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Collection Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College Oral History Collection
Date 1983
Abstract Interview of Dona Neverstich by Chuck Bledsoe. Neverstich discusses her background and the pioneer days in Eastern Kentucky.

Interviewer's description-
"Mrs. Neverstich was born in 1906 at Linefork, Kentucky. Her family has lived at Jackson, Linefork, Lynch, Benham and Cumberland, Kentucky. She describes life in a log cabin for her and her four brothers and five sisters. Topics included here are: 1) gardening 2) ethnicity in coal camps 3) education 4) medical practices (folk remedies) 5) the flu epidemic of 1918 and 6) ghost stories."
Object ID 2007.001.0249
Object Name Tape, Magnetic
Subjects Epidemics
Folk medicine
Gardening
Ghost stories
Pioneers
Strychnine
Interviewer Bledsoe, Chuck
Length of interview 31:39, 22:41
Media Cassette Tape
Narrator Neverstich, Dona
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