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Records the reminiscences of Ogretta Ruth Smith Turner, a resident of Criders, Virginia, for over eighty years. Includes comments and observations by Robby Turner, who was present throughout the interview. Recalls her youth and family life growing up on a small farm. Discusses various farm chores, such as planting and harvesting, soap making, tending hogs, drying foods, and making cheese and butter. Comments on the advent of automobiles in the region, which cut the round trip time to Harrisonburg from four days to four hours. Recalls the lumber camps, general stores, and grist mills that were once common in the region. Discusses everyday necessesities of farm life prior to rural electrification, including wood stoves, feed sacks, kerosene lamps, and the ice house. Mentions communal chores such as haying, butchering, making apple butter, and maple syrup. Briefly speaks of attending Bennetts Run School. Closes with a mention of her late husband Warren Turner.

Records the reminiscences of Winford Quinten Neff, a resident of Criders, Virginia, for nearly ninety years. Discusses his childhood and family life in Criders, and his education at the Caplinger School. Recalls his various occupations over several years, including work milking cows, debarking trees, and digging graves at the Caplinger Cemetery. Speaks of the chestnut blight which killed millions of chestnut trees on the East Coast in the 1930s. Discusses the advent of the first automobiles in the region and the conditions of the early roads. Briefly discusses community events such as church revivals, land clearing, and slaughtering and dressing livestock. Recalls fur trapping, drying fruits and meats, and canning food. Recollects the hard economic times of the droughts and Great Depression of the 1930s. Includes anecdotes of how he was befriended by a wild bear, and was once accused of being a witch.