Authors

Orpha Bowling

Interviewer

Kelli Parker

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Description

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. At the time of the interview, Mrs. Orpha Bowling lived in Greenup (Ky), but has also lived in Buchanan County (VA), Jamboree (KY), and North Matewan (WV). She discusses: her personal history; her family; family members serving in the military; her jobs and duties on the farms they lived at; race relations; anecdotes; home remedies, rural doctors, and health problems (such as spinal meningitis & typhoid fever); midwifes and delivering children; her education (including anecdotes); life in a coal camp; an anecdote about Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts; and other topics.

Publication Date

1998

Identifier

OH64-598

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Text

Library of Congress Subjects

Bowling, Orpha, -- Autobiography.
Farm life -- Oral histories.
Folk medicine -- Oral histories.
Medicine, Rural -- Oral histories.
Teachers -- Oral histories.

Comments

Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-598.

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Oral History Interview: Orpha Bowling

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