Ann McAdams and Lunia Williams are members of Haywood County’s Reynolds High School 1964 graduating class. After high school, Ann worked in the school system, and Lunia went to nursing school to become a nurse. In this 2017 interview, both women…
Patricia “Miss Patti” McClure relates how she began using storytelling techniques she learned from her mother to engage with her students, being asked by other teachers to tell stories to their classes, and eventually becoming a professional…
Anquell McCollum is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. McCollum talks about the role sports played in his life from his youth in Fayetteville, North…
William McDowell grew up in Canton, NC and attended Reynolds School. The local segregated institution insisted on excellence from its student body and taught first through twelfth grade. According to the businessman and community activist, the school…
Helen McKinney is interviewed as part of the "Native Plants Project"--a research project of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. A native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County, Helen shares some memories of relatives and…
Brian McMahan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. McMahan grew up in Jackson County in the Willets community. He shares memories of his childhood and…
Sandra McMahan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. McMahan talks about growing up in the remote Little Canada section of Jackson County. She relates…
Born in 1954 in Concord, North Carolina, Wilma King Means details her experiences growing up in a segregated school system in Cabarrus County as well as going through the process of integration. She also shares the school experiences of her mother,…
Ann Melton is a native of Jackson County and has written fourteen books about western North Carolina, including her 2019 book entitled "The History of Blackwood Lumber Company: East LaPorte, North Carolina and the Flood of 1940." She discusses her…
In this interview, retired teacher, Juanita Metcalf, talks about growing up in a family where quilting was a tradition. She tried many different crafts herself, but fell in love with quilting after attending a quilting show. Juanita is self-taught…