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Under a Blue Bowl

Scottie Pritchard

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Description:Oral HistoryOlive Porter Scott Benkelman’s ancestors settled in Wythe County in 1771. In 1907 Olive was born in Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia (just south of Wythe County). She was a strong-willed, progressive woman who grew up in, and eventually returned to southwestern Virginia. Her youth was spent simply, neither in poverty nor apparent wealth. Her father was the community doctor, respected and revered, and her mother was a pillar in the church and a leader in the local school and women’s organizations. Scottie Pritchard is her only child. She met Bucky Pritchard at Emory & Henry College and they were married in 1968, shortly after he was drafted into the military. Subsequently, he became an Air Force Officer and flier for the next 20 years. Scottie and her husband moved around the country and Germany, following his career and raising four children. Scottie was sometimes overwhelmed with homesickness. She and her mother exchanged frequent letters. The cost of long-distance phone calls made that form of communication more expensive than they felt they could afford. In 1974, while living in Plattsburgh, New York, Pritchard decided that perhaps she and her mother could exchange talking-cassette tapes. Her first recorded “letter” was probably halting and artificial-sounding as she re-taped it several times. It accompanied a gift tape recorder, which was her mother’s 67th birthday present.Initially, they both felt shy and inhibited hearing their own voices, and about recording thoughts on tape rather than with ink on paper. They learned to not listen to their own, out-going tapes. Often they recorded tapes while sewing or ironing, cooking dinner or washing the dishes, even while weeding a flower bed. For the most part, they did not read to each other on the tapes, although they each jotted down a list of what they wanted to talk about or questions they wanted to ask, just to keep from becoming sidetracked. Over the next 2 decades Olive made some forty-odd cassette tapes for her daughter. Many of these were audio letters, chitchat, daily news and musings. Many others were family stories. Perhaps because she grew up in a pre-electrification time, before radio or TV ruled our lives, story telling enriched her knowledge of her grandparents, great grandparents, neighbors and community. She had listened to the stories her mother and grandmother told, and she remembered and shared them.After 20 years with the Air Force, in 1988 the Pritchard family moved in across the dirt road from Olive, who was widowed by then. They shared 8 years as close-and-only neighbors in Elk Creek, until Olive’s death in 1996.In the fall of 2000 Scottie enrolled at Radford University to complete the Bachelor’s Degree she started in 1966. One of her first classes was Introduction to Sociology, with Dr. Peggy Shifflett. Scottie vowed to take as many classes with this vibrant professor as possible. Eventually Shifflett was Pritchard’s advisor on her final project required for graduation. “From Under a Blue Bowl” became the beginning of the now published, “Under a Blue Bowl”. Scottie presented her project, with PowerPoint photos, at the Third Annual National Conference of The Women of Appalachia in the fall of 2001 in Zanesville, Ohio.Much of “Under a Blue Bowl” is written directly from Olive’s words, and it is told in her own “voice” until the final chapter of the book which is of necessity clearly told by Pritchard. The exception is Chapter 14 where Olive’s brother George Scott tells of his time in the Army during World War II. Olive made a tape of his reminiscences and Pritchard transcribed that chapter from that tape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Under a Blue Bowl. To get started finding Under a Blue Bowl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 260

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McClung Companies

Release: 2007

ISBN

Description: Oral HistoryOlive Porter Scott Benkelman’s ancestors settled in Wythe County in 1771. In 1907 Olive was born in Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia (just south of Wythe County). She was a strong-willed, progressive woman who grew up in, and eventually returned to southwestern Virginia. Her youth was spent simply, neither in poverty nor apparent wealth. Her father was the community doctor, respected and revered, and her mother was a pillar in the church and a leader in the local school and women’s organizations. Scottie Pritchard is her only child. She met Bucky Pritchard at Emory & Henry College and they were married in 1968, shortly after he was drafted into the military. Subsequently, he became an Air Force Officer and flier for the next 20 years. Scottie and her husband moved around the country and Germany, following his career and raising four children. Scottie was sometimes overwhelmed with homesickness. She and her mother exchanged frequent letters. The cost of long-distance phone calls made that form of communication more expensive than they felt they could afford. In 1974, while living in Plattsburgh, New York, Pritchard decided that perhaps she and her mother could exchange talking-cassette tapes. Her first recorded “letter” was probably halting and artificial-sounding as she re-taped it several times. It accompanied a gift tape recorder, which was her mother’s 67th birthday present.Initially, they both felt shy and inhibited hearing their own voices, and about recording thoughts on tape rather than with ink on paper. They learned to not listen to their own, out-going tapes. Often they recorded tapes while sewing or ironing, cooking dinner or washing the dishes, even while weeding a flower bed. For the most part, they did not read to each other on the tapes, although they each jotted down a list of what they wanted to talk about or questions they wanted to ask, just to keep from becoming sidetracked. Over the next 2 decades Olive made some forty-odd cassette tapes for her daughter. Many of these were audio letters, chitchat, daily news and musings. Many others were family stories. Perhaps because she grew up in a pre-electrification time, before radio or TV ruled our lives, story telling enriched her knowledge of her grandparents, great grandparents, neighbors and community. She had listened to the stories her mother and grandmother told, and she remembered and shared them.After 20 years with the Air Force, in 1988 the Pritchard family moved in across the dirt road from Olive, who was widowed by then. They shared 8 years as close-and-only neighbors in Elk Creek, until Olive’s death in 1996.In the fall of 2000 Scottie enrolled at Radford University to complete the Bachelor’s Degree she started in 1966. One of her first classes was Introduction to Sociology, with Dr. Peggy Shifflett. Scottie vowed to take as many classes with this vibrant professor as possible. Eventually Shifflett was Pritchard’s advisor on her final project required for graduation. “From Under a Blue Bowl” became the beginning of the now published, “Under a Blue Bowl”. Scottie presented her project, with PowerPoint photos, at the Third Annual National Conference of The Women of Appalachia in the fall of 2001 in Zanesville, Ohio.Much of “Under a Blue Bowl” is written directly from Olive’s words, and it is told in her own “voice” until the final chapter of the book which is of necessity clearly told by Pritchard. The exception is Chapter 14 where Olive’s brother George Scott tells of his time in the Army during World War II. Olive made a tape of his reminiscences and Pritchard transcribed that chapter from that tape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Under a Blue Bowl. To get started finding Under a Blue Bowl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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