Tag: Federal Writers Project

Dey didn’ pay me nothin’ fer gittin’ my legs cut off

Naw, dey didn’ pay me nothin’ fer gittin’ my legs cut off. Dey aint never give me one cent. Dey give me some artificial legs.

Miss Lucy, a Clifton Mill millworker’s wife, describes domestic life in Clifton Mill Village to a SC Writers’ Project writer in 1938.

Excerpt from Dr. Jerry Bruce Thomas lecture on ‘West Virginia: Guide to the Mountain State,’ published by the West Virginia Writers’ Project.

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