Stories of a Second Generation Ironworker From Iowa Oral History Transcript
Stories of a Second Generation Ironworker From Iowa Oral History Transcript
Ira Dale Mays
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Dunning: That's good. Mays: Yes. Then I don't have to drive. And it's cheaper. You can practically go for nothing. That's one thing about being a senior citizen, you don't have spare times. You can look around and find something to do all the time, eight and a half hours in the day. Dunning: Did your father ever write letters home telling the family how it was for him to come out here? Mays: Yes, I guess he liked it. He liked what he saw. Most of the working people in the Midwest you can put th...is down they work all summer to keep warm in the winter, as high as coal is, and petroleum, and oil, and all that. You've got to save your money to buy clothes, and coal, and insulate your house for the winter. Well, here you don't have that problem. It's not a big problem to heat during the winter. But back there everything you made during the summer would go into buying coal, and wood, and keeping the house warm during the winter . I remember I ' ve come home from school when it was twenty-eight below zero.
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