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Oral History Interview with Ely and William Sledge, August 21, 1987
Transcript of an interview with with William and Ely Sledge and their reminiscences and experiences concerning their father's farm near Pilot Point, Texas, 1900-1980. They discuss comments about their African-American ancestors; their descriptions of various pieces of old farm equipment strewn about the homestead; sorghum mill and syrup- making; hog butchering and meat preservation; water well; description of farm buildings; segregated education; home remedies; garden area; canning; rural social life and entertainment; trading among neighbors; cash crops (peanuts, cotton); harvesting; description of the interior of the family farmhouse and its contents; listening to boxing contests (Joe Louis and "Jersey Joe" Walcott) on the family radio; store-bought and mail order catalog items; "Juneteenth" celebrations; description of personal documents and papers, 1878-1931.
Date:
August 21, 1987
Creator:
Lohse, Stephen A.; Lebo, Susan A.; Sledge, William, 1928- & Sledge, Ely, 1934-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987
Interview with homemaker Jane Armstrong. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences about life on the Scott Jacobs Farm in Denton County. Armstrong talks about the purchase of the land by her grandfather, implements and outbuildings found on the farm, oil income and farm improvements during the 1920s and 1930s, rural entertainment and leisure activities, crops and planting, food preservation, in-town shopping, making homebrew and bootlegging activities, schools and churches, cemeteries, epidemics, and folk medicines and remedies.
Date:
August 20, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Armstrong, Jane
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Otis Cason, August 22, 1987
Interview with farmer Otis Cason. The interview includes Cason's personal experiences about rural life in Denton County, Texas from 1900 to 1987. Cason talks about breaking mules, rural school, sheep and goat raising, hog killing, and charcoal making.
Date:
August 22, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Cason, Otis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Theatre Under the Stars Scrapbook: August 1987-October 1990]
Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars program from August 1987 through October 1990, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items.
Date:
1987-08/1990-10
Creator:
Theatre Under the Stars
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Catalog of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments: Grants funded FY 1987
The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments.
Date:
August 1987
Creator:
United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 2, No. 16, Pages 4530 to 4901, August 3 - August 14, 1987
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date:
August 1987
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 2, No. 17, Pages 5002 to 5398, August 17 - August 28, 1987
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date:
August 1987
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library