Interview with Albert Bowling, September 12, 1978
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
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Albert Bowling worked for the Brutus Center in the early days of the FNS, and speaks of the nurses' rounds on horseback. He recalls FNS fees as one dollar per year per family and five dollars for delivery of a baby. He indicates the different types of work available in the 1930s, mainly barrel stave work and jobs with the WPA. At that time teachers could teach with an eighth-grade education. Bowling tells of holding dances after corn hoeings and of going visiting. He also comments upon the local people's dependence upon the Brutus Clinic.Interview Accession
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Bowling, Albert Interview by Dale Deaton. 12 Sep. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Bowling, A. (1978, September 12). Interview by D. Deaton. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Bowling, Albert, interview by Dale Deaton. September 12, 1978, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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