Youngers
My name is Stephanie Youngers. Today is November 19, 2010, and I am interviewing Mrs. Mart Tucker and Mr. Cecil Tucker here at the Museum of the Seminole County History. How are we all today?
Cecil
We’re doing great.
Mart
Just fine [laughs].
Youngers
Good. Well, we’re going to start where and when you were born.
Mart
Okay. I was born in Fort Pierce. January 19th, 1932.
Youngers
And when did you come to the area here?
Mart
Well—here?
Youngers
Did you move around a lot before you moved to the Seminole/Orange County area?
Mart
No. I remember—the thing that I remember first was when we moved to the two-story house on Lake Barton—Little Lake Barton Road[1]—out just outside of Orlando. And we lived there for about 12 years, I think. And then Daddy, of course—he was going up and down the state when the tick eradication was on. And when that was over, he then became a foreman of the ranch south of Christmas. And, so when he was in the tick eradication, he never knew where he would be moved to another place. And so we rented the house that we lived in for about 10 or 12 years.
Youngers
Wow.
Mart
But, this[sic] was[sic] the [World] War [II] years, and you couldn’t find housing in Orlando. And somebody found that house, and bought it, so we had to find another place. And couldn’t go out to the ranch, because there was no school bus going there.
Cecil
How far was the ranch from civilization?
Mart
Well, it was 18 miles south of the main highway.
Youngers
Oh, wow.
Cecil
That was 18 miles south of Christmas. And Christmas was 20 miles from Orlando.
Youngers
Wow. And you went to school in Orlando?
Mart
Yes. Well, when that house was bought. If you worked for the company, they would give you housing in Holopaw. And the ranch was—that he was foreman of—was…
Cecil
Osceola County.
Mart
Well, it was in Osceola County, but it was owned by the Holopaw outfit. And therefore, we went to Holopaw. And we lived there. Best year of my life—well, not really.
Youngers
[laughs].
Mart
But I had lots of fun out there in Holopaw. Mother was—helped to do out the—what is it?
Cecil
The commissary. Food stamps.
Mart
No, the—food stamps and things. Still the war—we still had that. And that was in the commissary. So I’d come to the commissary and I’d help the guys put cans up in that grocery department, and then I’d go to a guy that cuts up all the meat, and I’d do help there. And then at the end of the week, they would do their hand in their pocket and give me out some change. And I still have the .22 rifle that I bought with that money.
Youngers
Oh, my goodness. So, the commissary—that was like the grocery store?
Mart
Yeah.
Youngers
That was out in Holopaw.
Mart
Yes. Because you didn’t have to go to town if you need clothes or, if you need…
Cecil
That was P. V. Wilson Lumber Company. Big outfit.
Youngers
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Mart
And they’re not there anymore. Not at all.
Youngers
No. they’re not. Do you know—what is the school that you attended?
Mart
Well, I went to the school in—what is it? I had it down here. The city that was…
Cecil
Holopaw.
Mart
No, no, no. They had to go out.
Youngers
Fort Pierce?
Cecil
St. Cloud?
Mart
St. Cloud. St. Cloud. Rode into there.
Youngers
That’s still quite a drive. I’ve been down that road.
Mart
Yes. It was.
Youngers
And they had a grammar school there, or…
Mart
No. I don’t think so.
Cecil
What—in St. Cloud?
Mart
No. in Holopaw they did.
Youngers
But in St. Cloud? Did you attend grammar school? Or was it a large school? Or was it a small place?
Mart
Just regular. St. Cloud.
Cecil
It wasn’t that large.
Mart
Wasn’t anything like Orlando. But it was bigger than Holopaw.
Youngers
And you all lived in Holopaw for a year?
Mart
Just a year.
Youngers
When did you—where did you go after you left there?
Mart
Well, when we left there, the ranch was just officially our home. But Mom and us—well, there’s[sic] four girls at the time—had not yet finished all high school. So we went into Orlando and rented in Orlando until my twin sister and I…
Youngers
Oh, you’re a twin, too? Wow.
Mart
Yeah.
Cecil
Tell us about your brothers and sisters.
Mart
Oh, hm. Well, Sally [Albritton] and Betty [Albritton]. Helen [Albritton] was the oldest. And then I had a brother, Boots [Albritton], that[sic] was about, I guess, four years younger than she. And then there was two sets of—Sally and Betty. And then there was Miriam [Albritton] and Margaret [Albritton].
Youngers
So two sets of twins? Goodness.
Mart
Two sets of twins. Twenty months apart.
Youngers
Oh, my goodness.
Mart
You can figure why I guess she had her tubes tied. Didn’t need any more kids. And what else did you…
Cecil
Well, just tell us about your brothers and sisters, because that…
Youngers
Did you all help out at home a lot on the ranch?
Mart
Well, see, we didn’t live on the ranch. I was privy to be able to—well, in the sixth and seventh grade, Daddy would go out for two weeks in the summer. And even then, on Wednesday, he would let me ride. I’d cow-hunt with him. I sat up on horse, and all that. He was my dad, but you took care of whatever you was supposed to do. So I loved to cow-hunt. We’d ride all day. We’d ride all morning and then have lunch and take a snooze before we rode some more. So you could get tired of it, but I didn’t.
Cecil
How about your brother?
Mart
Well, my brother, Boots—he was out at the ranch. He married and was out at the ranch. But he—he didn’t stay there very long. Thing of it is, you have to not let hollerin’ at you bother you, because when you’re having to do something, or things are quick—and Daddy hollers at you to do something—you don’t get out of sorts, because that’s just the way it is. But he couldn’t take it. And so he went into Orlando there.
Youngers
Now, did your other sisters do this with you too?
Mart
No.
Cecil
She was, um—Mart[2] was the only boy.
Mart
They didn’t. They didn’t never come out to the ranch when for—you know, like I did.
Cecil
Her dad said that he had a pretty good cowhand in her until I came along and started courting her and messed it up [laughs].
Mart
[laughs] Oh, well, you could have jumped in and helped us. No.
Youngers
When you went to the high school in Orlando, were you part of any groups or anything there? Did you have any kind of social functions that you attended?
Mart
Well, I was athletic. So we had a group—a club—that I was head of. And as far as us girls that were athletic were concerned, we stayed after school and played the different sports that were available at that part of the year.
Cecil
What were some of the sports that y’all played?
Mart
Speedball was one. Of course, basketball. Volleyball.
Cecil
Softball?
Mart
Yeah, yeah. Softball. I was pitcher. But my main thing in high school was sports. And that and makin’ honor society.
