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 Minister Robert Campbell - On teaching for the future (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On Chapel Hill masons

 Minister Robert Campbell - On Aunt Callie (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On rafter (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - Ask your wife (clip)

Minister Robert Campbell: “Well, it all depends on the function. A residential home uses smaller rocks, a commercial type you have bigger rocks. And you can actually see that the rocks at Hargraves are a little bigger than the rocks that you see on the rock houses on Graham and Moore Street. And so…

 Minister Robert Campbell - On walls (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - Money in the ground (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - Buff and shine (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On the Swain house (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On recipes (clip)

Minister Robert Campbell: “I miss him teaching us how to play the piano…My grandfather, he could blow, he could blow. He was our inspiration. Sometimes, sitting around telling the tales about growing up and the things he had to endure. I think it just made him a more persistent and stronger person.…

 Minister Robert Campbell - On the brick bat (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On concrete (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On Chapel Hill rocks (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On Franklin Street (clip)

 Minister Robert Campbell - On his family history (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - On his final thoughts (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - On a gateway (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - On legacy and land (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - Brick has been good to me (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - On teaching the trade (clip)

Yvonne Cleveland: What is one thing you would want to share with people today who might be interested in this kind of work? Another question is: do you think this kind of work is still in existence? Albert Washington: Well, it is now, but when I first started, it was all Black [people] doing it…

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - One million bricks (clip)

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - Background information (clip)

Yvonne Cleveland: What made you interested in becoming a brick mason? Albert Washington: Well, I took it in high school at Chatham County, Horton High School, and they used to interview us and say who’s going to college? If you weren't going to college, they would teach you a trade—carpeting, brick…

 Albert "Bruce" Washington - Introductions (clip)

 Anita Spring Council and Annette "Neecy" Council - On gardens (clip)