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Joel’s father and mother moved to Decatur in 1950 from Pulaski to buy a scrap metal business from his uncle, Benjamin Denbo. Joel had two sisters, Leslie Denbo and Melissa Denbo Norman. The family were members of Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama. Joel was president of the congregation in 1995.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel attended grade school in Decatur and a preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration. Upon his graduation, he returned to Decatur, Alabama, to manage the family business, Tennessee Valley Recycling, of which he is now President. Joel was a member of the Kiwanis Club for more than 25 years. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel married Sara Miller Denbo in 1980, whose family was also in the scrap metal business. They have three daughters, Ariel Denbo Zion, Rachel Denbo Labovitz, and Jessica Denbo Smith.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJoel begins the interview talking about growing up in a small town in the south and being one of only a few Jewish families living in Decatur. He describes it as difficult and had often felt left out as a child. He talks about the family attending Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama, describing it as far from Decatur with a 50-minute drive. Joel talks about learning Hebrew from a brilliant man living in Decatur, who was a musician, scientist, and a Holocaust survivor. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel talks about his grade school years and recalls several instances when his teacher lectured to him about religion. He talks about his parents talking to the school board in Decatur about Jewish holiday absences. He talks about attending a Protestant preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, to receive a better education. He reflects on education as a tenet of Jewish faith. Joel recalls integration of the schools in 1967 when he was in eighth grade. He reflects on race relations today in Decatur and how that is improving with younger generation. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe reflects on attending the University of Texas and learning about his religion through meeting other Jewish students who were from large cities. He reflects on his experiences living away from Alabama during his high school and college years. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel talks about returning to Decatur after graduating college to help manage the family scrap metal business, telling he would not have returned to Alabama if it weren’t for the business. Joel has been involved with the Kiwanis Club for more than 25 years. He describes their club as an avenue of change and somewhat civil rights related that held liberal perspectives and included Judaism as something for the greater community to recognize. He tells their club was the first civic organization to invite women and presented other topics that were deemed controversial. He tells that their rabbi would attend the presentations. He reflects that he viewed the Kiwanis Club as a messenger of change.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel describes his fondest childhood memories in Decatur of swimming and fishing in the river during the summer and reflects that he had a good upbringing. He talks about dating non-Jewish women but that he always knew he would marry someone Jewish. Joel talks about knowing his wife their entire lives, Sara Miller Denbo, and starting dating in 1979 while attending the Southeastern chapter scrap meeting in Atlanta together. He talks about their three daughters, Ariel, Rachel, and Jessica and their education. He talks about running the family business and describes the need to be highly educated and having a great degree of sophistication in handling financial matters and technicalities of the business in order to remain competitive. He reflects on the future of the family business and the possibility that he is the last generation to run it. He reflects on his retirement and moving to a bigger city.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)","\u003cp\u003eJoel Denbo was interviewed by Sandra Berman on July 12, 2010 in Decatur Alabama\u003c/p\u003e (general)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJoel Denbo\u0026nbsp;(b. 1954)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel Denbo was born in Decatur, Alabama, to Morley Denbo and Barbara Palkes Denbo of Pulaski, Tennessee. Joel\u0026rsquo;s father and mother moved to Decatur in 1950 from Pulaski to buy a scrap metal business from his uncle, Benjamin Denbo. Joel had two sisters, Leslie Denbo and Melissa Denbo Norman. The family were members of Temple B\u0026rsquo;nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama. Joel was president of the congregation in 1995.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel attended grade school in Decatur and a preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration. Upon his graduation, he returned to Decatur, Alabama, to manage the family business, Tennessee Valley Recycling, of which he is now President. Joel was a member of the Kiwanis Club for more than 25 years.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel married Sara Miller Denbo in 1980, whose family was also in the scrap metal business. They have three daughters, Ariel Denbo Zion, Rachel Denbo Labovitz, and Jessica Denbo Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoel begins the interview talking about growing up in a small town in the south and being one of only a few Jewish families living in Decatur. He describes it as difficult and had often felt left out as a child. He talks about the family attending Temple B\u0026rsquo;nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama, describing it as far from Decatur with a 50-minute drive. Joel talks about learning Hebrew from a brilliant man living in Decatur, who was a musician, scientist, and a Holocaust survivor.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel talks about his grade school years and recalls several instances when his teacher lectured to him about religion. He talks about his parents talking to the school board in Decatur about Jewish holiday absences. He talks about attending a Protestant preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, to receive a better education. He reflects on education as a tenet of Jewish faith. Joel recalls integration of the schools in 1967 when he was in eighth grade. He reflects on race relations today in Decatur and how that is improving with younger generation.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe reflects on attending the University of Texas and learning about his religion through meeting other Jewish students who were from large cities. He reflects on his experiences living away from Alabama during his high school and college years.