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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Claire Peacock Collection #20129, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, January 2021

Encoded by: Anne Wells, January 2021

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Archival processing of the Claire Peacock Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Arnold, Florence, 1903-1990.
• Children--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Covington (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Newton County (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Oral histories.
• Peacock, Claire.
• Women--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Wood, Edgar, 1908-

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

According to supporting documentation found in the collection, Claire Peacock received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the grandniece of Florence Turner Arnold (1903-1990), a white resident of Covington, Newton County, Ga. Florence Turner Arnold graduated from Shorter College in 1923. She was married to Robert O. Arnold (1888-1983). Her philanthropic endeavors through The Arnold Fund provided support to the Porter Memorial Library, Newton General Hospital, the University of Georgia, Emory University, Shorter College, and the Concert Association of Newton County.

Audio recordings of an interview with Florence Turner Arnold (1903-1990), a white resident of Covington, Newton County, Ga., about family history, and an interview with both Florence Turner Arnold and Edgar Wood (1908- ), a white friend and neighbor of Florence Turner Arnold, about growing up in Covington, Ga. Included are stories from childhood through early adulthood and recollections of family members and neighbors. Recorded by Claire Peacock, a white graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin and Florence Turner Arnold's grandniece, at Arnold's home on 24 July 1984. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including field collection processing sheets, inventory, and contents listings prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff, as well as a letter from former Southern Folklife Collection staff to Florence Peacock, Claire's mother, and a photocopy of Florence Turner Arnold's obituary.

• Audiotapes (FT-1702-1703)
• Field Notes (Folder 635), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025