Authors

Lessie Shively

Interviewer

Gary A. Jarrett

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Description

This interview is one of a series conducted concerning rural life in West Virginia. Mrs. Lessie Shively was born in Richard Hollow, north of Charleston, West Virginia. In 1950, she and her husband moved to Charleston to take care of her mother. At the time of the interview, they were still living there. Subjects discussed in this interview include: the Depression, politics, coal mining, cooking on wood stoves, and coon hunting.

Publication Date

5-26-1905

Identifier

OH64-22

Type

Text

Library of Congress Subjects

Shively, Lessie, 1902- -- Autobiography.
Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Cookery -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Oral histories.

Comments

Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-22.

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Oral History Interview: Lessie Shively

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