Cecil
What about rifle team?
Mart
Oh, I forgot about the rifle team.
Youngers
You were on the rifle team too?
Mart
Well, we had a rifle club. I got a picture home, shows this old, oh, eight or ten boys and girls up there with their rifles, out from the school building there. Now, can you imagine? They’re letting people bring rifles to school today? [laughs].
Youngers
Oh, yeah. Were the boys a little put off by the fact that you could shoot a rifle?
Mart
Oh, no. No.
Youngers
No? They liked that? They weren’t afraid?
Mart
I still have the rifle. Oh, when I was in Holopaw, and the guys—well, did I say that? And the guys, when they would give me money…
Youngers
And you bought your .22.
Mart
Yeah, that’s when I bought that .22. When I was in the eighth grade. So…
Youngers
Oh, wow. And they let you buy it all by yourself?
Mart
Oh, yeah.
Youngers
See, can’t do that anymore either.
Mart
[inaudible] Right, yeah. That was better days.
Youngers
Yeah. And from high school, you went to University of Florida. Did you do that right out of high school, or did you take some time in between?
Mart
No, I went right out of high school and I was going to major in animal husbandry. And, when did I see you first?
Cecil
The summer before you went up there.
Mart
Well, I can’t…
Youngers
You saw him here back home?
Mart
When my sister and I graduated from high school, then the ranch was our home. And that’s where I lived. And our post office was in Christmas. We’d go into Orlando to get groceries and stuff, and so one of those days before I went off to college, got the mail, came out and told Mom, “Oh, I saw the postmaster’s son. He was waiting—in there waiting on customers.” She said, “Oh, you should have told him you’re one of the lucky ones. You’re going to be in Reid Hall.” And I was really surprised that Mother would want me to—but I knew what—she was afraid I was going to get homesick at university and didn’t know anybody, and at least I would know one person. Of course, since I was a beginner there, I had to go a week early for the week of orientation. Well, it just so happens there’s this guy sitting on the steps of the big building we were waiting for something, the next thing to be done. But because he was a transfer student…
Cecil
I had to go to orientation too.
Mart
He had to do the same. And so that’s where I really met him. And, of course, we went to the frat[ernity] house and met all those guys.
Youngers
Yeah. He said he used to invite you to dinner every week to come have dinner with him and all the boys there.
Mart
Of course, he made sure to tell everyone one of them—oh, man. Whole house full of guys, you know. He told every one of them, “Hands off.” Never did give—well, he was out of town, he had to go home for his teeth or something, and old McGregor—tall, lanky fellow—asked me out. And I had already planned to do ironing and what not, but I said, “No.” That was the only…
Cecil
The only opportunity you had. He hadn’t gotten a word yet at that point.
Mart
Yeah. He hadn’t gotten to the frat house yet. But that was great. And I went that one year. But if I really wanted to go again back, I’m sure money would have been able to be found. Mother had an operation that took what normally would have sent me, but by then, I was…
Cecil
Sidetracked.
Mart
Well, yeah. I was wanting to get a job and save up money so that whenever we were—we were getting pretty close, and so I didn’t mind not going back to work there. I worked there and I forget where it was in Orlando, but then we were married.
Cecil
Jacob’s Packing House.
Mart
Yeah. That’s it.
Youngers
So when he finished out his education up there…
Mart
No, when he finished his—see, he had his first year in Orlando. Second year when I was up there too, and then the third year before—which way was it? We got married before he was graduated from college.
Youngers
So, did you stay down here?
Mart
No.
Cecil
Yeah. You did. You stayed one year working at Jacob’s.
Mart
After we were married?
Cecil
No. Not after we were married, before we were married.
Mart
Well, the next year, then what?
Cecil
Then we got married and you moved to Gainesville with me.
Mart
And I got a job in the animal husbandry department at Typhus. I was supposed to type this book they were wanting to have. And they ended up finally making it not a book, but something else. And they—do you remember?
Cecil
It was a book, but go ahead.
Mart
Well, anyway. That was—we had a lot of fun up there. One professor’s—of course I was a typist. They would give their handwritten stuff, and I would type it up. So I typed up this test that was going to be given out. And I went back to the fellow and I handed him the typed thing. And I had his handwritten, I says[sic], “Do you want this? I usually give it to Cecil.” He says, “Don’t.” [laughs]
Cecil
At that point, I was working on my Master’s [Degree].
Youngers
Oh. They didn’t want him having the test questions.
Cecil
Of course, she was teasing, but…
Youngers
Aww.
Mart
Those were good men in the ag[riculture] —animal husbandry. Until I was pregnant with Miriam [Tucker].
Cecil
They weren’t good after that?
Mart
Yeah. They were, but—then I was no longer working. So, what else is there to be said?
Youngers
When you all had twins too, right?
Mart
Mmhmm.
Youngers
Goodness gracious.
Mart
We had a little girl first. Then had twins. And Dr. Hoffman from Orlando—he saw to things. I mean, here I was pregnant, but in Gainesville, and we’d come home for, you know—back and forth. And in Thanksgiving—I think it was—came home and stayed.
Cecil
But now the twins were born in Ocala. They were born in Orlando, while we were living in Ocala.
Mart
True, true. Okay, so, it’s Ocala still. And he informed me that he’d tied my tubes. He contended with three on the ground, and coming in two’s, I didn’t need—and his financial status at the time, we couldn’t afford to have any more. To me, that was the best thing. That just made life so much easier, to not worry about getting pregnant.
Youngers
Right.
Mart
Good deal.
Youngers
Right. And when you all moved back to this area, it was so that Mr. Tucker could take his job at the Extension Office?
Cecil
Right.
Mart
Yeah, when were first in Ocala, and then…
Cecil
We were in Ocala for two years. I was Assistant County Agent in Marion County. And then we came here. I was [Seminole] County Agent and we came—I think it was in 1957.
Youngers
Okay.
Mart
What else we got here?
Youngers
What else did you do back here? Did you go back to work, or did you stay home?
Mart
Oh, what did I do? Cecil?
Cecil
You had three children. What do you think you did? [laughs].
Mart
Alright. We were living out by…
Youngers
Christmas.
Cecil
Well, first we lived in Rosalia Drive.
Mart
Yeah.
Cecil
In Sanford. In about 1960, we moved out on old Orlando Highway.
Mart
We had acreage there—oranges and pasture. Well, that was one. And we had cattle. Cecil was workin’ at the dairy and he—they had calves that weren’t going to be dairy cattle. And we started building up a herd there.
