Interview with Eula Hall, June 14, 1988
Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project
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Eula Hall was born in 1927 and grew up on Greasy Creek in Pike County, Kentucky. She describes the negative reputation of the coal camps. Hall states that the housing conditions were better in the coal camps, but that the miners were looked down upon. She states that the company "whipped the men" if they did not work enough. She discusses the hardships that she faced growing up, including the poverty and having to work as a "hired girl." Hall expresses strong feelings of class-consciousness.Interview Accession
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Hall, Eula Interview by Glenna Graves. 14 Jun. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hall, E. (1988, June 14). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Hall, Eula, interview by Glenna Graves. June 14, 1988, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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