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Tags: 1936, 1940s, 1950s, 395, 5/27/02, advice, atomic bomb, baseball, Biographical, Bland County, businesses, carpentry, CCC, Charlie Taylor, chores, Christmas, Church, Cob Willis, cows, David Taylor, David Taylor/Matthew Shrader, Dean, electric washer, electricity, farm, FDR, fishing, Franklin Roosevelt, garden, Germans, Germany, grandparents, hair cut, holiday, home remedies, housekeeper, James Jefferson Willis, Japan, Jean Sheffylbarger, jobs, JT Willis, Kevin, Laurel, Laurel Fork Church of Christ, Life in Bland County, Lisa, lob cabin, Matthew Shrader, Ms. Gregory, Ms. Phillips, Ms. Simpkins, Ms. Stowers, Ms. Tickle, Ms. Walters, New Deal, November 22, Orgray, outhouse, Palmer Carroll, Palmor Carroll’s, party lines, Pearl Harbor, President Nixon, President Truman, PWA, radio, radio shows, rationing, Ricky, Rocky Gap, Royal Mounty, Ruth Willis, School, school bus, school programs, Sherry, Slaughter, stonemason, store, technology, telephone, television, television shows, The Andy Griffith Show, This is an interview with Cob Willis about his life in Bland County., TV, vegetables, Vietnam War, washboard, Watergate, Wilma E Underwood, WPA, WWII

Tags: 225, 3/7/98, ABC’s, Ada, AEP, Appalachian, apple pies, Arnett, bank, barn, barnyard, baseball, Bastian, bed, bedroom, Belcher, Belcher Furniture, Belcher Lumber Company, Biographical / Dry Fork, Bishop, Blanche Ferguson, Bland, Bland County, Bluefield, bonnet, Bonnie Dodson, brach, Bramwell, Brazil, bread, brick oven, brothers, Buckhorn Mountain, cabbages, cabinets, cakes, carpenter, Cashew Hill, cast iron, cemeteries, chain saw, Charlie Taylor, cheesecloth, chimney, China, Christmas, Church, cloak room, cloth, coal miner, Columbia French, cookies, corn, cover, crane, Creole, D.C., desks, devotion, diningroom, dishes, doctor, dresser, Earth, Eisenhouer, families, Family/People, farm, farm equipment, farmed, farmer, Farming, Fort Chiswell, Franklin County, Fred, French, furniture, games, garden, Georgia, GlenLynn, God, Gordons, government, grades, graduation ceremony, grandma’s, grandpa, Halloween, hay, hearth, Hector, Hill Top, hogs, Honaker’s Store, horse, horses, hospital, house, Howard Stowers, Howard’s Store, Hubert Gordon, Jack Tynes, James, Jefferson National Forest, John and Bonnie Dodson, John Dodson, Junie, kids, kitchen, kraut, land, Lee, Lee’s, Lewis Ferguson, livingroom, log barn, logs, Lord, lunch, M. H. Ferguson, Mac, Mac Ferguson, MacDaniel Ferguson, Mack Harfney Ferguson, mahogany wood, Martha Cobb, Marvin Tynes, Maryland, mattresses, May, May Charles, meat, meat house, mechanic, Mervetta, mild, militia, milk, mill, Miss Black, Miss Morehead, Miss Whitney, Monday, mother, mountain, mountains, movies, Mr. Charles, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Gray, Mr. Honaker, Mr. Honaker., Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tynes, Mr. Will Gray, mules, Murray, New Orleans, North Carolina, note, nurse, Ohio, one room school, open heart surgery, path, Pearl Gordon, Pennsylvania, Pete Ferguson, pies, pipe, pneumonia, ponies, porch, Post Office, potatoes, pots, pound cake, Prices, Princeton, property, props, punish, recess, record, Reuben Ferguson, Roberta, Rocky Gap, Rocky Gap School, Roosevelt, Ruben Edward, Santa Clause, saw mill, Saw Mill, School, scraper, seed, shanties, Simpson, sink, sisters, slate rock, slave, slavery government, sled, Social Security, songs, South Carolina, spring, spring box, spring house, spring water, stove, straw, substitute teachers, sulpher spring, taxi cab, Tazewell, Tazewell County, teacher, Thelma Smith, This interview is biographical in nature and focuses on life on Dry Fork., tic mattress, Timber, time, trailer, trailers, trees, trench, trough, truck, VA, vegetables, Vernon Cobb, Virginia, Virginia Hardwood, Wagners, wagons, Washington, water, weeds, well water, wheat straw, Willie, winter, wood stove, Work, WV

Tags: 12/18/96, 188, Bland County, Bluefield, Buckhorn Mountain, cattle, Cindy, Darel, Eddie, Farming, fruits, gardening., Korean War, livestock, Lorane Shrader, Patty O'Brien, poultry, Roundbottom Methodist, This is an interview with Verlin Shrader about the land and farming in Bland County., Tonya Shrader, United States, vegetables, Verlin Shrader, Work

Tags: 123, 4/22/97, Abingdon, Bastain, Bill Francisco, Bland, Bland County, Bobby Thompson, Brushfork, Buell Thompson, Calvin Francisco, Carl Thompson, Charles Thompson, Farming, Gene Autry, Glen Thompson, Hal Thompson, Hardwood Lumber Company, Hester Francisco, Japanese, Jennifer Belcher, Jimmy Thompson, Korean War, livestock, Malcom Thompson, Mary Francisco, Mr. Akers, Pearl Harbor, planting, poultry, President Eisenhower, President Johnson, President Kennedy, President Nixon, President Roosevelt, Rita Thompson, Rocky Gap, South Pacific, stock market, Sunday School, This is an interview with Glen Thompson about his life and farming., Una Burke, vegetables, Vietnam War, Virginia, Virginia Bailey, Watergate., West Virginia, Work, World War I, World War II

Tags: 0084, 04-21-97, 84, China, Early farm life, Golden Bantam corn, Laurel Baptist Church., livestock, Matthew Akers, planting, Poland, poultry, This is an interview with Wylie Akers about his early farm life, vegetables, Work, Wylie Akers

Tags: 0042, 2/15/97, 42, Agriculture, Bishop's Chapel, Blanche Compton, Bluefield., cattle, Clearfork, crops, Dr. Bishop, Easter, Fairmont Creamery Company, Farming, fruits, Jennifer Belcher, John Henry Kinser, Lyddy Strauss Higgenbotham, Misc., poultry, Preacher Lerue, Rhode Island Red chickens, Rocky Gap, Tazewell, This is an interview with Blanche Compton about agriculture., vegetables, Wytheville