Interview with Hattie Wells, July 31, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Wells talks about working in the garden and raising animals. She talks at length about growing up with separated parents and an alcoholic father. She talks about how people treated her because of her father's drinking, and about how her grandparents treated her and her brothers as less than their other grandchildren. She talks about how becoming a Christian changed her attitude and how she treated people. She discusses her childhood goals for education and what prevented her from going to college.Interview Accession
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Childrearing practices Childhood Church Divorced parents Education Families Gardening Heritage farms ReligionInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Family farms Gender issues Manners and customs Social classes AgricultureInterview Rights
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Wells, Hattie Interview by Elizabeth Albert. 31 Jul. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Wells, H. (1991, July 31). Interview by E. Albert. Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Wells, Hattie, interview by Elizabeth Albert. July 31, 1991, Family Farms of Kentucky: Transition from Farming To Alternate Employment in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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