T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEES: Shirley Landry and Reed Landry

COLLECTION: 4700.0221

IDENTIFICATION: Shirley Landry [1926- ] daughter of sugarcane farmer; married to sugarcane farmer; life-long resident of Four Corners; Reed Landry [1949- ] sugarcane farmer

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

PROJECT: Four Corners Community Center landscape design project.

DATE: January 28, 1993

FOCUS DATES: 1935-1993

ABSTRACT:

Tape 321

Shirley Landry recalls early life on farm outside Jeanerette; Four Corners in the 1930s-1950s- described; the general store, dance hall; relations with blacks; Sunday traditions; Reed Landry describes changes in sugarcane farming as mechanization replaced manual cultivation and harvesting; description of modern planting and harvesting routines; modern sugarcane varieties planted in Louisiana

TAPE: 321

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 minutes

INDEX: 3 pages

RESTRICTIONS: None