Interview with Minnie E. Hines, Juanita Estill, November 8, 1991
Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Childhood in Portland and Louisville between 1910-1925, 1930-1945, family tragedies-mother's death and father's loss of leg, Irish father's loyalty to Democratic Party, community places and forbidden places, saloon owner's friendliness to kids, public school's strictness, chores, bread label coupons for Norman Theater, Minnie Hines was born in 1909, the daughter of a railroad section foreman, Juanita Estill was born in 1929, the 1913 and 1937 floods, strong sense of community-mutual aid farm, relatives' gifts of food from farm, Minnie's restaurant work, Juanita's "adoption" by uncle after father abandoned family, race relations, community safety until the 1970s, Portland, Kentucky and its tough reputation, Jefferson County.Interview Accession
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Juanita Estill
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Hines, Minnie E. Interview by Louise Chawla. 08 Nov. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hines, M.E. (1991, November 08). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Hines, Minnie E., interview by Louise Chawla. November 08, 1991, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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