Alice Roache

Photo courtesy: Albert W. Durant Collection, Visual Resources, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Sunday School Class"

"You came home from school, you [shelled] corn for the chicken, you did your chores. You brought in the wood, the kindling, the chips, whatever. You did all of this before you had supper - gathered up the wood. And then after supper, you did your homework, and you went to bed. You went to church on Sunday...there was a B.Y.P.U. [Baptist Young People's Union on Sundays] in the afternoon, and that was where you met all your friends...They had programs and singing - that was the highlight of the day."

Interview with Mrs. Alice Roache | October 18, 1991 | l Source: McDonald, Bradley M., Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen J. Bragdon. 1992. Cast down your bucket where you are: an ethnohistorical study of the African-American Community on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918. William & Mary Center for Archaeological Research. Submitted April 20 to Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. www.hathitrust.org