Interview with Ford Barger, December 7, 1978

Interview Summary

Ford Barger's father, a logger and storekeeper in Leslie County at the turn of the century, donated land to the FNS for the establishment of the Bowlingtown [Bullskin Creek] Center. Barger himself worked in logging and established a store at Bowlingtown in 1921. He also served as the community's postmaster from 1930 to 1959. Barger recalls Mary Breckinridge from the time he served on the Bowlingtown Committee of the FNS. He discusses the retail business, logging, "granny women," the Great Depression, and the eventual displacement of Bowlingtown residents by the building of the Buckhorn Dam in the late 1950s.

Interview Keyword

1929 Bowlingtown Bowlingtown Committee Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965 Buckhorn Dam (Ky.) Depressions donated land Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Kentucky Leslie County Leslie County (Ky.) Loggers Postmasters storekeeper Waco (Ky.)

Interview LC Subject

Children--Health and hygiene--Kentucky Medical care Nursing

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