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel talks about returning to Decatur after graduating college to help manage the family scrap metal business, telling he would not have returned to Alabama if it weren\u0026rsquo;t for the business. Joel has been involved with the Kiwanis Club for more than 25 years. He describes their club as an avenue of change and somewhat civil rights related that held liberal perspectives and included Judaism as something for the greater community to recognize. He tells their club was the first civic organization to invite women and presented other topics that were deemed controversial. He tells that their rabbi would attend the presentations. He reflects that he viewed the Kiwanis Club as a messenger of change.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoel describes his fondest childhood memories in Decatur of swimming and fishing in the river during the summer and reflects that he had a good upbringing. He talks about dating non-Jewish women but that he always knew he would marry someone Jewish. Joel talks about knowing his wife their entire lives, Sara Miller Denbo, and starting dating in 1979 while attending the Southeastern chapter scrap meeting in Atlanta together. He talks about their three daughters, Ariel, Rachel, and Jessica and their education. He talks about running the family business and describes the need to be highly educated and having a great degree of sophistication in handling financial matters and technicalities of the business in order to remain competitive. He reflects on the future of the family business and the possibility that he is the last generation to run it. He reflects on his retirement and moving to a bigger city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoel Denbo was interviewed by Sandra Berman on July 12, 2010 in Decatur Alabama\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm with Joel Denbo, who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Bremen Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum. Thank you. I'm very glad to be here. I'm glad you agreed to participate. I know a little bit about your background since we just interviewed your father [Morley Denbo]. I'm going to just begin by asking you some questions about your growing up in the town of Decatur. What are some of your earliest memories of growing up here and living in a small community in the South?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Obviously, being one of just a few Jewish families in this town, it has always been hard to be a Jew in a small town in the South. Even my best friends who may or may not had been Jewish, the non-Jewish ones, you are always kind of left out. I was telling somebody just the other day, being the only kid in my class that knew the secret about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus and that I had to keep it mum was one of those great things . . . it was tough growing up here in the South. Jewish family, I think at that time maybe there were four or five Jewish families here. For instance, the option of going to Hebrew school or not wasn't an option. In between Decatur and Huntsville [Alabama], now, we have a beautiful expressway. In those days, it was two lanes. It took 45 to 50 minutes to drive just the 25 miles to the Temple [Temple B’nai Sholom]. It was a schlep. I mean, schlep enough to where you only wanted to do it once a week when you go to Sunday school. So, to go on Wednesday afternoon was out of the question. But we were fortunate, or, I was fortunate, to know a gentleman who had come to Decatur to work for Chemstrand Corporation. He was a genius, a Holocaust survivor, brilliant scientist. He spoke eight languages, English being his worst accent. He was from Poland. To tell you how brilliant he was, he debuted at the Warsaw Symphony [Warsaw Philharmonic Hall] at like age 8 or 9.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=38.0,166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=166.0,168.82331"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was Dr. Julian Hirshfeld. The story is, he was an old schooler. He tried to teach us Hebrew on Wednesday nights. We would go over there. I guess I was more interested in playing than I was to learning Hebrew. He was a very meticulous type of person, so it just didn't take. My Jewish education was lacking. In fact, the strange thing when I went to the University of Texas and started enjoying fraternity and some of my friends were from the big Jewish congregations in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio [Texas]. That's really where I learned a whole lot about our religion that I never knew. Anyway, back to your question. I've kind of tarried from it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=168.82331,168.82331"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No. It's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=168.82331,225.2474"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Living here was not easy. In fact, two pretty substantial as a small-kid instances in the schools, one of which where I was chastised for making an off the cuff comment about “I'm going to walk on water” because the big deal in those days was Paul “Bear” Bryant walked on water. I was snatched up out of class in third grade, taken out into the hall, and given a lesson that only our Lord Jesus Christ walks on water. The other thing, in fourth grade. This is stuff that a little kid shouldn't have to go through. Of course, my parents were there. I told them, and they jumped in. Still, it wasn't all that easy. It was during the time that there still was prayer and school. Every Friday, each of the classes in our grammar school would put on a play. There was a devotional that went before it. I was the one selected to do the 23rd Psalm. I went home that night, got the Bible out. Our Bible. The Holy Scriptures. I wrote it down and got up the next day as we were doing the initial stuff on it. There are some slight differences between the King James version and our version translated into English. In front of the whole class, my teacher chastised me. “Where did you get that version? That's not the Bible. That's not the right version of the 23rd Psalm. You can't do this.” So, that was some drama. It was decided that I was doing poorly in school because of the of my teachers and some of that animus. Maybe it was a lot to do with me, too. But, they weren't giving me any break at all. Believe it or not, I ended up going to one of the absolute white Anglo-Saxon Protestant boy’s preparatory schools in middle Tennessee. There were six Jews out of a school with 350 boys. I went from the frying pan