Norbert King Andrews, white farmer, with interviewer Marilyn T. Grunemeyer. 22 October 1985

Coy Armstrong, white farmer, with interviewer Mary Dexter. 16 October 1985

Rachel Best, white farmer, with interviewer Lynn M. Hudson. 26 October 1985

Rachel Best, white farmer, with interviewer Misti Lyn Turbeville. 12 August 1986

Cecil Crawford and Mary Crawford, farmers, with interviewer Laura Edwards. 10 October 1985

Sam Crawford, white environmental activist, discusses the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) and their intentions in the 1970s to build a reservoir in Chapel Hill, N.C., the opposition to the reservoir by Chapel Hill residents, their founding of a grassroots coalition, the Cane Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA) in 1975, their efforts to raise funds to stop the building of the reservoir, their loss to OWASA, their later success in blocking the building of an airport outside of Chapel Hill, his family's land, the changing landscape and development brought about by OWASA, and his disillusionment and cynicism at the time of the interview in 1985 regarding the efforts of the CCCA with interviewer Judith Wheeler. 26 October 1985

David Harlow, attorney, with interviewer Pamela Grundy. 6 April 1989

Joseph A. Herzenberg, white politician and political activist, discusses his support for the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Cane Creek reservoir project in Chapel Hill, N.C., and his thoughts regarding the opposition and efforts of Chapel Hill residents with interviewer Mary L. Dexter. 18 November 1985

Bruce Holt, farmer, with interviewer Steven Henegar. 27 October 1985

Nancy Holt, farmer, discusses growing up in the Cane Creek community of Chapel Hill, N.C., the importance of the land, school, and church to her and her community, her family's self-sufficiency and its impact on her sense of familial responsibility, differences between Chapel Hill and Cane Creek, the preservation of traditional values and folk wisdom at Cane Creek, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Cane Creek reservoir project, her frustrations with the lack of political clout of residents compared to OWASA and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the tactics OWASA employed to acquire land from residents, her involvement with the Cane Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA) as a lobbyist and fundraiser, and the economic, social, and environmental effects of the reservoir with interviewer Frances E. Webb. 27 October 1985

Edward S. Johnson, white professor and environmental activist, with interviewer Pamela Grundy. 1 April 1989

Edward S. Johnson, white professor and environmental activist, discusses the Cane Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA), their grassroots efforts to prevent the construction of the Cane Creek reservoir in Chapel Hill, N.C., by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), CCCA's continued efforts to propose alternatives at the time of the interview in 1985, and the land development that was already underway with interviewer Patricia E. Sloan. 28 October 1985

Bobby Kirk, farmer and environmental activist, discusses his opposition to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Cane Creek reservoir project, his time as president of the Cane Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA), the influence of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) on the reservoir project, and the effects of the reservoir on his dairy farming business with interviewer Karl E. Campbell. 28 October 1985

Marybelle Snipes Kirk, farmer, with interviewer Lynn Haessly. 18 November 1985

Robert L. Kirk, farmer, with interviewer Lynn Haessly. 2 November 1985

Drena Litter, salesperson, with interviewer Melissa Bass. 31 October 1985

Carolyn Lloyd, white farmer and environmental activist, with interviewer Angie Carter. 28 October 1985

Edward N. Mann, Jr., white bank employee, with interviewer Karl E. Campbell. 18 July 1986

Jean Mann with interviewer Karl E. Campbell. 8 August 1986

Shirley Marshall, white city council member, with interviewer Laura Drey. 1 August 1986

Daniel Alexander Okun, white engineer and professor, discusses his thoughts on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Cane Creek reservoir project, his knowledge about water quality and the benefits of watershed protections for rural communities, and his frustrations with the length of the legal battle over the reservoir project and especially with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) with interviewer Laura Drey. 22 October 1985

Miriam Singer and Fagele Ben Miriam, political activists, with interviewer Lynn M. Hudson. 16 November 1985

Charles Snipes with interviewer Al Carolonza. 5 November 1985

Evelyn Teer and Teer family, farmers, with interviewers Karl E. Campbell and Harriet Matthews. 30 July 1986

Mike Teer, farmer, with interviewer Misti Lyn Turbeville. 7 December 1985

Herman Alberti, mayor, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 8 June 1995

Elizabeth Arendell with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 15 June 1995

Haywood Attmore with interviewer William Jones. 18 May 1995

Gretchen Brinson and A. L. Brinson with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 30 June 1995

Hattie Loftin Brown with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 22 November 1994

Hattie Loftin Brown, Leora Loftin Murray, and Iris Dillahunt Brown with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 17 November 1994

Percy Brown with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 18 May 1995

Florence Cordova with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 23 August 1995

Emma H. Davis with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 3 February 1995

Gordon Day with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 25 July 1995

Mary Lou Mason Langdon with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 14 June 1995

Moses Moore, Hazel Carter, and Lineda Carter with interviewer William Jones. 19 May 1995

Fred Nelson and Katie Nelson with interviewer William Jones. 20 May 1995

Leon Nixon with interviewer William Jones. 17 May 1995

Darryl Ottaway with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 8 June 1995

Lafayette Parker with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 18 May 1995

Clara Wells Patterson and Elsie Wells with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 20 May 1995

Sidney Popkin and Luther Midgett with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 8 June 1995

Shaird Robinson with interviewer William Jones. 20 May 1995

Flossie Smith and William Smith with interviewer William Jones. 18 June 1995

Josephine Smith and John Smith with interviewer William Jones. 18 June 1995

Mary Carter Stone with interviewer William Jones. 20 May 1995

Clifton Tallman and Bernice Tallman with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 18 May 1995

Dick Tallman with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 19 May 1995

Elizabeth Turner Taylor with interviewer Lu Ann Jones. 2 July 1995

W. Bruce Teachey with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 19 May 1995

Elvira Dillahunt Williams with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 16 December 1994

Fernie G. Willis with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 16 July 1995

Walter J. Wynn with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 16 June 1995

Zelmyra Fisher, African American cleaning person, with interviewer William Jones. 18 May 1995

Edward Ellis, white author and historian, with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 16 June 1995

Elsie R. Fonville, white homemaker, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 8 June 1995

James George, African American member of the armed services, with interviewer William Jones. 19 May 1995

Lillian Green and Leander Moore, African American agricultural laborers, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 4 February 1995

Wanda Wills and Madge Guthrie with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 5 July 1995

Belva Hunnings with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 5 July 1995

K. B. Hurst, white farmer and construction worker, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 17 May 1995

Major Roosevelt James, African American fisherman and agricultural laborer, with interviewer William Jones. 18 June 1995

Leah M. Jones, white food service employee, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 18 May 1995

Cornelius Jones with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 29 November 1994

William Kinsey and Austin Smith with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 30 November 1994

Fred Hardison, white farmer and member of the armed services, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 10 December 1995

Robert Ellis Hines with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 10 December 1995

Ella Howard and Irvin Rhodes, white business owners, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 9 December 1995

Flora S. Reinhold, white nurse, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 10 December 1995

Bernice Rice and William Rice with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 9 December 1995

Lena S. Ritter, white factory worker, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 10 December 1995

Hurtis Coleman, African American farmer and member of the armed services, with interviewer William Jones. 24 June 1996

Roderick Thomas, African American member of the armed services and postal worker, with interviewer William Jones. 24 June 1996

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Merlie George Dozier, domestic worker and tailor, with interviewer William Jones. 3 August 1996

Bertha Mae George, farmer and domestic worker, with interviewer William Jones. 2 August 1996

Carlilie Fenner Hill, postal worker, with interviewer William Jones. 3 August 1996

Victor Shepard with interviewer William Jones. 10 July 1996

Pauline Frazier with interviewer William Jones. 3 August 1996

Georgia Rae Dickinson with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 28 July 1995

Norman Gilligan, white member of the armed services, with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 19 July 1996

Clara "Dee" Thompson, white teacher, with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 15 June 1996

Rudolph Mason, white accountant, with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 6 June 1996

Louise Nelson, white teacher, with interviewer David S. Cecelski. 14 June 1996

Floyd Shepard, African American mechanic, with interviewer William Jones. 9 July 1996

Emma West Bell, African American domestic worker, discusses nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in Havelock, Craven County, N.C., Little Witness Baptist Church, World War II, work, social culture, and civilian-soldier relations on the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base, and dispossession with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 24 July 1999

Ulysses Jason Blount and Edna Franks Blount, African American agricultural laborers, discuss nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in Craven County and Jones County, N.C., the Perrytown community, St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, church mothers, their work histories, World War II, the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base, their experiences under Jim Crow, their communities, and their family ties with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 17 July 1999

Dorcas Elizabeth Carter, African American teacher, discusses late nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in New Bern, N.C., her middle class upbringing, the fire of 1922, the importance of education and family, the impact of the Great Depression on the African American community, race relations in the 1920s, World War I, World War II in New Bern, the impact of the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base on the African American community, and her educational background with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 25 June 1999

Sudie Green, African American agricultural laborer and domestic worker, discusses nineteenth and twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in Riverdale, N.C., her work history, prosperous black landholders, bootlegging, the Great Depression, World War II in Riverdale, the economic and social impact of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base on her family and the community, and Little Witness Baptist Church with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 9 July 1999

Julia Hooks and Malissia Brimage, African American factory workers, discuss nineteenth and twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in Craven County and Jones County, N.C., midwifery, the Perrytown community, St. Paul Missionary Baptist church, Bryant Methodist church, their work histories, their experiences under Jim Crow, the Great Depression, World War II, dispossession, and the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 23 July 1999

Theresa Bryan Howard, African American domestic worker, discusses nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in New Bern, N.C., slavery, the fire of 1922, World War I, her work history, World War II in New Bern, civilian-soldier relations, the impact of the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base on race relations, her work experience under Jim Crow, community organizations, her family, and her strong community ties with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 26 June 1999

Mary Carter Stone, African American nurse, discusses nineteenth and twentieth-century African American social, religious, and economic life in James City, Craven County, N.C., slavery, midwifery, medicinal herbs, her work history, World War II, the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base, and Little Witness Baptist Church with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 10 July 1999

