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Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Mary Brant (Benton) Fitts conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Fitts discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Utica and Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her children, social life and customs, race relations, World War II, and sundry other topics. Mrs. Fitts was a housewife and mother of two.
Interview With Dora Landrum Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Dora Landrum Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Dora Landrum conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Landrum discusses her life and times, including information about the Great Depression, how the New Deal programs affected Ohio County, Kentucky, motion pictures, radio, World War II, Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb, rationing, her running for State Senate in 1949, and Democratic politics.
Interview With Zella Truman Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Zella Truman Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Zella Truman conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Truman discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, games children played, influenza, floods, World War II, and courtship.
Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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 Corinne Taylor Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Corinne Taylor Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Corinne (Taylor) Gregory conducted by Paul Eubanks for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about education for women and job opportunities for women, World War II, food preservation, foodways, and public health. Gregory was from Beaver Dam, Ohio County, Kentucky.
Interview With Nellie Hall Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Nellie Hall Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Nellie Hall conducted by Gary Netzley for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Hall discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her relationship with an alcoholic and abusive husband, her work in a cigar factory, her memories of recreation as a child, education, World War I, World War II, and the medical problems faced by various members of her family.
Interview With Oma Gross Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Oma Gross Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Oma Gross conducted by Kim Parson for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gross discusses her life and times, including information about her rural education, social life and customs, race relations, sewing, rural electrification, Floyd Collins, medicine, courtship, and World War II.
Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Lena Stolsworth conducted by Kim Parson for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Stolsworth discusses her life and times, including information about growing up on a farm in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, social life and customs, floods, the Great Depression and World War II.
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral interview with Virginia Pannell about her life and times conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "Do You Remember When, 1900-1949." In the interview Pannell discusses her life in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She talks about teachers and teaching, schools, education, politics, health care, World War I, World War II, Influenza, radios, B. Mathis, coal mines and mining, strikes, telephones, vigilantism, Prohibition, rationing and religion.