Interview with Columbus M. Sexton, June 26, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Sexton talks about the economic difficulties in running a poultry business. He also talks about the interaction of agriculture and mining. He talks about the differences between how he raised his own children and how he and his siblings were raised.Interview Accession
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Alice Lloyd College Chickens Coal mining industry Commercial poultry business Eastern Kentucky University Eggs Gender roles on the farm Heritage farms Letcher County (Ky.) Mountaintop removal mining Parenting Sexton family history Strip mining Subsistence farming Tree farming University of Kentucky Vanderbilt University EducationInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Education Family farms Gender issues Manners and customs Social classesInterview Rights
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Sexton, Columbus M. Interview by Zack Lewton. 26 Jun. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Sexton, C.M. (1991, June 26). Interview by Z. Lewton. 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.
Sexton, Columbus M., interview by Zack Lewton. June 26, 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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