Adrienne LaCour - Four Corners Series
Information
Size:14 interviews on 16 recordings
Time period covered: 1920 - 1993
Dates of interviews: 1993
Principle Interviewers: Adrienne LaCour
Finding Aids: Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability: MP3
Processing Status: 85% of interviews are cataloged (12 of 14)
Access Restrictions: See individual abstracts
Description: Interviews for this series were conducted by Adrienne LaCour as part of the research for her MA thesis in landscape architecture at LSU. Interviews focused on the experience of both blacks and whites on sugarcane farms at Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, Louisiana, and near New Iberia, Louisiana. LaCour was interested in land use patterns and community history in the predominately African-American community of Four Corners.
The topics of the interviews include life of workers on plantations, recollections of grandparents who were slaves, growing and processing of sugar cane, foods grown for self-subsistence, and horse and buggy transportation. Interviewees discuss South Coast and other plantations of the Four Corners area, plantation stores and debt peonage, recreational activities including gambling and baseball, Sunday visiting, and dancing. Other topics include the impact of World War Two, various religious beliefs, burial and birth traditions, and natural remedies for childhood illnesses.
Interview Abstracts
Stanley Gootee
Moses Hines & Charlotte Hines Alfred
Faren Serrette
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