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She is the daughter of James Bacon Blanton and the niece of Colonel Albert B. Blanton, former president of the distillery now called Buffalo Trace. Blanton received a degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky and worked for her father's construction company in Frankfort.   In this interview, Blanton describes members of her family, including her father, mother and Uncle Albert, and recalls playing on the grounds of the distillery as a child. She talks about her life, describing her education and career. In addition, Blanton talks about the town of Frankfort and describes the effects that major events, including the Great Depression and Prohibition, had on Frankfort's citizens. (summary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Keyword"]},"value":{"en":["George T. Stagg Distillery","Childhood","Albert B. Blanton"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Buffalo Trace Distillery (local term)","Whiskey (local term)","Whiskey industry--Kentucky (local term)","Prohibition. (local term)","Blanton, Albert B. (Albert Bacon), 1881-1959 (local term)","Depressions--1929--Kentucky (local term)","Frankfort (Ky.) (local term)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.","Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries."]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["00048045 (2009oh025_bik005_blanton_ohm.xml)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Duration"]},"value":{"en":["00:48:33"]}}],"summary":{"en":["Alice B. Blanton, of Frankfort, Kentucky, was born in 1918. She is the daughter of James Bacon Blanton and the niece of Colonel Albert B. Blanton, former president of the distillery now called Buffalo Trace. Blanton received a degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky and worked for her father's construction company in Frankfort.   In this interview, Blanton describes members of her family, including her father, mother and Uncle Albert, and recalls playing on the grounds of the distillery as a child. She talks about her life, describing her education and career. In addition, Blanton talks about the town of Frankfort and describes the effects that major events, including the Great Depression and Prohibition, had on Frankfort's citizens."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.","Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. 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It is October\n30, 2008.  This is part of the Buffalo Trace Oral History Project and\nwe are here at the Buffalo Trace Distillery.  First of all, thank you\nso much for participating in this interview.\n \nBLANTON: You're welcome.\n \nTROLAND: Let me begin by asking just a very general question: tell me\nsomething about yourself.\n \nBLANTON: Well, I was born June 10, 1918, I've lived in Frankfort all\nmy life, and I, uh, worked for--all my work in life was for my father,\nJames Bacon Blanton, at a lumber and building material firm.  And, uh,\nwe--before, I, I started working there in the summer of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1939, but I\ncan remember, uh, I used to work in the summertime, and I was familiar\nwith it.  And, and I remember distinctly when Prohibition was repealed,\nand Frank Messer and Sons started building warehouses for the then\nGeorge T. Stagg Company and build-, uh, business certainly picked up.\n(laughs) It had been very slow up until that time.  And, uh, what else\nwould you like to know about me?\n \nTROLAND: Well, many things.  Uh--\n \nBLANTON: I--\n \nTROLAND: Tell us a little about--since you bought that topic up--a\nlittle bit about this time in your life when you were a young girl and\nProhibition had just ended.  What did you know about Prohibition? How\ndid it affect you?\n \nBLANTON: Well, uh, not at all, really, as far as I knew.  Um, I used\nto come down to the distillery when I was a little girl and play.  I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"learned to roller skate here because we didn't have--we had a short\nconcrete walk at home, wasn't long enough for me to learn to roller\nskate, but there was enough concrete down here, so that's where I\nlearned to roller skate.  Um, the, I can remember the--there, there\nwas only a handful of people working here: Uncle Albert and, uh, Jimmy\nJohnson--that's the father of the present Jimmy Johnson--and Benno\n(??) Johnson and Fithian True (??) and Mack (??) Miller, who used to\ndrive the, a car--they didn't have station wagons in those days, but\nit looked like the, uh, the (laughs) father of the station wagon.