T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE: Irma Polidore Lewis

COLLECTION: 4700.0219

IDENTIFICATION: [1945- ] Daughter of sugarcane worker; life-long resident of Four Corners

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

PROJECT: Four Corners Community Center landscape design project

DATE: January 27, 1993 \

FOCUS DATES: 1945-60

ABSTRACT:

Tape 316

Recalls childhood as an illegitimate child; raised by uncle who taught her carpentry, plumbing and other self-provisioning skills; denied college opportunity; work as child on sugarcane farm; foods of childhood; folk medicine; Sunday traditions; involvement of men in Four Corners Community Center

TAPE: 316

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 minutes

INDEX: 3 pages

RESTRICTIONS: None