Janice Inabinett 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 1941 in Bryson City, Inabinett grew up in a tight-knit African American community and…
Janneth Colin, a first-generation WCU student, discusses her past and the adjustments she made in moving to the United States from Mexico with her familly. She talks about the differences in lifestyle, gender roles, work, and education. This…
Jason Gregory, a lifelong resident of Jackson County, talks about its earliest industries including why so many northern industries came to and then failed in the area. He talks about the history of Blackwood Lumber Company and its positive effects…
Jerry Day is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Day grew up on a farm in Nantahala. After he was drafted, he volunteered to join the Marine Corps and…
Jessie Mae Casey is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Casey recounts stories from her grandmother from when she was enslaved in the Savannah area,…
Jim Bowman (James Claude Bowman) is interviewed by Joel Evans on October 14, 2002. Bowman talks about his time serving in the United States military from the time right after the Korean War, until the time of the United States entry into the Middle…
Jim Buchanan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Buchanan shares stories about growing up in Jackson County as well as stories of his Buchanan…
Jim Johnson shares his experience in Asheville during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1965 he lived in Montford and attended a naturally integrated school, then moved to north Asheville and attended Ira B. Jones, a naturally segregated school. In…
Joan Byrd, a teacher of Ceramics at Western Carolina University in the late 1960s, reminisces about her friendship with Josephina Niggli. She aslo talks about Niggli's personality, her relationship with students, with religion, and her connections to…
Joe Rhinehart was born in Webster, NC and shares the origin of Jackson County and more specifically about Webster including its founding, prominent families such as the Dills, McKees, Sherrills, and Madisons, and various buildings and houses that are…