\nAnd, uh, Miss Fannie Gray was the, uh, uh, secretary, typist, lady of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all work in the office, and those are the only people that I remember\nhere.  I'm sure there may have been a few more, but very few.  And,\nuh, everybody came down on the streetcar.  The streetcar came down\nfrom town, came down the middle of, of, Wilkinson Street, and then came\nacross our front field, across the road about where the entrance to the\ndistillery is.  Came along the side of the, uh, hill on the left-hand\nside as you approach the distillery, and everybody came there.  And\nalso everybody who lived in Leestown, as we called this area then,\ntraveled back and forth.  We came back and forth.  Our laundress came\non the streetcar, our, m-, our nurse came on the streetcar, and, uh,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pro-, during Prohibition, there simply were not enough people coming\ndown here to justify the continuation of it.  But it, uh, originally\nit came down to the, uh, where the, then the railroad track ramp had\na turnaround and came back to town, but they discontinued it, and my\nfather went out and bought three Model T Fords.  (laughs) And that,\nafter that, that's the way we--one for himself, one for my mother,\nand one for the old man who lived on the place: the man of all work,\nUncle Joe Lindsay (??).  And Mother had a hard time learning to drive,\nand Daddy had a hard time learning to drive, but Uncle Joe jumped\nright in his car and--(laughs)--and drove right off with no problem at\nall.  And, uh, we drove acro-, or up the road, just from chughole to\nchughole to chughole until we got to town.\n \nTROLAND: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was your earliest memory of coming here to the distillery\nsite?\n \nBLANTON: Just, uh, just coming down to, to, uh, to learn to skate, and\nthen as, uh, Uncle Albert moved down here in, uh, in an apartment in\nthe back of the, uh, office when I was eight years old.  And I would\ncome down to see--he had a Chow dog who bit people, (laughs) and\nhe also raised gamecocks.  And, uh, he would give us chewing gum--\n(laughs)--if we stopped in to see him, and that was--but I, I didn't, I\ndidn't come down frequently.  I just, every now and then.\n \nTROLAND: Tell me a little bit about the house where you lived, which is\na very old house in this area.\n \nBLANTON: Well, my great-grandfather built it in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1818, and that's\ndocumented in the family Bible.  And there, there was, uh, it, the land\nitself was a land grant to Hancock Lee, and my great-grandfather bought\nit.  He was not on the tax rolls in 1808 but was in 1814, so he bought\nit sometime in that time.  And, uh, there, there was a house on the\nproperty, and the--he tore down all but one room and attached the rest\nof the house onto it, and originally it was a, a living room, dining\nroom, bedroom downstairs, and two bedrooms and an upstairs storage room,\nand a full attic and a full basement, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and an upstairs gallery and a\ndownstairs gallery.  And the galleries were enclosed to make a kitchen\nand to make bathrooms.  There, there was a, uh, stone kitchen in, in\nthe back, uh, attached to the house by a walkway, but that was torn\ndown before I was born.  And the present house in the back, which was,\nuh, a laundry room and a dairy room downstairs and servants' quarters\nupstairs, servants' quarters that--and there was a bathroom downstairs.\n \nTROLAND: Why was the house called \"Beeches\"?\n \nBLANTON: Because there were a number of old beeches there, and evidently\nenough that, that they dominated the front yard.  And I can remember\nwhen I was a child there were still three of them left, but they were\nin bad condition, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and one by one, they fell over. And, uh, my father\nreplaced them with three European beeches, and one of those was--uh,\nis gone.  The last beech tree fell over and fell on top of the European\nbeech, so there were two beeches gone.  And I replaced that with one,\nand we lost--really there's just the skeleton of one of them left that,\nthat was, uh, denuded this summer with that s-, winds-, heavy windstorm.\n \nTROLAND: Have you lived in that house for your whole life?\n \nBLANTON: Yes.\n \nTROLAND: And who, who was living there, uh, among your family when you\nwere very young?