Robert Bostick Oral History Interview, March 22, 1978; April 12, 1978

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Robert Bostick Oral History Interview, March 22, 1978; April 12, 1978

March 22, 1978; April 12, 1978

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0063/

Benjamin Robert Bostick (b. ca. 1910) was raised in New York state and traveled to Argentina ca. 1928 with Gale Murphy, an executive of the British-American Tobacco Company. Bostick describes the lengthy train rides from a suburb of Buenos Aires to a firm of livestock brokers at Tablada to whom he was apprenticed (p. 1). He later worked at a BAT experiment station at Bonpland, a town in the northeast corner of Argentina on the Parana River. He describes their goal as improving the type of tobacco produced on small farms and notes the fear of the German immigrant farmers that the flue-curing barns would catch on fire (p. 2). He also describes the baling process and such local entertainments as drinking rum in the tavern, sitting in the plaza watching the boys and girls go walking, and an occasional farm dance party (p. 3).

0.005 Cubic Feet; 1 audiocassette, 0.5 hour, 7 pages

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Lennon, Donald R.

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>Don Lennon was a longtime director of the East Carolina Manuscript Collection and Coordinator of Special Collections. Born in Brunswick County, North Carolina on October 6, 1938, he attended junior college in Wilmington, NC before completing his studies at East Carolina College. He taught school and worked in the North Carolina state archives before returning to East Carolina to assist with the creation of a historical manuscript collection. He passed away in Greenville, NC on April 26, 2018.Do...

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