Gary Carden, who first met Josephina Niggli as a student in the theatre department at Western Carolina College in the 1950’s, discusses his impressions of her personality, her work, and the ways the theatre department changed after her arrival.
Gary Holland was a prominent figure during the rehabilitation efforts that followed the devastation of the 2004 Peeks Creek mudslide in Macon County. As a member of the Macon County Baptists Association as well as the North Carolina Baptist Men
Gayle Woody is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Woody grew up in Chicago in the 1950s and '60s and was involved in student government in high school.…
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…
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 Jackson is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith March 2, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Jackson was born in Altapass in Mitchell County in 1909. He was raised by his grandparents who owned and…
Gerald Chambers attended Western Carolina University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He discusses his time as a student and his role as a dorm counselor in the Men’s Housing Government. He shares his experience as student editor of the Western…
Gerald Schwartz is interviewed by Marybeth Fugate on October 17, 2002. Dr. Gerry Schwartz (1932-2019) was a retired History Professor at Western Carolina University. He recounts the days of WCU in the late 60s and early 70s, and discusses Jackson…
Gurney Chambers, a student of Josephina Niggli’s in the late 1950s at Western Carolina University and who later joined the faculty at Western in the 1960s, discusses his memories of her as a teacher and as a colleague.
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…