into really the deep of all of that kind of prejudice. I guess the moral of my story here is that when we consider ourselves, we are a people set apart. No truer words in my life's experience, up to the time that I went to college, that I was set apart. I'll tell you another one. We had a study hall at my prep school. Twice a day, you would have study hall. We had those . . . it was a big auditorium and you had the desk that the front of the desk was a chair and the back was the desk in it and rows up into the back. One of my teachers, who I’ve seen as an adult, and really have not had much use for him. He happened to be a little all-American football player from Austin Peay State University in Middle Tennessee. He used to sit up there and throw pennies at me. I learned to have a very thick skin. Because of my Jewishness, here we are at that time in the 1970s, 30 years past the pogroms, and what have you, 40 years. I fought every day in prep school just because I was the Jewish kid in my class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=225.2474,466.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did your parents send you there? Why did they choose that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=466.0,469.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e For an option for a better education because it is a tenet of our faith that with education, you set yourself free.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=469.0,482.87186"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your parents go to the school here in Decatur when you had those instances, or were they almost afraid to . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=482.87186,491.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No, my father and mother went there. My mother was a little bitty woman. She was barely five feet tall. She was a tiger. I mean, my daddy is great big guy. My mother was a real tiny . . . I mean, she was a tiger. She would fight you, verbally fight you, at the drop of a dime.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=491.0,516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did anything change?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=516.0,518.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Actually, you know, change is torturously slow, but ever so surely it started to change. I'll tell you an instance with my older sister. My oldest sister Leslie [Denbo], who's six years older than I. We had the three Jewish families. The Michelson's, the Denbos, and the Hirshfeld's. At that tier, my sister Leslie, Margaret Hirshfeld, and Marc Michelson were all the same age. They were, I think, juniors in high school. They were all honor students. Marc ended up going to Tulane [University] and became actually probably the most renowned eye surgeon in the southeastern United States. My sister Leslie ended up going to Washington University and did very well. Became an occupational therapist there. Margaret Hirshfeld went to Smith College, which . . . the three schools are not shabby by any criteria. I don't remember whether it was Rosh HaShanah or Yom Kippur. We're going to have to be out of school during the day. Teachers decided that all going to be unexcused absences. In the Decatur school parlance of the day was, that took your honor grade from an A to B. It affected your grade point average. It affected how you were written for recommendations and whatever. That was a big drama. The three groups of parents went down to a man by the name of Heyford Lehman [sp], who was the head of our school board here. Explained the situation of that. He wrote it in the book forever that Jewish kids were always and forever more going to be excused from school for Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, and Passover, if necessary. Change does take place if you get to someone who understands it. Interestingly, roll the years forward, in 1995, I was president of our congregation in Huntsville, and a lady that lived in Decatur was all upset. I went up to her to wish her a good Yontif and say hello. She was all upset and said that her child was being penalized in school because he was out of school on Rosh HaShanah. You're not supposed to do business on Rosh Ha Shanah, but sometimes you have to. After service, it was Rosh HaShanah, I was coming back from Huntsville to Decatur. I called my office. I said, “Call the school board. I want to see the head of the schools here.” His name was Buddy Davis [sp]. “I have urgent business before the superintendent of schools.” I went in, and I did the same thing that my parents had done before. He said, “You're absolutely right.” He made that principal of the other high school, it was Austin High School, and the vice principal and the teacher to call that family and apologize for the stress that they put him under because of that. Change does take place even in the folds of America. I know in Atlanta it never happened, but here it does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=518.0,742.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it happened earlier on when Atlanta was still sort of a small . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=742.99,746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I understand. But in modern day, it doesn't happen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=746.0,751.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's interesting, in speaking with both you and your dad. We have done these interviews all across Georgia and into Alabama now. Most of the people we've interviewed who have lived in small communities only talk about how wonderful the whole experience has been. There wasn't that much . . . they felt entrenched. They felt like they were part of the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=751.0,776.