Description: By documenting the lives and experiences of Kentucky farmers, the book ensures that traditional folk and foodways in Kentucky's most important industry will be remembered.
Brief description: John van Willigen is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kentucky and recipient of the Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. He is the author of Applied Anthropology: An Introduction and Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community. He is also the coauthor of Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt and Social Aging in a Delhi Neighborhood.
Review Quotes:
"Basing their writing on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project along with archival research, photographs, and recipes, the authors have produces a very readable and insightful history of what Kentuckians ate and what they did during that period. Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms is one of the kinds of books that can help you "flesh out" your family's heritage and lifestyle and gain a much better understanding of what their lives were like during that trying period in our nation's history." -- Kentucky Ancestors