Cecil
It was 1956 that we came here.
Mart
But whatever had to be done with cattle and whatnot around the place, I usually did it. Because he had to go to work. We were feeding out—how many? Seven steer? That year?
Cecil
Well, y’all raised a bunch of heifer yearlings first. And later on it was about 10 steers that y’all fattened up.
Mart
What do you mean, “Y’all?”
Cecil
You [laughs].
Youngers
In other words, the kids didn’t help out.
Mart
Well, they probably had to go to school or something. It was probably wasn’t in the summertime or not. But that’s…
Youngers
So, you did a lot of work.
Mart
Oh, and also, we had some cattle…
Cecil
Lake Osprey[sp]. North of Osteen.
Mart
And so I primarily would go out there and check the cows or take them feeding. And he wasn’t always with me.
Youngers
Right.
Mart
We’d do it real nice [laughs].
Cecil
About 1960, we moved out to Citrus Heights—Ginderville[sp] [Heights], or near Ginderville[sp]. And that’s when we were able to have a lot more cattle she could look after, and the kids could have 4-H projects.
Mart
And really, what was really nice was there was an old house down the way, and Mom and Dad were able to—he kept the livestock market in Orlando. They lived there until finally when he retired. And this little house—with Daddy’s expertise on carpentry and stuff, they made the house a nice little place and lived there.
Youngers
So you were close to your Mom and Dad. Oh, good.
Mart
Mmhmm.
Youngers
And you were—when you were part of the women’s club for the [Seminole County] Farm Bureau, was that while Mr. Tucker was working at the Extension Office?
Cecil
It was after that, when we started a store in 1972. And at that point, I became president of Seminole County Farm Bureau. And it was a law in there that she became chairman of the women’s—deal.
Youngers
What did you do while you were on that board there?
Mart
I knew that would be asked. I don’t know. Well, when we would have the whole group would have an annual meeting, and supper, and whatnot. Of course, I was involved in getting all that prepared. Getting tables right and things like that.
Youngers
Did you help set, like, regulations? Or were the ladies involved in that way?
Mart
No.
Cecil
Not much. Not much. It was primarily just providing information of programs of what was available to them and what was going on.
Youngers
Okay. Very good.
Cecil
But also, when we moved out to Citrus Heights area, you became more active in 4-H. Because the boys became active in 4-H.
Youngers
And did they raise heifers?
Mart
No, they raised chickens.
Cecil
Chickens and pigs.
Youngers
Oh.
Cecil And they did raise heifers, but they never did raise any to show.
Youngers
Oh, okay.
Cecil
At one point, they won all of the trophies [laughs]. With the chickens at the show.
Mart
Oh, yeah. They felt kind of bad, I guess. Or we did [laughs].
Youngers
They raised all the best chickens.
Mart
I can see why. They had the best of help.
Youngers
They had the best parents. That’s right.
Mart
Help ‘em learn.
Youngers
Good.
Mart
Oh, goodness.
Cecil
But when we’d have our annual 4-H contest and things, she was in involved in helping us judge things like the lamp contest and making lamps.
Youngers
They make lamps? Really?
Cecil
Yeah, and electrical, you know—learn things about electricity. And she also judged these speaking contests.
Mart
The what?
Cecil
Speaking contests.
Mart
Oh, yeah. Okay. A lot of this I don’t remember [laughs].
Youngers
That’s okay.
Mart
I remember him, so far [laughs].
Youngers
That’s important.
Mart
But it’s been really, really great being involved in those kind of things. Being around with the kids, and…
Cecil
We—we started the store in 1972. Were you involved in that?
Mart
Slightly. I always brought the main attraction of the store. And where did we find that little pig?
Cecil
My son-in-law found him. He was a little wild pig. And he was so young that he still had, you know, fawn with half-spots on it. Wild pigs have similar spots as well.
Mart
So he became mine. And did he have a collar on?
Cecil
Yes.
Mart
A leash. Because when he was littler, if I was going to go mail something…
Cecil
Or deposit something. Make a deposit at the bank.
Mart
I would take him along down the streets of Sanford and take him in on a leash and finally he got bigger and bigger and bigger. And he’d come up on the porch. I’d chain him up there out of the sun.
Cecil
At the store?
Mart
Yeah. At the store. But he would come in, I’d bring him in to the store in the car. And he would be in the front seat. And one day I went there, heard someone said, “Hey!” I saw somebody on the corner there with a friend, who went on to work. She told me later she said, “The person said, ‘Was that a pig?’” And she said, “Oh, that’s Mart Tucker. That’s all she can get to ride with her.” [laughs] What a good friend. So a car would stop in the middle of the street from the store and the lady would get out, come up the steps, and give something to Pete right there, and go down, get in her car, and go off.
Cecil
It was a daily ritual with her to give him some piece of candy. Something.
Mart
Some edible thing.
Youngers
So they would just come up and give him treats then.
Cecil
Yeah [laughs].
Youngers
So how long did you have him for?
Mart
Until we finally, I quit bringing him in to the…
Cecil
He got to be about 700-800 pounds.
Youngers
Wow. Yeah. You wouldn’t be toting him around too much.
Mart
So he had a place there, at the barn at the house, and I guess…
Cecil
He got an infection. Yeah.
Youngers
Well, he got to be an awfully big boy, so…
Cecil
He did.
[phone rings].
Youngers
He must have been a happy boy.
Mart
He had lots of friends. Lots of attention.
Cecil
Excuse me. I forgot to turn this thing off.
Youngers
That’s alright.
Mart
Let’s see. That was at the store.
Youngers
So, you helped with the store, doing like all the stock. And, like, when the customers would come in, you’d help them?
Mart
Yeah. It’s Cecil and I. we did it all. It was a real enjoyable, and funny. Um, Horstmeyers?
Youngers
Horstmeyer [Farm and Garden].
Mart
Yeah, they have it now. Of course, we come in and get our feed there. And we came in and Miss Horstmeyer was behind the counter, and she made some comment about, “There’s the Tuckers.” And her telephone rang and she said, “Tuckers?” Instead of “Horstmeyer’s.” We had the biggest laughs over that. Her calling her own store by the wrong name. Oh, goodness.
Youngers
And you sold the store to your son first, right? And he just took it over, and did you retire, or did you move on to different things?
Mart
Well, we didn’t do any—I don’t know. You’d have to ask Cecil.
Youngers
Okay.
