Interview with John C. West, December 10, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
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John C. West recalls life on his family's farm in Cane Creek, Powell County Kentucky where they raised corn and tobacco crops, kept dairy cattle and pigs, hunted for furs and ran a sawmill. Living on the farm during the Great Depression and World War II, West's family made almost all of their own food, tools, clothes and entertainment. West also speaks in detail about the construction of the farmhouse as well as previous buildings on the West farm including a log cabin his great grandparents owned.Interview Accession
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West, John C. Interview by David Rotenizer. 10 Dec. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
West, J.C. (1991, December 10). Interview by D. Rotenizer. Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
West, John C., interview by David Rotenizer. December 10, 1991, Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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