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e We are definitely part of the community. We're thought well of in the community. But I will tell you this. I went to college. I went to prep school away from here. I essentially lived my high school days and my college days far away from Alabama. I saw how it was like in the larger cities. If I had not had a business [Tennessee Valley Recycling] to come back here to, I would not have come back to Alabama or Decatur. I would have more than likely settled in Dallas or Houston and immersed myself in a much larger Jewish community. But here in our town, whenever there's a Jewish question, it's either daddy or myself or ask the question. It's interesting. A Jewish doctor was looking at coming to Decatur recently in the hospital, one of the hospitals here was recruiting him. The person who was handling, trying to be the real estate agent to handle if they were going to come here, who is somebody I've known for a long time. They call me and say, “I don't know what to tell this person about Jewish life in Decatur. Would you talk to them?” “Well, sure. I would be willing to do that.” Come to find out that this was a single woman who was strictly Orthodox, looking to be able to practice Orthodoxy in Decatur, Alabama. I said, “Lady, I hate to tell you, but this is not the town for you. It may be a great opportunity as far as your medical practice is concerned, but you and your child here in Decatur, Alabama, trying to be Orthodox Jews, it just is too hard. With a medical degree, you can find an easier task of it in another town.” Obviously, we're Reform. I was raised in a traditional classical Reform congregation. I'm kind of glad to see that our movement is moving a little bit more back towards conservatism, as opposed to the brand of Judaism that that we practiced here when I was growing up. That's the reason, as I said before, that had a lot to do with our religion. I had no concept of it until I lived the four years in Texas and went to more traditional congregations and then became interested and found out on my own where my religious education was lacking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=776.0,959.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you were coming up through school, before you went to preparatory school, did you have . . . so most of your friends were not Jewish then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=959.0,968.40114"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=968.40114,970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that difficult in the group? Did you always feel a little bit outside the group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=970.0,976.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, of course you did. I mean, they talk about, “We're going to this church camp and we're going over here to be involved in the choir of our congregation or this youth group or that youth group or something.” I don't know where . . . I can't give you a date or how old I was, but I realized that the difference was a good thing for me. I really do believe in the statement we are a people set apart and that we can be part of a community, but we have our own ways. Our ways are, in our opinion, the right way, and that is the way that I want to live my life. I find sweetness in the way that I conduct my life according to Judaism, as I understand it now. I have my own personal relationship with the Almighty, and I don't follow the book. I mean, if the Chabadniks  came in here, they really would say that I was a streamliner. But I do believe in the tenets of our religion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=976.0,1057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you go to Jewish camp?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1057.0,1058.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1058.99,1060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e But you've sent your children to Jewish camp.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1060.0,1062.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1062.0,1063.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How important was that for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1063.0,1065.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e It was very important. It's very important to the extent if you want your children to remain Jewish, the two things that you must do for them, send them to Jewish summer camp. And when they go to college, have them join a Jewish fraternity or sorority. If you do that, your odds of them remaining Jewish, having a Jewish spouse, living a Jewish life, your odds of that happening exponentially rise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1065.0,1105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you feel it was as difficult for your children as it was for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1105.0,1109.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because I knew what to protect them from. I knew what growing up in Decatur, Alabama, was going to be like for them. I made sure that their friends were always invited over to our house to participate with us in the Jewish holidays. Since they were in nursery school, I guess it was, at Hanukkah time or at this time, their friends always knew that we were doing something else and that they were afforded the opportunity to bring their friends and to understand what we were doing as opposed to being the great mystery. My wife and I were very . . . my wife more so than I, but when it came to the holidays, we would go into the school classes and explain what the holidays were about. We made the greater community that my kids were involved with, that they knew that there was something else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1109.0,1176.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you involved yourself with more secular organizations here in Decatur? Lions [Club]. Kiwanis [International]. That sort of thing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1176.0,1184.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I've been Kiwanian in since 1976. I’m an inactive Kiwanian right now. I can go back any time I want, but I've been in the Kiwanis Club for a long, long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1184.0,1196.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think that's a natural part of having to do business here, or is it something you've enjoyed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1196.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e While I was active, I enjoyed it. I was involved in it. It was . . . our Kiwanis Club was a messenger for change in our community as opposed to the other civics clubs w  ere maybe more stalwart, fixed in what they were doing. I was involved in the Kiwanis Club. Harold Michelson, who I’ve mentioned the Michelson name, he was in it. Daddy was in it. We were involved. I was involved with it for 25 years. It's just in recent years I haven't been involved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1202.0,1244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you said it was an avenue of change, was that civil-rights related?