Tom Frazier, a student of Josephina Niggli’s in the mid-1970s at Western Carolina University and who later taught photography, television, and printing before becoming the print/document services supervisor at the university's Print Shop, discusses…
Leigh Freeman shares her experience of living in Elkin, North Carolina since the 1980s and has seen many changes to the historic downtown. Her mother was integral in expanding the recognition of local artists in Elkin. Freeman discusses her thoughts…
Bill Freeman is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1925, Freeman grew up in Waynesville and was recruited to the Navy when he was 17 years old.…
George Frizzell is interviewed as part of the "Native Plants Project"--a research project of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. In this interview Frizzell, a long time native of Jackson County, North Carolina, and Head of…
George Frizzell is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Frizzell was born in Sylva and raised in the Little Savannah community where he has lived his…
Amy Ammons Garza recalls listening to her grandfather’s stories about the history and people of Jackson County, and how he encouraged her to remember and pass them on. At age 39 she dreamed of her grandfather and this prompted her to go to college…
Rob Gasberro, an entrepreneur, discusses the work and life experiences that led up to his decision to co-open a local outdoor store. He talks about the benefits and challenges of owning his own business, and the importance of building up a rapport in…
Cherokee potter, Bernadine George, discusses how she began making pottery after observing her mother at work, and developed her skills while working and raising her family. She was a founding member of the Cherokee Potters Guild and was one of the…
Evangeline Thompson Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Gibbs’ parents were the first black people to buy a house on Meadow Street in…
Herman Edward Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1910, Gibbs talks about losing his mother and then his father, and being raised by…