Eileen Dennis, Resident 1920-1936
I was first placed at Avondale as a baby. Then I went to live with my aunt and returned again as a young girl. I remember doing chores in the kitchen at Avondale. I would sometimes swipe cookies and hide them down my pant leg. Then me and some of the other girls would sneak down by the road and sit and eat cookies, because we only got to eat at meal time. Sometimes we would also steal oranges and eat them at night. We would throw the orange peels out the window so the matron wouldn't find out. (As transcribed by Gary King)