Mart
Um, I don’t—I haven’t been—I haven’t thought of that in a while. Oh, goodness. So…
Youngers
Do you have grandchildren?
Mart
Yep, we got great-grandchildren. We had Miriam, and then Cecil and John. Miriam is in—still in Christmas. She’s in Christmas. And Cecil III—he lives in a house that was ours in Sanford, and John is on the coast.
Youngers
Daytona [Beach]?
Mart
No, closer by.
Youngers
Melbourne?
Mart
That’s south. What is it, right down Cheney Highway? Um, Titusville.
Youngers
Titusville?
Mart
Titusville. When, let’s see. I was trying to think, I guess Drew, his son, one of his sons, moved up to Titusville and he wasn’t going to be left behind from being around his grandchildren. And so they moved up. And they live in that area. So it’s real nice. Drew has four children—two boys and two girls. So John and Pam just make do over there profusely. [laughs] Which is really nice. So, we’ve spent time over there ourselves.
Youngers
You like it over there on the coast?
Mart
Yeah. It’s nice. Yeah. We were talking about John and Pam and the kids there.
Youngers
I had asked Mrs. Tucker what she did once the store closed. If y’all retired, or if you just kind of—what you did.
Cecil
Well, we sold the store to my son. And when we moved out to Christmas, we just spent more time working on the ranch. So. And that went on, we were pretty much full time on that until Mother—well, my dad passed away in ’95, and in the next couple years Mother came to live with us. And Mart looked after her for the next 10 or 12 years.
Youngers
Wow.
Cecil
Mother lived to be 101, one month, one week, and one day old.
Mart
She was the one. She was quite a lady.
Youngers
And how about your parents?
Mart
Well, my dad passed away. I don’t know when.
Cecil
Well, he was in his late 80s. And then later, your mother came to live with us, and she was in her 90s when she passed away.
Mart
She was living the little house, where she did when we were in Sanford. And my sister Betty was living with her when, after Daddy died. And keeping care of her. And it was getting to be a burden for her. So I just had her and Mother to come on over to our house and she would be looking after Mother, but she wouldn’t have that, you know, burden of having to do all the shots of making decisions that she had us to be able to do that too. And…
Youngers
Well, I was going to take you back a little bit, because Mr. Tucker told me your maiden name was Albritton. And I know that’s real prominent down in the South Florida area. I know that the families would run cattle and different things. Was your family involved in that kind of thing as well?
Mart
Oh, yeah. And, of course, Daddy—he was—how long was he foreman of the ranch south of Christmas?
Cecil
15-20 years.
Mart
The thing of it is, he was involved in the tick eradication, and then whenever that was over, then he got the job of being foreman of that ranch. And so…
Cecil
But his family, the Albrittons, were raised around Polk County/Hillsborough County area.
Mart
Well, I was thinking of another—I can’t think of it. Where the Albrittons came from, I mean most of them were…
Cecil
Well, some came from that area.
Mart
Okay. What’s the name of the area you’re talking about? [laughs]
Cecil Pine Level in Pine Crest. Plant City.
Mart Oh, okay.
Cecil
Arcadia. By the way, Arcadia was named after Arcadia Albritton.
Mart
Yeah.
Youngers
That’s really neat [laughs].
Mart
[laughs] Oh, something came on my mind.
Cecil
But Mart’s family came from—there’s two lines of Albrittons. There’s fence-cutting Albrittons and hog-stealing Albrittons. She’s from the fence-cutting Albrittons. [laughs] That’s another story.
Mart
Yeah. Yeah. Because cattle people move their cattle up and down the state of Florida, according to the weather. Weren’t any fences anywhere. People fenced their yard in, and things. And then whenever the—what is it? The people that put the fence across?
Cecil
Oh, the, uh…
Mart
Phosphate…
Cecil
Phosphate mining.
Mart
That came in. And so they didn’t want cattle going through, and they put a fence over, and so a group of men went and tore the fence down. And there was a big shootout there.
Cecil
Well, the second or third time that they tore the fence down was when the shootout happened [laughs].
Youngers
I think we talked about that too.
Mart
Oh, did you? What else?
Youngers
Do you have anything else that we didn’t talk about that you want to talk about?
Mart
Don’t know. No, I don’t guess so.
Youngers
Okay.
Mart
Guess we’ve got everything.
Youngers
How about you, Mr. Tucker? You want to add anything?
Cecil
No. I think we did pretty good[sic].
Youngers
Alright, then. Thank you very much, Mrs. Tucker.
Mart
Well, you’re welcome.
Youngers
And Mr. Tucker.
Mart
I hope it’ll be worth having [laughs].
Cecil
[laughs].
Youngers
Oh, it will. Yes, ma’am.
Youngers
My name is Stephanie Youngers. Today is September 23rd, 2010. And I am interviewing Mr. Cecil [A.] Tucker [II], here at the Museum of Seminole County History. Mr. Tucker, how are you?
Tucker
I’m doing great.
Youngers
Good. We’ll start with where and when you were born, if you’re willing to give us that information.
Tucker
Yes. I was born actually in Brevard County in Rockledge. May 26th, 1931. And we lived in Rockledge—my mother and dad and I—for just a few weeks. My dad was working for the state and the tick eradication and his job as a range rider was over in east Orange County. So he moved us to Bithlo. And so, I was in—actually, he was already working for the state and headquartered out of Bithlo when I was born. My mother went over to Cocoa, to where there was some of the family, to help when I was being born.
Youngers
Oh.
Tucker
We lived in Bithlo for about six months. And then we moved to Christmas.
Youngers
Okay.
Tucker
And that’s another story.
Youngers
And is that where you live now, is in Christmas?
Tucker
Yes. Yes.
Youngers
Okay. How—how was it growing up there? Obviously different from today, but…
Tucker
You know, Christmas is a kind of unique community. In a lot of respects, there’s some areas of it—we live a lot different today than it was when I was growing up, primarily because the people worked real hard to keep it that way and not let influence come in.
Youngers
That’s good.
Tucker
But the community is—always had a—it’s a real close-knit community. And people pretty much look after each other, and help each other out. And the [Fort Christmas] Historical Park in Christmas is helping to preserve some of this kind of history.
Youngers
And like, we talked about the Cracker Christmas, and that’s one of the main events out there.
Tucker
Yes.
Youngers
And I know a lot of people don’t hardly go to Christmas, but during that time of year, you’ll find a lot more people out there.
Tucker
Cracker Christmas is always the first weekend in December. That also is the time that we have the tree-lighting and carol singing. We have decorated a Christmas tree. A large, living Florida red cedar. We’ve decorated it every year since 1952.
