T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE: Betty Hines

COLLECTION: 4700.0285

IDENTIFICATION: [1948- ] Resident of Four Corners; daughter of sharecropper, foster parent

INTERVIEWER: Adrienne LaCour, graduate student in landscape architecture, LSU

PROJECT: Four Corners Community Center landscape design project.

DATE: 21 April 1993

FOCUS DATES: 1955-1993

ABSTRACT:

Tape 394A

Memories of childhood as daughter of sharecropper; recollections of great-grandparents as slaves; difficulty of early life after mother died and father abandoned family; work with foster children; traditional foods

TAPE: 394A

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 min.

INDEX: 3 pages

RESTRICTIONS: None