Jonathan Belton describes his childhood activities playing with his friends in Briar Creek adjacent to the neighborhood of Grier Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes catching tadpoles and digging out gray clay from the banks of the creek to make ashtrays and other articles. He remembers spending time in a place that he and his friends called the "Big Boy Hole" swimming hole, located behind the Mint Museum close to Randolph Road. Mr. Belton also discusses his education and participation in swimming programs, as well as the difficulty his peers and older acquaintances in his neighborhood used to have in learning to swim. He concludes the interview with reminiscences of being a black student at the virtually all-white Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, and the lingering racial propaganda spread by white American soldiers that he encountered when he visited Korea in the 1980s.