" But I remember I had taken a box of old pictures from my house that were taken back - they're black and whites from my youth. And I had brought them over here during the hurricane so my daughter could look at them with me. And I remembered they were on the floor. And when they were telling us we had to leave and I'm saying, 'I can't go right now. I've got to think through this.' Because you know there are some things that need to be taken care of before you walk out of that house. But they kept saying, 'No. This is the last ride out and you've got to go.' I remember picking up that box of pictures off the floor and putting it on the stereo. And just - . But never thinking really it would come in there. "
Interview with Betsy Easter by Charlie Thompson, Dec 8, 1999, Interview K-0279, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.