Youngers
Wow.
Tucker
And we have the carol singing and tree-lighting. Tree-lighting and carol singing, always the first Sunday in December every year. So Cracker Christmas—that weekend involves usually the tree-lighting and carol singing, as well as what’s going on at the fort.
Youngers
And is it like crafts and things at the fort?
Tucker
Yes, at the fort. Crafts and—it’s a real nice festival. It really is.
Youngers
I know most people that go to Christmas during Christmastime want to get their letters stamped from Christmas.
Tucker
Yes. That’s an interesting situation. When Mother became Postmaster in 1932, she found out how much people were interested to get their cards postmarked at Christmas time. So she created a Christmas tree cachet that could be put on the extra onto the cards.
Youngers
The envelope?
Tucker
Yes. Yeah. And so, she started doing that. And that was in 1934.
Youngers
And everything is by hand too?
Tucker
Everything was by hand. Yeah.
Youngers
Wow. So how many people do you think, on average, would come through there?
Tucker
Well, it started out, you know—it’d be 30 or 40 thousand a year. Now, we’re probably somewhere between 300 and 500 thousand a year that have this done. But it’s just for those extra, little special things. We don’t get a whole lot of cooperation out of the Post Office Department. Because they consider this an extraneous thing. It creates more problems for them.
Youngers
Right. But you all still do it out there.
Tucker
Still do it. Yeah [laughs].
Youngers
That’s crazy. Wow. Was there any other kind of events and things that you can remember, growing up?
Tucker
As I was growing up, the school—the activities at the school pretty much centered—it was the activities in the community. We’d have school plays, and get-togethers at school, a covered dish dinner, and this sort of thing. All those kind of things going on all the time in Christmas.
Youngers
Right. And the school is located not in Christmas?
Tucker
Yep. Well, in those days, until 1969, there was a school in Christmas. It started out in the 19—in 18—probably the 1880s. It could have been a little before that. The post office—the church in Christmas was started in 1871, and shortly after that, the school was created in the church, in the building. But we’ve had a school in Christmas ever since, until 1969, when it ended up getting moved to Bithlo.
Youngers
And that was all the grades throughout?
Tucker
We had a, it was eight grades. My first eight years of school was in that building. First four grades—we called “The Little Room,” and that was in the small room. That building has been moved to the fort, and is one of the preserved buildings at the fort. The larger room was grades four—five through eight.
Youngers
And the high school?
Tucker
Well, in those days, they didn’t—we had a junior high, but it went from ninth grade on. And now they call it, well…
Youngers
Now they have elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Tucker
Middle school. Yeah. They call it middle school. So…
Youngers
And which high school did you go to?
Tucker
And then I rode a bus to Orlando and went to Memorial Junior High [School] in Orlando, and then I transferred in the tenth grade. I transferred to Orlando High School—OHS.
Youngers
Okay. And after that, you went to the University of Florida?
Tucker
Well, I went to Orlando Junior College, which was there in Orlando. It was in the early stages of junior colleges getting started. But I only went one year, because I had in my 4-H work. I had won a scholarship to the University of Florida. And that scholarship was fixing to expire on me, so I had to transfer out of junior college up to the university so I could get my scholarship.
Youngers
We’ll come back to your schooling. How long were you into the 4-H? I mean, what did you do while you were in there?
Tucker
I was always very active in 4-H. In fact, when I got on up to—I stayed active in 4-H even when I was in high school. I drove my dad’s cattle truck, and I would haul our dairy heifers to the various shows around. I carried Orange County heifers to Tampa—to the show.
Youngers
So you showed dairy cows?
Tucker
Showed dairy cows and beef cattle. Yeah.
Youngers
Alright. And did you show any hog, or anything like that?
Tucker
No. Never was very intrigued by hogs.
Youngers
I can understand. So you won a scholarship through doing your shows and things?
Tucker
Through the 4-H. yeah.
Youngers
Well, good. Okay.
Tucker
Wasn’t a very big scholarship, but in those days, every penny counted.
Youngers
Exactly.
Tucker
I think it was $100, or something like that.
Youngers
Well, good. And that helped you get into the University of Florida?
Tucker
Well, no, it just helped to pay some of the expenses when I did get in.
Youngers
When you went there, did they have, like—was it still an all-male college, or…
Tucker
You know, I need to do a little research on that. It was close. We did have—when I was attending there, it was co-ed. But it was pretty close to the time that it became co-ed, because I went there when—as I was active in 4-H, we used to go to what they called “Short Course.” And we spent a week at the university in the summertime every year. If you won that position in 4-H, you could go to Short Course. So I had been to Short Course, I guess, every year for five, six, seven years. And so I was involved there at the university as a 4-Her long before I got there as a student, so I knew some of the things that was going on.
Youngers
And they already knew you. They were expecting you.
Tucker
Yeah.
Youngers
So is that what you went to college for was for the agriculture?
Tucker
Yes.
Youngers
Did they have a specific program?
Tucker
I was going to major in animal husbandry. And did.
Youngers
Okay. And you went for four years at the university?
Tucker
Well, I actually went for four years, and I was thinking about going to vet school. And at that time, the only vet school was in Auburn, Alabama. And I applied, and the earliest I could get in, I would be already out of college. You had to wait two or three years to get in. So I decided I would back up and look at the feasibility of going into—I was interested in either extension agriculture, extension work, or in research. So, I ended up going toward a Master’s degree. So I got my Master’s degree, and had an opportunity to go into extension down in Marion County, in Ocala. And that’s what got me into County Agent.
Youngers
So after you graduated, you went right into the [Marion County] Extensions Office? Wow. And you were the youngest, one of the youngest in the state?
Tucker
Well, there were a lot of young assistant county agents my age. But when I became the full agent, I was the youngest at that time of that.
Youngers
And had you—when you first started out with the Extensions Office, did you work there for a while, or did you just go right into the position that you were in?
Tucker
I went right in. When I graduated from university, in Marion County, Assistant Agent position opened up. I applied for it, and received it, and went right into it. And so I was very fortunate, because Marion County was one of the most active 4-H counties in the state. They had numerous state titles, teams, judging teams that won. And then 4-Hers that won positions and went to Chicago[, Illinois], or the national deal. And so it was a great county to go into for training.
Youngers
What did you do at the Extension Office when you first started out there?
