Interview with Flora Dawson

Partial Transcript: What was Gratz like growing up?

Segment Synopsis: Dawson briefly lists businesses and organizations from the Gratz area, including: blacksmith, grocery, and three churches.

Keywords: Gratz, Kentucky

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Partial Transcript: Well, tell me about the river boats.

Segment Synopsis: Dawson says that she remembers seeing river boats but never rode on one. Before the Gratz bridge was built during the Great Depression, the only way across was a ferry.

Keywords: Falls City; Gratz Bridge; Gratz Kentucky

Subjects: Boats and boating--Kentucky River (Ky.) Ferries--Kentucky River (Ky.) River boats--Kentucky River (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: I'd call Eugene Webster, he was a pastor at the Gratz Baptist Church.

Segment Synopsis: Dawson lists a few people that might be interviewed and gives their contact information.

Keywords: Gratz Baptist Church; Gratz, Kentucky

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Partial Transcript: Well tell me a little bit about your farm.

Segment Synopsis: Dawson talks about what crops were raised on her family farm. She describes being raised on a farm and working on it.

Keywords: Apple orchard; Corn; Gratz, Kentucky; Peach orchard; Potatoes; Tobacco; Wheat

Subjects: Agriculture--Kentucky

Partial Transcript: My sisters died young. One at nineteen and one at twenty-one.

Segment Synopsis: Dawson says that her sisters, mother, and father all died of tuberculosis.

Keywords: Gratz, Kentucky; Tuberculosis

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Partial Transcript: You say you lived how far from Gratz?

Segment Synopsis: Dawson describes how her father weakened but kept working hard so that her mother would not have work to do when he died.

Keywords: Gratz, Kentucky

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