History of May's Lick Oral History Project
Residents of May's Lick discuss the history of their families and the town, education, business, farming (including tobacco), hog killing, transportation, medicine, religion, funeral practices, recreation, and social life. Many people share memories and stories about the Civil War, enslavement, World War I and World War II, Night Riders, the Great Depression, and prohibition. Several interviewees discuss segregation, the history of Blacks in May's Lick, and the Lynching of Grant Smith. One of the interviewees, Sidney M. Boone, claims to be a descendant of Daniel Boone.
Interviews
- Oral History Interview with Dorothy Butler
- Oral History Interview with Cecil Moran
- Oral History Interview with Eugene Davis Dye
- Oral History Interview with Allen Bolden
- Oral History Interview with Lutey Whaley
- Oral History Interview with James J. Welsh
- Oral History Interview with Gerald Woods
- Oral History Interview with Izetta Poyntz
- Oral History Interview with Opal Dodge
- Oral History Interview with Cecil W. McCarthey
- Oral History Interview with Mary Gault
- Oral History Interview with Francis Lee Baber
- Oral History Interview with Bonnie Grant Lashbrook
- Oral History Interview with Frances Guilfoile
- Oral History Interview with James H. Shanklin
- Oral History Interview with John Larry Dodge
- Oral History Interview with Sidney M. Boone
- Oral History Interview with Frances Rice
- Oral History Interview with Dorothy Butler
- Oral History Interview with William Ramsey
- Oral History Interview with Henry Newdigate
- Oral History Interview with Izetta Poyntz
- Oral History Interview with Mattie Davis
- Oral History Interview with Charles R. Worthington
- Oral History Interview with Katherine Welsh
- Oral History Interview with Vennie Berry
- Oral History Interview with Naomi Pogue
- Oral History Interview with Robert A. Taylor
- Oral History Interview with Virginia Collins
- Oral History Interview with Kenneth Stockdale & Martha Stockdale
- Oral History Interview with Mayme Dryden
- Oral History Interview with Ralph Sims & Larry Miller
- Oral History Interview with Henry L. Foley & Ethel Foley
- Oral History Interview with Robert T. Palmer
- Oral History Interview with Mary Lucille Clarke
- Oral History Interview with Virginia F. Porter
- Oral History Interview with Kennie Dean Jolly
- Oral History Interview with James Finch Sr.