Tucker
Well, I—my job was two-fold. As a—see, at that time, I had a Master’s degree in Animal Husbandry and Nutrition. So, I had a job in Marion County working with the cattle people. And then I had the job of being 4-H Agent. And so, as leader of the 4-Hers, I ended up training judging teams. We had judging teams in dairy, and judging teams in beef, and judging teams in poultry.
Youngers
And you taught them, like, what to look for in the animal…
Tucker
Right. In the area of poultry—I didn’t know that much about it, but I found somebody that did.
Youngers
That seems like it would a little bit more in-depth.
Tucker
Yep. But we had some good teams. Some great 4-Hers there.
Youngers
So, when you say, working with the cattle there, like what types of cattle? What types of things did you do with them?
Tucker
Well, it had to do with the cattlemen on their pastureland, and any problems they had with pastureland. And, of course, we had a number of purebred ranches in the area. Some of them were Brahman, some of them were Shorthorn, some of them were Hereford. And Angus. So it was a good training area for me.
Youngers
It sounds like it. And how long were you with the Marion County office?
Tucker
I was with Marion County for two years, and the, just before I left Marion County, the county agent of Marion County—he’d always been quite interested in the Sheriff’s Department, and in fact, he periodically would go on with the Sheriff’s Department on activities, and it became available to him to be able to get appointed as Sheriff. And so he took it. So I was appointed for a brief time as acting county agent in Marion County—big county.
Tucker
But at the time, I had already applied for the job of County Agent here in Sanford, Seminole County, because it had became available.
Youngers
And it was closer to home.
Tucker
And it was the closest one home.
Youngers
Now, when you were up in Marion County, did you live up there?
Tucker
Yes.
Youngers
Okay. Good to know you didn’t try to commute every day.
Tucker
No, no. I lived there.
Youngers
So once he took the position as Sheriff, how long until you got to come down here? I mean, did they find someone else?
Tucker
Yeah. They found someone right away. In fact, I was just Acting Agent to take care of some things at the school. I wasn’t in the county, just for—goodness, it probably wasn’t for more than six or seven months.
Youngers
Then you come down here.
Tucker
Yep.
Youngers
Okay. You want to talk about what you did down here, which was a lot?
Tucker
The county agent that was here at the time—it was an interesting situation. He had—he had almost retired before his retirement. And some of it’s understandable. During the [Great] Depression, they cut back drastically on salaries. In fact, one of the stories told is: one of the farmers said to him, “Charlie, I heard they cut back your salary. Cut back 25 percent.” [laughs] He says, “Doesn’t that bother you?” Charlie says, “Well, yeah. But no, I just set the lever back 25%percent.” Well, he had done that. And he was fortunate that he was—had been in place for a long time. And the farmers were a little unhappy that when he first came in to the county, he did a tremendous job as county agent. I went through his files and things, and letters and all that he sent out, and he did a remarkable job. But after the episode with the salary and all of that, I think he was fortunate that he was real close friends with the director of Extension.
Youngers
Goodness. So you came in about mid-1950s, into Seminole County?
Tucker
In 1956, I came here. The joke in the community was that, well, if you want to look for the county agent, just go down to Roumillat and Anderson’s Drug Store. He’ll be down there in the coffee shop.” So I says, “I tell you what. You won’t find me in Roumillat and Anderson’s. I’m going to go down to the other drug store.”
Youngers
Oh, goodness.
Tucker
But Charlie had—Charlie had a good job. It was just there towards the end.
Youngers
He was ready to go.
Tucker
Yeah. And some of the old time farmers here, they pretty well understood. And so—but he was—the day came time for him to retire. It was pretty well fixed.
Youngers
So when you came in, what types of things did you do down here?
Tucker
Well, one of the first things I did was to begin to get the 4-H going. Because there wasn’t much going in that area. And then I started working on the—bringing all of the mailing lists of the various farms—the citrus growers, the vegetable growers, the cattlemen—bringing those up to date. Charlie pretty well had a list, but he wasn’t keeping all of it up-to-date. And that was one of the things I worked on.
Youngers
So there was quite a bit of agriculture planting?
Tucker
Yes. There was. In those days, we still was one of the more active vegetable producing areas in the state. And we had quite a bit of citrus here. We had probably 15 to 18 thousand acres of citrus.
Youngers
And that was in the Sanford area?
Tucker
In the Sanford area—Seminole County area. Now, the unique thing about that is, Seminole County is the fourth smallest county in the state in land area. So to have much acreage of anything is a little unique, because of the size of it.
Youngers
I know the big thing that I’ve heard is, like celery and citrus.
Tucker
Yes.
Youngers
But I know there was maybe some other things in there, as well.
Tucker
Well, in the—in those days, the nursery part of it was not—it was just beginning to come on. And in the ‘70s, we predicted that the nursery part—ornamental, horticultural, nursery—was probably going to outstrip the rest of it. And it has. But that’s just one of those things of how an area changes to meet the needs of the community.
Youngers
Wow. And what about like agriculture—beef and things? I know there’s still quite a bit of it here, but not as much as it was.
Tucker
No. In fact, the only thing that is as much as it was is ornamental horticulture. The vegetables has dropped way down. Almost nil right now. Beef cattle is still, over in the eastern part of the county is where most of the traditional pastureland was. And it’s still a lot of it over there.
Youngers
So that’s like, Geneva?
Tucker
Geneva. Yep.
Youngers
Oviedo kind of area.
Tucker
Chuluota. Yep. Kind of area. Osceola.
Youngers
Chuluota. Osceola. Okay. Back in those days, was it more prominent? Did it come further into Seminole County, or is it just kind of always in that general area?
Tucker
It’s always been out in that area, although every area in the county had some cattle scattered in it. Not today, but back in those days.
Youngers
No. Definitely not today. Now, when you were with the exchange office, you were telling me earlier about getting the new buildings, and even using this building, the county home building,[1] as an agricultural office. Could you tell me a little bit more about that?
Tucker
Alright. Let me back up before that. I probably developed more offices for the county than any other department head. When I became county agent in 1956, we were in the bottom floor of the courthouse. I called it the Salt Mine Section of the courthouse. And it was just basically one big room, which housed my office, the home economics agent’s office, and we had Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation [Service (ASCS)], the old AAA. That office was also in that area. And so, basically, and I was trying to develop part of the program that we provide in extension to farmers is information about agriculture. And some of the best information that Extension has available are the bulletins that they print on the various topics. So, I determined that we were going to have a—when I was working my way through college at the university, one of my jobs, I worked in the bulletin room. And we sent out to county agents all over the state. They would send in an order for so many bulletins of this, so many bulletins of that. And so I was involved in shipping those out to the various agents. So I was pretty well familiar with the—what was available in bulletins. And I determined, in Seminole County, we was[sic] going to have the best supply of bulletins south of Gainesville. And we did.
