Nate Davis - On Local Families (clip)

Alexander Stephens: It seems like you do hope, though, that it will be used more by people more from this specific community, these neighborhoods around here. I mean, it seems like that’s important to you in some…

Nate Davis: Well, let’s look at Roberson Street. The people that used to live here are no longer here. I mean, the people that had kids, you take the house directly in front of Lindsey, it was five children in their family, all of them gone. This house, Ms. Sarah Foushee, she used to live there. So I’m saying there were at least eight, nine kids in that house. Next house, maybe four or five. Grandma Burnette had another six or seven grandkids. They was always there in the summer. This house right here, Mr. White Bynum, who worked for the town for a number of years, he had one, let’s see about two, three… about seven kids that lived in that house. And on down. The next house it was about four. The little picket fence where the lady went, about three. The next house there was two. So, that’s just on this street here. That's what we had. Another thing that’s happened, a lot of the kids are moving out. A lot of families are moving out. So, the kids are no longer here. Graham Street, same thing, but they’re no longer here. Yeah. So… we talk about the kids coming over and using the facility, but there’s still a lot of kids in this neighborhood. But back then, they could walk out the front door and the parents could come to the door and see where they were and what they were doing. And then, this house here, the Sykes, they might’ve had about ten in that house. They would come up here to use the facility. So all these houses had young people, I would say under the age of 15, that came to Hargraves to use the facility.