Interview with Eva Mae Creech West, June 16, 1992
Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project
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West talks about the United Mine Workers having trouble getting started in the mines. She talks about the herbal remedies that people used in the country. She talks about her mother and she talks about hearing about divorce for the first time. She talks about people drinking often in Harlan and how people didn't perceive getting drunk as so bad. She talks about her family.Interview Accession
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West, Eva Mae Creech Interview by Glenna Graves. 16 Jun. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
West, E.M. (1992, June 16). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
West, Eva Mae Creech, interview by Glenna Graves. June 16, 1992, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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