Interview with Robert Dudley Chilton, November 12, 1991
Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project
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Childhood, born 1918, origins of house and farm he was born in, two-room school in Lacie through 8th grade, Campbellsburg High School and baseball, farm work, discipline, hunting and fishing, soil erosion and gradual land recovery, school as center of local socialization, neighbors and mutual aid, exodus of farm families after 1918, means of subsistence living in 1920s, Court Day in New Castle, Kentucky, Owenton, Fourth of July in Eminence, Kentucky, free range across county in childhood.Interview Accession
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Chilton, Robert Dudley Interview by Louise Chawla. 12 Nov. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Chilton, R.D. (1991, November 12). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Chilton, Robert Dudley, interview by Louise Chawla. November 12, 1991, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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