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"Oh, the University of Maryland played an integral part in the jobs that my family had the most of my family was on the grounds crew. And that's what kept Maryland looking as pristine as it was. And I can remember the jobs that they had. They took…

"For instance, as a kid, you belonged to everybody on your block. That was your family. I mean, they were concerned about, well, overall behavior. Not only overall behavior, but just you in general, they were concerned about you going... How well you…

"It was just a neighborhood of people who trusted each other, trusted and respected each other. You know, the fiber. Like you said it takes a community to raise a child and that's the kind of community it was.
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"So yeah, we could get together, and not just the youths but the parents as well, when it came to school issues of course they were always focused on that. You heard the saying of course, it takes a community to raise a kid. Well, the same community…

"Lakeland was just a friendly town. You could walk the streets at night and not be afraid - I wouldn't dare do it now. It was just very family-like oriented."

"[Lakeland was] very unified, because we couldn't do anything. And somebody else saw it, they will call your parents and tell your parents. So we knew that whatever we did, if anybody did anything wrong, they called and tell your parents. So they…

"Lakeland was a very tight knit community. Not only did we all know each other, I now realize that we knew each other for generations, because the same family members that came originally between 1890 and 1900, descendants of those families were…

May Day festivities were a prominent celebration each year at the Maryland State College and the University of Maryland. University Archives retain photographs of such celebrations including maypole dances, diaphanous costumes reminiscent of Roman…

A figure in Ku Klux Klan regalia holding a torch on the page introducing the section on Greek Life at Maryland State College in 1920? Yes. The Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its power in the 1920s, and Maryland and its State College were by no…