Interview with Marie Turner

Partial Transcript: I want to thank you for allowing me to come down here.

Segment Synopsis: Turner discusses growing up in Breathitt County. Her mother and father were both teachers.

Keywords: Breathitt County; Jackson, Kentucky; Knott County; Lost Creek School; Lost Creek, Kentucky; Riverside School; Roberts, Alfred; Roberts, John M.; Turner, John Roberts; Watts; Watts, Squire

Subjects: Measles Whooping cough

Partial Transcript: Then I took the examination.

Segment Synopsis: Turner gives an overview of her career from teaching in a one-room schoolhouse to becoming a superintendent.

Keywords: Breathitt County; One-room school; Shockey, Addy; Teacher; Turner, Ervine

Subjects: Education--Kentucky School boards--Elections School superintendents School trustees

Partial Transcript: When you were put in, how many board members did you have?

Segment Synopsis: Turner discusses being a female superintendent. She talks about how she won over the school board. She says that she rode around the county on horseback and stayed in homes of her students. She tells a story about coming across a still.

Keywords: Breathitt County; Moonshine; Turner, Marie

Subjects: Distilling, Illicit Education--Kentucky School board-superintendent relationships School boards--Elections School superintendents

Partial Transcript: When you were traveling like that, were you thinking in those days that you would eventually have to close those schools?

Segment Synopsis: Turner talks about making her husband run for state senator to get funding for better roads in the region. This led to school consolidations. She tells a story about the governor and other high-ranking senators inviting her to a poker game to convince her to support a sales tax. She also talks about getting funding for schools and getting rid of school trustees.

Keywords: Kentucky state senator; Laffoon, Governor; Turner, Ervine

Subjects: Education--Kentucky--Finance Governors--Kentucky Roads--Construction Sales tax--Law and legislation School consolidation School superintendents School trustees

Partial Transcript: When your children were raised, you lived here in this house I guess?

Segment Synopsis: Turner discusses potential interviewees for the project including her family.

Keywords: Breathitt County; Turner, John Raymond

Subjects: Combs, Bert T., 1911-1991 Governors--Kentucky