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01 Arlene Wadsworth: Introduction

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Interview · North Dakota · Arlene Wadsworth

Themes: Kinship & family, Children & young people

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Learn About questions

1. Where did Arlene Wadsworth live before returning to St. Michael? 2. What concerns about her children's school transportation influenced the move? 3. How did the family's concern for safety shape that decision?

Learn From questions

1. What makes a place feel safe enough for me or my family to belong? 2. How have family responsibilities influenced a decision about where I live? 3. What questions should I ask before assuming I understand another family's decision to move?

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01 Arlene Wadsworth: Introduction

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My name is Darlene moderate I’m 76 years old I live in st.Michael’s and I had you know grew up here but in 1919 9 1965 I had moved to Cleveland Ohio I lived there till 1988 and I moved back here with my family with my husband and my two children the reason why we moved back was well that they started this bus thing you remember and they had already bus my son into a bad neighborhood and after Christmas they were gonna start busting my daughter into a bad neighborhood too and so much was happening there was people standing up on bridges thrown stuff down at the buses as they went by so for it for our safety we you know move back here

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