Women in Kentucky - Music
Jean Ritchie
Hindman Settlement School Oral History Project
June 16, 1998
Interviewer: Cassie Mullins
Courtesy of the Kentucky Oral History Commission,
Special Collection Archives, Kentucky Historical Society.
This is Jean Ritchie, born in Viper, Kentucky, in 1922. Well I was the last one in the family, number 14, and had a lot of older sisters—There was 11 girls born in the family, and 3 boys. And we . . . didn’t have much entertainment, but just what we could do ourselves. Even when I was a baby there wasn’t much besides Saturday night square dances at someone’s house. . . . Or . . . just sitting on the porch and singing. Everybody had a, could carry a tune, you know. So we liked to sing together, and we’d . . . Us girls would sing over the dish and— the songs we knew were the songs we learned from the old folks. . . .
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