Interview with Jeanette Dollarhide, June 20, 1991

Partial Transcript: This is Jeanette Dollarhide being interviewed by Elizabeth Albert on June the 20th, 1991.

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about her family background and her family's farm. She talks about the social occasions they had. She also talks about the chores she and her brothers did on the farm, and going to school.

Keywords: Beans; Brothers; Chores; Coal mines; Corn; Dividing land; Family; Gardens; Grandparents; High school; Inheritance; Parents; Selling; Siblings; Sickness; Socializing; Stores; Vegetables

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Education; Families.; Family farms; Recreation

Partial Transcript: Tell me about the house that you grew up on. What did it--how many rooms did it have? What did it look like?

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about the house she grew up in. She talks about getting electricity. She talks about what her mom did to keep the household running. She talks about raising livestock and crops.

Keywords: Beds; Canning; Chickens; Cows; Crops; Electricity; Furniture; Houses; Milking; Mothers; Preserving food; Refrigerators; Remodeling; Soap; Washing machines

Subjects: Country life; Electrification--Appalachian Region, Southern; Housing; Livestock--Appalachian region; Meat animals

Partial Transcript: Tell me about that. When did you, um, when did you leave home? When did you meet your husband and all that?

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about getting married, having children, and moving. She also talks about owning land and building a house.

Keywords: Bedrooms; Building; Buying; College; Gardens; Jobs; Land; Landowning; Moving; Renting; Teaching

Subjects: Families.; Housing; Marriage

Partial Transcript: I was gonna ask you, you moved here and you bought a hundred acres.

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about growing plants and selling produce. She also talks about raising hogs.

Keywords: Beans; Cane; Corn; Curing meat; Gardens; Hogs; Molasses; Peas; Planting; Potatoes; Selling crops

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Land use, Rural--Kentucky; Livestock--Appalachian region

Partial Transcript: I was gonna ask you about that. When you were--first when you were, um, growing up in your own family, what kind of farm equipment did you have?

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about the farming equipment that her parents had on the farm when she was growing up, and on her own farm. She also talks about going to church.

Keywords: Churches; Mules; Old Regular Baptist Church; Plows; Tractors; Transportation; Wagons

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Family farms; Farm equipment; Kentucky--Religion

Partial Transcript: Tell me about when you were--when you moved here and you were farming, about, um, did your, did your kids help a lot too, or?

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about raising her kids on the farm. She talks about what they do now that they're grown.

Keywords: Berries; Birch trees; Children; College; Daughters; Farming; Housework; Kids; Sapping; Schools; Sons

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Families.; Family farms; Farms, small

Partial Transcript: Well, when, when they were going to s--uh school, grade school or high school when you were living here, were you pretty much here all day by yourself working?

Segment Synopsis: Dollarhide talks about having livestock and working on the farm. She talks about the differences between when she raised her children and how she was raised.

Keywords: Buildings; Canning; Chickens; Children; Cooking; Electric fences; Entertainment; Gardening; Hogs; Lambs; Laundry; Mennonites; Parenting; Planting; Playing; Potatoes; Selling; Sheep; Working

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky; Country life; Farms, small; Livestock--Appalachian region; Recreation