Authors

Margaret Sisson

Interviewer

Jan L. Riggs

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Description

This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia history. Margaret Sisson discusses the Great Depression and its effects on her family and the surrounding community. She also discusses: differences between then and now, the T & T Plant, her son being bitten by a copperhead, folk medicine, and alcoholism.

Publication Date

1986

Identifier

OH64-364

Type

Text

Library of Congress Subjects

Sisson, Margaret Marie, 1909- -- Autobiography.
Depression -- 1929 -- United States -- Oral histories.
Community life -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Folk medicine -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Oral histories.

Comments

Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-364.

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Oral History Interview: Margaret Sisson

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