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...
Ms. Duke talks about attending Panola College in 1949. [19 min.] She was student 222 and remembers the football games and how attending Panola made it easier to go in to univeristy.
The first part of the interview is Mr. Tommy Hutto talking about the WWII campaign under General Patch that started in Africa, took Sicily, advanced through Italy and France and ended the war in Belgium. The second interview is both men discussing...
Oral history; Panola County; Radio; Home brew; Sharecrop; Tobacco
Interview with George Yarbrough [27 min.] "The gentleman's name that I interviewed is Mr. George Yarbrough. He is a black man born in Nacogdoches county, June 23, 1912. His father was a share cropper and as soon as he was old enough to hold a plow...
Mr. Bounds remembers his Panola teachers, Bill O'Neal for shooting guns and Joe Hough for looking like Abe Lincoln , and Brannon for taking his glass eye out and leaving it on the desk when he left the class room. [12 min.] He attened classes in...