Interview with Martha P. Comer, February 18, 1988

Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Newspaper reporter/editorial consultant, personal background, Night Riders, Maysville's early role in tobacco and early warehouses, Roaring Twenties, Roll-Your-Own cigarettes, tobacco companies and Maysville's industrial growth and community expansion, effect of the 1937 Flood, cultural addiction to smoking, old-fashioned landlord/tenant relationship, "hired hand" concept, Irish-Catholic tenants and roots of animosity between them and blacks, black farm families, PIC Program, buy-up by wealthy individuals for tax write-offs, importance of soil conservation, criticism of auction system, farmers' loyalty to particular warehouses

Interview Accession

1995oh187_ff517

Interviewee Name

Martha P. Comer

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1988-02-18

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

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Comer, Martha P. Interview by John Klee. 18 Feb. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Comer, M.P. (1988, February 18). Interview by J. Klee. Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Comer, Martha P., interview by John Klee. February 18, 1988, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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