Interview with Douglas Morton, November 1, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
Interview Summary
In this interview, Douglas Morton discusses his early married life and gives detail about the homes they lived in. He discusses many details about the Cane Creek community including churches, local organizations, racial makeup, education, holidays, garbage collection, natural disasters, roads, garbage disposal, and radio and television, and supplemental sources of income. He also discusses farming and the changes that have occurred in agricultural practices in the area during his lifetime.Interview Accession
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Cane Creek (Ky.) Heritage farms Powell County (Ky.) Sawmills Hogs Bench fields Campton (Ky.) Stanton (Ky.) Tractors Fertilizer County extension offices Giant cane Natural vegetation Credit Family plots Community firefighting Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway Road construction African Americans Garbage pickup Estates Drainage tile Farmers co-op Heating FieldstoneInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Country life Family farms Farm life. Marriage Tobacco farmers House construction Livestock Terracing Small business Crop rotation Agriculture--Economic aspects Agricultural machinery Mountain life Agricultural innovations Inheritance and succession Agriculture, Cooperative Coal Home economics Blacksmithing Swine AgricultureInterview Rights
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Morton, Douglas Interview by David Rotenizer. 01 Nov. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Morton, D. (1991, November 01). 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.
Morton, Douglas, interview by David Rotenizer. November 01, 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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