Life in the Camp - Part 2

"Here we were probably making yogart.  We had a whole program for making yogart.  Once we got to Campeche because there was so much dysentery in the beginning, and we had over a 100 deaths when they first got transferred, and the kids got sick...."

"....Once the yogart starts growing and the culture starts growing, you start out with a bucket & maybe you get more, you can start spreading it around. Each group was by the village they came from in Guatemala.  They lived in the same street, they lived together -- they had their group and so they elected a couple of woman to take charge of the yogart program.  Then as the culture grows - you can keep making more & more as long as you get enough milk. -- powder milk."

"Corn...[That was your basic foods. You get your corn, you grind it down, you make tortillas] Yep.  You also used the corn to make tamales. Their tamales were much better than the ones from Mexico...much softer."

"Shows the kid working, getting the corn off the cobb; you start young."

"And the women still liked to do their natural -- they're so used to weaving their own clothes.  They probably were able to get some thread.  In Chiapas we were never able to make that one of the priorities - bring in thread, but by the time we got to Campeche, they were getting some."

"I think we taught them cross-stitch, or they could do it already.  We must have brought this stuff in."

Mary started a hammock making ...

"Here is the hammock making."

"You would have to be a man to do the work."