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1244.0,1250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e In Kiwanis Club, somewhat. First black manager of any major department store came to Decatur. We invited him to join the Kiwanis Club. He declined it, but we invited him. That was all the buzz in Decatur. We were the first civic organization that asked women to be involved in it, which was all the buzz, because these were traditional men's organizations. We would always have, a friend of mine and I, of course, very controversial. We would bring controversial programs to be . . . I remember that we brought the pro-choice director of the state of Alabama to come and make a presentation. I mean, people were . . . Yes, but anyway, we would have our rabbi come over. Thanksgiving was always the time that I would take the programs. Me and my buddy used to do it. We always tried to mix it up to have maybe . . . Thanksgiving, though, an American holiday, is somewhat steeped in Thanksgiving to the Almighty for giving us bounty in this country. So we would have a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Jew on the dais to give greetings of Thanksgiving. I always viewed the Kiwanis Club as a messenger of change or making a point or making a more liberal point that included Judaism as something that the greater community has to recognize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1250.0,1372.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Growing up in the in the Deep South during the civil rights era, how did you, kind of like on the outside yourself, see what was happening to the African-Americans in your community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1372.0,1389.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Look, as open minded as I might want to say that I was and that we lived here, you couldn't help but be influenced by the greater community. It was tough in Alabama. I remember when the first black kids came into our school when I was in eighth grade. I'm trying to think, when was that? In 1967 or something that they integrated schools in Decatur. It was change. We didn’t know these kids. Kids can be the cruelest thing, especially girls. They're the worst. I wasn't . . . I was told at home that these kids are fine. There's no big deal. But, we're Southerners, and my parents were raised in the South. It was a change that today . . . I can't say that I was not prejudiced in those days, but I was wrong. As I grew older and made up my own mind, I too, was a sojourner in Egypt.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1389.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What about today in Decatur? How do you see race relations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1470.0,1476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Race relations are, as my generation becomes the ones with the gray hair, I think that race relations are getting pretty good. I think that the next generation, my children's age, I think race, that you won't judge anybody on their worth by the color of their skin. We're all products of our upbringing. Like I said, I went to basically segregated schools all through my schooling because even at the University of Texas, a campus of 45,000 students, we had 600 blacks on campus when I was there, and they were mostly the athletes. I can't say that old habits die easy, but as a thinking man, I live to change every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1476.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You mentioned earlier that if you didn't have this family business, you might not have come back to Decatur.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1553.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I can assure you I wouldn't have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1560.0,1561.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Even with having the family business, are you sorry that you came back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1561.99,1568.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No. But there's a lot that we miss. I mean, y'all live in Atlanta. To go to the Cirque du Soleil while they're there that six weeks, it's easy to say, let's go to the Cirque du Soleil. Call up, get tickets, and go. Or, recently my daughter Ariel said . . . I like Todd Rundgren. one of my 1970s utopia rock stars. Well, Todd was at, what's that park in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1568.0,1601.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Piedmont [Park]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1601.0,1602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Outside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1602.0,1603.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Chastain [Park]? The outside amphitheater.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1603.0,1604.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e The outside amphitheater.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1604.0,1604.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The outside amphitheater. Yes, it’s Chastain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1604.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Todd's going to be there with Hall \u0026 Oates. You want to come over? Yes. First chance to see in person somebody who I have enjoyed their music. I mean, it's a schlep to go drive to Atlanta three and half hours. Next day. At least I've got a place to stay now instead of having to take a hotel room. To drive to Birmingham [Alabama] or drive to Nashville [Tennessee]. It's not easy doing the things that I would enjoy doing off the cuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1607.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You also mentioned that you're the last generation for this business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1645.0,1649.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I think so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1649.0,1651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you feel about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1651.0,1656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know. I have to start making plans for the generational exchange for this business. I have a nephew who has just graduated college and is going to go spend some time in Israel. When he comes back, we'll have to make . . . I don't know whether he wants to come into the business or not. We've got some other young people. I have three daughters, one who is a practicing attorney, one who is a freshly minted medical practitioner, and the third one who's got her second master's degree in advertising, or getting the second master's degree. Those are not tasks that are going to be done in Decatur, Alabama. I've educated my children to be able to go any place that they want to go in the world, and this ain't it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1656.0,1720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you see yourself retiring and moving away?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1720.