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[Identification of item], in the Charles Beam Recording of Truck Driver Interviews and Tales #20208, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, June 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, June 2020

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Archival processing of the Charles Beam Recording of Truck Driver Interviews and Tales was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Abernathy, Ralph (Truck driver)
• Beam, Charles K.
• Beam, Max E.
• Goins, Joe.
• Storytelling--North Carolina.
• Truck drivers--North Carolina.

• Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson Papers #20026
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Charles Kelly Beam is a white business management and utilities professional of Cherryville, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 with a degree in industrial relations.

Audiocassette recording, with accompanying transcript, of interviews and tales told by Joe Goins, Max E. Beam, and Ralph Abernathy, all truck drivers and residents of Cherryville, N.C. Charles K. Beam, a white industrial relations student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded the interviews on 18 March 1989 as part of class project for a folklore course taught by Daniel W. Patterson. The recording relates to Charles K. Beam's term paper titled "Truck Driver Tales: An Oral Tradition of Cherryville, N.C." The collection also contains a copy of the paper and a handwritten note from Beam to Patterson.

• Audiocassette (FS-408)
• Field Notes (Folder 16), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025