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Barbara Johnson
Barbara with the language book she wrote Barbara Johnson fondly remembers from Phoenix to buy their vegetables or growing up in the community, back turkeys,” said Barbara. when things were “quieter” and peoShe also remembers the row of ple got around with horse-drawn bugcottonwood trees along Thomas and gies and there were not too many cars, 92nd Street. although Barbara remembers that her “My brother and I liked to ride horses grandfather owned a Ford. There was to the little canal to water them. There only one police officer and “not much were a lot of cottonwoods back then trouble around.” and the ditch was Barbara lived with her steep so we had to be “Sometimes I would go grandmother and grandcareful,” said Barbara. with my grandfather At age six, Barbara father who grew vegetables, wheat and cotton. in the Ford to deliver attended Beginners They also raised chickClass at Salt River vegetables all over ens and turkeys. Day School. When the community.” “Sometimes I would she wasn’t in school, go with my grandfather Barbara would help in the Ford to deliver her grandmother with vegetables all over the community. At the turkeys, chickens and gardening. Thanksgiving time, people would come “Sometimes when we were out in the 8
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