\n \nBLANTON: My mother and father; ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uncle Albert Blanton; my aunt, Miss\nElizabeth Dudley Blanton; and my, uh, grandmother had lived there, but\nshe died, uh, the winter before I was born.  So when, and when--and my\nmother and father, of course--and, but when, uh, my mother and father\nwere married in, in 1916, and my grandmother was still living then.\n \nTROLAND: Tell me a little bit about your parents.  You've spoken a\nlittle bit about your father and his business, but what was your, for\nexample, what was your father like? What kind of a man was he?\n \nBLANTON: Well, he was, uh, the, the most--I've, I've never had any doubt\nbut that the most important thing in my father's life was my mother and\nme, and my sister, and our welfare. And he was, uh, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a serious man. He\nwas the oldest of his family.  His father died when he was fourteen,\nand Uncle Albert was just about two years old then, and he had, uh,\nthis, he--there were four brothers and two sisters, and Daddy was the\noldest.  And when, uh, Mother, uh, before Mother was married, uh, my\ngrandmother and my Aunt Betsy went to call on my Grandmother Roberts.\nAnd Grandmother s-, Roberts said, uh, \"Ida is, is, is a lovely young\nwoman, but she is a little spoiled.\" And Grandmother Blanton said,\n\"Spoiled? You should ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see Bacon. When, uh, her, his father died, he\nbecame the head of the household, and I trained the children to stand\nup when he came into the room.\" (laughs) So he, he was the head.  He\nwas forty-nine when I was born, so he had been hea-, and he died when\nhe was eighty-three--so he was head of the household for many years,\nalmost seventy years.  And, uh, Mother was, uh, when she--her fa-, when\nshe was twelve years old, her father moved here from Eddyville with the\nHoge-Montgomery Company.  And, uh, she went to Science Hill and then\nwent to Wellesley, graduated from Wellesley, and came home and taught\nat Frankfort High School until ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she married. And, uh--\n \nTROLAND: What was your mother like? How would you describe her in a\nfew words?\n \nBLANTON: She was bright and funny.  She was really the most intelligent\nperson that I've ever known, and very good company.  And, as I say,\nvery funny, not deliberately--witty--(laughs)--and, uh, and very,\nvery well-read and, uh, expressed herself well, very eloquent and, uh,\nlittle and redheaded.\n \nTROLAND: Can you think of a story about something that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened in your\nfamily involving your mo-, your mother or your father or both?\n \nBLANTON: Well, I can tell you, I can tell you one of my last memories\nof Mother.  It was--Thanksgiving dinner was our big family dinner, and,\nuh, my sister and her husband and her, uh, three children were there.\nAnd, uh, Mother looked around the table as the, uh, dinner was drawing\nto a close, and she said, \"Oh, I have so much to be thankful for.\"\nShe said, \"Here are my daughters and my, my son-in-law, and my dear\ngrandchildren, and this wonderful meal that Corinne (??) has prepared\nfor us, and I'm just as thankful as I could be.\" And everybody smiled\nand started eating dessert, and I was sitting by her, and she looked\nover at me and said out of the corner of her mouth, \"And I have a lot\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to complain about.\" (laughs)\n \nTROLAND: What do you think she had to complain about?\n \nBLANTON: (laughs) Well, she, she was eighty, and she, she had the, all\nthe things that you have when you get to be eighty; you know, her knee\nhurt, and, and she got tired easily, and, and, uh, and just, just all\nthe--all old people, I'll tell you this, and you'll know it (laughs)\nwhen you get to be as old as I am--people, all old people have lots of\nthings to complain about.  (laughs)\n \nTROLAND: What is, uh--(clears throat)--excuse me--(clears throat)--let's\ntry again.  Can you think of a, of a lesson or something, something\nimportant that you've learned from your parents that you've taken, uh,\nwith you through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life?\n \nBLANTON: Well, I, I had the--I never knew either of them to do anything\ndishonorable, and they never--they told us the truth.  And I can\nremember when, just for instance, when I was a little, little girl, I\nclimbed up on my father's knee and said, \"Daddy, is there a Santa Claus?\nI have to know.\" And he said, \"No, Alice Bacon, there isn't.