Beulah Whitehead Ward, African American civil service worker, discusses early African American life in Little Washington and Jacksonville, N.C., Little Witness Baptist Church, World War II, work and social culture on the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point base, dispossession, women's work and gender roles, V-Day, and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt with interviewer Angela M. Hornsby. 17 July 1999

Nettie Murrill, white accountant, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 29 June 1999

Nettie Murrill, white accountant, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 21 July 1999

V. J. O'Neal with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 28 June 1999

Madeline Gould Austin and Margie S. Windley, white clerk, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 22 July 1999

John Owen Barbour, white machinist, discusses his working class family background and childhood in Oriental and Beaufort, N.C., working in his family's machine shop, Barbour Marine and Supply, servicing boats and farm equipment, his first job repairing appliances in Newport News, Va., moving to Greenville, N.C., just before World War II and starting a family, his experience in the army and with the Ordnance Department at the Pentagon during the war, changes in Beaufort over time, his time as president of the Beaufort Historical Association, and his various travel experiences, including the World's Fair in Chicago, Ill., in 1934 with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 29 June 1999

Bud Church, white radio and television employee, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 22 July 1999

Alfred B. Cooper, white hotel and restaurant manager, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 22 July 1999

Geraldine W. Femia, white homemaker and textile worker, discusses her family background and childhood in Pitt County, N.C., including helping on the family farm, playing school sports, family holidays, and her family's Baptist background, her experience working in a textile factory in Morehead City, N.C., her marriage to a man in the Marine Corps and his oversea experiences during World War II, their time at the United Service Organizations in Morehead City, and activities they did with their children in the 1940s and 1950s with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 28 June 1999

Derryl Garner, white engineers; mayor, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 23 July 1999

William C. Horton and Nannie V. Haley discuss Haley's family background in Beaufort, N.C., including her family's work and chores and meals she remembers from childhood, how she met her husband, Alex Haley, and his work as an author, Horton's family background and childhood in Morehead City, N.C., his experience in the United States Army during World War II, his wife and children, his experience preaching at Best Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Goldsboro, N.C., his experience as mayor of Morehead City and other positions he held on City Council, changes in Morehead City over the 60 years prior to this interview in 1999, memories of the Great Depression, life before and after World War II, and racial integration with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 28 June 1999

Eddie Howell, African American farmer, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 23 July 1999

Rodney Kemp, African American teacher, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 23 July 1999

Shirley Wade Lucas, white homemaker and volunteer, discusses her childhood in Morehead, N.C., church and family Christmas traditions, her father's work as a barber, her household chores, memories of her brother who was mentally handicapped, the Station Club for mentally handicapped adults in Morehead, her experiences working in public schools, her husband and children, her experiences volunteering in her community, and her interest in her family's genealogy with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 30 June 1999

James Newman Willis, white scientist, discusses his family background and childhood growing up in Atlantic Beach, N.C., living in a hotel where his father was a caretaker, the community prior to World War II, the property ownership of Manufacturer's Bank and Trust company and the hotel's buyout by Hazel Gerard Mayor, founder of Atlantic Beach Incorporated, his family's return to Morehead City, N.C., during World War II because of the military camp and weapons in Atlantic Beach, life during World War II, including propaganda, rationing, air raid protections, alleged German spy scares, the 224th Coastal Artillery Battalion from Brooklyn, N.Y., Coast Guard patrols, interactions between the Marines and the local residents at Atlantic Beach, and the segregation of troops, his thoughts on the impact of World War II on the country, including the cultural homogenization and rise in consumerism in Atlantic Beach, and various locations and changes around Atlantic Beach and Morehead City with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 30 June 1999

Anonymous with interviewer Patrick Huber. 2 November 1994

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William Bamberger with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 12 June 1995

Wallace H. Bradshaw with interviewer Valerie Pawlewicz. 10 April 1994

Tracy L. H. Burnett, factory worker, with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 15 November 1994

Kenneth Capes with interviewer Patrick Huber. 28 November 1994

Ed Clayton with interviewer Chris Stewart. 1 June 1994

Cynthia Sykes Cook, factory worker, discusses her experience working in the factory office at the White Furniture Company in Mebane, N.C., the closing of the factory in 1993, and the importance of the factory to town life and workplace relationships in Mebane with interviewer Valerie Pawlewicz. 19 February 1994

Martin K. Eakes, white NGO director, with interviewers Jefferson R. Cowie and William Bamberger. 19 October 1994

Sam D. Faucette with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 14 June 1995

Kay Faulkner with interviewer Patrick Huber. 1 July 1995

Andy K. Foley, factory worker, discusses his brief experience working for the White Furniture Company in Mebane, N.C., the closing of the factory and the responses of his coworkers, his concerns about finances and the dissolution of friendships he formed on the job and the fun work environment, his experiences playing jokes on his friends at the factory, and his current less playful work environment at the time of the interview in 1994 with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 18 May 1994

James M. Gilland with interviewer Patrick Huber. 2 June 1994

Jimmy Lee Gross with interviewer Patrick Huber. 2 November 1994

Barbara Hanks, factory worker, discusses her work experiences at the White Furniture Company following her father's footsteps in the furniture industry, furniture finishing processes at the factory, her role as sole inspector, the social environment and relationships at the factory, and the loss of those features with the closing of the factory in 1993 with interviewer Patrick Huber. 10 August 1994

Paul Hunter with interviewer Patrick Huber. 5 July 1995

Vickie Jacobs, factory worker, discusses her work experiences at the White Furniture Company factories in Hillsborough and Mebane, N.C., including routines on the factory floor, the furniture production process, the close knit community of workers, and the closing of the Hillsborough factory with interviewer Joyce Blackwell-Johnson. 11 December 1993

Ivey C. Jones, factory worker, discusses his work experiences at the White Furniture Company factory in Mebane, N.C., the period between the purchase of the factory by a competitor and the new owners' decision to close it, including the shift from a personal management style responding to the needs of workers as community members to a profit-driven approach that stressed the workers' economic contributions, and the stressful atmosphere this change produced for workers with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 18 January 1994

Don McCall, with interviewer William Bamberger. 3 January 1995

Jane Newcomb with interviewer Valerie Pawlewicz. 6 March 1994

Annette F. Patterson with interviewer William Bamberger. 18 December 1994

Annette F. Patterson wit interviewer William Bamberger. 18 June 1995

Robert Riley, African American factory worker, discusses his various work experiences at the White Furniture Company factories in Hillsborough and Mebane, N.C., including his role as possibly the first supervisory position held by an African American in the company's history, the camaraderie and pride among workers at the factory, the closing of the factory and its emotional and financial impact on him and other workers, and the difficulties of searching for work and temporary employment with interviewer Chris Stewart. 1 February 1994

Robert Riley, factory worker, with interviewers Kathryn L. Nasstrom and William Bamberger. 8 May 1994

Robin L. Smith with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 18 July 1994

Ronnie W. Sykes with interviewer Patrick Huber. 18 May 1994

Zaner Sykes with interviewer Patrick Huber. 2 August 1994

Joseph R. Thompson with interviewer Patrick Huber. 18 July 1994

Millie Tripp, factory worker, discusses her work experiences with the White Furniture Company factory in Mebane, N.C., and her job with the company's corporate office which she held after the closing of the factory, the challenges of working as a single mother, and her thoughts on the plant merger and closing with interviewer Valerie Pawlewicz. 12 August 1994

Eston Kirk Vickers with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 7 November 1994

Margaret White wit interviewer William Bamberger. 3 April 1995

Tommy Ray Williams wit interviewer William Bamberger. 5 December 1994

Mike Wood with interviewer Jefferson R. Cowie. 10 November 1994

Ronnie J. Wright with interviewer Patrick Huber. 26 July 1994

White Furniture Company exhibit opening with Alicia J. Rouverol. 6 February 1994

White Furniture Company exhibit opening with Alicia J. Rouverol. 2 March 1994

Vidhya Bashyam, Seetha Bashyam, and Ram Bashyam with interviewers Joanne Punzo Waghorne and Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Geetha Rao, Neha Vyas, Sandhya Gopal, and Satish Gopal with interviewers Joanne Punzo Waghorne and Jennifer Wojcikowski. 11 July 1994

Vishal Khanna with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Jyoti Argade with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Arti Patel with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Nirav Kachalia with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Divyesh Sejtal with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Paras Parekh with interviewer Jennifer Wojcikowski. Undated

Alfred T. Adams, white bank employee, discusses his family background including stories his parents would tell, his father's civic and public service in and around Boone, N.C., characteristics of people who live in the mountains, his schooling, the relationship between the church and school, his experiences in banking, his memories of life in the area including the construction of roads, the lumber industry, farming, gardens, canning, sources of entertainment including fiddling, playing baseball, hunting, and watching cars, the influence of the church on restricting dancing and playing cards, private and public marriage traditions, tourism in Linville and Blowing Rock, N.C., politics and the Civil War, developing transportation and industry, moonshine and bootlegging, and his interest in cars with interviewer Warren Moore. 1983

Elsie Bennett and Harold K. Bennett, white homemaker and attorney, discuss Harold's experiences as a judge, some history of Buncombe County, N.C., including judges in or from the county, taxes and property evaluation in North Carolina including the impact of tourism, the impact of migration and population changes in Asheville, N.C., the political city in which they grew up, the literature and expertise of Louis Green, Bob Terrell, and John Parris on the region, raccoon and fox hunting, Pisgah Pottery, Cherokee law and culture, Minnie the bear, history, culture, and lore in Madison County, N.C., the importance of roads to the region, inbreeding, James G. K. McClure and the Farmers Federation cooperative, tourist destinations including the Grove Park Inn, Sealy's Castle, Zebulon Vance's birthplace, histories of local family feuds including the Taylor brothers, Warren Wilson College, Price School, the Asheville School for Boys, mountain ballads and folk music including "Fiddling" Bill Hensley and Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Minstrel of the Appalachians," Thomas Wolfe, his family, and local feelings toward Wolfe's books, perceptions of race in the region, prominent families including the Smathers, Fletchers, Gudgers, and Shufords, and multiple other suggestions of people for the interviewer to talk to about his project with interviewer Warren Moore. 4 May 1985

