Interview with Charles T. Meagher, Sharon Wilbert, December 5, 1991
Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
CHILDHOOD IN PORTLAND-- LOUISVILLE: 1940s-1950s-- Family roots in Portland-- Grandmother's house and outhouse-- Double standard for girls and boys regarding rauge-- freedom-- Brother's play in forbidden places: Ohio River-- sand pit-- Fontaine Ferry Park-- Dude Ranch Brother (b.1940) and Sister (b. 1943)-father a plumber-- Community cleanliness in 1940s-- Community stability until 1950s-- Race relations-- Parochial schooling-runs as role models of strong women-- Decline in river use by community-- RR yard-boys hoping boxcars-- marijuana on Shipping port island-- Jefferson County.Interview Accession
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Sharon Wilbert
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Meagher, Charles T. Interview by Louise Chawla. 05 Dec. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Meagher, C.T. (1991, December 05). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Meagher, Charles T., interview by Louise Chawla. December 05, 1991, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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