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quilting in ky elmer l. foote photo
November 29, 2016 Kentucky / Oral histories / Quilts/quilting

A body can take comfort in layin’ herself out on the quiltin’ of patch quilt

“Thar’s one quilt here my grandmother made. Hit’s the Wilderness Road and I’ve got it in my head that she made hit up herself.”

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confederate civil war boots and shabby shoes
February 11, 2016 Civil War / Georgia / Oral histories

Outrunning a North Georgia Home Guard

I was always told that the large hollow tree in the the ‘Sheep Hole’ was where Uncle George hid after his escape from the Home Guard.

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1927 church congregation group photo
January 27, 2016 Family record keeping / Memoirs / Oral histories

Men used to bring their saddles into the church

Often the sanctuary was unpresentable on meeting days…. Men used to bring their saddles into the church and pile them down in the rear.

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1940 john deere tractor ad
May 4, 2015 Farmers/farming / Kentucky / Oral histories

In a small community like this you helped other people

I’ve got a ’40 John Deere, it’s up there in the barn. And we worked around here and worked for other people. You helped other people.

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waiting in line with plates deep dream generator
October 15, 2014 Coal mining / Kentucky / Oral histories / Writers

Book Excerpt: ‘Memory of a Miner’

The story of an old-time coal miner in “bloody Harlan” (Harlan County, KY) in the early to mid 1900s, told in his own words and dialect.

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