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I want to be one of those old Jews that's down at Fort Lauderdale [Florida] and dingle my toes in that warm water. When it's 20 degrees up here, I want to be tinkling my toes in that warm sand and water, or someplace. Maybe San Diego or something like that. Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1723.0,1746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What are some of your fondest memories of growing up here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1746.0,1749.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I had a good time growing up. I played hard every day. We wore the river out in the summertime, skiing up and down it. We just had a big time, fishing and swimming and doing all those kinds of things. We had a good upbringing. Safe. The downside of living in the cities is all the urban problems that you have with children. We were kind of shielded from it, I think, to a certain degree. That wasn't because I was Jewish or not. It was just because of what it was here. During those years, my father was breaking his back trying to build a business. Over the years, the 35 years that I've been in the business, 34 years, it's been toil, sweat, and tears to try to build our business so that we can enjoy some of the better things in the life. It hasn't been easy. We've missed out on a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1749.0,1827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you were growing up and your pool of women would not have been Jewish, did you did you date non-Jewish women?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1827.0,1839.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Of course I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1839.0,1840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that a problem for your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1840.0,1842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because they knew that it wasn't going to amount to anything. One of the best stories was that I went to the . . . there's a club. White, Anglo-Saxon. The worst. The Belle Mead Country Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1842.0,1859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Here in Decatur?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1859.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No, in Nashville, because with the prep school I went to was in Nashville. Absolutely has never had a Jewish member ever in the history of the club. It’s stodgy as they come. There’s a club up there called the Bachelors Club. My cousin Don Denbo had just recently been married. He was invited, and he invited me to come and go. He had a friend who was an ex-UT [University of Tennessee] cheerleader. I went to this thing where were my old classmates from prep school were there because they were members of the Bachelor’s Club. Here, I walk in with this UT cheerleader. They could have melted. They said, “What is Denbo doing here?” Yes, I dated a lot of non-Jewish girls. But, in my mind, it was fine because it was just dating somebody, having some company, going out doing, but I never seriously dated a non-Jewish girl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1860.0,1930.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You always knew you would marry someone Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1930.99,1933.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I think I did, because I was taught that that's what you do. To tell you very interestingly, the three families that I talk about, all of us, of our generation, all of us have married Jewish people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1933.99,1954.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's amazing. Truly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1954.0,1956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e All of us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1956.0,1957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you meet your wife?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1957.0,1958.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I've known my wife [Sara Miller Denbo] ever since she's been alive. The story . . . I don't know whether Daddy told you the long story of our business and whatever, but my grandfather started a business in Huntsville by the name of Tennessee Hydin Poultry Company. Poultry Hydin Company. When he went to World War I to get his citizenship, he enlisted. After he did his service, he would have been an American citizen. He'd already done what was called his first papers or whatever. He sold the business to a man by the name of Louis Miller, who is my wife's grandfather. But my grandfather and her grandfather were lifelong friends after that took place. My father-in-law, who's a year older than my daddy, they were friends growing up. My granddaddy, when he came back from World War I, he didn't go back to Huntsville and restart a business because he wasn't going to go into competition with the man that he'd sold his business to. So he worked here in Decatur and then went to Pulaski, Tennessee. But an opportunity to go to Pulaski, Tennessee, took place. They were friends. They talked on the phone. They visited on Sundays. That kind of thing. My father and my father-in-law were growing up. All the years of my life, I've known all the years of my wife's life, I've known her. But her brother, who is my partner in business now, we were in Sunday school every day of our lives. He's 11 months younger than I am. We played as children and whatever. We didn't start dating until 1979. I'd already been out of college for three years. She had been out of college a year. She had been working down in Florida, in Fort Lauderdale for American Express. She came home. She didn't like her job because they were working her long hours. It was a real a rat race down there. She didn't like it. So, she came home, and we saw each other at Rosh HaShanah. We were going to a scrap meeting the weekend or two later. I said, “Are you going with your parents to the Southeastern chapter scrap meeting?” She says, “Yes.“ I said, “You can show me around Atlanta because I don't know Atlanta very well.” She had gone to college at Emory University over there. We started dating then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=1958.99,2122.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What's her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2122.0,2122.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Sara.  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2122.99,2124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Her maiden name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2124.0,2125.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Miller.