\" And the\nreason I had to know was because there had been a series of burglaries\nin this area, and I heard a good deal about it from the, uh, ser-, the\nservants' quarters.  And I thought that--it was nearing Christmastime--\nif a little man in a red suit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came down the chimney and there wasn't any\nSanta Claus, then it was a burglar, and I wanted to yell.  And if there\nwas a Santa Claus, I wanted to act like I was asleep and let him leave\nhis presents, and that's why I had to know.  And Daddy told me the\ntruth then, and he did--and mother did, too--all the rest of my life.\n \nTROLAND: Was there any particular reason why you asked your father that\nquestion rather than your mother?\n \nBLANTON: (laughs) No, he was just, he was just available when it\noccurred to me.  But, uh, they, they were, uh, as I say, Daddy was, uh,\nforty-nine when I was born, and Mother was twenty-nine, and they were\nat home in the evening. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They, they were, they were there. They, uh--\n \nTROLAND: Tell me a little bit about your sister.\n \nBLANTON: Well, my sister, uh, is, lives in Florida now.  She was six\nyears younger than I was.  She, uh, went to Margaret Hall School and\nto Randolph-Macon.  She married, uh--she was, uh, a college girl, a\nyoung girl, during World War II, and her husband, uh, left Vanderbilt\nto go into the Navy, came back and finished at the University of\nKentucky, went, went through, uh, to medical school at the University\nof Louisville, then did his residence at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in\nNew York.  And he was the, uh, chief pathologist and head of staff at\nJewish Hospital in Louisville, and they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived in Louisville until he\nretired, and then they moved to, uh, Longboat (??) Key, Florida.  And,\nuh, Ellen's (??) a bridge player, as I was, and they were, her whole\nfamily were great tennis players; the bo-, one son and one daughter\nwere, uh, champion, Ken-, state champions from age to age as they grew\nup.  We had a tennis court when I was a child, and Ellen (??) was a\ngood player then.  I was very poor; all I could do was just lob the\nball over the net.  I, I could run after it, but I--and I could hit it,\nbut I couldn't, uh, guide where it went.  I wasn't a very good, uh, I\nwasn't very athletic.\n \nTROLAND: Now, there was, uh, someone else living, of course, in that\nhouse when you were very young, namely Albert B. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Blanton of--\n \nBLANTON: Uh-huh.\n \nTROLAND: --uh, bourbon fame.  What were your earliest recollections of\nyour uncle living in, in, in that house?\n \nBLANTON: Well, Uncle Albert was, uh, also funny--(laughs)--and good\ncompany, and I amused him, and I remember that he laughed at me.  And,\nuh, I remember I didn't like (laughs) being laughed at very much.  I\nc-, I remember one thing: that I adored butter.  And, uh, we always\nhad a butter plate with a pat of butter on it, and once when I thought\nnobody was looking, I put the whole pat of butter in my mouth, and he\nhowled with la--(laughing)--I don't know why that amused him so, and,\nand, and then I, I can remember crying because he laughed at me.  But,\nuh, uh, he was--it was fun having him there.  He, he w-, he, he was\nreally a charmer, (laughs) there's no d-, and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my Aunt Betsy taught\nthe fifth grade, and, and I adored her.  And, uh, she was, uh, she was\nnearer my fa-, Daddy, let's say his father was fourteen when he died,\nDaddy was fourteen when his father died, my Aunt Betsy was twelve, and\nUncle Albert was two, so there was ten years' difference between Uncle\nAlbert and my Aunt Betsy, and twelve--but, uh, he had, Uncle Albert\nhad, uh, when he moved down here in the apartment, there were a group\nof bachelors that, that used to meet down there on weekends and cook;\nthey liked--and, uh, he was friendly with them then.  There, there\nwas Mr.  Mason Brown, whose sister gave the Orlando Brown house as\na museum house, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and, and, uh, Mr. John Selbert and his family still\nown Selbert's Store and, uh, a friend named Captain Wiley--and what he\nwas captain of, I don't know--and, uh, Mr.  Jordan Hoge, spelled J-o-\nr-d-a-n.  In those days, J-o-r-d-a-n was pronounced \"Jerdan.\" (laughs)\nYou know, you, in the Bible, the river was the River \"Jerdan,\" and Mr.\n\"Jerdan,\" and the Hoges, there are still Hoges in Frankfort.  John\nMothman's (??), it's that same Hoge family.  