Elsie Bennett and Harold K. Bennett, white homemaker and attorney, discuss stories of judges, attorneys, and senators including Raymond Mallard, Samual J. "Boogee" Pigram, Chester Walton, and Robert R. Reynolds, stories from Harold's time in court, Thomas Wolfe and local feelings toward his books, Harold's family background and childhood, stories from the Civil War, twentieth-century land ownership, the humor and attitude of western North Carolina people, Elsie's family background and childhood, her father, J. Hobert Allvort, and his work as a builder and hobby raising chickens, and changes in money values from their childhood to the time of the interview in 1987 with interviewer Warren Moore. 16 October 1987

Larry Bixby and Laney Bixby discuss Lorri's father's land, which was sold to a Floridian, Larry's uncle, Joe Miles and his apple brandy business during prohibition, bootlegging, and the Little Savanna community with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Mollie Blakenship, Cherokee Indian community organizer, discusses her early childhood on the reservation in Cherokee, N.C., her mother's work as a nurse for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, her move to Oklahoma and return to Cherokee for work at the nursery school, her work as a clerk typist in Knoxville, Tenn., her marriage and children, her work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, her experience with the Tribal Council including its operations and politics, the impact of Bingo, and the fishing industry enterprise, changes in technology and transportation before and after World War II, Indian boarding schools including the Hampton Institute and Carlisle Indian Industrial School and schools in Chilocco, Okla., and Lawrence, Kans., her thoughts on home vs. board schooling, the growth of the tourism industry in Cherokee including "Unto These Hills," a play about the history of Cherokee, and the creation of the Indian Village, taxes, voting, and war service for American Indians, poverty of and prejudice against Indian people, Cherokee language, Indian medicine and beliefs, her memories of the old hospital, and Indian crafts and food ways with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 September 1984

Mollie Blakenship and Ben Bridgers discuss businesses, buildings, and development on and around the Cherokee reservation land in North Carolina, Mollie's experience on the Tribal Council, the tourism industry in Cherokee, N.C., Bain McCoy and his memories of his early life and time on the Tribal Council, the Bingo Hall, Mollie's involvement with "Unto These Hills," a play about the history of Cherokee, traditional Indian culture, changes in life on the reservation, and names of people with whom the interviewer should talk with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Modeen Bradley and Rosco Bradley discuss Modeen's family background, the history of the local post office, the Civil War, the history of the Merrill family in Buncombe County, N.C., the history of the Davidson family, the first white settlers west of the Blue Ridge, the old tannery and the tan bark industry, community gatherings including log raisings, corn shuckings, bean stringings and shellings, molasses makings, and taffy pulls, forms of entertainment including horseshoe, croquet, playing music, fighting, square dancing, hunting, and moonshine, early schools in Buncombe County including log schools and one-teacher schools, the impact of the 1916 washout on the region, agriculture and the lumber industry, development in the area including road fixing, automobiles, trains, and electricity, stories of robbers and bandits, Phelps's childhood and family background, and changes in the Baptist tradition with interviewer Warren Moore. 22 August 1982

Ben Bridgers, attorney and community organizer, discusses his experiences as tribal attorney for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians including multiple stories of court cases and issues surrounding land and ownership, lack of state jurisdiction over Indian reservations, the adopting of a Cherokee constitution, and the lawsuit with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) over Cherokee graves, Tribal Councils and their authority, democracy on Indian reservations, issues with the school systems, bears and hunting, gambling including Bingo and its proceeds, misconceptions about Cherokee life, housing, businesses, and employment, the tourism industry, colonial trade policy, Cherokee religious belief, medicine, and prophesies, and names of people with whom the interviewer should talk with interviewer Warren Moore. 10 September 1984

Jack Brinkley, Sr., Cherokee Indian automobile businessman, discusses his family background, his education at Oakley High School, Asheville-Biltmore Junior College (now the University of North Carolina at Asheville), Western Carolina University, and Denver University, his work with Sears and Roebuck and career in the automobile business, his children and their education and careers, changes in traditional mountain attitudes, Christian religious beliefs, his desire to know about his heritage and stay close to home, Cherokee history and "Unto These Hills," his wife, Walter Weilt's land and antiques, his family relation to Bill Cody, and names of people with whom the interviewer should talk with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Wade Brown, white attorney, discusses his work delivering milk to Blowing Rock tourists, his one-teacher school, life and work on his family's farm and in the community, wages and money values, child labor laws, the history of the golf course in Boone, N.C., and its impact on the town, stories about the Brown Mountain Light and "ole man" Ron Linny's house, Court Week as a social event, his memories of attorneys and judges, World War II and its impact on the community, Stewart Simmons and his country store and business selling country hams, legal cases on which he served, road making and toll gates in the region, Civil War stories, politics and elections in the region, his experience as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, the impact of tourism and Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., his high school education in Blowing Rock and Mars Hill, N.C., demonstrations at Blowing Rock, attitudes toward education in the region, the First Baptist Church in Blowing Rock, and his marriage with interviewer Warren Moore. 8 November 1983

Carrie Burnette and Lonnie Burnette discuss Carrie's family background in McDowell County, N.C., and childhood and life in Little Switzerland, including agriculture and livestock in the region, making clothes, tourism at the Little Switzerland Company, the one-room log school, attending church, mule and bus transit to Spruce Pine School, the Lees-McRae Presbyterian School, "Tweetsie" the little train from Cranberry to Johnson City, N.C., the arrival of electricity, the purchasing of property by outsiders and vacating of residents, the self-sufficiency, pride, friendliness, and hospitality of mountain people, differences in attitude toward teenage pregnancy over her lifetime, quilting, opinions of "Cabin in the Laurels," decorating the cemetery, burying their dead, church homecomings, interactions with summer residents, selling and trading goods with neighbors, subscription schooling, getting books from summer residents, relationships and sharing work between the sexes, healing snake and spider bites, folk tales, Baptist churches and their feelings toward hoedowns, her first memory of hearing music, Lonnie's family background, Civil War stories, immigrant and African American labor on the railroads and tunnels, feldspar and mica mines, and health problems from working in mines with interviewer Warren Moore. 5 December 1983

Nelson Cabe and Ruth Cabe discuss their lives in Macon County, N.C., including the two-room schoolhouse, logging, Nelson's work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) building roads, growing, raising, milling, and preserving food, moonshine, making sorghum, community events including taffy pulls, bean stringings, corn shuckings, wood cuttings, barn raisings, and serenades, making and using sleds and wood-wheel wagons, meeting each other, churches and church revivals, and changes in the area over their lifetime, including in farming and development, forms of travel, paved roads, electricity, and water pumps with interviewer Warren Moore. 30 September 1984

Ruth Cabe discusses her childhood in western North Carolina and Rabun Gap, Ga., including farming, food they grew, raised, and ate, her schooling and the importance of education to her father, her education at Rabun Gap boarding school, her experience with eczema, Tallulah Falls Railroad, her college education in Berea, Ky., meeting her husband, his work peddling, his service during World War II, their decision to stay put and build their home, her experience teaching and taking the census, and changes in the area over her lifetime, including cars, paved roads, food preservation, the influx of people from Florida, the vacating of young community members, decreases and changes in farming, and differences in wages with interviewer Warren Moore. 12 September 1984

Piercey Carter, white attorney, discusses his family background and childhood in Buncombe County, N.C., including his father's dairy farming, his education at Grace School and in Asheville, N.C., his Baptist upbringing, going to the opera, hiking and camping, traveling to Black Mountain, Montreat, and Mount Mitchell, moonshining and prohibition, and the 1916 flood, memories of Robert Love and Andrew Jackson, lawyers and judges including Dan and Brandon Hodges, Ed Loftin, Landon Roberts, Bob Swain, George Penley, Tom Rollins, Zeb Vance, Walter Hines Page, Phil Cox, Tom Jones, Bob Reynolds, and Tom Harkins, changes in the area over his lifetime, including the transition from riding horses to automobiles, increased water systems, and expanding businesses, his education at Wake Forest Law School, Wake Forest football, memories of the Greenhill Cemetery Association, the Asheville court system and his time as Clerk of Court, his experiences during the Great Depression and its impact on the price of food, Civil War stories, the State of Franklin history, family feuds, stories of cases he worked, meeting Marguerite, Bridge parties, his travels to China and Germany, and his experiences working in a sawmill, and his perception of the independence of people living in the mountains with interviewer Warren Moore. 16 October 1984

Alice Annie Francis Casey and Clifford Casey, African American farmers, discuss Clifford's upbringing in Cullowhee, N.C., his family background, his experiences farming, including differences between horses and mules, and growing and preserving food, cutting pulpwood and logs, his work as a janitor and farrier, his experiences with leukemia, his time with the Civilian Conservation Corps and United States Army, racial prejudices in the job market and race relations in the area, his education at the Jackson County Consolidated School and memories of riding the bus from Sylva, people in the mountains, the influx of professors and students, his father's work as a blacksmith, and hunting with interviewer Warren Moore. 23 May 1985

GoingBack (G.B.) Chiltoskey, Mary Chiltoskey, Susie McCullough, and Stacy Saunooke discuss Saunooke's Cherokee background and upbringing in the area, changes in the area including development, roads, transportation, television, and the teaching of Cherokee in schools, Saunooke's schooling on the Cherokee reservation, her parents' schooling in Carlisle, Pa., the early emphasis on learning the English language in school, McCullough's background, the preservation of Cherokee culture including language, pottery, and basketry, GoingBack's background in the region, his schooling on the reservation and at Parker High School in Greenville, S.C., fishing and hunting, working on the farm and at the school, meeting his wife, his work with a reptile showman and travel to Washington, D.C., differences between reservations and boundaries, tribal meetings, his schooling in Lawrence, Kans., and work as a summer camp counselor, move to Santa Fe, N.M., to make art, his return to the region to teach woodcarving, his later work as a model maker with Army Engineer Research and Development, the atomic bomb, his trade schooling during the summers, woodcarving, his family background, the changing of names to English, history of Cherokee tribal meetings in Tennessee and Oklahoma, the desire to locate Cherokee ancestors or claim to have Cherokee blood based on misconceptions of government funding, stereotypes of American Indians, Mary's family background, and subscription schools with interviewer Warren Moore. 9 March 1984

