NHF_TPS_2016_Wetherholt_Olive
September 23 2016
Olive recounts her birth in Kentucky and her family’s subsequent move to West Virginia, where
she and her two sisters later worked and lived together during the war. She then narrates her
wartime job at the Sylvania plant binding together tubes in the mounting department and reflects on different aspects of the home front experience, from rationing to nylon panty hose. She goes on to discuss marrying her husband, a veteran, after the war. Olive concludes the interview by giving advice to younger generations.
she and her two sisters later worked and lived together during the war. She then narrates her
wartime job at the Sylvania plant binding together tubes in the mounting department and reflects on different aspects of the home front experience, from rationing to nylon panty hose. She goes on to discuss marrying her husband, a veteran, after the war. Olive concludes the interview by giving advice to younger generations.
Digital
59m 18s
Olive Wetherholt, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland.
Interview was recorded by Anne Montague and Anna Hess through Thanks! Plain and Simple for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project.
Barboursville, Cabell, West Virginia, United States, NA [38.40953,-82.29459] [id:4797880]Kentucky, Kentucky, United States, NA [38.20042,-84.87762] [id:6254925]
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Washington College)
oral histories (literary works)
Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
oral histories (literary works)
Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American