And--\n \nTROLAND: What was Colonel Blanton a colonel of?\n \nBLANTON: This was something that, uh, Mr.  Rosensteel (??) did.  He\nwas a Kentucky Colonel, and Mr.  Rosensteel (??) wanted him to be\ncalled, always spoke of him as \"Colonel Blanton.\" And it embarrassed\nUncle Albert because there, at that time there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were, uh, during and\nafter World War II, there were colonels and, and majors and so forth\nwho had really earned the, the title, but, uh, for Mis-, but for Mr.\nRosensteel (??) it was, uh, uh, a publicity thing, I think.  But he\nwas actually the colonel of nothing.\n \nTROLAND: So your Uncle Albert never really liked to be called \"Colonel.\"\n \nBLANTON: No.\n \nTROLAND: How old were you when he moved out to his, uh, apartment on the\ns--?\n \nBLANTON: I was eight years old.\n \nTROLAND: And why did he move out at that time?\n \nBLANTON: Because we moved, we, uh, we moved to town to housesit for a\nfriend of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my mother's family for the winter, because she wanted to be\nin town for the winter.  We went to school in town.  We di-, there was\na f-, an eight-room, I mean a one-room, eight-grade schoolhouse right\nacross the road from us, but we, my father played Jewish, and they\ntook us to the city schools.  And, uh, Mother took us back and forth\nto school, and I think she just wanted to be in town where her family\nwas and where the schools were for the winter.  And when we moved in\ntown for the winter, my Aunt Betsy moved in, into town, to an apartment\nin town, and he moved down to, uh, the apartment in the distillery,\nattached to the office in the distillery.\n \nTROLAND: By that time, obviously, he had been working at the distillery\nfor some time. Do you have an idea what his position ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was in the\ndistillery at that time?\n \nBLANTON: I, I think that at one time when it, when it was at its lowest,\nI think he owned it for a short while when--(laughing)--I was going\nto say when it was just bottling a little medicinal whiskey and, and\nwasn't worth very much.  And then, uh, Schenley acquired it when, uh,\nwhen Prohibition was repealed.  And, uh, it was, as I say, it was just\na, a renaissance for Frankfort, because there was not only, uh, George\nT. Stagg Company, but, uh, uh, Old Taylor and Old Crow in Millville,\nand, uh, the--and it's a shame that they, they're no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"longer operating.\nAnd then, uh, Labrot and Graham just over the line in Woodford County,\nso, and, uh, so, so many of the citizens in Frankfort were, who were\nunemployed were employed in the distilleries and by the construction\nworkers who were building new warehouses.  And I can remember that\nthere was, uh, one minister in town who was very much opposed to not\nonly the drinking of whiskey but the manufacture of whiskey, and he\nwould, on Sundays, he would, uh, preach against it, and his flock left\nin droves.  (laughs) And, uh, my family were Episcopalians, and the,\nI guess it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the largest church with the smallest congregation in\nFrankfort, but, uh, the co-, the congregation swelled (laughs) when,\nwhen, uh, the, the, with members of, of this other church.  (laughs)\n \nTROLAND: So I gather your family did not attend the church that this\nparticular preacher preached at.\n \nBLANTON: No.  (laughs) I'd say they were, they were lifelong\nEpiscopalians, and, uh--\n \nTROLAND: We talked a little bit, uh, about your recollections of\nProhibition, coming down to the distillery from time to time.  Any other\nthoughts about what you've, what you were thinking when you came to the\ndistillery? Just to play, of course, but what impressions did you have?\n \nBLANTON: I was so young.  I just, it was just a place to come and play,\nand there, there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really wasn't very much going on. As I say, one of\nthe people working was Mack (??) Miller, and he drove a, uh, something\nthat looked like a very, very, uh, early station wagon.  And he--every\nday my mother would call the grocery and leave her order for groceries,\nand then she would call Fencil's (??) Meat Market and leave her order\nfor meat.  And, uh, Mack (??) would, would go up to town and, and take\nthe mail from the distillery and do whatever errands they had him do,\nand he would pick up our groceries and our meat and bring them back\ndown.  And I can remember Mother calling Mr.  