The Kentucky Oral History Commission , in cooperation with the Kentucky Heritage Council Main Street Program, initiated the Main Street, Kentucky Oral History Project in 1993. The project supports the collection of oral history interviews that...
In Kentucky, Southern States Cooperative is one of the largest groups of farm supply stores. This interview covers the products, services, and customers of a Southern States store. Mr. Meadows has managed three different stores and has worked as a...
This collection preserves the reminiscences of the survivors of the Bataan Death March who were in the 192nd Tank Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard in Harrodsburg. They discuss their Army experiences in the United States, their arrival in...
1961; 1982
Kentucky Historical Society, Harrodsburg Tank Battalion : Bataan Death March Oral History Project
Mr. Gallenstein supervises a shift at the Parker Tobacco Company, in Maysville, which is involved with the processing of tobacco for sale to companies in the United States and overseas.
Elizabeth (Libby) Jones discusses her relationship with the Kentucky Historical Society, as well as her father, Col. Arthur Lloyd's association with the society.
Edward F. Prichard describes the state of Kentucky upon his return from Washington, D.C. following World War II. He recalls his law practice, including some of his early clients and cases as well as his work on Earle C. Clements' 1947 Democratic...
1983-04-15
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Oral History Project, 2003OH01
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. remembers Philip Graham, John Y. Brown, Sr., J. C. W. Beckham, Alben Barkley and A. B. "Happy" Chandler. Prichard also recalls the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, also known as the "court packing plan," and the...
1982-11-24
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Oral History Project, 2003OH01
Mr. French is a black farmer with broad experience in agriculture, including time as a compliance officer for ASCS, and a loan officer for the Farmer's Home Administration.
Between 1955 and 1972 Frankfort's "Bottom" or "Craw" community, an integrated working-class neighborhood, was systematically destroyed by the urban renewal process in the capital city. In a series of interviews former residents describe their...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Mr. Brewer has been in the farm implement business for over forty years. This interview deals with the equipment that the tobacco farmer uses, how important the tobacco farmer has been to the equipment business, and how the farm downturn has...
The purpose of this interview is to try to get some perspective in how and why out-of-state individuals decide to invest in the tobacco business in Kentucky despite the uncertain future. Mr. Pope built a million dollar warehouse after loosing an...
Mr. Comer speaks of his years working for the American Tobacco Company redryer plant in Maysville, amount and type of tobacco handled, the effect of the 1937 flood on it, opening of tobacco sales warehouse, it is a percentage operation: warehouse...
