Interview with Stephanie Ratliff, May 24, 2011
Project: Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Stephanie Ratliff describes growing up in Pikeville, Kentucky and the class divisions in the town, as well as problems such as drug abuse among the youth. She talks about growing up being creative and winning a national award for ceramics at the National Council of Education on Ceramic Arts. Her winning entry was on coal, and she discusses the divisions in her community over coal and mountaintop removal.Interview Accession
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Ceramic arts Eastern Kentucky Class divisions Youth Coal Mountaintop removal Hillbilly DaysInterview LC Subject
Pikeville (Ky.)Interview Rights
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Ratliff, Stephanie Interview by Joy Gritton. 24 May. 2011. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Ratliff, S. (2011, May 24). Interview by J. Gritton. Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Ratliff, Stephanie, interview by Joy Gritton. May 24, 2011, Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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