Note: This interview contains racist language. Interview with L.D. Driver, a white man, as part of the Nash County Cultural Center Oral History Project. Driver spent decades curing tobacco, and details the process. He speaks about using Buckeye oil burners to heat the barns; mentions that he was in charge of 63 barns per year. He says there were six grades of tobacco at the time, and describes how the quality was superior to what modern farms deemed acceptable. Driver discusses building barns and houses; points out that he built several in the area himself. He reflects on living in rural Nash County; mentions that several people from the area were born in houses rather than in hospitals. He and the interviewers speak about the country roads, and Driver talks about his birddog.
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L. D. Driver Oral History Interview [September 15, 1993]
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Textual items were digitized as part of the Digital Public Library of America Hubs Pilot, a project supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Audio was digitized as part of the UNC Chapel Hill Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources grant, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.