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
Type
Text
Comments
Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-598.
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Recommended Citation
Marshall University Special Collections, OH64-598, Huntington, WV.
Library of Congress Subjects
Bowling, Orpha, -- Autobiography.
Farm life -- Oral histories.
Folk medicine -- Oral histories.
Medicine, Rural -- Oral histories.
Teachers -- Oral histories.