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Interview With Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Thrasher discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Hancock County, Kentucky, education, electrification, teachers and teaching, motherhood, race relations, attitudes toward tenant farmers, automobiles, the Great Depression and World War II.


Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Gwendolyn Johnston conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Johnston discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in West Louisville, Kentucky, education, games, a tornado that struck Louisville in the 1890s, automobiles, the Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and parochial schools.


Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Gayle Carver conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Carver discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, education, businesses, childhood chores, his phonograph record collection, World War II, the 1937 flood, the Great Depression, the first automobile and airplane he remembered and information about popular music of the era.


Interview With Charlie Earl Coy (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1986

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about farms and farming, rural life, Prohibition, farm equipment, automobiles, rural electrification and other matters in Stanley, a small community in Daviess County, Kentucky.