Lyda Coffey, Marion Coffey, and Lottie Coffey discuss court weeks, entertainment as children and young adults including making their own toys, playing Jack straws, and attending candy pullings and parties, fishing and hunting, cooking squirrel, making sauerkraut, familial and regional ancestries, life in Haywood County, N.C., including keeping cows, farming, hauling produce and other goods the market, and early commercialization, riding and sleeping under covered wagons, Marion's first A-Model Ford truck, and working on the road with Warren Moore. 18 October 1983

Lyda Coffey, Marion Coffey, and Lottie Coffey discuss court weeks, entertainment as children and young adults including making their own toys, playing Jack straws, and attending candy pullings and parties, fishing and hunting, cooking squirrel, making sauerkraut, familial and regional ancestries, life in Haywood County, N.C., including keeping cows, farming, hauling produce and other goods the market, and early commercialization, riding and sleeping under covered wagons, Marion's first A-Model Ford truck, and working on the road with Warren Moore. 18 October 1983

Horton Cooper, white folklorist and historian, discusses his birth in North Carolina, childhood until the end of the Spanish-American War in Tennessee, and later childhood in Avery County, N.C., including the old Cranberry store building, the Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, living at Birchfield Creek and the loss of their house by a flood, attending school in a church and one-room schoolhouse in Minneapolis, N.C., his father's education, religious interests, and work in the sawmills, for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and as a farmer, life before electricity including spring houses, farming and gardening, mining ore, mica, and feldspar, country stores, the impact of the Great Depression on the reliance on farming, keeping sheep, road building and the Road Law, Bright's Trace, travelling with horses, wagons, and sleds to swap food and other goods, mountain medicine and remedies, hunting, methods of keeping warm during the winter, quilting bees, log rollings, bean stringings, corn huskings, moonshining and bootlegging, his memories of slavery and enslavers Waightstill Avery and Ben Ellick, relations among white, black, and American Indian locals and the moving away of many black residents after slavery, stories of neighboring clans in Kentucky and old feuds in the region, Court Judge Felix F. Alley and his banjo and dance skills, Horton's grandfather's claim to be a witch doctor and the story of his grandparents meeting, sawmills and Christmas tree farming in the region, "dog days," the Brown Mountain lights, and his memories of meeting the Wright Brothers, getting married and the death of his wife, his experiences teaching near Jamestown, Va., and Burke County, N.C., characteristics of mountain people, his perception of the loss of neighborliness with population increases and changing social and educational conditions in the region, stories and superstitions from his book, and the history of Avery County with interviewer Warren Moore. 17 November 1981

John Cooper, white construction worker, discusses memories of growing up in Western North Carolina, including life during the winter, preserving food, bootlegging and building stills, walking and riding to school in a covered wagon, hunting, bean stringings, corn huskings, apple peelings, molasses makings, life before electricity, his first radio, harvesting and selling ginseng, hiking and camping, his grandfather and father's work mining iron ore at Cranberry, his grandfather's work horses and dogs, his family's farm and hogs, and people for the interviewer to visit with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 August 1980

Rebecca Councill, white homemaker and volunteer, discusses growing up in Boone, N.C., including her education at the Appalachian Demonstration School, the history of Appalachian State Teachers College (now Appalachian State University) and its impact on the town, the Historical Society and Friends of the Library Victorian Christmas party, Christmas food and traditions, tolerance and competence, class and poverty, art, dried applies, memories of Cratis Williams, moonshining, the role of the church and Bible in the community, and snake handling, changes in the region including greater connections to the outside world through television and transportation, land development, the death of important figures to the community, houses burning, the selling of land, tourism, and representation and documentation, her fear of the loss of mountain colloquialisms and character, and efforts to collect family stories and preserve mountain culture and history with interviewer Warren Moore. 8 November 1983

Cullowhee, N.C., schoolchildren discuss regional history and Cherokee Indians, the Blue Ridge Mountains, animals and nature, television, gardening, life in Cashiers Motel, foxfire, beekeeping, and raising Christmas trees with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Faye Dancy, manager, discusses growing up in Glendale Springs, N.C., including her family, life before electricity, local churches and church life, social events including Wednesday night meetings, molasses makings, square dances, movies, picnicking, and wiener roasts, her father's country store and the Reno Post Office, fur trapping, ginseng hunting, burglaries, local food traditions and festivals, mining, moonshining, folktales, and folk remedies, changes in the area, including tourism and migration, increasing industries such as Spragg Electric Company, Hanes Knitwear, Skyland Textiles, Southern Devices, and Gates Rubber Company, and increasing drug production, local businesses and industries, including Willcox Drug Company, the Northwest Trading Post, making and selling handmade food and crafts including stack cakes, Christmas wreaths, and pine roping, and people the interviewer should meet, including Beryl Gilley, with interviewer Warren Moore. 17 May 1983

John Allen "Jan" Davidson, folklorist, musician, writer, and curator, discusses Berea College and other universities in the mountains, his work with the Mountain Heritage Center, including preserving and celebrating local history and folklore, the impact of Foxfire on community and educational outreach, the importance of private collections, and institutional, insider, and outsider responses to the past and future of mountain life, life before the development of technology and transportation, the impact of governmental programs and focusing on negative and stereotypical aspects of mountain life, individuality and pride of mountain people, the impact of industry on the region, and land ownership with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

James E. Dooley, academic, discusses the history of shape note singing in North Carolina, including Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony, gospel singing, the Oakridge Boys, his childhood in Chattanooga, Tenn., and his grandfather's involvement with Sacred Harp singing conventions, and people the interviewer should meet, including musicians, dancers, and instrument makers with interviewer Warren Moore. 24 September 1984

Louisa DeDaussure Duls, professor and writer, discusses politics in the Appalachian mountains, stories of life in the mountains and friends including Uncle Isaac Holifield and Uncle Jess Holifield, expectations for bartering and trading for goods and men and women's roles at home, Little Switzerland, increasing cars and roads in the early twentieth century, and people the interviewer should meet including Mrs. C. R. Dale, with interviewer Warren Moore. 20 September 1983

Harriet Echols, artisan, discusses her work with Foxfire, including her knowledge of foraging and cooking wild plants, gardening and preserving, and quilting and weaving, life in the mountains including social security and education, her family background, memories from childhood including folk medicine and remedies, country doctors, Civil War stories, plantations and African American families she knew, stories of enslavement, sewing and farming, smallpox, cooking in the fireplace, making and dyeing cloth and thread, close community friendships, the importance of religion, their one-room house, buying or making shoes, drug stores and cracker barrels, milking cows and making butter and cottage cheese, and sharing and trading goods, and her adult life including marriage and her son's death at Pearl Harbor with interviewer Warren Moore. 13 September 1984

Nell Edminsten and Walter Edminsten discuss their family backgrounds and childhoods, including their education at Watauga Academy (now Boone Elementary) in Boone, N.C., social and community work events such as bean stringings, corn huskings, molasses makings, and quilting bees, making apple butter, and Willcox Drug Company and herbal medicines, farm and house chores as children and adults, Walter's work as a game protector for the Wildlife Resource Commission, population growth in Watauga County, N.C., life during the Great Depression, growth of industry in the mid twentieth century, and their children's work and education with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

United States Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. discusses Scotch-Irish heritage in North Carolina, his family history and background, the history of politics and the Civil War in the mountains including Zeb Vance and Judge Starbuck, his childhood in Morganton, N.C., including court days, education, growing industries such as a cotton and furniture, gardening and selling produce, electricity and technological advancements, the importance of church, corn huskings, and fishing and hunting, his run for Congress, campaigns, and experience in politics, including stories about lawyers and politicians including Tom Bowie, Wade Benoy, Sam Turner, Sam Black, Will Lambeth, James E. Boyd, and Sam Robinson, and moonshiners and bootleggers, stereotypes of mountain people, education in the region including the Appalachian Training School, other stories about people in the region, his roots in the community and connection to the mountains, and other people the interviewer should meet with interviewer Warren Moore. 18 July 1984

Herman Estes and Mabel Estes with interviewer Warren Moore. 20 May 1985

"Rosa Marie Feimster, professor, discusses the impact of the Civil War on Western North Carolina, stereotypes and the ingenuity and endurance of mountain people, her family history and the important role her grandmother played in instilling a sense of family and regional loyalty, folk tales and songs, memories of family lunches, childbirth methods over time, natural medicines and the Willcox Drug Company, making and selling food, crafts, and other goods, education, and other people the interviewer should meet with interviewer Warren Moore. 4 October 1983 "

Frank D. Ferguson, white attorney, discusses his family's Scotch-Irish roots and migration to Haywood County, N.C., family stories from the Civil War, his reverence for his grandmother, the importance of lawyers and judges in the region, stories of court week and other trials, his memories of the first sidewalk in town, working on the farm as a child, his love for reading, and working on roads with interviewer Warren Moore. 12 September 1984

Elinor Gorham, white homemaker, discusses her family's background in Flat Rock, N.C., and Ravensworth, Va., her hopes for the Peace Grocery Store, memories of summers growing up in the area including Tennis Teas, riding horseback, swimming, Old Doctor King, getting paved roads, the centrality of the church, bringing up food from Charleston, S.C., hired servants, hiking and climbing rocks, overnight trips, afternoon tea, the ladies aid society, parties at Connemara during Captain Smyth and Carl Sandburg's ownerships, playing Jack, the Play House, bootleggers, folk tales and stories, Historic Flat Rock, home brewed beer, roasted apples and other foods they ate, and life before plumbing and electricity, changes to the area including the impact of the Great Depression, the building of the G. E. plant, shorter visits and less visitors, more condominiums, and the opening of the Book Exchange, her schooling at Hollins and friends' schooling at Sweet Briar, and similarities between Flat Rock and Tuxedo Park, N.Y., with interviewer Warren Moore. 28 September 1984

Rebecca Grant and Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey discuss popular perceptions of ethnicity, Cherokee culture, language, and history, including the importance of oral tradition, Grant's upbringing in the Cherokee area of Piney Grove, N.C., her education at the Cherokee Boarding School and reservation schools, the death of her husband at an early age and her experiences raising two children as a single mother, her knowledge of cooking on a fireplace, Cherokee foods, natural mountain medicines, dyeing, and making and selling baskets, her son's woodcarving practices, her previous work at Bounty Tree Lodge, her time at Tsali Manor, and her garden with interviewer Warren Moore. 9-10 April 1984

