Interview with J. M. Smallwood, July 3, 1992
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
Interview Summary
J.M. Smallwood discusses growing up on a farm near Cane Creek, Kentucky. He gives a detailed description of the property, all of the buildings on the land including barns and tenant housing, and the crops and animals his family raised. He talks about his service in the army during World War II, as well as his employment in trucking and as an owner of a sawmill.Interview Accession
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Armed service record Bench fields Cane Creek (Ky.) Farm buildings Fencing Flower gardens Food preservation Fruit production Heritage farms Household spatial organization Mountain Parkway One-room schools Outhouses Residential history Roslyn (Ky.) Rural education Rural sanitation Sawmills Smallwood family history Smokehouses Subsistence farming Tobacco and corn production Will School World War II Yard spatial organization Powell County (Ky.)Interview Rights
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Smallwood, J. M. Interview by David Rotenizer. 03 Jul. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Smallwood, J.M. (1992, July 03). Interview by D. Rotenizer. Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Smallwood, J. M., interview by David Rotenizer. July 03, 1992, Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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