Grimsley discusses the years she lived in Fontana Village while her father worked on the structural steel portions of Fontana Dam, the moves the family had to make due to her father working on other dams for the Tennessee Valley Authority,…
Martha Hammond is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 27, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Hammond was born in 1914 in Sunburst and grew up in Swain County. She talks about the school system…
Wendy Haner grew up in Asheville, N.C. during the 1950s and 1960s. Her father owned and operated Feldman’s Grocery. She discusses the difficulties and violence her family faced being Jewish and white and running a business in the heart of the Black…
Kelly Harmon, public school teacher turned homeschool teacher, talks about her experiences in both environments. She talks about her passion to be a teacher and the problems she saw with so much student testing in public school, as well as the pros…
Howard Harrison is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 11, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Harrison was born in 1903 on Hill Street in Asheville. His father operated the first Black barbershop…
Hazel Henderson recalls the stories she heard growing up in the Tuckaseegee area about the Hooper-Watson feud, about the Hooper and Watson families "bushwackin" each other, murders related to the feud, and the role bootlegging and drinking possibly…
Vanice Henson is one of four generations employed by the Champion Paper Mill. He began work at the mill in 1958 and retired in 2000. In this interview Henson discusses environmental issues, the union, and the relationship with KPS Special Situation…
Ronald Hicks discusses growing up in West Virginia and Alaska, and how work ethics have changed since he was young. He talks about his family, different work experiences from owning a putt putt company to being in the Navy, and the different places…
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…
Bobby Holcomb, a student at Western Carolina College in the 1950s, discusses a variety a topics: his reasons for attending Western; playing baseball and basketball under Jim Gudger; life as a student and an athlete; social life on campus; and…