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  Hazel Couch, June 14, 1991

  Hazel Couch talks about growing up on the farm and in a coal camp. She talks about the differences she sees in the lifestyles of people now and when she was…
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  Lorene Lewis, June 14, 1991

  Lorene Lewis tells the story of her life from when it began in Eastern Kentucky, where she was raised on a farm. She speaks about her family and the…
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  Florene Smith, May 30, 1991

  Florene Smith was born and raised in Kingdom Come, Kentucky, a small community in Letcher County. Her parents farmed, and she talks about the different things…
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  Shelby Gene Watts, May 30,…

  Shelby Watts was born in 1941 in Hallie, Kentucky in Letcher County. His father died in 1942, when Watts was very young. He grew up on a subsistence farm with…
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  Gaynell Watts, May 31, 1991

  Gaynell Watts was born in 1947 in Leatherwood, Kentucky. Her parents and grandparents were farmers, and she talks about the food that they raised and the chores…
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  Tina Cook, May 31, 1991

  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…
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  Harold Patterson, June 5,…

  Harold Patterson was born in 1938 in his grandparents' home. His father was killed in the coal mines when Patterson was very young, and his stepfather was also…
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  R. Smith Howard, June 6, 1991

  Howard was raised in Lexington, Kentucky and grew up close to the University of Kentucky. His family was close friends with many professors in the school of…
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  Donna Cox, June 6, 1991

  Donna Cox grew up in Harlan County and her parents raised a garden. She talks about the different chores she did, playing with her sisters, and the animals that…
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  Mary Creech, June 13, 1991

  Mary Creech grew up very close to her grandparents' farm and she talks about the different things she did to help out with her parents and her grandparents. Her…
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  John V. Creech, June 13, 1991

  John Creech and his family run an apple orchard and nursery. He talks about his parents' work when he was growing up, and the different jobs where he has…
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  Frank Couch, June 14, 1991

  Couch was raised on a farm with nine brothers and sisters. He talks about all the different chores that he and his siblings did when he was growing up. The…
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  Raymond Cox, June 6, 1991

  Raymond Cox was raised on a farm in London, Kentucky in Laurel County, and is a teacher and basketball coach. He talks about helping out on the farm and the…
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  Steve Watts, May 31, 1991

  Steve Watts talks about growing up on the farm and working in the sawmill. He also talks about teaching and the changes in the school system, as well as about…
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  Quinton Ison, June 20, 1991

  Quinton Ison talks about growing up on the farm and working in the coal mines. He talks about life in the country and life on the farm.
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  Arnold Cook, May 31, 1991

  Arnold Cook talks about growing up on the farm, running a poultry business, and the coal companies in the area.
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  Samie Clark, June 6, 1991

  Samie Clark talks about his early life and childhood, and explains what it was like living on a farm in the 1920s as a child. Clark describes his involvement…
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  Paul Frazier, Dock Frazier,…

  The first hour of the interview is with Paul Frazier. He talks about growing up on the farm, raising and selling crops, and working in electricity and plumbing.…
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  Paul D. Morris, June 19, 1991

  Morris talks about growing up on the farm, sharecropping, working in the agriculture extension office, growing tobacco, and the changes in Letcher County's…
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  Fred Lewis, June 14, 1991

  Fred Lewis reads several of his letters and stories about living in a rural community in Kentucky. He talks about logging and sawmills, raising tobacco, and his…
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  Gladys Collins, June 19, 1991

  Gladys Collins talks about growing up on the farm and helping her family. She talks about her relationship with her family. She talks about running a poultry…
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  Jeanette Dollarhide, June 20,…

  Jeanette Dollarhide talks about growing up on the farm. She talks about raising her family, raising crops, and raising livestock. She talks about having a…
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  Emma Ison, June 20, 1991

  Ison talks about growing up on the farm and raising a family. She talks about working outside of the farm, and the changes in farming and attitudes about work.
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  John H. Preston, July 25, 1991

  John Preston talks about growing up on the farm and working to help support his family, and discusses his work as an adult. He talks about how his mother raised…
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  Columbus M. Sexton, June 26,…

  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…
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  Dan Lawson, July 17, 1991

  Lawson talks about working in his family's business and his relationship with his family. He talks about his personal experience with Christianity. He also…
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  Clarence Ison, July 24, 1991

  Clarence Ison talks about growing up on the farm and working in the mines. He talks about the social events that they had when he was growing up. He talks about…
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  Samie Clark, July 16, 1991

