Panola College Digital Collection

- Interview with Versie Austin by Rhonda Leslie -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Neighbours
- Ms. Austin talks to Rhonda about being married with two sets of twins during the depression. [7:31 min.] She said her neighbors helped them through family loss and the hard times of the Depression.
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- Interview with Tommy Glenn by Greg Ransom -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Cow killings
- Mr. Glenn talks about when he was a young boy growing up in Jasper, Texas during the Depression. [ 37 min] His father ran a meat market before the Depression but his family moved to the farm when the business folded.
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- Interview with Martha Hopkins by Mary White -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Hot Springs, Ark ; Flag pole sitting
- Ms. Hopkins talks about life during the Depression [52 min.] She lived in Hot Springs and remembers how the depression effected her school, FDR's firside chats and tells how she was married.
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- Interview with Cozette Hearne by Sandra Worrall -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Hearne was a young married woman druing the depression and remembers good times in Gary, Texas during the Depression. [10 min]
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- Interview with Linnie Ingram by Gwen Beasley -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Swinging Songs ;
- Ms. Ingram was 17 years old at the start of the depression and remembes helping her family by milking cows and tending her mothers produce store. [ 19 min.] She tells of times before, during and after the depression.
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- Interview with Mack A. McLain - The Depression
- Oral history; Panola County; Depression; Courthouses; Cost of items; Education; Football; Jobs
- Interview with Mack A. McLain [40 min.] "One correction needs to be made. The Hillsboro Courthouse was not constructed by the WPA - some changes were made, but not the original construction. I found it very interesting that the depression did not...
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- Interview with Berna Reeves - Depression
- Oral history; Panola County; Depression years; Sugar cane
- 91 year old Berna Reeves talks about life in Panola County, Texas during the depression. [20 min.] Low audio
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- Interview with Vera M. Barton by Billy Diskinson -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Barton answers questions about growing up during the Depression. [ 5 min.]
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- Interview with Beatrice Gray by Trina McClure -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Gray answers questions about the being a young married women during the depression. [ 5:39 min.]
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- Interview with Layton Clay by Jennifer Forrester -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Mr. Clay talks about working for less pay after the depression hit. [11 min.] He worked 7 days a week for $5 an hour.
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- Interview with Helen Gossett by Tracey Hunt - Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Sewing ;
- Ms. Gossett tells some stories about her sewing and her Christmas decorations living through the Depression. [ 17 min.]
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- Interview with Delbert Green by Kim Green -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Farmers
- Mr. Green was about 15 years old when the depression hit. He talks about it with his granddaughter. [7:11 min.]
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- Interview with Harvey Clay by Evelyn Willis - Depression & WWII
- Oral history ; WWII ; Depression
- Mr. Clay tell about working State side in the Army during WWII. [ 30 min.] During the Depression he lived in Mississippi and talks about soup lines and the presidents of the time.
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- Interview with Rose Choate by Susan Brock -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Choate talks about being a teenage during the Depression. [16 min.]
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- Interview with Allen Cheshire by Jason Cheshire -- Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Family
- Mr. Cheshire talks to his grandson about hard times during the depression. [ 20 min.]
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- Interview with Victoria Duke by Carie Bogenschutz -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Mrs. Duke answers questions about the Depression. [4:16 min.]
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- Interview with Emme Austin by Brandy Hays -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Austin talks about being a school teacher at a country school during the depression. [ 15 min.] [Low Audio]
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- Interview with Rev. Ernest by Ray Porter --Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; CCC
- Rev. Ernest remembers living in Arkansa when he was a young boy during the Depression. [18 min] He works for the CCC for 7 monthes and remembers the WPA improving conditions.
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- Interview with Nadine Blankenship by David Soape - Depression
- Oral history; Depression years; Farmers.
- Ms. Blankenship talks of living on a farm during the depression. [9 min.]
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- Interview with Olean Broadus by Belinda Blanton -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Log rolling ; Community
- Ms. Broadus was born just before the Depression hit and remembers her youth. [17 min.] She tells of how she and her 8 sisters went to school and worked to help the family.
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