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Gold, Clarence Oldham, 1861-1920 (Sc 2845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gold, Clarence Oldham, 1861-1920 (Sc 2845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2845. Letter, 31 July 1889, of tobacco broker Clarence O. Gold, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to his wife in New Providence, Tennessee. He declares his love, reports that he has rented a home, and urges her and their children to join him. The letter alludes to a separation caused by his drinking and other misconduct, and to the maligning influence of others who are urging his wife to leave him.
From Within The Abyss: Drug Users In Areas Of Rural Poverty, G. Eric Latham, Jr.
From Within The Abyss: Drug Users In Areas Of Rural Poverty, G. Eric Latham, Jr.
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This research was completed to deal with many unanswered questions regarding drug use, specifically drug use in areas of rural poverty. Look at any "Faces of Meth" billboard or listen to any corporate-news program and one might assume there is a drug epidemic in rural areas. Without research, this allows the viewer to assume that poverty is the fault of the drug user who happens to live in rural places. This study sought to take a qualitative and ethnographic methodology to "embed" the researcher in this setting to see for himself whether these views were valid or invalid. The questions …