Eugenia Dennis Jarrett is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 3, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1896, Jarrett graduated from Samuel Houston College and was nominated to come from…
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…
Faustine McDonald Wilson, a designer and small business owner of Survival Pride, discusses the challenges she has faced growing up, with her brother's death, and how that tragedy defined her store brand and changed her life. She also talks about her…
Felix Hooper of Cullowhee worked for Blackwood Lumber Company from his early teen years to 1939, and he talks about the company’s arrival in the county and the infrastructure they used up until 1929, when the market crashed. He worked in the…
Randall Murff and Frank Moody are interviewed by Smoky Mountain High School students as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Murff, born in 1919, talks about growing up during the depression in Mississippi,…
Erica Smiley interviews Franklin "Frank" Glenn Buchanan (1934-2012) on October 20, 2004. They discuss his life and experiences as a Bluegrass musician. Frank Buchanan was a mandolin player that began his career playing with his older brother on the…
Fred Hinson, who joined Western Carolina University as a faculty in 1966, discusses his interactions with Josephina Niggli both at Western and socially, his impressions of Niggli as a person, her plays that were shown at the Little Theatre, and the…
Fred Lunsford discusses his relationship with Annie Bell Cook and her family. He also talks about his own experiences growing up in Marble, North Carolina during the Great Depression, serving during World War II, and his career as a pastor and…
Frederick Miller is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on August 27, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1917, Miller lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his aunt and uncle. Miller…
Growing up in Green Hill, Garry Ramsey experienced firsthand the influences of the Champion paper mill. The paper mill provided the community with a way of life from the YMCA and Champion Credit Union to Camp Hope. The mill and the industry played an…