Helen Granger Boss - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

BOSS; 056 1:2:23
Boss: Today. But you never heard them call these children down or
nothing and there never was anything like that. Nobody bothered you at
all. Only thing, the time they had the baptism, the sun was going
down. We were sitting on the hill like this and the river down here and,
of course, that's the west and the sun would be shinning. There would
be a lot of sun in the evening, if it was sunny at all. Sometimes they
didn't stop at all unless it was a downpour, I guess. And then they'd
have their feast.
That was a nice thing. I don't know that they ever had it anywhere
else, but I know that they had it there, because we went there.
Kupchyk: What do you remember of Frog Island?
Boss: «chuckle» Oh, that was •••• I remember plenty because that's just
where I lived. This girl's father, Irene's father, kept a concession
across the river and his place would be just about where the new hospital
is -- the South Baltimore Hospital. He had a concession over that and
this was where he would be. This, say, would be Ferry Bar. Up this way
on the other side of the hill now I'm talking, up on this side was
another•••park. This was Johnny Klien's Park.
He's the one that I said that my sister used to take us and bring
the boat up on shore. They always let us sit there and watch the show and
all. Then you walked up through the grounds and you come to Kirby's
II Park. Mr. Slagle, Irene's father, had this concession up there where he sold
clam chowder, crab soup, and steamed crabs and live clams and things like
that. No shrimp. We never heard much about shrimp in them days. But
he was up here. Over here across the water above the Bar••• Say this is
Ferry Bar sticking out on the west side of the old wooden bridge. When
the tide was low, you could see all the sand on the bar. It was just