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Oral History Interview with Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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A bleak future for farming

Larry Kelley briefly discusses the future of farming, which looks bleak, and the emotional devastation caused by the flood damage. Larry seems optimistic and pessimistic at once: he sees development threatening a community that is close-knit but that is losing its young people.

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Interviewers	Charles Thompson
	Charles Thompson
Interviewees	Larry Kelley
	Betty Kelley
Excerpt Length	0:04:32
Start Time	01:37:37
Stop Time	01:42:09
Subjects	Environmental Transformations > AGRICULTURE > Human Communities General > COMMUNITY TRANSITIONS > Community Decline

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Oral History Interview with Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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