Fencil (??) and saying,\n\"Mr. Fencil (??), this is, uh, Ida Blanton. Uh, I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to have\nsome company today, and I want a, a really nice, large T-bone steak,\nabout forty-five cents.\" So (laughs) it was--\n \nTROLAND: Now, uh, your Uncle Albert moved out when you were eleven,\nyou say?\n \nBLANTON: Eight.\n \nTROLAND: Eight.  Excuse me.  Uh, you were eight.  Uh, did you visit the\ndistillery more commonly after he moved out, to visit him, or did that,\nuh--?\n \nBLANTON: No, no.  Uh, by that time, I, when I would come to the\ndistillery, I ha-, uh, really my nurse would bring me down to, to\nskate.  I didn't come down alone.  And by that time my sister was born,\nand the nurse had moved along to her, and I was more interested in\nwhat was going on in, at school and in the--and, and I came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down, uh,\nI, I really didn't come down much to see Uncle Albert.  He came to see\nus.  We, he came, although he was down there, he came frequently to\ndi-, to--I started to say dinner at night, but we had supper at night,\n(laughs) and he would come.  We had breakfast, dinner, and supper, and\nhe would come for su-, frequently for supper.\n \nTROLAND: As you got older and, uh, and became an adult, you obviously\ns-, uh, got to know, uh, your uncle even better, uh, over time.  What,\nwhat would you say, how would you describe him now, thinking of him\nfrom an adult perspective? Uh, knowing him as an adult rather than as a\nyoung child, how would you describe him?\n \nBLANTON: Well, I don't think my, uh, ideas of him changed at all.  He\nwas just, uh, attractive and, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1740.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good company, and I knew he was very\nmuch beloved by the people who worked down here, the, the few when\nI was young, and, and more when there were more employees.  And, uh,\nthen, of course, when I was in, uh, when I was in college, he married\nand built the house up on the hill.  And after he and Aunt Vannie (??)\nmarried and while the house was being built, they moved back down in,\ninto the house.  So they spent about the, oh, I guess the first maybe\nsix months or so of their married life living down with--but I was in\ncollege at that time.\n \nTROLAND: Where did you go to college?\n \nBLANTON: University of Kentucky.\n \nTROLAND: And what did you study there?\n \nBLANTON: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1800.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I majored in mathematics, which I have used none. The\no--(laughs)--I, I took it because it was, it was kind of like, uh,\nlike a game.  They, they were fun, and, and, uh, when I, the only\nthing that I studied there that I used when I worked for my father, I\ntook, had, also he wanted me to take bookkeeping, and I took a course\nin accounting, and Daddy would like for me to, uh, he was always\ninterested in percentages.  What percent, what was our, the percent of\nour, our, uh, uh, our expenses, and to do, do our, our sales and that\nsort of thing, and, and all of the calculus and the--(laughs)--and the\ndifferential equations. They were just a waste ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1860.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of--I could no more do\nthat.  It, it's just as much gone as if I had never studied it.\n \nTRAVER: I was going to ask if there were any other women in that, her\nclass.\n \nTROLAND: Interesting question.  Uh, in your class at the University of\nKentucky, were there other women who were also studying mathematics?\n \nBLANTON: No.  I had, I had one professor, the, the, uh, uh, man who,\nDr.  Cohen (??), who taught integral calculus, and when he would ask a\nquestion--he would ask questions from time to time, and he would say,\n\"So and so and so and so, Mr.  Blanton?\" And I would turn, and he'd\nsay, \"Excuse me, Miss Blanton.\" (laughs) And then, then he would, maybe\na week later he'd be back, \"So and so, Mr.  Blanton.\" And I'd, I'd\nanswer it, or sort of answer with the answer, or say, \"I don't know,\"\n(laughs) and he'd say, \"Excuse me, Miss Blanton.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1920.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But--\n \nTROLAND: So when was the last time in your life when you felt the need\nto make use of the integral calculus?\n \nBLANTON: The day I graduated.  (laughs)\n \nTROLAND: I see.  Uh--\n \nBLANTON: And I, I wish, if I had taken, uh, almost anything else,\n(laughs) it would have done me far more good.  