Myrtle Hall discusses her life in Ophir, North Carolina, a community in Montgomery County near Troy. She discusses working at the Fremont Hosiery Mill until knee problems forced her to retire at eighty years old. Her family owned a farm and grew all the food they needed except a little coffee and sugar. She talks about how younger residents in her community are moving away to bigger cities. Ms. Hall shares some stories from her life like catching stone toaders (crawfish) and fishing in a local stream when she was young. She also discusses her active involvement in the local Democratic Party and in her community.