Kentucky Ten - Text
Seventy year old Caucasian male. He is a high school graduate who has spent his life working as a farmer maintaining land that has been in his family for four generations, located outside of Marion,Kentucky.
Recorded by Rena Cook, 8.12.2002. Edited by Paul Meier 08.01.2003. Running time 00:03:53.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
When my uncle, still lived in uh my home town of Marion, Kentucky. Why he was uh, he had a neighbor that, uh, was goin’ with a, uh, fella that her parents didn’t like. So they wanted to get married and, uh, Wid wasn’t allowed to be at the, uh, the Bracey farm. So he asks my Uncle Lacey, which is Rena’s father, to go get Abby and bring her to where they could go to Elizabethtown, Illinois to get married. And after they got married why, uh, he still wasn’t allowed to come to the Bracey f—home. And few late years after that his, Abby’s father, becomes sick and, uh, Wilford was, uh, working for my grandfather shuckin’ corn and he um, ‘E—Abby went down and said to my grandfather Jack Thomas, said, uh, “Dad said Wid could come home.” The reason was because they needed somebody to shuck corn and that was, uh, way to, uh, get the corn out. And, uh, Mr. Bracey was, um, also, uh, that was, uh, that was a way to get, uh, the daughter’s husband back in the family again. We have two sons and they’re always, uh, wantin’ to do something to put their mother and daddy in the bright lights. And, uh, so, uh, we were going, our fortieth wedding anniversary, we were going to, uh, go to the Kentucky Lake and, uh, our two sons, and one of them is married, and his wife, to stay all night and eat. And, uh, so, uh, we had, uh, one of our best friends had lost one of their parents, so we went the opposite way to get to, uh, the Kentucky Lake, just to the wake, and, uh, after that was over why we came back and stopped in our hometown to, uh, see an art exhibit not knowing that the art exhibit wasn’t even going on. But we were told by our two sons that it was, and when we got there at Fowey Hall, there was a hundred and twenty five of our friends were there for our wor—fortieth wedding anniversary. And uh, after the ex--being shocked so much, why we enjoyed all the rest of the activities.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY NATALIE BOCCUMINI 29 MARCH, 2008, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR SANDRA LINDBERG