Lucy Boyer Thomas oral history interview, 2003.

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Lucy Boyer Thomas oral history interview, 2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/635195105

Thomas describes country living as a child, growing up with farm animals, a father who treated with folk remedies, and the daily routines of farm life. She describes a year in Los Angeles studying nursing around 1943, life in the Ninth Ward before Hurricane Betsy, and her experiences during that hurricane. She also discusses the subsequent rebuilding of her house, changes in the Ninth Ward, and suspicions about the deliberate breaking of a levee to flood her neighborhood and save richer parts of the city.

2 sound cassettes (2 hours, 33 minutes);Abstracts (4 leaves);Transcripts (119 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7886672

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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