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2125.0,2136.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you started the business . . . When your uncle started the business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2136.0,2144.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Great uncle [Benjamin Denbo].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2144.99,2145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Your great uncle, it seemed like so many Jewish people went into the hides, scrap.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2145.0,2153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Poultry, eggs, roots.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2153.0,2155.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you see the scrap business has still being a mecca for Jewish people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2155.0,2162.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t think so. I've been in the management of our national organization and been involved in national affairs for several years now, and I see that the generation, my generation, second generation, or our grandfathers started or our great uncles, grandfathers, fathers and my generation. But it's real spotty now, whether the children, the children my children's age, are coming into the business. It happens in some cases. It doesn't happen in others. Why? I think because in our religion, we really think that education is the crux of everything, and one should be learning every day of his life, whether it be religiously or to the greater world. We're educating our children to where they can obtain better perhaps than, or something that is not quite as hard. I kid my daughter who is going through residency right now, who is just working her herself, what she thinks, to death. Of course, she's only been in residency three weeks or four weeks. An adjustment to the long hours. I said, “A 60-hour week is already a short week to me. I've been doing it all my business career. Once you get this over with, you'll be able to be an independent earner that you can go wherever you want to go in this whole country and earn a good living. But I don't particularly want you to have to work as hard as I've had to work.” To make that analogy between a doctor's toil versus the scrap dealer's toil, until you've been in our industry, you don't you don't know how hard it can be. We're subject to the ebbs and flows of every economy. Good, bad, indifferent. Brutal competition. If you can educate your children into being doctors and lawyers. In the case of Jessica [Denbo Smith], my youngest, I always tease her that we're going to make her into an Indian chief and we're going to buy a casino with this. And she's an Indian chief. I think that I wanted my children to live a little easier than I did, even though they've worked hard to get to where they are. It's still just a little easier.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2162.0,2342.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you see this industry having changed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2342.0,2346.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Our industry has changed in a lot of ways. First of all, the people that are my age that are much better educated than they'd ever been. There is a great degree of sophistication that's been put into the financial matters of our companies. I'm glad that I had a good, solid education because of the technicalities of our business now, are getting very, very, very hard. Since we are all entrepreneurial in the industry, you have to be able to decipher and to delegate and to analyze very quickly in order to stay on the cutting edge of the industry and to remain competitive. Yes, it's changing. As far as the people who have the gray hair now, my colleagues, I always look at it almost like a collegiate type of environment. I started working in national scrap matters, recycling matters. There was a group of us that we've been together for all these many years. Anyway, we all were afforded good solid educations. As I was saying, as the years have gone by and the challenges have become greater and the technicalities associated with running our business exponentially have grown as compared to our fathers or grandfathers. It's necessary to be highly educated. Quite frankly, in my thinking right now, a chief executive of even a scrap business the size of ours coming without some sort of postgraduate degree, whether it be law or MBA [Master’s of Business Administration] or something, or CPA [Certified Public Accountant], you can learn it, but your peers that are out there that do have that are going to run past you in a hurry if you're not careful. But the one thing that you always have to understand is, and I'm a firm believer, you lead by example. I'm in that yard. I'm in all of my operations. They see me walk out there, and they know that when I start talking, they better listen because I know what to do. I know what to do. There has never been one day that my people have ever said to me, “You don't know what you're talking about. You're out of touch with what you're doing.” I'm a professional in what I do, and my people accept that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2346.0,2537.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You mentioned knowing your wife your entire life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2537.0,2541.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Although we never dated until much later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2541.0,2546.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did she feel about moving to Decatur and knowing she was going to be here really for the rest of her life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2546.0,2555.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. It’s like the city girl came to the country cousins. By the fact that Huntsville, where she grew up, is just 25 miles away, and her family is there, it wasn't that tough. We both say when we when we retire, we want to live in a much bigger city.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2555.0,2581.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did she get involved in community activities or was it difficult?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2581.0,2584.