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Social life and customs

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

Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mittie Dame conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Dame discusses her life and times including information about growing up in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, her early marriage, entertainment, rural electrification, radios, refrigerators, social life and customs, Halloween pranks, moonshining, and farming.


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

Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Allyene Gregory conducted by Steve Vied for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Sorgho, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, childhood games, her father's farm, African Americans, social customs and historic events in the community, as well as her teaching career.


Interview With Eva Carmen Rearding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Eva Carmen Rearding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Eva Carmen conducted by Christopher Carey for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Carmen discusses her life and times, including information about African Americans, Hartford, Kentucky, Kentucky State University, midwifery, her husband Ned Carmen, social life and customs, Lincoln Leadership Training School, teaching, the hanging of Sam Jennings and black newspapers.


Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Lattie Edds and Essie Thomason conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." They discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County and Hancock County, Kentucky, social life and customs, weaving, childhood chores and games, teachers and teaching, one-room schools, farms and farming, courtship, televisions, radios, the Great Depression, floods, and influenza.


Interview With Carrye Abell Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Carrye Abell Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Carrye Abell conducted by Keith Smith for a oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Abell discusses her life and times, including information about education, rural life, courtship, and Prohibition in Thurston, a small community in Daviess County, Kentucky.


Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Corinne Taylor Gregory conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, the Great Depression, horse racing, company stores, coal towns, courtship, and social life and customs.


Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

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

FA Oral Histories

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 his childhood in Daviess County, Kentucky, farms and farming, the Great Depression, tobacco, social life and customs, airplanes, radios, television, tractors and other farm equipment, women's suffrage and influenza.


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

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

FA Oral Histories

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.