Manuel Briscoe is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Briscoe talks about sharecropping quite a bit in the beginning, church customs changing, excitement for…
Leona Clinton is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 27, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Clinton discusses her mother, getting married at 13 years old, moving from Tennessee, never liking…
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.…
Betty Sue Queen Moore is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Moore was born in 1934 and grew up on John’s Creek in Jackson County as the youngest of ten…
After hearing that the Department of Energy was planning to locate a high level nuclear waste dumping site in the Sandy Mush area, Miller, Miller and Rice became involved with Beaverdam Against Nuclear Dumping (BAND). They talk about their successful…
Dan Pittillo is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pittillo has been interested in botany his whole life. He has collected and documented plants for…
Randy Hooper is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hooper owns Bryson’s Farm Supply where he started working when he was 17 and he discusses the daily…
Ollin Dunford is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his experience in elementary and middle school during desegregation in his hometown…
Wallace Bembry is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bembry moved to Sylva from Florida in 1974 to become the assistant principal at Sylva Webster High…
Paul Pittman is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pittman works for the North Carolina Forest Service in Jackson County. They discuss firefighting in…