Oral histories Archives - Page 3 of 14

3 hand photos show 'open the doors and see all the people' game

If I couldn’t talk I’d bust

My family was Lutherans in the old days, but there ain’t no Lutheran church here and we are all mixed up; we go to different churches.

Grundy VA in 1912 with 'lawless' overlaid in red

June 24, 2019 Appalachian crime / Oral histories / Vigilantes / Virginia

We had just as good as no law at all in Buchanan County

The Commonwealths had run away for dealing in Bogus Land Business, and Jim Thomas was never indicted for killing the two men.

June 10, 2019 Animals / Farmers/farming / Kentucky / Oral histories

We got by, I guess

Now if a widow’s left, why they draw a lot of welfare and stuff like that, but there wasn’t nothing like that then. She seen a hard time.

red oak church in ceres va 1912 and philco 70

June 6, 2019 Oral histories / Radio / Virginia

“You would wear yourself down winding it up”

I don’t know when I got my first radio, but Daddy had one of the first radios there was in Ceres, VA (shown here in 1912). It was about as big as television is now.

checkerboard and laughing mouth illustration

May 25, 2019 Alabama / Oral histories / Politics

He is still laughing over that checkers game

After their wedding, the Driskill’s settled on a farm & lived there till 1912, when they came to Ft Payne & bought out Jim Malone Restaurant.

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