Lewis W. Green, writer, discusses growing up in Cherokee, Haywood County, N.C., family reunions, the impact of the car industry, gardens in the mountains, washing clothes in the stream, violence in the mountains, his perception of the disappearance of mountain culture, and his uncertainty about the future of the area with interviewer Warren Moore. 9 October 1981

Lottie E. Green, homemaker, discusses growing up in a Christian home in Perkinsville, N.C., including the important religious and social life centered around Three Forks Church, her memories of the first car in Boone, N.C., the first plane to fly over the area, her brother's death in the United States Air Corps in 1918, her schooling at Boone Elementary and High School, living in dormitories, her father's farm, animals, and crops, chores around the farm and house, general stores, clothes and bonnets made by her mother, life before refrigeration, transportation by horse, walking, and buggy, black, white, and native relations in the area, moonshining and drinking in Watauga County, N.C., working on the roads, and funerals, attending Boone Baptist Church before the organization of Perkinsville Church, meeting and marrying her husband Bynum, taking care of his children, opening the grocery store and filling station, the murder of J. O. Cook, and her thoughts on the ways children are raised with interviewer Warren Moore. 19 October 1983

Lena Shull and Lottie E. Green discuss memories of growing up in the area, including walking, attending church and Sunday School, doing farm work, attending school, the cheese factory, Aunt Kate Porter and her work around the house, canning and preserving food, making molasses, attending movies in Boone, life before electricity, cooking over a wood stove and in the fireplace, their old house and the fire there, and their mother's dedication to her husband and the family, differences in church life and children's attitudes between their childhood and the time of the interview in 1983, Shull's marriage and honeymoon in Lenoir, N.C., the importance of religion in her life, and her visit to the beach, and Green's grandchildren and employment at Chevrolet in Boone, N.C., with interviewer Warren Moore. 17 October 1983

Mamie Hall, white postal worker, discusses memories of her country life in the North Carolina mountains, including riding a horse and buggy into town, her schooling in Wilkesboro, N.C., and limited schooling in Darby, N.C., farm work with her siblings, growing, making, and canning food and other goods, the sawmill as a source of employment, foraging and selling roots and herbs for medicinal purposes, life before electricity, cooking over a wood stove, storing goods in a spring box, ghost stories, building snowmen, Sunday dinners, playing piano, building swings, fishing, her father's store and its closing, raising an abandoned calf and pet pigs, selling biscuits to cattle drivers and campers, thieving tree squirrels, making molasses and candy pullings, her mother's schooling, quilting bees, corn huskings, attending church and Sunday School, carrying water from the spring, helping neighbors, wedding dinners, visiting Grandfather Mountain, the local doctor, her father's work as police officer, smoking ham, hunting, washing clothes at the spring, development in the area, her three marriages and stepchildren, food she made, three major floods in the area and the loss of her house, changes in Wilkesboro over her lifetime, her father's fiddle playing, and a poem by Julia and Delia Winkler with interviewer Warren Moore. 2 August 1984

Bea Ellis Hensley and Mike Hensley, blacksmiths, discuss their family history in the region, logging, General Wade Hampton and the first enslaved people in Yancey County, N.C., blacksmithing and its history, folk and family tales including the story of Frankie Silvers, education and stereotypes of mountain people, the independence of mountain people including building houses, raising crops, making clothes, furniture, and tools, log cabins, people in the community for the interviewer to meet, Bea's father's travels as a pastor, wages at different jobs during the Great Depression, Bea's thoughts on welfare and Government assistance, changes in the area including paved roads, schools, and electricity, tourist trade in the Arab world, boxing matches in Burnsville, N.C., including with Jack Dempsey, mining silver and gemstones, Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, hiking at Slick Rock, encountering wild boars, fishing in Linville Gorge, Daniel Boone, and relations with American Indians with interviewer Warren Moore. 4 December 1984

Letha Packett Hicks, gardener and landscaper, discusses quilting, growing up on a farm in Haywood County, N.C., including growing food, grinding cornmeal, unpaved roads, milking cows, ginseng hunting, basket and chair making, fencing off fields, fetching wood, catching and keeping pet pigs, spring houses, preserving food, picking chestnuts before the chestnut blight, corn huskings, foraging roots and herbs for medicine, playing grapevine and tap hands, candy and oranges at Christmas, and making molasses, her work in the schoolhouse sewing room, her family background including her children, husband, and the early death of her brother and sister, her garden, Decoration Day, and her work around the house and farm with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Letha Packett Hicks, gardener and landscaper, discusses growing up in Haywood County, N.C., including baking, cooking, playing music, dancing, and telling stories around Christmas time, moonshine, riding in sleds in the snow, hunting, and quilting, life during the Great Depression, going to picture shows for the first time, visiting the dentist and getting false teeth, people for the interviewer to meet, problems with bears, and burying potatoes and cabbage with interviewer Warren Moore. 15 October 1984

Ray Hicks, artisan, farmer, and storyteller, discusses his house, mountain cats, fried flitters, goose feather ticks and pillows, mountain games including Whim-A-Trim-A-Toe, attending free school, bug infestations in the 1920s, the weight of crops, folk songs including the ballad of Tom Dooley, fortune tellers, and storytelling, including winning contests, and various superstitions, Jack Tales, ghost tales, haint tales, stories about grinning bears away, evil spirit dogs, and jack 'o lanterns with interviewer Warren Moore. 26 November 1984

Stanley Hicks, artisan, farmer, and musician, discusses haunted houses, his and his wife's injuries, his family background and life in Watauga County, N.C., including his work for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), farming, hunting, fishing, raising and preserving your own food, making dulcimers and banjos, homemade wine, handmade or second-hand clothes, log rollings, corn huskings, working on the roads before taxes, playing music and dancing, wrestling, swag and rope pullings, games such as hoopy hah, moonshine, bean stringings, and medicine made from roots and herbs, differences in lifestyles and the quality of life over his lifetime including transportation, healthcare and medicine, work and wages, welfare, growing vs. buying food, exercise, television, tobacco, increasing population, alcohol and drug use, and neighborliness, and storytelling, including coon hunting, Grandfather Tales, and Jack Tales with interviewer Warren Moore. 13 November 1984

Hoyle Hooper, Lillian Hooper, and Donna Vee Messer discuss floods in the mountains, herbs and medicinal home remedies, electricity and radio, the first televisions in their homes, burying cabbage and other crops during the winter, fetching water, washing and ironing clothes, and gardening and giving away food to neighbors with interviewer Warren Moore. 2 October 1984

Myron Houston and Ruth Houston discuss the history of the region, starting with Myron's ancestor William Wiseman's migration to the United States and life in North Carolina in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including milk poisoning, burying the dead, the lumber industry, making machinery and other necessities, the winter of 1809, peddlers, Myron's uncle Peyt, the Brown Mountain lights, nearby historical army barracks, split allegiance during the Civil War, the paving of roads, overgrowth of cemeteries and graves, the Battle of King's Mountain, the Yellow Mountain Trail, Daniel Boone, vegetation on Roan Mountain, regional feuds, and the first post office and churches in the region, their country store and community gathering place, their relationship to the community, their children, attending school in Cranberry, N.C., together, dancing and playing guitar at square dances, memories of driving wagons, Myron's work as a logger, smokehouses and preserving meat, bartering and trading, repairing shoes, the history of Hensen Creek, Plumtree, and Avery Farm, and changes to the region including railroads, automobiles, steam engines, and the timber and mineral industries with interviewer Warren Moore. 4 December 1984

Emma Sharpe Avery Jeffress, homemaker and volunteer, discusses the German and Scotch-Irish heritage in the area and history of migration to the North Carolina mountain region including traveling in groups by covered wagon, her family's history in Ashe County, N.C., self-sustaining farms, preserving apples, distilling and grinding corn, and water springs, her memories of growing up in the area including train rides, sleds pulled by oxen, the impact of the Blue Ridge Parkway on life in the region, square dances and music, ballad singing, snuff and tobacco, moonshine, ghost stories, her schooling, Elizabethan English dialect, dirt floors, pedal organs, radios, and bartering, the impact of missionaries and religious leaders including Mr. Savage and Falton Hodges, their work building and restoring local churches and cemeteries, the history of the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches in the area, animal blessing ceremonies, fresco paintings at Holy Trinity Church, her own involvement with Holy Trinity Church in Greensboro, N.C., and bringing students to the mountains during the summer, and changes in the region including less farming and the influx of people attending Appalachian State University with interviewer Warren Moore. 28 March 1983

Carrie Miller Johnson and Annie F. Winkler discuss the Civil War and its impact on political allegiances in Wilkes County, N.C., the history of North Wilkesboro, N.C., the impact of the World's Fair of 1893 on architectural styles, differences between Primitive and Hardshell Baptists, reasons for the growth of industry in the area, the trial of Vess Miller, changes in the region including greater possibilities for travel, stories of Tom Dooley, preservation and development in Wilkesboro, southern manners, differences in schooling, discipline, and student-teacher relations over their lifetime, Winkler's teacher Mr. Dougherty, the local jail house and jail escapes, tours of the historic buildings in Wilkesboro, Siamese twins living in Wilkes County, bootlegging and Judge Hayes, court days, Scotch-Irish history, Revolutionary War and Civil War history, Johnson's family background and childhood on a dairy farm in Laurel Springs, N.C., including churning butter, storing goods in spring houses, farming wheat, trading goods for groceries, cutting hay, work hands, and their garden, her schooling, her wedding, husband, and son, medicine in her lifetime, salt mines, the new airport, her 97th birthday, her Baptist background, and burial practices and Decoration Day with interviewer Warren Moore. 31 August 1984

Junior Johnson, white racecar driver, with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 December 1984

Leon Johnson, moonshiner, with interviewer Warren Moore. 23 October 1984

Lois Epps Jones, teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. 30 September 1984

Ethel Keener and Harold Keener with interviewer Warren Moore. 8 October 1984

Carl G. Lambert, Sr., American Indian historian, discusses Cherokee history and archaeology in North Carolina, including Hernando De Soto's exploration and death in the region, Cherokee medicine and language, acculturation of Cherokee people, education, life on the reservation, his perception of American Indian and white work habits, the impact of industry and transportation on eating habits, health, and increased diabetes in the region, changes in wheat production and use, Rattlesnake Mountain and other places named by Cherokee people, his family genealogy, and his memory of meeting Fess Parker, Walt Disney, and Buddy Ebsen with interviewer Warren Moore. 2 October 1984

