Billy Rogers: On Park Street, just off of Academy Street, we had pigs in the backyard.

The neighborhood consisted of from Walker Street to Harrison, and from Chapel Hill Road (we called it the Durham Highway then) to behind where Cary Elementary School is now.

Mr. Massey, whose lot adjoined ours on the back side, had little goats in his backyard. Dr. Hunter's land went all the way back to Walker Street. He had a chicken farm in his backyard. Miss Nanny Leach had some chicken pens in her backyard too. I remember how sometimes the odor from the chickens would be so bad that I didn't like chicken until I was maybe forty years old.

People ate quail. My grandfather had bird dogs. He was a tenant farmer in Fuquay, so he grew tobacco on the land that probably some wealthy doctor in Fuquay owned. He was known for training bird dogs. Everybody was a hunter back then, and they needed a good bird dog. Grandpa Rogers would go out and bird-hunt. He had this hunting jacket. He would come in with birds in his jacket pockets. ...They'd cook the quail, and they say it was delicious.

Robert Heater: Everybody had pigs. I raised seven pigs during World War II. Heater Park was part of my pig pasture. And we had five beef cows where Paul Cooper lived, on the west side of Harrison Avenue, between Dry and Park. I raised chickens there behind the house too.

Linda Evans: We all lived on Evans Road, and there were very few cars. Granddaddy had a mule, and he had a tractor and he farmed tobacco on his land there on Evans Road. When his mule would get loose he would run up Evans Road just like he was on fire. All of us kids would be outside playing. You talk about scrambling to get in the house because we were so afraid of that mule. Here comes Granddaddy on his tractor going to track him down. He'd get that mule, and you'd see him coming back down the road on the tractor with the mule pulled behind.