Tonya Taylor
Fieldwork Samples
Small Town Diners as Extensions of Home
Can a cinder-block building be important? I believe that the role played in community may mean that exact thing. All buildings are built for some purpose; most go on to have second and even third lives serving other purposes, some much more important to the community than the initial design and materials belie.
I looked at Teresa's Restaurant, a local meat-and-three housed in a cinder-block building just outside of downtown Bowling Green, to see what it was that made it important to its owner, employees and patrons. The best part of this topic was that it allowed me to simultaneously pursue two of my favorite hobbies: eating Southern food and listening to stories.
I have included all of the paperwork that was necessary for completion of the paper, with transcriptions, etc. limited to samples. Interview audio samples are available upon request.
You Are Where You Eat: Teresa's Restaurant | |
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Teresa Blair: Consent Form | |
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Teresa Blair: Fieldnotes | |
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Teresa Blair: Interview Index | |
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Teresa Blair: Transcription | |
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Small Town Diners as Extensions of Home Photos
Photos of Teresa's Restaurant and customers in Bowling Green, KY.
Photo credits: Jane the mule and June Routt: Betty Ann Lloyd
Robert Morrison and wife, author and Robert Morrison, hanging tobacco: Tim Flood.
Rural Heritage Development Initiative
I also participated in Preservation Kentucky's Rural Heritage Development Initiative oral history project--an 8 county project to document Kentucky's tobaccoland culture. June "the mule man" Routt and one of his mules, Jane, are pictured here preparing for Jane's annual shearing along with general shots of tobacco barns and tobacco sticks.
Interview audio samples are available upon request.