Interview with Dobree Adams, August 25, 2014

Project: Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Dobree Adams discusses her early life in Lexington, Kentucky and various other places. She talks about her education at Wellesley College; her work in the 1960s at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, where she helped build nuclear weapons; her move back to Lexington after her first marriage ended; meeting Jonathan Greene and moving to Riverbend Farm; and her career and work as a fiber artist and photographer.

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2015oh100_kw132

Interviewee Name

Dobree Adams

Interviewer Name

Arwen Donahue

Interview Date

2014-08-25

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Adams, Dobree Interview by Arwen Donahue. 25 Aug. 2014. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Adams, D. (2014, August 25). Interview by A. Donahue. Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Adams, Dobree, interview by Arwen Donahue. August 25, 2014, Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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