Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History

Interview with Marjorie Castle, November 6, 1988

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries
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00:00:03 - Doctors and medical care in the country

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Partial Transcript: Ms. Castle, tell me your whole name.

Segment Synopsis: Castle talks about family doctors in the country when her family lived on the farm. She talks about her brother having diphtheria and being quarantined. She talks about her father having stomach ulcers from drinking.

Keywords: Cancer; Cleaning; Diphtheria; Doctors; Drinking; Health; Hospitals; Quarantine; Shots; Sickness; Tuberculosis; Ulcers; Women

Subjects: Medical care--Appalachian Region; Medicine, Rural; Physicians--Kentucky

00:08:47 - Herbal remedies / brother's drug use

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Partial Transcript: They would be a way, they would doctor for cold and t--TB, they called it then, you know, it's cancer of the lung, now, what they called it, I guess.

Segment Synopsis: Castle describes the different kinds of herbal medicine that her grandmother used. She talks about her brother and how he got addicted to drugs, but was able to get clean.

Keywords: Brothers; Dope; Drugs; Herbs; Midwives; Sickness; Sisters; TB; Tuberculosis; Typhoid fever

Subjects: Drug abuse; Drug addiction; Medical care--Appalachian Region; Medicine, Rural; Traditional medicine

00:17:37 - Moving from the farms to the coal camps

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Partial Transcript: Um, when--so do you think that, uh, when the coal camps came and were established here in the mountains, more people could go to doctors than before?

Segment Synopsis: Castle talks about why people moved to coal camps and describes what her family's home was like before her father got sick. She talks about people who wouldn't keep their houses as nice as they could.

Keywords: Coal camps; Doctors; Farms; Fireplaces; Houses; Moving; Poverty; Sewing; Working

Subjects: Appalachians (People)--Kentucky--Social conditions; Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region; Country life; Mining camps

00:25:51 - Living on a farm versus the coal camps

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Partial Transcript: Where would you think there's more work, uh, on a farm or in the coal camps?

Segment Synopsis: Castle talks about the work that her family did on the farm. She talks about the differences between living on a farm and in a coal camp.

Keywords: Canning; Cellars; Clothes; Cooking; Crinolines; Farms; Food; Hunting; Tobacco; Working

Subjects: Agriculture--Appalachian Region; Appalachians (People)--Kentucky--Social conditions; Traditional farming--Kentucky