Interview with Warren Maggard, March 25, 1979

Partial Transcript: This is an interview with Warren Maggard for the Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project by Sadie W. Stidham...

Segment Synopsis: Warren Maggard is introduced. He talks about his childhood on the family farm. He talks about where he attended school, his teachers, and the types of games the children played.

Keywords: Baseball; Cutshin (Ky.); Distance; Farming; Games; High school; Hyden (Ky.); Long Branch (Ky.); Lunches; Parents; Post offices; Schoolhouses; Teachers; Walking

Subjects: Childhood; Country life; Education--Kentucky; Leslie County (Ky.); Rural roads; Rural schools--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: Okay, when you, uh, left school though, uh, out of high school what did you do?

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about working in the mines, discussing the types of jobs available there, and his pay. He talks about working on farms.

Keywords: Carbide lamps; Coal mine accidents; Farming; Hillsides; Hyden (Ky.); Job opportunities; Job positions; Letcher County (Ky.); Lighting; Loading coal; Pay; Wooton (Ky.); Working

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Economic conditions; Coal miners; Coal mines and mining--Kentucky; Occupations.; Wages.

Partial Transcript: Uh, tell about the community you l--where you lived there on, on Cutshin.

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about his childhood community, including the lifestyles of the local families, the quality of the roads, and the types of transportation available at the time.

Keywords: Community; Cutshin (Ky.); Electricity; Horseback riding; Poor; Schools; Stores; Vehicles; Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Economic conditions; Country life; Families.; Rural conditions; Rural electrification--Kentucky; Rural roads; Subsistence farming; Transportation--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: When and, and where were the churches, uh, established?

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about the churches in his childhood community, the preachers, and the types of activities held at the church.

Keywords: Church of Christ; Church services; Graveyard services; Memorial services; Ministers; Missionary Baptist Church; Picnics; Preachers; Programs; Schoolhouses; Training

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Church history; Appalachian Region--Religion; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Rural churches

Partial Transcript: What do you remember about politics in Leslie County?

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about election day in Leslie County, Kentucky.

Keywords: "Speakings"; Bake sales; Drinking; Election Day; Felix Maggard; Gingerbread; Magistrates; Trouble

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Social conditions; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Leslie County (Ky.)--Politics and government

Partial Transcript: What social activities were available in your community?

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about social activities in his community, including dances and box suppers. He talks about the effects of the 1957 flood in the area.

Keywords: Bean-stringings; Box suppers; Businesses; Christmas gifts; Cutshin (Ky.); Dances; Great Depression; Houses; Red Cross; Schools; Stir-offs; Wooton (Ky.)

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Country life; Depressions--1929--Kentucky; Flood damage; Floods--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: What do you know about the establishment of the Frontier Nursing Service?

Segment Synopsis: Maggard talks about the types of medical services available in his community, including local doctors and "granny women" who assisted in childbirth. He talks about why he moved away from Leslie County. The interview is concluded.

Keywords: "Granny women"; Children; Costs; Doctors; Dr. John M. Baker; Emma Shepard; Fees; Jobs; Leaving; Mary Breckinridge; Parents; Pneumonia; Schools; Shots

Subjects: Appalachian Region--Economic conditions; Appalachian Region--Social conditions; Childbirth; Country life; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Leslie County (Ky.); Maternal health services.; Medical care--Appalachian Region; Midwifery--Appalachian Region; Midwives--Appalachian Region; Physicians--Kentucky; Rural health services