Interview with Linner Lester Arnett - OH 467

Interviewee

Linner Lester Arnett
National Extension Homemakers Council
Voices of American Homemakers

Interviewer

Mildred Reeves

Files

Abstract

In her interview with Mrs. Dean (Mildred) Reeves, Linner Lester Arnett (1916-1994) [Mrs. Irby Preston Arnett] discusses her first meeting of the homemaker’s club in 1940. Mrs. Arnette talks about the rise in nutritional information for food, something that was not thought of until the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) in 1967. Mrs. Arnette lists the offices she held – all offices in her local club, served as district chairman, state secretary, and member of the Virginia Extension Homemaker’s Alumni. Mrs. Arnette describes growing up in Glade Springs, VA, her grandparents, working on the farm at 5 years old, and her 11 siblings. She discusses how she enrolled in school at four years of age and how she would “ride to school in a surrey with the fringe on top.”

This interview was conducted as part of a three-year oral history project titled Voices of American Homemakers, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and organized by the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC). The project resulted in approximately 200 interviews with women across the United States, documenting their experiences in the early homemakers club movement.

Publication Date

11-4-1981

Unique Identifier

OH 467

Format

1 Cassette; MP3; WAV;

Length

00:15:38

Restrictions

Open under the rules and regulations of the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

Series

National Extension Homemakers' Council

Disciplines

Oral History

Recommended Citation

Arnett, Linner Lester; National Extension Homemakers Council; and Voices of American Homemakers, "Interview with Linner Lester Arnett - OH 467" (1981). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 467.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/418