I, it's that I just, uh,\nI enjoyed it, and it was fun, and aft-, and after I was a sophomore,\nI had that, I had so many hours in it that it was just easier to go\non with that than it was to back up and pick up something else.  I,\nI'm afraid that I've gone through life following the line of least\nresistance, and I did then.\n \nTROLAND: I think few would describe a major in mathematics as, uh,\nthe line of least resistance, but I accept your, your description\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=1980.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nonetheless. Uh, you said that you knew, uh, uh, some of the members\nof the Johnson family.  We interviewed earlier Jimmy Johnson, a long-\nterm employee of Buffalo Trace.  You knew some members of that family,\nis that not true?\n \nBLANTON: Yes.  I, I just, I just remember Jimmy and Benno (??), who, uh,\nwere his father and his uncle, and I also knew Cary West (??).  And I\nknow that there i-, was a connection there, and I don't know exactly\nwhat it was, but, but the, the families owned property down there.  And\nCary (??) was quite a bit older, and my guess would be that he might\nhave been a great-uncle.\n \nTROLAND: When you say \"Jimmy,\" uh, \"Jimmy Johnson,\" you're referring not\nto--\n \nBLANTON: Senior.\n \nTROLAND: --the man who worked here for so many years, but to his father?\n \nBLANTON: Father.\n \nTROLAND: Yes, who also, of course, worked here.\n \nBLANTON: Yes.\n \nTROLAND: I see. How did you, how did you know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2040.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these people, or under\nwhat circumstances did you meet them?\n \nBLANTON: Well, just when I was working, just playing, would come down\nand play down here, and they would be here, and, uh--\n \nTROLAND: What was your--\n \nBLANTON: --you, you, you understand that this was eighty-odd years ago.\n(laughs) But I just remember the names, and I, I, I remember the way\nthey, I, they looked.  I can remember their face, and, and they looked,\nuh, Jimmy's father looked very much like he did.  And, uh, uh, I knew\nhim.  I used to, to run into, when the, the, uh, uh, old post office\nwas on High Street, I used to run into Jimmy frequently.  I don't know\nwhether they had a post office box there or what, but, but we would,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2100.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uh, I would ask about it. And, and he also, uh, he and his family were\ncustomers of ours when we, when I worked at the J.B.  Blanton Company,\nand I knew him through that.\n \nTROLAND: Do you have any particular memories of World War II and its\neffect either on the community or on the distillery as you sort of\nunderstood it through your own--\n \nBLANTON: I, I don't have any recollection connected with Uncle Albert,\nbut I have a very clear recollection because I was here and I, I worked\nfor the, the Blanton Company.  And, uh, uh, and the, there were, all\nof the men were going.  Most of my friends, uh, were married, and\ntheir husbands were in the Army or the Navy, and they had come home,\nand there wasn't anything much to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2160.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do but play bridge. I think that's\nthe reason I got to be such a bridge player.  We'd play bridge in the\nevenings, and, uh, one night a week we'd go to the Salvation Army--I\nmean to the Red Cross--and roll bandages, and there was always quite\na contest as to who could, how, roll the most bandages per hour, and\nI got the booby prize.  I was--(laughs)--I was uh, never very good at\nhandiwork, and, uh, it took me forever to roll a bandage, but, uh--\n \nTROLAND: Did you ever develop a taste for bourbon yourself?\n \nBLANTON: No.  No.  (laughs)\n \nTROLAND: I understand that, uh, your uncle used to have parties at his\nresidence here on the distillery grounds, uh, at which special bourbons\nwere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2220.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"s-, provided, but apparently you never, uh, attended one of those\nparties.\n \nBLANTON: No, I, I was, I was a whole, I was a, uh, really a generation\nand a half, uh, younger than Uncle Albert.  He, he was about forty when\nI was born, and, uh, in those days, chil-, children just didn't go to\nthings like that.  And, uh, then, uh, by the time that, that I was old\nenough really to have attended, he, uh, he and Aunt Vannie (??) would\nentertain at home.  