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, she was involved in Junior Service League, which became Service League. We had our own brand, and they joined the National Organization Service League [National League for Women’s Service]. She's been in various clubs. Garden club. My wife is a real hobbyist. She likes to do crafts and stuff like that. She won't take the test to do it, but she is a master knitter. Pretty well known around the land as one of these people that can do the stuff that nobody else can do. She likes doing that kind of stuff. When our children were here, she was absolute hundred percent involved in the kids’ lives. It afforded me the opportunity to do the other things like making a living. Although Sara, once the kids got into school, she's worked here in our business. Even though she would come in at nine o’clock after the kids were gone to school and be home at two o’clock so when they re-arrived or the schlepping that had to take place from this activity to the next. But she's been involved in the business for, I'd say, 25 years on a daily basis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2584.0,2681.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did she ever feel the way you did, that she was sort of on the outside with all the church leagues and all the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2681.0,2689.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yes. Yes. What I'm saying is . . . after all, my wife and I just celebrated our 30th anniversary. At some point in time, it's like the mind meld on Star Trek that you start thinking the same thoughts. But she has the same thoughts that I do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2689.0,2715.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Earlier, before we have to change the tape, you were talking about, I had mentioned that I was getting somewhat of a different story in some of the other communities I've been to, interviewing different people, that it was really a fabulous experience growing up in. So, I wanted to know . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2715.0,2737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e I have to tell you that I have lifelong friends here, people that I know and respect, and they respect me. But anybody that thinks that the greater community just loves us, they love us because we're successful. They love us because we've involved ourselves. They love us because we're smart, and fortunate for my family, they love us because when it comes time to give in to charity, they can always come and appeal to us if they have a worthy cause. But they don't love us for any other reasons by the fact that they're taught that we, the Jews, killed their Lord and savior. When you're taught that from when you are in knickers, so to speak, you got to be a pragmatist and understand that they love you to a certain degree and they turn on you on a dime. It goes to a point that I've always rolled over in my mind. How did it happen that the Holocaust took place in Germany, one of the highest intellectual countries in the world? Could it happen again? As long as we're strong and we'll stand in people's face and tell them when they're wrong and not cower, and to remain active in the greater community, educating people where they're off base, maybe we can forestall it. But I just don't think that they love us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2737.0,2862.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever have any of those, growing up in school, any of those instances where you were told that your people killed our Lord?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2862.0,2874.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. Where do you think that comes from? Do you think I go down to the First Baptist Church and listen to it? Of course not. “You killed our Lord and savior.” Well, where did you hear that from? This is a child, the rhetorical . . . where did you hear? Well, my preacher, my mom and daddy told me that you Jews killed our Lord and savior. I didn't kill anybody. You become a little battle hardened when you listen to that. Today, they can say it. I'm not quite as the child's answer. I have other words that maybe are not as flattering that will use in other settings. But I'll get in somebody's face when they tell us that. When I’m told that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2874.0,2931.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You said you have three sisters?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2931.0,2934.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e Two sisters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2934.0,2935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Where are they now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2935.0,2937.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e My oldest sister [Leslie Denbo] lives in San Ramon, California, which is Bay Area. My other sister lives [Melissa Denbo Norman] in Nashville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2937.0,2946.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do they get back to Decatur much?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2946.0,2949.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e My oldest sister hasn't been here in, I don't know, five or six years. My sister Melissa, who lives in Nashville, comes here periodically. Family functions, stuff like that. It's much more fun to go to Nashville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2949.0,2967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you celebrate the holidays here as a family or do you go to Nashville?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2967.0,2971.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e No, we celebrate Pesach for sure. We have it at either my daddy's house or at my house. We've had it. Now that I'm picking up son in laws along the way, my kids come to me for the holiday. It’s like never would tolerate or abided, but now I'm having to share my child with another family and can't have them for all the holidays, even though we're the happy, fun people that they want to be with. But you understand.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=2971.0,3013.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I do. I'm there. I think we've gotten everything. I really appreciate your doing this. I'm very glad we drove down to Decatur. Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=3013.0,3026.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/transcript/83260/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDENBO:\u003c/strong\u003e My pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639#t=3026.0,3027.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/annotation_set/1994","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Denbo, Joel [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/158391/file/288639/annotation_set/1994/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDecatur is the largest city and county seat of Morgan County in the state of Alabama. 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