Interview with Albert Spiller, October 3, 1983

Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Nightriders, Minerva farm, raising tobacco in early days, stripping in the six or seven grades, physical differences between old-time tobacco and contemporary crop, tobacco program, choosing a warehouse, importance of tobacco as Kentucky's "cash crop", hand-tied vs. baled tobacco, pinhookers, tobacco buyers, working for a tobacco warehouse

Interview Accession

1995oh141_ff471

Interviewee Name

Albert Spiller

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1983-10-03

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agriculture--Kentucky Baling Burley tobacco Draft animals Family farms Night Riders (Group) Tobacco curing Tobacco industry Tobacco--Grading Tobacco--Kentucky Traditional farming Warehouses Agriculture

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Spiller, Albert Interview by John Klee. 03 Oct. 1983. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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