Faith McConnell shares her memories of growing up on a farm in York County, South Carolina during the early twentieth century. She describes details of her home life, including her family's use of an ironing pot and an ash hopper to make lye soap at home, and her experiences attending a two-room school. She also discusses working as a teacher at Wesley Heights Graded School in Charlotte, North Carolina and explains that she moved to part-time substitute teaching after she married because women in her community typically quit full-time work after marriage.