Interview with Dock Frazier, Paul Frazier, June 20, 1991

Partial Transcript: This is Paul Frazier being interviewed by Zack Lewton on June 20th, 1991.

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about growing up on the farm, his parents, and his siblings and the chores they did.

Keywords: Canning; Chores; Cows; Creek; Death; Electricity; Family; Family stores; Farming; Fathers; Floods; Growing up; Jelly; Milking; Mothers; Moving; Property; Siblings; Storing food

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Country life; Families.; Family farms; Livestock--Appalachian region

Partial Transcript: Well what all kind of crops did they grow?

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about the different crops that his family grew. He talks about his and his siblings' education. He talks about doing chores while he was in school, and his sister going on to college. He talks about the work he's done, and getting married.

Keywords: Chores; Coal company; College; Corn; Crops; Driving trucks; Dropping out; Family; High school; Jobs; Marriage; Quitting; Sawmills; School; Siblings; Timber; Vegetables; Working

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Coal mines and mining--Kentucky; Country life; Education, Elementary; Education, Higher--Kentucky; Families.; Family farms; General stores; Rural schools--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: Well how'd you end up getting--did you just buy this land from your parents or did you--

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about buying property and how they improved the swamp land.

Keywords: Buying land; Cows; Crops; Ditches; Inheritance; Planting; Property; Steers; Swamps

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Family farms; Land use, Rural--Kentucky; Livestock

Partial Transcript: Well did your mother ever--do you remember her ever making any quilts or anything or did she do a lot of that?

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about his mother making quilts. He talks about sleeping on and making feather beds. He talks about the rooms where his family slept.

Keywords: Feather beds; Geese; Houses; Mothers; Quilts; Selling; Shearing sheep; Sheep; Wool

Subjects: Bedrooms.; Housing--Appalachian Region; Livestock--Appalachian region; Quilting--Appalachian Region

Partial Transcript: Well how'd you get into--how'd you learn all this, these trades, electricity and plumbing and all that?

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about working in plumbing and electricity. He talks about his children. He talks about the little he grows on the farm and in the garden.

Keywords: Children; Cows; Electricity; Farming; Gardens; Hogs; Kids; Learning; Licenses; Milking; Plumbers

Subjects: Dairy cattle; Electricians.; Families.; Farms, small; Gardening--Appalachian Region; Plumbing.

Partial Transcript: Well tell me about living here. Where did y'all go--did y'all go to church, your family, when you were growing up?

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about his family going to church. He talks about what they did for fun. [Recording interrupted] He talks about fishing and how there aren't as many fish in the creek as there used to be.

Keywords: Communities; Creeks; Entertainment; Family; Fishing; Kids; Old Regular Baptist Church; Playing; Radio; Religion; Socializing; Youth

Subjects: Christmas--Appalachian Region; Families.; Recreation; Rural churches

Partial Transcript: You ever try to sell any lumber from here?

Segment Synopsis: Paul Frazier talks about dividing up and passing on his land to his children. He talks about how it's hard to live off of farming because no one will buy produce.

Keywords: Children; Costs; Dividing land; Inheriting land; Lumber; Produce; Property; Selling; Working

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Families.; Family farms; Land use, Rural--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: Well tell me, what, what's your name?

Segment Synopsis: Dock Frazier talks about selling crops that he grows. He talks about working at the strip mines and changing his career to music and farming.

Keywords: Christmas trees; Farming; Gardens; Growing crops; Local; Musicians; Produce; Property; Selling; Stores; Strip mining

Subjects: Christmas tree growing; Family farms; Farms, small; Gardening--Appalachian Region

Partial Transcript: Hmm. Cause I know it's just about almost died out out here as far as the traditional kinds of farming.

Segment Synopsis: Dock Frazier talks about the potential for people to grow things to sell that no one really knows how to tap in to.

Keywords: Christmas trees; Co-ops; Farming; Growing; Local produce; Potatoes

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Farms, small

Partial Transcript: Well so, so is this where you learned all your farming, as far as--

Segment Synopsis: Dock Frazier talks about how he learned to farm. He talks about his wife farming and gardening. He talks about having to use fertilizers and pesticides.

Keywords: Chemicals; Fertilizers; Land; Learning; Working

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Families.; Farms, small; Organic farming--Kentucky