Otealia Baldwin is interviewed by Joshua Lynch on March 15, 2003. Ms. Otelia Baldwin talks about her life as a young girl having to adapt to the destruction of her little Nantahala community called Aquone, which was flooded out in the creation of the…
Karen Eve Bayne talks about the importance of storytelling during her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains, and how years later while living in England she pursued training at the Unicorn Storytelling School and Emerson College before becoming a…
Interview with Interview with Norma Baynes and Anita White Carter, elders in the Shiloh community in Asheville, N.C., and members of the Shiloh Community Association (SCA), and Shaniqua Simuel and Lauralee Petritz, managers of the Shiloh community…
Burgess Beam shares his experience with, and the history of, the Cherryville New Years Shooters in Cherryville, North Carolina. This is a long-standing tradition that started in Germany along the Rhine River where celebratory gunfire was used to ward…
Matt Nickols interviews Ben Beaver and his wife, Betty Beaver on November 24,2004. They discuss Ben’s history and family traditions related to wood carving in the Appalachian region of Western North Carolina. Ben Beaver is the nephew of Nolan…
Mathew Nickols interviews Betty Beaver on November 24, 2004. Betty talks about her practice of woodcarving and the presence of woodcarving in the surrounding area. Betty describes how she became introduced to woodcarving, her specific practices, how…
Beatrice Beddingfield of Zirconia, North Carolina, is interviewed as part of the "Native Plants Project"--a research project of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. In this interview Beddingfield talks about using herbs and…
Anne Bembry is interviewed by Ann Wade on May 25, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bembry discusses her childhood in Willets, her education, and teaching at Smoky Mountain Elementary and Fairview…
Wallace Bembry is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bembry moved to Sylva from Florida in 1974 to become the assistant principal at Sylva Webster High…
In this interview, Clarence Benton of Asheville discusses his experiences working as a waiter for several hotels in Asheville, including the Battery Park Hotel and Grove Park Inn, during the period from the mid-1950s to 1965. He talks about learning…