Gary Minton Interview Report

Gary Minton is a man full of funny jokes, great stories, and determination. I call Gary my “Paw-Paw” and have since the day I was born. He is one of the sweetest and kindest people anyone will ever meet. He has worked hard to get where he is at today and told me to do the same: “ Work hard, it’s gonna pay off.” During this interview, I learned about his childhood, teenage years, and early adult years, basically all of the times he was alive when I was not. I chose to interview him because I knew that he would have lots of advice and many tales to tell about his life: “ Pay more attention, be more focused, and don’t look at any boys” (Minton). In my interview with my Paw-Paw I heard and learned about how in the time he grew up how social norms and society influenced everyone’s life. A book that we read recently tells us much

Throughout this interview I learned about what life was like when he was a childhood, what went on in society while he was younger, and much more. I started off the interview by asking what life was like for him as a child. He responding by saying that it was good time, but also a time of poverty: “ Good era that we grew up in, we came from a small town, money was tight, I didn’t think we were poor at the time but I guess we was” (Minton). Gary said that some of his best memories as a child were Sunday dinners with all of his family. He has a sister and had a brother that he grew up with and during Sunday dinners they were both there along with all of his cousins too. Moving on to his teen years, he claims he was good throughout high school although he did admit to laying out of school once or twice. Unfortunately, he would not explain to me the stories behind him skipping school. In his free time my Paw-Paw played baseball throughout high school and enjoyed going to country music shows. During his teen years is when he met and married my Nana. They got married when my Paw-Paw was eighteen and my Nana was fifteen.