Panola College Digital Collection

- 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 Thomas Allison by Billy Alexander - Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Cotton farming ; Baseball ; Price of Goods
- Mr. Allison talks about life during the depression. [15 min.] A 1934 Carthage High School graduate, Mr. Allison remembers working on the family farm where they grew cotton, corn, peas and cattle. He remembers when electricity was first brought to...
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- Interview with Sybil Fonville By Cara Parker - WWII
- Oral history ; Hughes family ; Fronville family ; Ration stamps ; Defense plants ; The Draft
- Ms. Fornville talks to her granddaughter about her family during WWII. [30 min.] Living in Fort Chaffee, Ark when the US became involed in the war, Ms. Fornille tells stories of her brothers plane crahs over England and about her POW...
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- Interview with Dorothy Evalyn & Daniel Byron Griffith by Leigh Griffith -- Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Life
- Mr. and Mrs. Griffith talk to their granddaughter about living in rural East Texas during the Depression. [30 min.] They discuss how they courted and married plus every day life during the '20 and 30's.
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- Interview with Kay Baker by Kristi Malone -- Great Depression and WWII
- Oral history ; Depression ; WWII
- Mr. Baker talks about growing up in Carthage during the Depression. [19 min.] He tells some stories of his survival in the US Army during WWII in Germany.
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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 Eugene Beard by Duane Beard -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII ; Home front
- Mr. Beard discusses his experience on the home front during WWII. [9 min.] He remembers rations, saving bonds and gold stars in windows of the homes of service men that were lost.
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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 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 Artis Britton by Mark Atkerson -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII
- Mr. Britton talks to his grandson about his life during WWII. [15 min.] Mr. Britton tells of working in the CC Camp in Marshall, Tx for 3 years before being drafted in 1942 and joining the European front. He gives an account of a battle experience...
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- Interview with William Duke by Julie McGough -- Panola College
- Oral history ; Panola College
- Mr. Duke tells stories of attending Panola College during the 1950's. [26 min.] He remembers a prank in the sugar canes, his teachers, and friends.
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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 Leroy Adams - WWII
- Oral history; WWII; South Pacific; Mechanic
- Mr. Adams tells of his experiances during World War II. [5 min.]
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- Interview with Lucille Arrington by Rebecca Bryant -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII ; Iow Jima : Dallas
- Ms. Arrington lived in West Texas during the start of the war and remember a black out air raid in Dallas when she was 15 years old. [20 min.] Her Uncle was one of the soilders that raised the flag on Iow Jima and she talks about him.
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- 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 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 Relous and Berrnice Britton by Melanie Robinson -- Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Hogs ; Peanut fields
- Mr. and Mrs. Britton talk about their lives during the Depression. [19 min.]
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