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Sue Kimball and Jennifer Kimball
Recorded
August 30, 2008
Archived
August 30, 2008
01:23:15
Description
Sue tells her daughter all about her life, from early childhood through school, career, marriage, family, and aging.Subject Log / Time Code
Sue relates a childhood memory, and talks about her parents’ jobs and the places they lived.
Sue remembers her father’s death from a live flu vaccine.
Sue remembers how she met her husband, at a dance at the officer’s club.
Sue talks about why she became a teacher.
Sue describes fun things she and her siblings did with their parents.
Sue says she’s proud of her 6 kids and describes what each of them do for a living.
Sue talks about all 7 of her graduate fellowships.
Participants
- Sue Kimball
- Jennifer Kimball
Recording Location
Nashville Public LibraryVenue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- apprenticeships
- birth of first child
- Chaucer
- Chinese food
- Cleanth Brooks
- college
- Columbia University
- debate club
- English teacher
- family doctor stories
- Family reunions
- Family Traditions
- family trips and excursions
- famous writers
- Field Hockey
- Flood
- Flu vaccine
- Germany
- Harry Lauder
- historical events/people
- Influential People
- James Dickey
- Kentucky Derby
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- Mary Elizabeth Dowell
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Money
- PE
- personal experiences
- Physical Education
- picnic
- Princeton
- ritual foods
- San Antonio, TX
- Southern Writer’s Symposium
- spelling bee
- Spouse
- Taiwan
- telegraph operator
- Tennessee Williams
- The Grammys
- Victrola
- West Point, KY
Subjects
- Achievements and Awards
- Aging
- Basketball
- Childcare
- Children
- Community Businesses
- Connections With The Famous
- Corner Stores
- Dances
- Death
- Earliest Memories
- Ethnic Foods
- Extended Family
- Favorite Foods
- Favorite Songs
- First Meetings
- Grandparents
- Hurricane Katrina
- Illness
- Job Satisfaction
- Marriage
- Parents
- Reading
- Recitations
- Reunions
- Schools
- Siblings
- Swimming
- Teaching
- Workday Life
- World War II
Transcript
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00:00 Have fun.
00:15 My name is Jennifer Kimball. I'm 55 years old today is August 30th 2008 and we are at the Nashville Public Library and I'm about to interview my mother and my name is Sue Kimball and I will be