Youngers
Wow. What kind of things did the put out for bulletins? Was it like that tell of, like maybe a pest type thing for plants, or…
Tucker
Right. They would have a bulletin out on chinch-bug control. And a bulletin out on varieties of grasses. You name the topic, and they had it. In vegetables, there was a general vegetable production guide that gave how many pounds of seed, and how you would do for all the vegetables for growing a garden.
Youngers
So being down here in Seminole County and making more offices, and making more of this information available, you were very helpful to more of the general population here, to help them with their agriculture.
Tucker
Yeah. And that was part of the making information available. So when I came in to the—to the Salt Mine Section of the courthouse, it was a little bit difficult to do what I wanted to do with the—just that one big room. So, I showed—in those days, the [Seminole County] Clerk of the Court pretty much ran the county. And so, I was to see Mr. Herndon, and I said, “Mr. Herndon, I know we really need a little bit more office space. And the other day, I was downstairs here, on the other side our office in this big storage area down here, and I could regroup a lot of stuff that’s in there, and make an office right there.” He says, “Son, let’s go down there and see what you talking about.” So I went down there and showed him, and he says, “We’ll think about that.” And he agreed, as I recall. I don’t think I even had to restore the stuff. They moved it around. And so we put an office in, and it was an all-inside deal. I didn’t have any—if I’d had claustrophobia, I would have been in trouble, because there wouldn’t have been any windows.
Youngers
No windows. Wow.
Tucker
But it provided more wall space to do what I wanted to do. And that was to put these bulletins available for people to see and pick up.
Youngers
Right. And then did you all stay in that office, or did you eventually move out into the new one?
Tucker
Well, we were there until the early ‘60s. The judges needed more room. And we had made our space into a pretty nice office area, over the course of time. And so they wanted that space. So again, I says, “Mr. Herndon, there is an abandoned county building. It’s a good building. It has a potential. And what I’d like to do is for us to create a[sic] ag[ricultural] center and move all the agriculture people we’ve got—we’ve got soil conservation, plant inspector, we’ve got ASC here, and put all of us in one area for the farmers just to come into one spot. To see all these things.” And so, he says, “Well, we’ll think about that.” Well they appointed a committee, and I was on the committee, and we created the Ag Center at the Stockade building down here.
Youngers
And that’s where everybody moved with you.
Tucker
They all moved with me.
Youngers
Wow.
Tucker
Yeah. So then they wanted more space for the road department. And that was shortly about the same time that the county home had moved out of here. And so I said again, “I know where there’s a place that would really work out better for us, because we’re a little bit crowded here for all the people for the Ag Center.” And they agreed to it.
Youngers
So you made this entire area here?
Tucker
This entire building became the Ag Center.
Youngers
Wow. And how long was that office here?
Tucker
From the middle ‘60s until 19—I think Frank [Jazzen] moved over into the new Ag Center in the mid-70s.[2] I had already left as county agent at that time.
Youngers
And how long were you County Agent?
Tucker
Thirteen and a half years.
Youngers
Wow. So what did you do when you were done being the county agent?
Tucker
I had an opportunity to go into a farming operation growing watercress down in Oviedo. Went into a watercress-growing enterprise, another young fellow and I. And after a couple of years, well, we ended up merging with Don Weaver and his brother-in-law, and created B&W Quality Growers. That grew into a pretty sizeable watercress-growing operation. We were the largest in the eastern part of the United States. And we had farms in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Florida. Later on, I got out of that.
And Joe Baker, who had Baker’s Dairy over here, was interested in my coming to work for him. In fact, when he found out I had gone into the watercress, he says, “Cecil, you, uh, I didn’t know you was[sic] available.” I said, “Joe, I probably wasn’t available for anything except what I did.” Because it was a good opportunity that I got into. Anyway, when I got out of the watercress deal, I went to see Joe. He says, “Yeah. I’m still interested in you.” And he says, “When can you start?” I says, “Well, I got a couple of things I got to finish at home. I’ll need a couple of weeks.” He says, “No. I need you to start Monday.”
Youngers
Alright then.
Tucker
So, I managed Baker’s Dairy here for a couple of years. And then, well, let’s see. I got out of Extensions in 1969. And then I was in the watercress business for a couple of years. And then I managed Baker’s Dairy for I guess it was about a year and a half on each one of them. In 1972, I opened my own farm and garden supply store in Sanford. Tucker’s Farm and Garden Center. And we ran that as a family operation for the next 30 years.
Youngers
And it’s Myer’s now?
Tucker
Yeah. Horstmeyer [Farm and Garden]. Horstmeyer. Yeah.
Youngers
And when did you sell that there?
Tucker
Well, I sold it to my son in 198—1983. That’s when I moved to Christmas. Let’s see, ’83-’84 —somewhere along in there. And he sold it to his friend, Horstmeyers[sic], in—about 15 years later.
Youngers
So during the time that you lived—or that you worked—out here in Seminole County, did you still live in Christmas?
Tucker
No. I’ve always lived in—from the time I came here as County Agent, I’ve lived here in Seminole County. I didn’t move back to Christmas until I sold the store and moved back to Christmas in the mid-80s.
Youngers
So you lived in the Oviedo-Chuluota area?
Tucker
No. Always right here in Sanford. Actually, over here is what’s called Citrus Heights. That’s where we lived.
Youngers
The whole time?
Tucker
The whole time. Yeah. Well, I shouldn’t say the whole time, because I bought a house on Rosalia Drive, and we lived there a few years, and then I lived out her. [laughs].
Youngers
Now, during all this time you met a lovely lady?
Tucker
Actually, I met her and courted her while we were in college at the university.
Youngers
So she went to University of Florida too?
TuckerShe went to the university for a while. Her mother had to have an operation, and that was money sending her to college had to be used. And so by that time, she and I had gotten pretty serious, and she got a job working for an orange packing company in Orlando. And after—I don’t know—a little over a year we ended up getting married. And then she came back to the university.
Youngers
How’d you win her over? Did you do anything special? Or did you just say, “Alright, woman...”
Tucker
We need to make that a continued story. I’ll be right back.
Tucker
Now then, you was[sic] wanting to know about my wife.
Youngers
Yes, sir.
