: Oh, OK. How long has that been up there outside?

George: A lot longer.

Carole: OK, alright. So the work that you do, how long have you actually done the recycling work?

George: Ten.

Carole: Ten years?

George: Yep.

Carole: Wow. That's amazing. How did you get into that?

George: In the front door.

Carole: Oh, uh-huh. OK. Did they ask you if you wanted to do the work or did you volunteer? Do you remember?

George: Mm.

Carole: No? So you know how we were just building with Tad?

George: Yeah.

Carole: What's that room called where we were, George?

George: Mailing.

Carole: OK, yes. So then the students were helping...

George: Yeah.

Carole: Build. What's that thing you built today? You used a hammer?

George: Yeah.

Carole: And it's like a box?

George: A box.

Carole: Yeah. I don't remember what you're going to do with that box. What are you going to put in that box?

George: I don't know.

Carole: Not yet you don't know yet?

George: Not yet.

Carole: OK, yeah. We took the box back to your room.

George: Yeah.

Carole: And I have to say your room is wonderful.

George: Yeah.

Carole: It's got a lot of pictures.

George: Yep.

Carole: Who made your room look the way it looks, George?

George: I don't know.

Carole: Nah? It's got your flags in there.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Two flags?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: Yeah and are those flags, that came...

George: Capital.

Carole: Though the capital again, right?

George: Yeah.

Carole: I think that Kevin told us you were employee of the year how many times?

George: Two years.

Carole: That's what I thought, two times.

George: Two times.

Carole: That's wonderful. So does anyone... you know how we were in that room building?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Were some of your friends there?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: The guys I mean.

George: Nobody was there.

Carole: Oh, OK, alright. Let me just look at this a minute and get back to my real questions for a second. Oh yeah. Do you get a chance to... you've lived here for at least 40 years right?

George: 40 years. That's the wind.

Carole: Is that the wind?

Staff: Yeah.

Carole: Wow, noisy.

George: Noisy.

Carole: Can you tell me a little bit more about this place and how it's changed?

George: Change.

Carole: Yeah.

George: (Inaudible).

Carole: Oh remember you showed me where it is?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Where is it?

George: Outside.

Carole: Yeah. Thank you. George showed us that new cornfield.

George: Cornfield is over there.

Carole: Mm-hm.

George: And I think...

Carole: Right.

George: They take the corn seeds and dump them.

Carole: Yes, yes.

George: And dump the corn seeds.

Carole: Right.

George: In the wagon and haul...

Carole: How does it get seeded every year? Who does that work?

George: The farmer.

Carole: Mm. OK. And you all don't do that work, right?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: No?

George: The farmer does.

Carole: I'm just going to check that we're in good shape, George. Yeah, we're good. The farmer does. Do you get to eat the corn? Nah. Alright.

George: They cut it.

Carole: Yeah, yeah. So who lives in your room on the other side?

George: Jimmy.

Carole: Jimmy? Oh. Jimmy. I met him, right? Downstairs. How do you two get along?

George: Yep.

Carole: You get along OK?

George: Yep.

Carole: Has he been here...

George: Long time.

Carole: A long time also? Yeah. OK. Do you ever get a chance to see any... are you still in touch with family members?

George: No.

Carole: Nah? You were telling me that you're really excited about the movies.

George: Yeah.

Carole: And what's going to happen... is it the cafeteria?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: When is that going to happen, George?

George: I don't know.

Carole: Oh, OK. Yeah. There's going to be a new television, you said.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah. When we were in your room I saw a lot of movies.

George: Yeah.

Carole: How did you get all those movies?

George: At home.

Carole: You didn't have to buy those, did you?

George: No.

Carole: But you have about a hundred?

George: A hundred.

Carole: Yeah, do you have a favorite?

George: Yeah.

Carole: What's one of your favorite movies?

George: I don't know.

Carole: Nah? I saw Jurassic Park in there.

George: Yeah?

Carole: Mm-hm. I saw some westerns. Did you have westerns?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah, OK. I don't know George. We were talking about dances.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Right? Do you look forward to those dances?

