2006年NPR美国国家公共电台十二月-My Mother's Story: Dot the Welder（在线收听） |
| And it is time again for Story Core. This traveling oral history project is recoding the stories of everyday Americans. And today we have memories of a real life--“Rosie the Riveter”. Dorothy Kelley helped to build ships in May during War World Ⅱ, a divorced poster to seek work at this South Portland Shipyards. She was raising 4 children on her own. Dorothy Kelley's daughter Jones Palter visits its Jury core to remember her mom’s struggle to keep the family together. After the divorce, there wasn't much money. So my mother walked in the laundry in different places. And she finally got the job in Margaunmary wares, department store. And these young women would come in, all dressed in these big boos and these kind of rough overalls and they would have checks of $600 to cash. And she finally asked one of them where did you work that you make so much money. And they said in the Shipyard. So my mother went over, and the man who interviewed her said, did she wanna be a welder or a burner? And my mother said which pays the most? And he said the welder. And she said that is what I wanna do. He said Oh versanary, ha, and she said no I have four children to take care. It was bitter cold in the winter going into the bottom of those steel ships. They had to wiggled into nearly cross basis and lay on their backs, and well overheat. And I remember her neck and her chest here all spotted with burn marks from the sparks. And her shift was midnight to 6AM, so she can be home with us during the day. I remember her dressing and not heavy clothing, man's clothing. Once she fell and hurt her ankle and they brought her home in the middle of the night, and she was weeping. I remember that. After to the Shipyard closed, she needed to have 2 jobs to make enough money. And we kids were more or less on our own, and that was not a happy time. But still she was determined to keep us together as a family. Jones Palter talking about her mother Dorothy Kelley at the Story Core in Portland Main. These Story Core interviews are archived in the library of Congress, and you can listen to some of those.. wiggle To move or cause to move from side to side with short irregular twisting motions: 无规则地前后摆动：从一边到另一边略带有不规则弯曲地短暂移动或引起这种移动： wiggled restlessly in her chair; wiggle a finger at a waitron. 在她的椅子中不停地前后摆动；冲侍者晃了一下手指 |
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