Interview with Robert Dudley Chilton, November 12, 1991

Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Childhood, born 1918, origins of house and farm he was born in, two-room school in Lacie through 8th grade, Campbellsburg High School and baseball, farm work, discipline, hunting and fishing, soil erosion and gradual land recovery, school as center of local socialization, neighbors and mutual aid, exodus of farm families after 1918, means of subsistence living in 1920s, Court Day in New Castle, Kentucky, Owenton, Fourth of July in Eminence, Kentucky, free range across county in childhood.

Interview Accession

1991oh401_cik013

Interviewee Name

Robert Dudley Chilton

Interviewer Name

Louise Chawla

Interview Date

1991-11-12

Interview Keyword

Childhood family life

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Chilton, Robert Dudley Interview by Louise Chawla. 12 Nov. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Chilton, R.D. (1991, November 12). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Chilton, Robert Dudley, interview by Louise Chawla. November 12, 1991, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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