Interview with Tina Cook, May 31, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project
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Tina Cook was born in 1912 in Caney, Kentucky. She is the oldest of twelve children, and her father worked on the farm and as a carpenter for the school. She talks about always helping with the younger children. After she married, she and her husband moved to Letcher County where they built a house and a farm. They moved around, but they always raised a garden and livestock. Cook talks about pickling, canning, and making soap. She describes the chores that her children did and talks about socializing and visiting family. She discusses her opinions on the farming lifestyle.Interview Accession
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Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Family farms Gender issues Manners and customs Social classesInterview Rights
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Cook, Tina Interview by Elizabeth Albert. 31 May. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Cook, T. (1991, May 31). Interview by E. Albert. Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Cook, Tina, interview by Elizabeth Albert. May 31, 1991, Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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