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  Bill Stewart, October 22, 2008

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  Betty Decker, December 5,…

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  Ryan Koch, November 11, 2008

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  Barbara Napier, January 21,…

  Barbara Napier tells her life story, focusing on her path to self-determination as a rural Kentucky woman. She discusses both gardening and farming, and speaks…
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  Bev May, January 25, 2009

  Bev May lives on Wilson Creek in Floyd County, in the same hollow where her great-grandparents lived. She grew up in a family that raised a garden because they…
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  George Goodrich, Joetta…

  The Goodriches describe gardening techniques, food preservation, and vegetables planted through several generations of their rural Madison County family. …
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  Walsa Blanton, Gladys Blanton,…

  The Blantons discuss their many years as tenant farmers, from childhood to middle age. Today they continue to garden on their own 2-3 acres outside of Irvine,…
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  Tom Collins, March 9, 2009

  Tom Collins was raised in the rural community of Barwick, in Breathitt County. His earliest involvement with gardening was in his family's subsistence garden,…
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  Dave Kennedy, March 10, 2009

  Dave Kennedy discusses his transition from college dropout to hippie to "back-to-the lander." He has a nonprofit called Leaf for Life, which teaches poor…
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  Roberta Burnes, John Walker,…

  The interviewees discuss their upbringing, describing how their backgrounds led them to their interest in gardening. Burnes is from Ohio; Walker is from Wales.…
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  Bruce Mundy, March 16, 2009

  Bruce Mundy grew up in the west end of Lexington, off Georgetown Street. His early garden experiences involve his family and a black farmer whose land backed…
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  Glenda Moorer, March 24, 2009

  Glenda Moorer, who keeps a garden in Lexington's Kenwick neighborhood, talks about the plantings she has started.
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  Janice Musick, April 5, 2009

  Janice Musick has been working toward self-sufficiency, particularly regarding food, most of her life. She has a farm in rural Whitley County, Kentucky, and…
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  Mary Lucas Powell, John…

  The interviewees discuss their early gardening experiences: Poundstone's in Lexington, Kentucky, and Powell's in Alabama. They now live in Poundstone's…
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  Jennifer Eskew, April 10, 2009

  Jennifer Eskew discusses the garden she shared with her parents and grandparents in Ashland, Kentucky. She also speaks at length about her family's…
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  Diane Rose, April 14, 2009

  Diane Rose, a musician, does not support her household by traditional work. Gardening, to her, is a deliberate act of home economy as well as a spiritual…
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  Linda Rose, August 5, 2009

  Linda Rose still lives on the farm where she grew up in White Oak, Kentucky. Her family gardened out of necessity, and her mother sold bedding plants,…
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  Aaron Mansfield, April 30,…

  Aaron Mansfield is a minister at The Rock/La Roca Methodist Church on the north side of Lexington, Kentucky. Although he considers his primary job to be…
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  Dorothy Harrison, Forest…

  Dorothy and Forest Harrison have lived in Todd County all their lives. They live on what was once Dorothy's parents' farm, just across the road from the farm…
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  Gloria Williams, Don Williams,…

  Gloria and Don Williams live high on a ridge in Menifee County, on the farm where Gloria grew up. Her mother resides in another house on the farm. The…
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  Lafe Linzy, Donna Haire, Larry…

  Donna and Larry Haire grew up in Crittenden County, where their fathers farmed and gardened. After Larry was disabled in a coal-mining accident, the Haires…
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  Toni Eddelman, June 5, 2009

  Toni Eddleman lives with her husband on land that backs up to the least travelled part of Red River Gorge. She has many double-dug beds, in which she grows a…
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  John Jones, July 27, 2009

  John Jones grew up on his parents' farm near Laurel, Mississippi. His family raised cotton, cattle, hogs, and sorghum cane. They gardened for their own…
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  Mae Sons, August 4, 2009

  Mae Sons was born and raised in Menifee County, where her father was a schoolteacher and her mother ran the family farms. Sons, now 94, has gardened her entire…
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  Gary Millwood, August 25, 2009

  Gary Millwood grew up in cotton mill towns in South Carolina, where his parents repaired looms and tended gardens. Millwood returned to gardening later in life,…
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  Dorothy Arthur, September 9,…

  Dorothy Arthur, who was born in Powell County, Kentucky in 1919 and is a lively storyteller, focuses her life story on her early and middle years. Her…
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  Pam Oldfield Meade, September…

  Pam Meade lives on the farm on which she grew up. She and her husband built a log house just down the road in the community of White Oak (Morgan County) form…
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  William "Bill" Mack, Mattie…

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  Mary Andrews, October 2, 2009

  Mary Andrews was raised just over the Todd County line in Tennessee, primarily by her father who was a sharecropper. She met her husband, James, at church and…
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  Joe Trigg, October 15, 2009

  Joe Trigg is retired from the Air Force. He returned to his home in Barren County where his mother owns a huge lot inside Glasgow (Joe lives elsewhere in…
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  Saunda Richardson Coleman,…

  Ms. Coleman's parents both died when she was a young girl. Her father "Smoke" Richardson was a legendary local band leader and saxophonist in Lexington. A…
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  Pat Dean, October 21, 2009

  Ms. Dean grew up in central Illinois in a small town in the 1940s and 1950s. She learned to garden from her mother's parents and the father of her stepfather.…
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  Jose Meza, November 1, 2009

  In this bilingual interview, Jose Meza discusses his childhood in Mexico where he worked on a large farm with his father. He also discusses his current life on…
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  Valeria Riley, Paul Riley,…

  In this interview Valeria and Paul Riley live on a large farm in Kenton County at the end of a road. The farm has been owned continuosly by Paul's ancestors…
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  Osman Santos, November 11,…

  Osman Santos is a twenty-four year old gardener from Honduras who has been in the United States for about five years. He grew up growing food crops with his…
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  Jan Smith, November 13, 2009

  Jan Smith grew up in east Tennessee and Middlesboro, Kentucky. Both her parents gardened and grew up in gardening families. This interview is particularly…
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  Marisol Ortiz, December 15,…

  Marisol Ortiz was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Texas in 1998. Her husband is an industrial engineer with Fruit of the Loom. Since living in Texas, the…
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  Adan Nu?ez, Martha Barrios,…

  Adan Nunez works at the Fruit of the Loom factory in Russell County, Kentucky. He transferred from the Fruit of the Loom plant in Clayton, Georgia where he met…
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  Maria Prudente, Ciro Prudente,…

  Maria and Ciro Prudente met when Maria was fourteen and Ciro was fifteen in Mexico. Ciro's mother was a seamstress and he would carry his mother's products to…
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  Narayanan Kutty, January 10,…

  Mr. Kutty grew up in the Indian State of Kerola in a village called Cheroor, near the city of Trichur. His interest in gardening or agriculture began to…
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  Rossneau Ealom, January 12,…

  Mr. Ealom, who was widowed by his wife and fellow gardener, Loretta, grew up in Paducah impovershed. After graduating from Louisville high school and a brief…
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  Seema Cappor, Ashish Patel,…

  In this interview Seema Cappor and Ashish Patel discuss growing up in Bombay. They started gardening when they moved to Kentucky and grew flowers and…
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  Seema Patel, Kasan Patel,…

  In this interview Jashu and Kasan discuss growing up in the Indian state of Gujarat. They both grew up on farms and helped do the farmwork. They married in 1977…
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  Thai Tran, February 20, 2011

  In this interview, Thai Tran discusses being born in Ben Tre, Vietnam which is located in the MeKong Delta. He talks about how after a year in Saigon, followed…