Tucker
Well, during the year that she was—I knew her—knew of her—before we got to university. I doubt if she knew too much about me beforehand, but we—I was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, agricultural fraternity there, and I would invite her every guest night to come over to the fraternity house and eat with us. And so they got to be pretty—and by the way, you’ll want to put Ms. [Mart Albritton] Tucker on your list as one to do an oral interview.
Youngers
I will do that.
Tucker
Because she is an old-time—as an Albritton, old-time Florida family. But she’s been active here in Seminole County. She helped me in to get the store going. She’s active in the cattle operation. In fact, when I was running the store, she did as much of the cattle work as I did. We had a—a pet at the store. It was a wild pig that became pretty well-known in the community. She used to take it on a leash downtown when she went to make the deposit at the bank. She’d carry the pig with her.
Youngers
What was his name?
Tucker
Pete. Streaky Pete. Pete the Pig. And he grew to be about 700 pounds. But anyway, that’s another story. But she was active in the [Seminole County] Farm Bureau—in the women’s deal at the Farm Bureau. She was active in 4-H, doing some of the judging, and some of the 4-H activities here. And of course, when we were opening the store, she was part of that. So she’d be another one.
Youngers
And she—so you all married before you graduated?
Tucker
Right.
Youngers
So she went to Marion County with you?
Tucker
Yes. In fact—well, let’s see. Before I got my Master’s, she was expecting my daughter. And she typed my thesis. And then when we moved to Ocala, uh—trying to remember at what point—my daughter was born before then.
Youngers
And you have one daughter?
Tucker
I’ve got one daughter and two sons—twins. They were born on my daughter’s second birthday. And then, we have an adopted daughter, as well.
Youngers
And you all have always had cattle in your family?
Tucker
Yes.
Youngers
Put your boys to work?
Tucker
We’ve had cattle in our family since as far as we can tell, going back into the 1700s. And that’s another thing I’m researching, because one of these days, that’s going to be a part of my book too.
Youngers
Wow. That’s a long time. Okay. As far as the cattle in your family—the history—that’ll be good?
Tucker
Yeah.
Youngers
Do you have anything else that you want to add to our…
Tucker
Well, let’s see. Well, there’s a lot of things we could go into and talk about [laughs].
Youngers
We could always come back and talk about different things, if you wanted to.
Tucker
The problem of being able to have—to build a program when the county didn’t have any funds, it was a problem. I needed—and of course, I was always on the low-end of the pay scale. If it wasn’t for the fact that this is where I wanted to be, I’d have gone somewhere else. In fact, when I left to go into the watercress, I was offered a job paying me twice as much I was in extension. And he couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t take it. Because my opportunity that I was going into was better [laughs].
Youngers
Right.
Tucker
Well, let me look here. See if there’s anything—this is interesting. When I came to the county, the phone number for the county agent’s office was 470.
Youngers
470? That’s it? [laughs]
Tucker
[laughs] 470. That’s it. But we went through the medfly infestation, we went through the fire burning the [Sanford State] Farmers’ Market down, and having to help get things going for it to build back up. We had, in ’57—late ’57, early ’58 —a severe freeze deal that actually we had cattle dying, because there wasn’t enough hay, and we brought in hay for that. We had—one of the projects that I worked on was the eradication of screwworms. And my dad was involved in that. That was one of the miracles of using atomic energy to eradicate the screwworm fly. The female fly mates only once. And so they found that if they would raise screwworm flies and eradiate them with atomic energy deal, it sterilized the males, and they put these male flies out in the area, and they mate with the wild females, and the eggs wouldn’t hatch. And by continually doing that, they lowered the population of the screwworm fly to completely eradicate it.
Youngers
Really? So it’s gone for good?
Tucker
Yes. Yes. it’s gone.
Youngers
Wow. That’s amazing.
Tucker
And my dad was involved in that. He was an inspector. And in fact, some of the first pastures that they put the medfly—I mean the screwworm fly—out in was his pasture. So, when I was County Agent, of course I would make contact with the cattle people, and pass along the information to him about what was going on, and if there was an outbreak somewhere, they’d get on top of it.
Youngers
Did they still have the technique of doing the cow dipping?
Tucker
Yes. Now, the cow dipping—this was to eliminate the cattle tick—the fever tick. And in the early ‘50s, they was[sic] still—in fact, my dad worked with that. There’s still a lot of the, uh, dipping going on. Getting rid of the fever tick. And that lasted until, I guess, the early ‘60s.
Youngers
Right. Is that something that they were able to just control?
Tucker
They were able to control it by dipping continually. They were able to eliminate the fever tick. After they wiped out a bunch of the deer who was perpetuating it. And some of your family was involved in that.
Youngers
Yes, sir.
Tucker
Oh, let’s see. We had a fire ant infestation that came into the county and we almost got it eliminated by flying [Boeing] B-17s [Flying Fortress], and putting out Myrex, until the do-gooders got involved and killed the program.
Youngers
And we still have fire ants.
Tucker
And we still have fire ants, and we’ll always have fire ants. But we came about within two flights of eliminating them.
Youngers
Wow. Now, did that have any—the chemicals used, did it have any effect on people? Is that why people got involved?
Tucker
The problem is it could create some problem in the water and affect fish, and that sort of thing. But we could have eliminated that. You know, by staying away from those areas. Anyway. Well, let’s see. Any other questions?
Youngers
No. Not if there’s anything. I mean, I have lots of questions. I know you’re big into the rodeo, and you’ve done a lot for 4-H, and different things like that, but we can come back maybe and talk about that another other time.
Tucker
Well, what do—yeah. Make a list. And we’ll do it. And like I said, I think you need to interview my wife, because I think you’ll find that to be interesting, as well.
Youngers
Absolutely.
Tucker
There’s a lot of little ins and outs of what went on here in the county.
Youngers
Well, I’ll definitely schedule a day with her, so she can come in and talk to me.
Tucker
Good deal.
Youngers
Well, I appreciate it very much.
Tucker
And I appreciate your being on board to help do these things.
Youngers
Absolutely.
Tucker
We want to look through the list of people and be sure that we get some—thing of it is, we’re five years late on a lot of people that passed on. Joe Baker, he—would have been great to be able get his. And I want to set up Don Weaver.
Youngers
Okay.
Tucker
Don Weaver and his family was—they came here from Pennsylvania. But they are pioneers in the watercress industry in the United States. And he lives down in Chuluota, on the south side of Lake Mills. And we’ll work out getting that set up. Anything else?
Youngers
No, sir.
Tucker
Okay.
Youngers
Thank you.