Interview with Toney Pelfrey, July 3, 1992
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
Interview Summary
In this second interview with Toney Pelfrey he continues to describe his childhood home on the family farm. He describes the house and other structures on his family's property, as well as the various chores he and his siblings did on the farm. He talks about the food his family ate and raised, sources of income for the family, and the effects of the Great Depression on the Cane Creek region. He talks about what they did for recreation, and his family's first tractor and car.Interview Accession
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Bench fields Cane Creek (Ky.) Cane mills Cane production Cattle production Country stores Dairy farming Diet and food preparation Discussion of memory map Early radio Farm buildings Farm mechanization Farmstead spatial organization Fencing Flower gardens Folk medicine Food preservation Fruit production Grant County (Ky.) Heritage farms Hog butchering Holidays Home remedies Household spatial organization Hunting Log houses Mules Off-farm employment Outhouses Part-time farming Pelfrey family history Rural education Rural mail service Sheep production Smokehouses Snakes Soap-making Tobacco production Value of farm living Water sources Works Progress Administration (WPA) World War II Yard spatial organization Powell County (Ky.)Interview Rights
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Pelfrey, Toney Interview by David Rotenizer. 03 Jul. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Pelfrey, T. (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.
Pelfrey, Toney, 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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