Monroe Ledford, white artisan and construction worker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 October 1984

Bertha Lowe, homemaker and farmer, with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 August 1984

Everette Lyle and Zora Lyle discuss with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 April 1983

Gayton Marshall and Pearl Marshall with interviewer Warren Moore. 15 March 1983

Anne Mast and Howard Mast, Sr., with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Dan McCoy, American Indian businessman and community organizer, with interviewer Warren Moore. 2 October 1984

Bob Merrill and Myrtle Merrill with interviewer Warren Moore. 21 August 1982

Donav Messer, white teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Charles B. Michael, white member of the military with interviewer Warren Moore. 4 October 1983

Ola Miller, white homemaker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 October 1983

Ida E. "Granny" Moss, Jimmy Moss, and Wanda Moss with interviewer Warren Moore. 18 October 1984

Ida E. "Granny" Moss, Jimmy Moss, John Moss, Suzanne Moss, and Wanda Moss with interviewer Warren Moore. 14 October 1984

Jimmy Moss and Wanda Moss with interviewer Warren Moore. 14 October 1984

Wanda Moss, white restaurant worker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 12 September 1984

Frank Norris, white restaurant owner, with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Hal Oates and Hattie Oates with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 August 1982

Susan Oates, white homemaker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 2 August 1982

Thomas Lemuel Oates, white craftsman, with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 August 1982

Lula Mae Owenby and the Owenby family with interviewer Warren Moore. 20 August 1982

Helen Parker and Jonah Parker with interviewer Warren Moore. 24 October 1984

Boyd Payne, Oris Payne, Landon Roberts, and Jean Roberts with interviewer Warren Moore. 18 May 1985

Robert Phillips, white store owner, with interviewer Warren Moore. 13 August 1984

Michael J. Phillips, white designer and contractor, with interviewer Warren Moore. 28 September 1981

Edward Presnell and Nettie Presnell with interviewer Warren Moore. 26 November 1984

Raymond Presnell, white beekeeper, with interviewer Warren Moore. 12 November 1984

Carma Reed, white teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Delia Reed and Grady Reed with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 October 1984

Delia Reed and Grady Reed with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 October 1984

B. F. "Bennie" Reese, white salesperson, with interviewer Warren Moore. 25 September 1984

Jean Roberts, white homemaker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 September 1982

Jean Roberts and Landon Roberts with interviewer Warren Moore. 26 September 1982

Jean Roberts and Landon Roberts with interviewer Warren Moore. 12 October 1984

Landon Roberts and Max Cogburn with interviewer Warren Moore. 30 July 1982

Louise Morgan Rodda, teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. 26 September 1984

Delmer Rose and Helen Rose with interviewer Warren Moore. 5 April 1983

James C. Ryan, white park ranger, with interviewer Warren Moore. 9 October 1984

Ruth Settles, white homemaker, with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 June 1982

Mary Shell, Cherokee Indian teacher and craftswoman, with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 September 1984

Eulala Shular, Vena Shular, and Winton Shular with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Freda Siler and Margaret Siler D'Onofrio with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 October 1984

Quay Smathers, white carpenter and musician, with interviewer Warren Moore. 6 November 1984

Mae Smith, white teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. 28 August 1980

Annie Dee Leatherman Smith, Walton R. Smith, and Deanne Winearski with interviewer Warren Moore. 23 September 1984

Mabel Bell Sparks and Thurmond Sparks with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Nannie Suttles, gardener and landscaper, with interviewer Warren Moore. 30 July 1982

Nannie Suttles, gardener and landscaper, with interviewer Warren Moore. 1 August 1982

Cas Wallin and Virgie Wallin with interviewer Warren Moore. 18 May 1985

Willard Watson, white woodworker and farmer, with interviewer Warren Moore. 10 November 1981

Cynthia Smathers, Ted White, and Landon Roberts with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Michael G. White, teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 September 1984

Kay B. Wilkins, white teacher and athletic coach, with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 December 1984

Kay B. Wilkins and Bill Wilkins with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 December 1984

Kay B. Wilkins, Bill Wilkins, and Ivor Vance with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 December 1984

Bill Wilkins and Ivor Vance with interviewer Warren Moore. 3 December 1984

Cratis Williams, white professor and folklorist, with interviewer Warren Moore. 15 November 1983

Florence Wilson, white seamstress, with interviewer Warren Moore. 21 September 1981

Walter Winebarger, white gristmill owner, with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Anne Winkler, teacher, with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Lula Love Wise, white teacher and storeowner, with interviewer Warren Moore. 21 September 1981

Rush Wray with interviewer Warren Moore. 14 August 1984

Hester Marie Wykle and Lilly Wykle with interviewer Warren Moore. 27 September 1984

Reginald Enloe Moody, white vice mayor and funeral director, with interviewer Warren Moore. 22 January 1985

Dan Moore and Jeanelle Moore with interviewer Warren Moore. 8 January 1985

Rachel Sutton and Harold Sutton with interviewer Warren Moore. Undated

Mary Ann R. Clarkson with interviewer Ana Mitchell. 11 November 1999

Edna E. Cole with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Thomas Philip Dark with unidentified interviewer. Undated

John R. Dykers, Jr., with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Alexis Griffin-Colker, women's rights activist, with interviewer Laura Micheletti. 10 November 1999

Wade H. Hadley, Jr., white scientist, with interviewer Bruce E. Baker. 9 December 1999

E. T. Hanner with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Edward Milton Harris, Jr., with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Perry Harrison, white teacher, with interviewer Angela Panel-Holthausen 16 November 1999

Annie P. Hart, African American religious leader, with interviewer Alyce Miller. 10 December 1999

Kathy Hodges, program coordinator at the Coalition for Family Peace, with interviewer Laura Micheletti. 8 November 1999

James B. Holt with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Barbara Irwin and Whitney Irwin with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Cathy Jones, white farmer, with interviewer Rebecca Warfle. 2 December 1999

Christy Koch with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Lillie E. Lee with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Jim Le Tendre with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Ed Long, with interviewer Ana Mitchell. 8 November 1999

Carol Outz with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Herbert Parker, white farmer, with interviewer Jun Wang. 14 November 1999

Maria M. Pavon, Latina counselor, with interviewer Michal Osterweil. 8 October 1999

Access restriction: This interview is closed.

Frankie Houser Petty with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Lewis Phillips with unidentified interviewer. Undated

Margaret Pollard, African American teacher, with interviewer Spencie Love. 17 September 1999

Margaret Pollard, African American teacher, with interviewer Spencie Love. 12 October 1999

Margaret Pollard, African American teacher, with interviewer Spencie Love. 23 November 1999

Camelia Scurlock with interviewer Alyce Miller. 10 December 1999

Carl E. Thompson, African American religious leader, with interviewer William Lowie. 12 October 1999

Charles Dillard Thompson, farmer, with interviewer Jun Wang. 15 October 1999

Nancy Brown Tysor, white salesperson. with interviewer Bruce E. Baker. 19 October 1999

Robert J. Wachs with interviewer Victoria Smith Ekstrand. 15 October 1999 and 1 November 1999

Glenn Woolard, white public officer, with interviewer Michal Osterweil. 7 December 1999

Robert Bane, white farmer, discusses his family's history and connection to their farmland, his military service with the United States Navy and the Korean War, his work experience in California before returning to the Green River Valley, N.C., his experiences working in the textile industry including the labor strike and labor union, corn liquor, changes in the Green River and Valley, including new community members and development, Indian Cave, and the lead mine nearby with interviewer David Schenck. 16 January 2008

Bea Capps Beddingfield, white factory worker and farmer, discusses her home, "the old Beddingfield house," her family background and land, changes in the land and community, her schooling, her work in the textile industry, learning folk medicine from her grandmother, her children, gardening, and walking with interviewer David Schenck. 28 February 2008

Joyce Beddingfield, Octavia Beddingfield, and Ronald Beddingfield, white farmers, discuss the Freeman and Murray family histories and land, the old Freeman home and mill, grist mills, schools in the Green River Valley, N.C., slavery in the area, the Civil War, Lake Summit, the textile factory nearby including the labor strike and labor union, Tuxedo, N.C., changes in the community including newcomers, development, the loss of the ball field, school, post office, and bookmobile, and the division of the Valley by a four-lane highway, community gatherings, preserving the Valley land and water, the African American settlement Happy Land, and old English spoken in the Valley with interviewer David Schenck. 23 January 2008

Theron Maybin, white farmer, discusses her childhood, the importance and meaning of home, her favorite places in the Green River Valley, N.C., the history of Green River, her family history in the region, Cedar Springs Baptist Church history, farming in the region, differences between Tuxedo, N.C., and other areas in the Valley, changes in the Valley after World War II, including ownership patterns, land use, and development, stewardship and sacrifice for future generations, military service in her family, the local lead mine, and haints and witches with interviewer David Schenck. 14 February 2008

Robert Morgan, white farmer, discusses his childhood and family history in the Green River Valley, N.C., major features of Green River, including baptism locations and the lead mine, the textile industry, labor strike, and labor union, the changing economy of the region, epidemics and other major events in the Valley, church controversies, zircons, changes in the population and community including the impacts of the railroad and development, the Civil War, major families in the Valley, and Daniel Boone with interviewer David Schenck. 14 June 2007

Curtis Osteen and Lynn Capps Osteen, white farmers and textile workers, discuss their family history, the beauty of the land in the Green River Valley, N.C., changes in the community including the impact of development and road paving, their experiences working in the textile industry, music and instrument making, and preserving the Valley and mountain culture with interviewer David Schenck. 17 December 2007

Vera Pace, white farmer and textile worker, discusses stories of Joe Capps, who would walk to Greenville, S.C., from the Green River Valley, N.C., to work in the textile mills, her favorite places in the Valley, the Green River oral history project, and her family land with interviewer David Schenck. 14 February 2008

James Daniel Bell with interviewer Elizabeth A. Millwood. 3 March 2009

Rita C. Berman with interviewer Elizabeth McCain. 28 March 2009

Elizabeth Erle Branch with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 21 March 2009

