Eunice Morris Brown Interview, September 28, 1995

Eunice Brown discusses growing up in the Potomac Valley in Montana. She recalls her happy childhood and her early education, which was delayed by a two-year long case of rheumatic fever. She talks about going to Normal College in Dillon, Montana where she worked numerous jobs and studied to become a schoolteacher. Brown describes her time teaching in Bonner, Montana, and explains that she was the first teacher to own a car in Bonner. She talks about quitting teaching to care for her husband after he suffered a heart attack, and working odd jobs to make ends meet. Brown discusses opening her own gift shop next to the Wilma Theatre in downtown Missoula, which required her to go on various buying trips to Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles.