Interview with Euell Sumner, December 17, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
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Euell Sumner is a farmer and retired IBM employee who was born in 1938 in Powell County, Kentucky. He discusses some family history, his education, service in the army, and how he became involved in farming. He recalls his childhood and how his grandmother and mother gardened and canned, and made lye soap and clothes. Sumner also recalls the organization of his uncle's farm, now Sumner's farm, where he raised tobacco and livestock. He talks about the types of barns, outbuildings, and fencing on the farm.Interview Accession
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Army Reserve Barns Beef cattle farming Cable Cane Creek (Ky.) Childhood play activities Craft furniture making Farm automobiles Farm fencing Farm medicine Federal Farm Aid Fort Chaffee (Ark.) Fruit Gardens Greyhound Bus drivers Heritage farms Log barns Natural gas heating Peddlers Pets Powell County (Ky.) Refuse disposal Reunions Rural education Rural electric service Rural household organization Spatial organization Syrup Tobacco production Water wellsInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Country life Family farms Farm life Powell County (Ky.) Sumner, Euell, 1938- Sumner, Euell, 1938- --Childhood and youth Sumner, Euell, 1938- --Interviews Bus driving Mountain life Rural schools Labor Irrigation Tobacco farming Farm buildings Technological innovations Sewage House construction Livestock Agricultural innovations Home economics Canning and preserving Rural electrification Rural public utilities Gardening Agriculture--Kentucky--Powell County Refuse and refuse disposal AgricultureInterview Rights
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Sumner, Euell Interview by David Rotenizer. 17 Dec. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Sumner, E. (1991, December 17). 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.
Sumner, Euell, interview by David Rotenizer. December 17, 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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