Interview conducted at Martin's store near Oaklawn Plantation;

00:00 - Introduction - First job in New Orleans at Saenger Theatre;
02:25 - After coming back home from New Orleans, worked in the sugar mill and fields at Oaklawn. Would also caddy at the local golf course for wealthy people;
03:20 - Martin tells a story about being tipped $10 after caddying. His parents questioned him and whether the money was actually given to him.
05:00 - Opening his grocery store during the depression;
06:30 - Unemployment during the depression - Martin says there were plenty of work options in the area during the time;
07:15 - Many stores went under because of the fact that they offered credit to people during the depression and it wasn't paid back;
08:10 - Mostly sold alcohol at his store in the early days;
08:40 - Six or 700 people moved away when the sugar mill shut down - most moved to Franklin
11:30 - Talks about when tractors started to replace mules in the fields;
12:00 - Dances in the old days - talks about when he met his wife;
14:00 - Talks about asking his wife's parents if they could get married; they were married for 59 years;
18:20 - Medrick worked two jobs - his store and in the fields for much of his life
19:40 - Typical meals when he was a child - Breakfast - Buiscuits, syrup, eggs, grits. Dinner - Rice and Gravy, Pork, Chicken, Red and White Beans. On Sundays, they'd have chicken stew and potato salad;
20:30 - Games he'd play with other kids - Baseball, Roly Poly, Marbles, Tops;
21:40 - Mentions that they didn't have community boucheries, but they'd kill and butcher their hogs when they needed;
23:30 - Gumbos that they'd make - Chicken and sausage, duck, poule d'eau, guinea, okra;
24:15 - Hunting - Duck, squirrel, rabbit;
24:50 - Fishing - Catfish, gaspergou, crabs, crawfish;
30:51 - Types of music that they'd have at dances - Not Cajun or any local styles, He's unsure of actual genre;
32:00 - Changes in types of food people would buy over time - less rice and starchy food. Crops that people used to grow - potatoes, snap beans, okra, eggplant, tomatoes, white squash, corn;
33:35 - Fruit trees - fig, peach;
34:00 - Says that they didn't have as many pest insects in the garden as they do nowadays, canning fruits and veggies to preserve them;
36:00 - Discussing different schools in the area, road conditions to get to school;
37:30 - Discussing Medrick's parents and grandparents;
40:40 - First mechanized cane cutters;
45:00 - Cane combine vs traditional mechanized cane cutters, new processes from harvesting cane;