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Patton discusses being a young woman during the Great Depression, including her chores, games she liked to play, her first job, making clothes, and cooking. She describes men walking to the mines, seeing a car for the first time, having the first…

Recording 1: Hayes discusses his family history and shares stories from his childhood. He talks about beginning to teach children at church and describes what religion and prayer mean to him. He discusses what he hopes to instill in the young people…

Webb talks about the murder of John Huff in Hueysville. He discusses Huff's family history, standing in the community, and the shock of the murder.

Floyd Davis, Alamander Davis, Raymond Davis, and Hattie Davis Hughes working mules in the log woods. Picture was taken at Turner Branch in Eastern.

Picture 1: Floyd Davis, plowing with the mule Jim in about 1971. This picture was taken in the garden beside his house, just below the old Pyramid Post Office

Picture 2: Floyd Davis with a truck he used to haul logs from Turner Branch at Eastern…

Alka (Alamander) Davis and Bill (William) Reffett were partners in a lumber company that operated in Jobe Turner Branch at Eastern, Kentucky, on Right Beaver in the 1930s. Alka Davis (standing on the left) was only about 5' 6" tall, so the two-man…