George: They have them in there.

Carole: In the auditorium, right? Did you tell me... do you dance? Do you enjoy it?

George: No.

Carole: Uh-huh. OK, great. So we are also... we walked around. Everyone met us, right? How do you feel about (inaudible)? She likes you, right?

George: That's the daycare.

Carole: Daycare is out front here?

George: Yeah.

Carole: I'm going to look George. I'm just going to look a second.

George: That's the daycare.

Carole: We can talk about that. Oh, I see.

George: That's the old daycare. The kids' daycare.

Carole: The kids are there?

George: A long time out there, they're not there anymore.

Carole: Oh, it's all... is it empty?

George: Empty.

Carole: Did you used to go up to that building?

George: Nuh-huh.

Carole: Have you always been in this building, George?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah? How about your room? Has it been where I saw?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah? OK.

George: That's Arbor.

Carole: Oh, Arbor is over there?

George: That's Arbor daycare.

Carole: Oh that's the name of it?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Oh. I have questions. See the flagpole?

George: Yeah.

Carole: That's not where your flag is?

George: No.

Carole: No, no, no.

George: No, no.

Carole: Alright, I see.

George: They hang them up when it gets... when the weather gets nicer.

Carole: Mm-hm.

George: They come up and hang them.

Carole: Oh.

George: They hang them on the lights in Spring.

Carole: Mm-hm.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Do you help them?

George: Yeah.

Carole: What do you do, George?

George: They go up in the forklift.

Carole: Oh!

George: They go up in the forklift and put them up.

Carole: Wow.

George: In the summer.

Carole: Have you ever been up in the forklift?

George: Just maintenance.

Carole: Just maintenance, OK. Yeah.

George: Jerry and Jim.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: Jerry and Jim go up their own and hang them up all up when I'm here.

Carole: Yeah and you can go there and be there waiting down there?

George: Waiting down there.

Carole: Somebody said... who was it? Chad or Kevin said that you... when the flags get tattered...

George: Get tattered. They get tattered.

Carole: They said you help out and tell them that the flags get tattered. Yeah.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Mm-hm. Did you like what we ate today?

George: Yeah.

Carole: But what didn't we get? Remember?

George: Cherry pie.

Carole: Yeah. We were going to get cherry pie, remember?

George: We couldn't get it.

Carole: No. I was disappointed we did not get that cherry pie.

George: Disappointed.

Carole: Right? So George, do you know what year you were born in?

George: I don't know.

Carole: No? OK and have you always lived in Pennsylvania?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: OK. Can you remind me what the town you were born in?

George: Yeah. Mm-hm.

Carole: No?

George: No.

Carole: OK, alright but it's Pennsylvania for sure, right?

George: Yeah.

Carole: OK. How did you feel, George... Are you looking at something out there?

George: The mail.

Carole: Oh, which one is that?

George: That's the barn.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: That's the barn.

Carole: Is that what they call it?

George: That's the (inaudible) barn.

Carole: I see. Have you been to that barn?

George: No, I want to see it. The tractor is in it.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: The corn...

Carole: Yes, yeah.

George: In the field.

Carole: Hm.

George: The corn stalks.

Carole: Oh, right.

George: Corn stalks. They cut them down every year. Every year they cut them down. They cut them. They cut them up.

Carole: What do they do with them when they're done? When they've cut them up?

George: Put them in the field, another field.

Carole: OK, yeah.

George: In that field over there.

Carole: Oh, behind the cornfield.

George: Yeah, behind the cornfield.

Carole: I see.

George: The cornfield.

Carole: Yeah. George, what does the corn look like when it snows?

George: It's covered.

Carole: Oh. What do they cover it with?

George: It's all gone.

Carole: Oh, OK. It's all done now?

George: All done.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: They'll paint this year again.

Carole: Oh good, when will they do that? Do you know?

George: In spring.

Carole: Hm-mm. I guess it's April now so...

George: April.

Carole: OK. Mm. We drove up. Remember I told you we were driving up in the bus?

George: Yeah.

