Interview with Nancy Barnes, September 12, 1978

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

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Nancy Barnes was delivered by Betty Lester, and tells of working for the Bowlingtown [Bullskin Creek] Center when she was sixteen. Besides taking care of the cooking, the house-cleaning, and the horses, Barnes recalls participating in bean stringings and square dances in people's homes in the 1940s. She recounts her acquaintance and experiences with the FNS nurses at both the Bowlingtown and the Brutus clinics. At one time Barnes contracted a difficult case of tuberculosis, and she describes the care she received during that illness, as well as the care of her child who had rheumatic fever. Barnes recalls Mary Breckinridge in her later years, especially her storytelling.

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1979oh023_fns024

Interviewee Name

Nancy Barnes

Interviewer Name

Linda Green

Interview Date

1978-09-12

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Barnes, Nancy Interview by Linda Green. 12 Sep. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Barnes, N. (1978, September 12). Interview by L. Green. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Barnes, Nancy, interview by Linda Green. September 12, 1978, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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