Interview with Frances M. Carter, April 26, 1979

Partial Transcript: This is an interview with Mrs. Frances M. Carter for the Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project by Dale Deaton...

Segment Synopsis: Frances Carter is introduced. She talks about growing up in Louisville, Kentucky before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. She talks about how she became involved with the Boston Committee of the Frontier Nursing Service.

Keywords: American Committee for Devastated France (C.A.R.D.); Boston Committee; Committee chairman; Contact; Couriers; Horseback; Louisville Committee; Mary Breckinridge; Mrs. John Rock; Nan Rock; Nan Thorndike Rock; Relocating

Subjects: Benefactors; Boston (Mass.); Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965; Charity; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Louisville (Ky.); Philanthropists

Partial Transcript: Now when did you move to, to, uh, Washington?

Segment Synopsis: Carter discusses some of the activities of the Boston Committee and the Washington Committee of the Frontier Nursing Service. She compares the two groups and their members.

Keywords: Bob Estill; Boston Committee; Christmas Preview; Christmas sales; Committee chairman; Committee members; Involvement; Marty Perry; Resistance; Volunteering; Washington Committee

Subjects: Benefactors; Boston (Mass.); Charity; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Philanthropists; Volunteers; Washington (D.C.)

Partial Transcript: Well I'd like to talk a little bit now about Mrs. Breckinridge.

Segment Synopsis: Carter discusses her impressions of Mrs. Breckinridge, including her personality and appearance. She talks about the social status of the members of the FNS committees, and how Mrs. Breckinridge may have used her social contacts to assist her with the FNS. She discusses Mrs. Breckinridge's belief in spiritualism.

Keywords: "Wide Neighborhoods"; American Committee for Devastated France (C.A.R.D.); Anne Morgan; Appearance; Books; Boston Committee; Breckinridge family; Clifford Breckinridge Thompson ("Breckie"); Committee members; Committees; Death; Future; Helen Browne ("Brownie"); Howard Lee; Mrs. Codman; Nan Rock; Personality; Religious beliefs; Social background; Social contacts; Social status; Southern; Spiritualism

Subjects: Benefactors; Boston (Mass.); Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965; Charity; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Louisville (Ky.); Philanthropists; Religion

Partial Transcript: And then as I say, Dr. and Mrs. Codman, now you ought to know--have heard something about them in--

Segment Synopsis: Carter talks more about the various FNS committees, including their activities and members.

Keywords: Boston Committee; Committee members; Events; Fundraising benefits; Sue Grandin; Washington Committee

Subjects: Benefactors; Boston (Mass.); Charity; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Philanthropists; Washington (D.C.)

Partial Transcript: You have never visited Leslie County or Wendover?

Segment Synopsis: Carter talks about her impressions of the Leslie County area and the people there, as someone who has never visited the area. She talks about the films used by the FNS to demonstrate the living conditions of the people they served. She talks about a fundraising drive for a new FNS hospital.

Keywords: "Mountain people"; Boston Committee; Committee members; Dr. John Rock; Films; Fundraising drives; Impressions; Living conditions; Local people; Moonshiners; New hospital; Visits

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Social conditions; Country life; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Leslie County (Ky.); Medical centers--Finance; Rural conditions; Rural roads

Partial Transcript: Uh, uh, could you talk a little bit more about your relationship with Mr. Percy Booth?

Segment Synopsis: Carter discusses both her and Mary Breckinridge's relationships (or lack thereof) with various politicians and other social figures. She talks about President Nixon's visit to Hyden, her family's status during the Civil War, and her feelings as a Southerner when she moved to New England.

Keywords: Anne Wigglesworth; Buying votes; Committee members; Congressman Tim Lee Carter; Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.); Donations; Dr. Arthur T. McCormick; Kentucky; Mary Ballard Morton; Mary Breckinridge; Percy Booth; President Richard Nixon; Public relations; Southerners

Subjects: Louisville (Ky.); Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Politicians--United States; Regionalism--Southern States; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Partial Transcript: Well when you first moved to Boston--(coughs)--how did you come about being on the, on the FNS committee there?

Segment Synopsis: Carter talks more about the FNS committees, their activities, chairmen, and members. She talks about how some of the committees may have begun. She briefly discusses her family's lack of connections to both Robert E. Lee and Congressman Tim Lee Carter. The interview is concluded.

Keywords: Birth control pills; Boston Committee; Carter family; Catholics; Christmas Preview; Coffee party; Committee chairman; Committee members; Dr. John Rock; Health problems; Kate Ireland; Lake Forest (Ill.); Lee family; Lizzie Sherman; Marvin Breckinridge Patterson; Mary Breckinridge; Nan Rock; President John F. Kennedy; Social status

Subjects: Benefactors; Boston (Mass.); Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965; Charity; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Philanthropists