Nate Davis - Hargraves Childhood Memories (clip)

Nate Davis (ND): Again it was a safe and fun place to come, again, we didn’t have the indoor gym, but we had the outdoor basketball court over here. Before the outdoor court was over here, it was over in that parking lot. And [it] was just one loose ball, basketball goal on a light pole, horse shoes. We had a shuffleboard court in front of Hargraves. Y’know, we had the swings, and everything down on the playground, so a lot of things for us to do. A lot of things for us to enjoy. You know, and, kids came over and took advantage of that, y’know… playing table tennis, shootin’ pool, and all that stuff. And they don’t really do that now. And somehow, we have got to find a way to bring them back in. You know.

Alexander Stephens (AS): So, you’re saying your parents would just send y’all here, ’cause, [it’s] safe–”

ND: Oh, yeah, it was a path we could take, this road right here; well, it’s not there, it was a hill that we had to climb. And we would leave [], everywhere we lived, you know, walk down through the path, cross the little bridge, and up the hill. I would either come up McDade street…I would come up Cotton street, down McDade, and up the hill to Hargraves, you know?