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Grandmother
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Rob Amberg, Interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000. Interview K-0249. Southern Oral History Program Collection, UNC Libraries.
- Date created
- November 30, 2000
- Duration
- 1:08
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2004. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original audio housed by Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- The Great Depression: Impact over time: In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time. (Page 1.3)
- The Great Depression: Impact over time: In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time. (Page 2.2)
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In this oral history excerpt, Rob Amberg questions Stan Hyatt about growing up in Madison County, North Carolina and living with his grandmother on her farm.
Transcript
- Rob Amberg
- Was there farming in your background at all?
- Stan Hyatt
- My grandmother had farmland and leased it out, and I helped with the tobacco chores and gardening and growing corn, things like that — feeding the pigs and feeding the chickens, milking the cows — when I was growing up with her.
- Rob Amberg
- So you had all of those things. And would you classify your grandma as somewhat self-sufficient on the farm?
- Stan Hyatt
- She was extremely self-sufficient. She lived after she raised six kids of her own. I lived with her a while, and she would have me go out to the woods and get roots and things out of the ground that she made medicines out of. I hunted. I would bring squirrels and fish back, and rabbits. My grandmother could fix anything. When her husband was still alive she cooked for a sawmill up there in Dillingham area. She was the most self-sufficient woman that I ever knew.
