Clark tells of a Christmas when she was about 14. For this Christmas her dad had not been able to find work and he could not get any more credit at the grocery store. Dad had a saying that he used sparingly, but when he did good things happened. This Christmas he used it. Then he went to the mailbox to find a check from an uncle for $150. Everyone got something including candy for Clark and her siblings and dishes for her mother. [01:15:04]
#1: Norma Clark on her 79th birthday at Bella Vista Stables, Bella Vista, Arkansas, 2002
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#2: Norma Clark's paternal grandmother, Carolina Trotter Dillow, at the family home near Bella Vista, Arkansas, ca. 1920
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#3: Norma Clark's paternal grandfather, Bradford Dunbar Dillow Sr., at the family home near Bella Vista, Arkansas, ca. 1920s
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#4: The Mann cabin built by Norma Clark's father, Joseph Dillow; Old Bella Vista, Arkansas, ca. 1920
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#5: Bentonville newspaper showing students at Miller School, Bentonville, Arkansas, 1922
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#6: Norma Clark's father, Joseph Dillow, at the Wonderland Cave in Bella Vista, Arkansas, where he worked in the 1930s
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#7: Norma Clark's siblings, Pearl, Ruth, and Kenneth, washing the car in Sugar Creek, Bella Vista, Arkansas, ca. 1930s
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#8: Norma Clark and her siblings: (l-r) Emma Amelia Dillow Butler, Norma Belle Dillow Clark, Joseph Carson Dillow Jr, Paul Edward Dillow, Earl Augusta Dillow, Harold Dillow, Ruth Evelyn Dillow Goodwin, Pearl May Dillow Forbes, Kenneth William Dillow, Bradford Dunbar Dillow; Miller Church Road home, ca. 1940
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