James Carlton Britt with interviewer Rachel Martin. 21 March 2009

Guilhelmine Losange Bruton with interviewer Rachel Martin. 21 March 2009

Erin Lindsey Davis with interviewer Janay Deanna Davis. 28 March 2009

Jacob Anton Davis with interviewer Horace William Miller. 3 March 2009

Alonna Cordell Dawes with interviewer Catherine Ramos. 3 March 2009

Emily Anne Easthom with interviewer James Robert Easthom. 28 March 2009

Haley Laurinda Easthom with interviewer Laurin deBeck Easthom. 28 March 2009

Shelley Marie Fluke with interviewer Katherine Greer Littlefield. 3 March 2009

Catherine Pace Cox Fogle with interviewer Faith Underhill Fogle. 3 March 2009

Brent Stanley Jenkins with interviewer Carol G. Jenkins. 21 March 2009

Amy Elizabeth Lucas with interviewer Juan Jose Vallejo. 28 March 2009

Gregory J. Marshall with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 3 March 2009

Arlene Joyce Medder with interviewer Elizabeth A. Millwood. 9 March 2009

Beth Millbank with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 3 March 2009

Horace William Millet with interviewer Jacob Anton Davis. 3 March 2009

Jane Watson Peppler with interviewer Jeimy Salazar. 21 March 2009

Lauren Natalie Roche with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 28 March 2009

Elizabeth Birtch Ramos with interviewer Elizabeth McCain. 28 March 2009

Robert E. Seymour with interviewer Rachel Martin. 21 March 2009

Bron D. Skinner with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 3 March 2009

Sophia Yue Su with interviewer Elizabeth A. Millwood. 3 March 2009

Ginny Thompson with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 21 March 2009

Zoe Wei with interviewer Rachel Martin. 3 March 2009

Henriette Lee Wells with interviewers Anna Sarah Fields and Zoe Goforth Wells. 21 March 2009

Laura K. Wenzel and Genie Wenzel-Bill with interviewer Dwana Waugh. 28 March 2009

Linda Lee Woodard with interviewer David Cline. 28 March 2009

Edna Earle Boykin, white teacher and principal, discusses growing up on a farm outside of Wilson, N.C., raised by her single mother, the growth of the city and extending of water, electricity, and sewer services to their house, her family's close relationship with the neighbors, memories of her mother's job as a clerk downtown, swimming, pets, and the Great Depression, her education at Saint Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C., the Women's College in Greensboro, N.C., (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and the teacher's college at Columbia University, her experience as a teacher and principal, her experience on the Wilson City Council, and her support of the arts with interviewer Betty Ray McCain. 5 March 2008

Lawrence Brett, white health services administrator, discusses his family background and childhood in Wilson, N.C., families in his neighborhood, sources of entertainment including movies, building models, riding bicycles, and playing "Rebel guns," his memories of the Great Depression and its impact on his father's business, his education at Duke University and Northwestern University, and his career as a hospital administrator with interviewer J. Robert Boykin, III. 8 March 2008

" Katherine Tassie Dempsey, discusses her childhood memories of the Depression and World War II, including her helping people find food, a family friend's losing their home, witnessing a Ku Klux Klan ride, working at a furniture store, selling war bonds, attending dances with big bands in the 1940s, swimming at Silver Lake, a circus, seeing her first ""talkie"" movie, and her longstanding connections to the men's basketball program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with interviewer Patrick Valentine. 30 April 2008 "

John N. Hackney discusses growing up in Wilson, N.C., his friends in the neighborhood including several Greek families, his experiences as a Cub, Boy, and Eagle Scout, his travels to the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington, D.C., and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, sources of entertainment including riding bikes, playing baseball, building forts with scrap lumber, shooting BB guns, and swimming in Silver Lake, his memories of the Great Depression including the Wilson Home and Loan Association and their efforts to rent houses to previous owners rather than evicting them after foreclosures, his education at the University of North Carolina (UNC), and his experience in the military during World War II with interviewer B. Perry Morrison, Jr. 19 March 2008

Robert E. Kirkland discusses his family background and childhood in Wilson, N.C., his memories of Annie Roundtree, the African American cook their family hired, his experiences in the Cub and Eagle Scouts, his education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and election to Phi Beta Kappa, his father's views of small-town politics, his experience on the Wilson County School Board, integration in Wilson public schools, his memories of the Great Depression including difficult business decisions and a family suicide, and his respect for his sister, Martha Kirkland Walston with interviewer Phil Mooring. 5 March 2008

A. Winniett Peters discusses his family background and childhood in Tarboro, N.C., his father's death in a car crash and the marriage of his mother, Ethel Battle Peters, to W. Coalter Paxton before their family moved to Wilson, N.C., his vague memories of the Great Depression including breadlines, lines of jobseekers, and his family's frugality, his work in the tobacco industry and as a clerk at a grocery store, his experiences in the Scouts and playing school sports, going to the movies on Saturdays, his memory of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and his service in the United States Navy at the end of World War II with interviewer Keith Barnes. 3 April 2008

Doris Schaum Walston, white bookkeeper, discusses her family background and childhood in the Nash Street neighborhood of Wilson, N.C., her public education then attendance at St. Catherine's in Richmond, Va., for twelfth grade, her college education at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., her father's position as president of Wilson Tobacco Company, the tobacco festival including the dance, themed pageant, parade, and crowning of a tobacco queen, her work during World War II as a bookkeeper for the Wilson Tobacco Company and as a volunteer nurse's aide at Woodard-Herring Hospital, attending dances at the Seymour Johnson Air Force base, the rationing system of World War II compared to shortages during the Great Depression, her interest in World War II current events including submarine activity off the coast of North Carolina, social events including baseball games, eating banana splits, cowboy serial movies, and dancing with friends at their houses and the Briggs Hotel, her wedding in 1948 and wedding customs at the time, and her experiences traveling to foreign countries with interviewer Frank Eagles. 6 May 2008

Henry Hyman Walston, III discusses his family background and childhood in Wilson, N.C., his father's job as floor manager of the Centre Brick Warehouse for Cozart, Eagles, and Company, selling mules, and renting farms to tenants, his experience playing football in high school, his work experience at the Agnew - Barnes Tin Shop during summers, his education at Darlington Prep School in Rome, Ga., and Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College), his work experience for the James I. Miller Tobacco Company, and his memories of the Great Depression including his family making clothes and growing vegetables but still employing a cook and maid with interviewer B. Perry Morrison, Jr. 11 July 2008

Martha Kirkland Walston discusses her family background and childhood growing up in Wilson, N.C., her father's employment with the Barnes Motor Company and taking over of the business during the Great Depression, her early schooling and her teaching and business degrees from the Women's College in Greensboro, the lack of women working in business in Wilson, her teaching experience in Rocky Mount, N.C., her brief work experience in the office at the Export Leaf Tobacco Company, and her memories of German prisoners of war bused from Seymour Johnson Air Force base to work in the tobacco factory with interviewer B. Perry Morrison, Jr. 11 July 2008

Ann Bullock Zimmerman discusses her family background and childhood growing up on Tarboro Street in Wilson, N.C., where her family had plenty of land and a cow, sources of entertainment such as playing games with neighbors, taking piano lessons, and going to farm team baseball games at Fleming Stadium, the home of the Wilson "Tobs," or Tobacconists, her encounters with German prisoners of war working in the tobacco warehouses during World War II, her father's work as a wholesale salesman, her mother's work at home and assistance by several African American workers, her memories of the Great Depression including the loss of her father's business and growing and canning vegetables, her experience teaching elementary school, her master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina (UNC), and her move to California, where she married and lived until her husband died and she returned to Wilson with interviewer B. Perry Morrison, Jr. 26 March 2008

George Bailey, African American real estate developer, discusses his family history and background, his education at segregated schools in Cary and Raleigh, N.C., his memories of desegregation in the United States and the Civil Rights Movement, being raised in an African American community, his father's experiences with racism as a plumbing contractor and business owner, how racial dynamics have changed over time, his own real estate business, his experiences in the Peace Corps, building his house, his enjoyment of mountain climbing and travelling, his time spent living in Africa, and his thoughts on his own personal developments, his family history, and recent politics at the time of the interview in 2009 with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 19 March 2009

Herbert Bailey, African American real estate developer, discusses his schooling at Kingswood Elementary and Berry O'Kelly High School in Raleigh, N.C., following his father into the plumbing contracting business, his father's jobs in the 1950s, memories of his childhood in Cary, N.C., including finding arrowheads, civil rights and living "on the other side of the tracks," heating their house with wood, and their father's barn burning down and killing their horse, living in Norfolk, Va. during World War II and returning to Cary, businesses, life, and the town government in Cary, his father's childhood, he and his siblings' educations, his experiences teaching in Washington, D.C., and New York, his experiences with drugs and drinking, his children and their schools, and segregation with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 31 March 2009

A.J. Bartley, white professor and farmer, discusses growing up on a farm in Jefferson City, Mo., his education and teaching at the University of Missouri, his draft into World War II and his time in Burma, his move to Raleigh, N.C., his teaching experience at North Carolina State University (NCSU), and his farm in Cary, N.C., where he worked part-time raising sheep, cattle, and chickens and growing fruit and vegetables with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 12 November 2007

Phyllis Cain, African American social worker, discusses her family background, her schooling, activities, and teachers at Berry O'Kelly High School and West Cary High School during and after segregation, life in Cary, N.C., during desegregation, her father's experience on the Cary Advisory Council during desegregation, changes at West Cary High School, her college experience, and her career as a social worker with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 26 August 2009

Paul Cooper, white military officer, discusses growing up and moving to Cary, N.C., in 1947, graduating from Cary High School in 1955, attending the Naval Academy, his experiences in the United States Navy in California and Vietnam, his father's job as principal of Cary High School working with Henry Adams to develop the integration plan for Cary schools, and how the community in Cary accepted integration with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 19 March 2009

Lucille E. Cotton discusses her family background, her experiences and difficulties as one of only six African American girls chosen to attend the predominantly white Cary High School for her senior year, and her memories of riding the bus, being nominated for English class president, attending games and dances, getting her yearbook, and how she was treated by both white students and teachers with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 13 March 2009

