| Summary: | Hicks, a native of Florida, moved to Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1922 to work for the Alabama Leghorn Farms Company. He was employed there for several years, after which he worked in coal mines, including the Gulf States Steel Company in Bessemer and the Woodward Iron Company in Mulga. In the early 1930s, he returned to the poultry industry, finding work on farms on Shades Mountain in Alabama, and Melbourne and Callahan, Florida. This diary contains daily entries, usually written in a humorous manner and including slang, euphemisms, and drawings. He describes his duties on the poultry farm; weather conditions; his health and diet; interactions with coworkers, family, and acquaintances; and a coal mine explosion that killed 84 men in Dolomite, Alabama, in November 1922.
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