Campus Living
Haden Edward "Eddie" Knox discusses living in an apartment while an NC State student, and he mentions that he later lived in Vetville.
Interview on 2012-10-31 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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I moved into an attic apartment with a friend from high school, his uncle owned it, and during the first year-. It's really sort of interesting.
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It didn't have a refrigerator or anything so we built a basket and put it outside the window to keep the squirrels from eating
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what my mama would make on the weekends when I'd come home, and that was our refrigerator. Dr. Whitener asked Dan and I to dig out a basement,
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so we dug out a basement and built an apartment and the next year my wife and I moved in that basement apartment. I lived there until
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I was able to move to Vetville Barracks, which was about the toughest living conditions I've ever lived in, but the rent was cheap and that's what I needed.
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