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"That was in 1999 when I first touched down to Treasure Island. That was really nice. But I was pregnant with my Treasure Island baby, and I had my other two kids, Melody and James. The program people brought me in just like family. They said, 'You could do this,' and I'll never forget. And I've been doing it ever since. It was an experience long ago, but it was an amazing experience. I'm still here 50 years later, and all my kids was here with me. It was just nothing on the island but a program, and then I think it was about 10 people. It was amazing, staff was. We said, 'We going to do this.'"

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Melanie Williams Jones
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Melanie Williams Jones

Melanie Williams Jones

Treasure Island Resident

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"Treasured Stories" is an exhibition of oral histories surveying Treasure Island from 1997 through the present. 

To learn more about One Treasure Island, click here.
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