Carole: And the (inaudible) was...

George: Wow.

Carole: Yeah.

George: ... County.

Carole: County, did you say?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Yeah. It was really brown.

George: Grey and brown.

Carole: Yep and choppy too today, George.

George: Yeah.

Carole: Mm-hm. George, are you comfortable in here or is hot for you?

George: It's comfortable here.

Carole: OK, great. Yeah. Now I see that you have some headphones around.

George: Yeah.

Carole: What do you do with those?

George: Listen to music.

Carole: What kind of music?

George: The cook..

Carole: Oh (inaudible) yeah? Oh, is the cook who the one who...

George: In his truck.

Carole: In his truck, that's right.

George: She has the car today.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: She has the car today.

Carole: SO you don't have to watch it?

George: No.

Carole: OK.

George: She has the car today.

Carole: You see her car out there?

George: That's her truck.

Carole: What color is it, George?

George: Brown.

Carole: OH, the one out there?

George: Yeah. That's her brown...

Carole: Yeah.

George: Her brown truck. Her red truck... Her red one is at home.

Carole: Is it?

George: Yeah.

Carole: She told us she was here 21 years, didn't she?

George: 20.

Carole: 20? Oh, OK.

George: She likes to go to the races in spring.

Carole: Yeah?

George: In the spring probably.

Carole: Right.

George: She goes to the races in the spring time when it's nice out.

Carole: Oh, wow. Did you ever go with her?

George: The races down here?

Carole: Yeah.

George: It's down on the race track.

Carole: Yeah, you went?

George: Keep an eye on it.

Carole: Oh, keep an eye on the truck.

George: Race truck. Race is going to... You can hear them every night.

Carole: Wow. Noisy?

George: Noisy.

Carole: Yeah. What does it sound like?

George: I don't know. They go on the tracks.

Carole: And it's cars, right?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Not horses?

George: Cars. Cars. Like cars.

Carole: Yeah.

George: Car races.

Carole: George, do you need some water?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: OK. Oh, I meant to ask you about bowling.

George: Yeah, it's over now.

Carole: You said. When is that going to start up again?

George: Next year.

Carole: OK. Alright but you go... how do you get there when you go, by the way?

George: Not far.

Carole: Not too far?

George: Not too far.

Carole: Did you say it's in Pennsburg?

George: Yeah.

Carole: Mm-hm. How many people get to go with you when you go?

George: Two miles.

Carole: Two miles?

George: Mm-hm. We get food out there.

Carole: Oh, what kind of food?

George: Like hot dogs, hamburgers, and that.

Carole: Oh. That's fun?

George: Yep.

Carole: Mm-hm.

George: In the fire trucks.

Carole: Oh, OK.

George: Go cleaning.

Carole: Right now?

George: Not yet.

Carole: Oh, OK good. Alright.

George: What time is it?

Carole: What time is it? Oh it's getting to be...

Staff: It's 2:30.

Carole: 2:30.

George: 2:30.

Carole: George, if you don't mind can we talk about music again?

George: Nuh-huh.

Carole: Nah?

George: Nah.

Carole: OK. I saw you have a stereo. Don't you have a stereo in your room?

George: No.

Carole: No?

George: No.

Carole: Alright. Um. I was... I was at the state fair at Bloomsburg. Did you ever get to that state fair up here?

George: Not yet.

Carole: No, not yet? OH, OK. Yeah, they have a lot of music there.

George: Yeah, lots.

Carole: Yeah, right. Uh-huh. You know I actually like a lot of rock and roll.

George: Uh-huh.

Carole: Do you like rock and roll at all?

George: Sometimes.

Carole: Sometimes?

George: Uh-huh.

Carole: You like the hard rockers, George?

George: Mm-hm.

Carole: What kind of rock and roll?

George: (inaudible)

Carole: Elvis?

George: Elvis.

Carole: Do you like Elvis?

George: Nuh-huh.

Carole: You getting ready to go?

George: Yeah.

Carole: OK George. Thank you so much, George.

George: Thank you.

Carole: Bye George.

George: Bye.