Interview with Raymond Henderson

Partial Transcript: Can you please state your name sir?

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses his family background and his parents employment while growing up in Estill County.

Keywords: Color blind; Deputy sheriff; Estill County; Irvine, Kentucky; Laundry truck; Railroad; Ravenna, Kentucky; Rice Station; Works Progress Administration

Subjects: Estill County (Ky.) Irvine (Ky.) Railroads--Employees Ravenna (Ky.) Sheriffs United States. Works Progress Administration

Partial Transcript: How would you root for your own money?

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses the different employment position while growing up in Estill County. He also describes joining the National Guard at sixteen years old.

Keywords: A&P Store; Coal mines; Harlan County; Irvine, Kentucky; Medical Discharge; National Guard; Ravenna, Kentucky; Social Security; Spinal Meningitis; United States Army; World War II

Subjects: Coal mines and mining--Kentucky Harlan County (Ky.) Irvine (Ky.) Meningitis, Spinal Ravenna (Ky.) United States--National Guard United States. Army World War II 1939-1945

Partial Transcript: I went to Dayton, I went to work.

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses his employment in Ravenna.

Keywords: Colonial Hotel; Dayton, Ohio; Estill County; National Cash Register; Railroad terminal; Ravenna, Kentucky; Real estate; RW Henderson Grocery; The Wigwam

Subjects: Grocery trade Railroad terminals Ravenna (Ky.) Real estate agents Real estate auctions

Partial Transcript: But uh, I can remember the Depression mighty well.

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses growing up in Ravenna during the Great Depression.

Keywords: Carhartt Incorporated; Great Depression; Irvine, Kentucky; Newspaper route; Ravenna, Kentucky

Subjects: Great Depression--1929 Irvine (Ky.) Paperboys Ravenna (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: When we lived in the country over there, my granddad had a grocery store there in Ravenna.

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses his grandfather's general merchandise store in Ravenna. He also describes the damage to the town by a tornado and what the town went through during a railroad strike.

Keywords: Bush Brothers Restaurant; Citizen Bank; Estill County; Grocery stores; Irvine, Kentucky; Movie theater; Paige Mason; Passenger train; Post Office; Railroad strike; Railroad terminals; Ravenna, Kentucky; Tornado damage

Subjects: Estill County (Ky.) Grocery trade Irvine (Ky.) Motion pictures theaters Railroad terminals Ravenna (Ky.) Restaurants Strikes and lockouts--Railroads--United States Tornado damage

Partial Transcript: You've been, uh, of course you spent all your life in Estill County.

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses the school consolidation.

Keywords: Estill County; Estill High School; Irvine High School; Irvine, Kentucky; Ravenna, Kentucky; School Board Chairman; Town consolidation

Subjects: Estill County (Ky.) Irvine (Ky.) Ravenna (Ky.) School board presidents Schools--Centralization

Partial Transcript: Tell me how, how has Ravenna changed over the years.

Segment Synopsis: Henderson discusses the different businesses that have closed over the years in Ravenna. He describes the changes he has seen.

Keywords: Clothing stores; Drug stores; Gas station; Grocery stores; Irvine, Kentucky; Railroad roundhouse; Ravenna, Kentucky; Restaurants; Transportation

Subjects: Irvine (Ky.) Ravenna (Ky.) Roundhouses (Railroads) Small business Transportation