Loise Massey Crow, white teacher, discusses her childhood in the Ivey Ellington house in Cary, N.C., as the daughter of the Cary railroad station master, her experiences teaching second grade at Cary Elementary at the same time as Irma Ellis, her education at Duke University, her experience starting a children's choir at the Methodist Church in Cary, her marriage in 1929, and her memories of taking the train to shop in Raleigh, N.C., with Ruth Cathey Fox, the Methodist church booth at the North Carolina State Fair, Christmas in Cary, heating their house, singing in the first choir at Duke Chapel, getting fresh fish off the train in Cary, houses where she lived in Cary, and their servants with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 6 July 2009

Jeannette Evans, African American manager, discusses her family background and childhood, her parents experiences on the African American school board when they built Kingswood Elementary with the help of Bun Ferrell and others, her education at Kingswood Elementary and Berry O'Kelly High School, her memories of segregated restaurants in Cary, N.C., desegregation in Cary, her involvement with the opening and operations of the Dorcas thrift shop and food pantry, her husband, her relatives, the Turners, her children's schools, racism and life in Cary, her interactions with her white neighbors, and the relationship between the white Good Shepherd Church and the African American Cary First Church of Christ with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 9 April 2009

Robert B. Heater, white civic leader, discusses his childhood in Cary, N.C., his memories of students and teachers at Cary Elementary School and residents of Cary, his father's shop, life in Cary during World War II, his experiences as a volunteer firefighter, his time with the United States Navy Reserves and the Sea Bees, the Korean War, stateside railroading, drilling water wells for the Heater Wells Company with his father, R. O. Heater, memories of his father and his career, the impact of the Great Depression on his father's work, his own time as Commissioner, integration and the local school board in Cary, his experience opening a recreation program and dental program for Wake County, his memories of the Cary Elementary gym, seeing movies at Cary Elementary, the merger of city and county schools in the 1970s, Mitchell's dairy barn, his father's housing developments, Russell Hills, the 911 program, and the county library he supported with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 16 July 2009

Sallie Jones, African American teacher, discusses her early education in an African American three-room school off Shirley Drive in Cary, N.C., which burned down in 1936, her memories of racism and mistreatment to herself and other African Americans in Cary, the building of Kingswood Elementary School with the help of her mother and uncle, attending Holiness church, her home-schooling through sixth and seventh grades and high school education at Berry O'Kelly High School, her college education at Barber-Scotia College and Saint Augustine's University, her teaching experience in Parmele, N.C., at Goldsboro High School, and in Gary, Ind., her retirement and return to Cary, her successful efforts to research and save the African American cemetery on Cornwall Road, her childhood in segregated Cary, World War II, the relationship between the African American Cary First Christian Church and the white Good Shepherd church, and the formation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. task force in Cary with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 23 April 2009

Guy Mendenhall, white teacher, discusses his education at Cary High School, his college education at East Carolina University, his return to Cary High School as a history teacher and athletic director, the history of the school including its change in location, the demands of a high school athletic director and coach, his retirement and work at the time of the interview in 2009 as a substitute teacher, the growth of Cary and its impact on the high school in athletics and academics, his memories of desegregation at Cary High School, and his thoughts on Cary High School and the community in general with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 9 March 2009

Ruby Hunt Merritt, white homemaker, discusses her upbringing and homeschooling on a "sawmill shanty" built by her father, his donation of the land and lumber for the Rock Spring School, her high school education at Chapel Hill High and brief attendance at the University of North Carolina (UNC) before her marriage to Eben Merritt and the birth of their four children, her husband's three-truck fleet and convenience store in Carrboro, N.C., her memories of driving herself to music lessons at age twelve, of  World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Great Depression, and World War II, when her son contracted polio and she trained as a rehabilitation nurse with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 4 August 2006

Carl A. Mills, white teacher and principal, discusses the athletic program, media-computer assisted educational program, and the band at Cary High School, the Cary First Baptist Church during integration, the Methodist church's ham biscuit stand at the North Carolina State Fair, Oaks Construction and vocational opportunities in Cary, N.C., his thoughts on the future of education in Cary compared to his beginnings as an educator, and his work with the organization Life Experiences, which provides employment training for adults with mental and other disabilities with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 13 July 2009

Jean Mitchell and Wayne Mitchell, white pharmacists, discuss their experiences buying, remodeling, and operating Franklin's Carolina Pharmacy in Downtown Cary, N.C., life in Cary over the years including street, highway, and school planning, town residents, local restaurants and other businesses, Crossroads Plaza, the first library, churches, raising their family in the area, sources of entertainment including Pabst fights on television and live entertainment at the theater, and organizations and volunteering in town, the history of the drug store including the soda fountain and previous owner Kenneth Franklin, the history of the medical industry in the area including doctors, diseases, advances in drugs and prescriptions, extending credit, and processing insurance, and their interest in antiques in creating the atmosphere of the drugstore with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 7 October 2009

Charlotte Phelps, white teacher, discusses her family background and childhood growing up on Academy Street in Cary, N.C., across from Cary High School, her memories of her house, yard, and treehouse, residents of Downtown Cary, stores and businesses, the movie theater, farms including Kildaire Farm, the African American cemetery, her scout troop, the gourd club and local plants, her childhood pets, her father's missionary group, civil rights demonstrations in Raleigh, N.C., and the old Cary High School including teachers, field trips, plays, and television lessons, changes in Cary over the years, her husband and children, and families and other characters in Cary, including Sheila Ogle and R. O. Heater with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 4 March 2009

Carolyn Sampson, African American administrator, discusses her experiences attending all-black schools in Raleigh, N.C., including Hunter Elementary, Ligon High School, and Saint Augustine's College, her education at the State University of New York (SUNY), her work as a mental health administrator and consultant for an attorney in New York and Raleigh, her thoughts on discrimination and neglect in care facilities, her involvement with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Taskforce and experience at the time of the interview in 2009 as president of the organization, the impact of annual events such as the MLK Dreamfest Celebration in Cary, N.C., and the involvement of other African American leaders in Cary with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 16 February 2009

Deborah Matthews Wright, African American human resources director, discusses her experiences as one of the first African American children to attend the all-white Swift Creek Elementary School in 1965 including the school bus ride, her interactions with white teachers, and how she was graded, her and her sister's experiences at Cary High School, her education and career at Meredith College, her work experience as Assistant Director of Human resources at North Carolina State University (NCSU), the experiences of her siblings in integrated schools in Wake County, N.C., her trailblazing parents and the impact of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her memories of segregated life in Raleigh, N.C., her anticipations for her daughter at the time of the interview in 2000, and life and growth in Cary, especially regarding race relations with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 3 January 2000

Robert T. Pierce, Bruce Roberts, Shirlene Wagner Robinson, and Mary Shelton discuss their experiences with civil rights, including Roberts' experiences as a photographer in the South for major magazines and newspapers, including Time and the Charlotte Observer, his coverage of the civil rights movement, the George Wallace campaign, Ku Klux Klan rallies, sit-ins, demonstrations in Charlotte, N.C., and elsewhere, and the integration of schools, Robinson's experiences growing up in Syracuse, N.Y., attending school and being discouraged from applying to college by both high school and college counselors, Shelton's mother, who was African American, and father, who was white, how they met at the integrated Governor Morehead School for the Deaf in Raleigh, N.C., their delay in getting married because of their families' disapproval, and their segregated burial 60 years later, and Pierce's experiences in the United States Air Force including his encounters with bigotry in Mississippi, and the segregation of the Croasdaile Country Club in Durham, N.C., until 1987 with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 17 January 2009

Harold Burt, white musician and teacher, discusses his music teaching career at Cary High School and other schools throughout Wake County and Johnston County, N.C., his development of multiple school bands, his purchase of a music store in Cameron Village in Raleigh, N.C., the moving of the store to Cary, N.C., the closing of the store in 2010, his career teaching private lessons, his 55-year career running a newspaper delivery route earning him a Guinness World Record, his band, his experiences as choir director for various churches, and his wife and three children with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 14 February 2011

Randy Chandler and Fay Chandler Honeycutt, white theater operators, discuss their experiences building and operating the first movie theater in Cary, N.C., its switch to a venue for country music performers and local talent nights, the segregation and closing of the theater, and its purchase and restoration by the town of Cary and plans for reopening at the time of the interview in 2011 with interviewers Peggy Van Scoyoc and Kris Carmichael. 28 September 2011

Robert B. Heater, white civic leader, discusses housing developments in Cary, N.C. from the 1950s and beyond, his father's building of Russell Hills, and various details of streets, developers, cemeteries, and parks with interviewers Peggy Van Scoyoc and Ellen Turco. 24 October 2011

David Martin, white contractor and developer, discusses his family background and childhood in Creedmoor and Cary, N.C., his memories of his family's poverty during the Great Depression and the variety of ways he earned money for the household, his education and the impact of his sixth grade teacher, Julia Rand Woodard, on him, his service in the United States Coast Guard, the G.I. Bill and his education at the University of North Carolina (UNC), and his experiences as a developer including building South Hills, the first mall in Cary, N.C., with interviewer Peggy Van Scoyoc. 28 September 2010

Isobel Stephens, white teacher, discusses her family background, her experiences during World War II including growing victory gardens and rationing, her education in home economics and the sciences at Meredith College and the Women's College of the University of North Carolina (UNC), her career teaching chemistry, physics, and biology in Franklinton, N.C., and at Cary High School during and after desegregation, her memory of a group of armed Ku Klux Klansmen coming into her school looking for African American students, other aspects of life in Cary, N.C., including the Page-Walker Hotel, her church, the theater, the drugstore, the Gourd Society of America, and the Cary centennial celebrations in 1971, her memories of teachers, friends, and former students, and the many teachers in her family including her husband, mother, and aunts with interviewers Peggy Van Scoyoc and Kris Carmichael. 17 August 2011

Mike Calhoun, white president of the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), the policy affiliate of Self-Help, the nation's largest community development lender, with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 18 July 2017

Maedell Gattis, African American nurse, with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 18 April 2018

Maedell Gattis, African American nurse, and Betty Johnson with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 2 May 2016

Willie Patterson, African American manager, with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 25 July 2017

Willie Patterson, African American manager, with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 23 February 2018

Alice Ratliff, white professor, with interviewer Emma Goldstein. 12 April 2016