Virginia Dillon

I started interviewing Virginia Dillon more than fifteen years ago and

we have accumulated over a hundred hours of audio recordings of her

reminiscences and oral history. She had been sick somewhat the past

couple of years and, although we kept in touch by phone, I hadn't made

a new recording since 2014. But this week we sat down again, now in

her new digs at a local old-age home. She had her notes at hand and

we talked for ninety minutes. I expect some more interviews in the

near future.



Virginia was born in 1929 but has a detailed memory about her

community going back fifty years before her own birth. She paid

attention as a child to what the old people told her.