Satur-, Sunday night supper was, uh, he would have\nfriends in for Sunday night supper, and he was a wonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2280.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cook. And\nAunt Vannie (??) said once that I would rather prepare a twelve-course\nmeal myself than clean up after Albert Blanton when he fixes Sunday\nnight supper for six people.  So--(laughs)--but he was very meticulous.\nIf he chopped anything, he would chop, chop, chop, chop, chop into\nlittle teeny-tiny pieces, but his, his specialty was roast leg of lamb,\nand it was marvelous.  And I, when I say that I, I didn't, uh, attend\nthe parties, but we had family dinners together, our family at his\nhouse and he and Aunt Vannie (??) at our house.  And when he had--he\nhad, had a couple who lived up there; there was a house in the back.\nBut when he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2340.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a family dinner, he would, he would cook. At least he\nwould fix the roast lamb, and he would fix his specialties.\n \nTROLAND: Can you think of any other stories, uh, involving your uncle\nthat, uh, were either memorable or funny or unusual?\n \nBLANTON: No.  (laughs) I just can't.  (laughs) I'll, but I'll tell you\none thing: when I get home tonight, I imagine I'll think of, of, of\nmany.  (laughs) You know, you always do: \"I should've, I should've come\nup with that.\"\n \nTRAVER: I have a question about the, your dad's company.  You might have\nalready said what, what you did, what the company did, but could you\ntalk about your dad's company?\n \nBLANTON: Well, uh, my father, uh, when he, uh, when his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2400.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father died,\nhe went to work on a riverboat, working for the U.S.  Engineers.  They\nwent up to, uh, around Beattyville, surveying for the series of locks\nand dams.  There were s-, lo-, there were locks and dams lower down\nin the river, but nothing up at the headwaters of the river.  And,\nuh, he, uh, was an instrument boy for the surveyors, and he loved the\nriver.  And when he was finally able to save enough money, he had a\nboat and, uh, a tugboat and a pump boat and some barges, and he pumped\nsand out of the Kentucky River.  The Kentucky River sand is fine, and\nit's suitable for mortar sand.  The Ohio River sand is coarse, and it\nis suitable for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2460.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"concrete. And then, uh, then he had a plaster mill,\nand, uh, he, uh, manufactured the plaster that went into, to the new\nCapitol, and started, uh, handling brick and mortar and, uh, sewer\npipe and that sort of--and then he took on a line of, uh, lumber, and\nhe also had a quarry out in Thorn Hill.  And during the Depression,\nthe quarry sold rock to WPA, and that is what kept us going.  And my\nfather said that he tied the, the boats and barges up along the side\nof the river because there was no call for the sand, and he kept, a, a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2520.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"skeleton, uh, force working there: one man in the office, and a night\nwatchman who also drove the truck and manned the plaster mill.  And\nhe said some days we'd sell a sack of cement and some days we wouldn't\nsell anything.  But the quarry and the, the roadwork and the WPA work\nkept him going.  And, uh, so when I--he was not having any sons and\nhaving only two daughters, and I, since I was the older, when I was\nin high school I would work there in the summertime because he was\ndesperate for me to learn something about the business.  And then when\nI graduated, I went to work as the assistant bookkeeper.  He had had a\nwonderful bookkeeper, but there were two companies that, that, uh, had\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5#t=2580.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/5/file/5/transcript/5/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to--and there was enough work of that kind for two people. So then I\nworked there, then after he died I more or l-, had--I guess the buck\nstopped with me, but there were, were other people really that knew\nmore about the lumber, certainly about the, the building part of the\nbusiness than I. And I stayed, then I sold it when I, or the family sold\nit, when I was sixty.  I felt like I was ready to retire by that time.\n \nTROLAND: Who do you think had the greatest influence on your life? 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