  Clark talks about raising his son and being involved in his grandson's life. He talks about his relationship with his step-family. He talks about his marriage.
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  Charles W. Berger, July 18,…

  Berger talks about growing up in a coal mining camp and helping out with chores at home. He talks about his career as a lawyer and a senator. He talks about…
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  Hattie Wells, July 16, 1991

  Wells talks about her childhood and growing up in a divorced home. She talks about raising her own children and how her childhood helped teach her how to raise…
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  Denise Lawson, July 17, 1991

  Lawson talks about the differences in how she was raised and how she raised her own children. She talks about starting an apple orchard, and discusses the…
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  Annie Ruth Halcomb, July 17,…

  Halcomb talks about her childhood memories. She talks about her family, and about working on a farm and in the post office.
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  Grace Clark, July 16, 1991

  Clark talks about her family growing up, and working on the farm and in the garden. She talks about the differences between how she was raised and how she…
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  Nova K. Sexton, June 26, 1991

  Sexton talks about her childhood memories of growing up on a farm. She talks about having a poultry business and raising her children.
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  Mabel Bates Back, June 26,…

  Mabel Back talks about growing up on a farm and her relationship with her step-mother. She talks about the boarding school she attended as a teenager. She talks…
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  Florene Smith, July 24, 1991

  Florene Smith talks about growing up on the farm and the chores she did. She talks about her children participating in 4-H Club and the sewing and cooking…
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  Joyce Berger, July 18, 1991

  Joyce Berger talks about her childhood, married life, and about raising her daughters. She talks about the garden and animals she and her husband raise. She…
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  Clarence R. Wells, July 16,…

  Clarence R. Wells is a Harlan County, Kentucky farmer who was born in St. Charles, Virginia. Wells discusses family history, his childhood during the Great…
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  Kester Halcomb, Sr., July 17,…

  Halcomb discusses his opinions on dependence on welfare and food stamps. He talks about working in the coal mines and on the farm, and his wages and pension. He…
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  Ella V. Preston, July 25, 1991

  Ella Preston talks about her childhood on the farm. She talks about the details of growing corn and planting crops. She talks about going to school and…
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  Ella V. Preston, August 6,…

  Preston talks about going to elementary school and how she learned to read from an early age. She talks about the recreational activities that she and her…
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  Jerry Clark Metcalfe, July 31,…

  Metcalfe talks about the economic aspects of agriculture in Kentucky. He talks about growing up in a coal mining community and a hillside farm, and his memories…
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  W. Beth Boggs, August 1, 1991

  Boggs talks about her family's heritage and about moving to Michigan and growing up on the farm. She talks about working in the garden with her husband and…
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  Sara Ellen Ison, July 24, 1991

  Sara Ellen Ison talks about how her family farmed and the responsibilities she shared with her siblings around the farm. She also talks about school and how…
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  Jeanette Dollarhide, August …

  Dollarhide talks about her childhood on the farm, including home remedies used by her grandmother and parents, the chores she and her brothers did, her…
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  Paul Frazier, August 6, 1991

  Frazier talks about his family and raising his children. He discusses how things have changed in the economy, in technology, and in people's attitudes towards…
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  Clarence R. Wells, July 31,…

  Clarence Wells talks about his marriages, custody arrangements with his first wife, and raising his children. He talks about growing up during the Great…
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  Kester Halcomb, Sr., July 31,…

  Kester Halcomb talks about Letcher County and his life there. He describes the state of the county and some of its history. Halcomb talks about employment…
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  Henrietta Link, Al Link, July…

  Al Link talks about growing up in rural Florida and working on a cattle ranch as a teenager. Henrietta Link talks about her childhood as an only child and the…
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  John H. Preston, August 6,…

  John Preston gives his thoughts on farming as a way of life. He talks about how he became involved in farming and his personal history and education. Preston…
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  Clyde Back, June 26, 1991

  Back talks about his childhood on the farm and the farming practices that his family used. He talks about some of his childhood memories. He discusses the…
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  C. Eldon Boggs, August 1,…

  Eldon Boggs talks about growing up in a coal camp and on a farm. He talks about his philosophy on raising and disciplining children. He describes his crops and…
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  Annie Ruth Halcomb, July 31,…

  Halcomb talks about her childhood on the farm and her relationships with her parents. She talks about her and her husband's farm and their farm equipment. She…
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  Hattie Wells, July 31, 1991

  Wells talks about working in the garden and raising animals. She talks at length about growing up with separated parents and an alcoholic father. She talks…