Paula Bendel and Rhonda Pupella
Recorded
April 6, 2008
38:29 minutes
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Id:
MBY003849
Description
Sisters Paula Bendel and Rhonda Pupella remember their grandparents, Clyde and Mabel Nancarrow (paternal) and Herbert and Sarah Phelps (maternal), and share stories of their time on the family farms.Subject Log / Time Code
The sisters describe their Nancarrow grandparents’ work. Mabel was a suffragette and schoolteacher, and Clyde was a doctor and Depression-era railroad worker.
Paula describes Mabel’s longtime friends of the Cola Club.
The women describe Sarah Phelps’ first engagement and her ending the relationship and remember Sarah’s children.
Rhonda shares the story of her mother’s conception and birth and describes her and Paula’s childhood memories of the Phelps’ family farm, Turkey Creek.
The sisters remember their mother, Arnetha Nancarrow, and their mother’s pet chickens.
Participants
- Paula Bendel
- Rhonda Pupella
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Arnetha and James Nancarrow
- Berry Picking
- chickens, pet
- Childhood Games
- Clyde and Mabel Nancarrow
- cohorts (groups of friends)
- Cola Club
- consumption
- craft, skills, and procedures
- economic beliefs and practices
- Electricity
- family characters
- family in-jokes
- Family Traditions
- family trips and excursions
- Farming
- Herbert and Sarah Phelps
- Indoor Plumbing
- Johnny Carson (television program)
- medical beliefs and practices
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Nancarrow family
- newspaper
- Ohio River
- Penny
- personal experiences
- Phelps family
- pinochle
- political beliefs and practices
- pregnancy and pre-natal care
- Railroad
- Ravenwood, WV
- scientific beliefs and practices
- showboat
- social beliefs and practices
- tea berry gum
- tonics
- Turkey Creek
- women’s suffrage