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
Lance Holland discusses moving to Fontana Village and researching on the history of the Fontana dam, Dam Kids -- a group of children whose parents built the dam and who continue to hold reunions--and the North Shore group made up of residents who…
Tina Holland is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Holland moved to Fontana, NC in 1979 and spent time researching and interviewing Dam Kids and other…
Dorothy Watson Hooper discusses the Hooper-Watson feud, its origins in conflicting loyalties during the Civil War, escalation from minor fights and vandalism to murder, and how a couple of generations later the feud dwindled with the Hooper and…
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…
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…
Rita 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 describes her life growing up in Mexico and then moving to the United States where she faced…
Lynn Hotaling is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hotaling moved to Jackson County in 1970 to attend Western Carolina University. She shares stories…
Carrie Howell Scruggs and her daughter Betty Howell are interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1909, Scruggs discusses attending Hill Street School in Sylva and Allen…
Pearl Frances Howell is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 8, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Howell grew up in the Little Savannah community in Webster where her grandparents were farmers. Her…