Lolean Simmons Adams discusses her life before, during, and after WWII, the way the war affected her relatives who served, and also acquaintances including someone who was a conscientious objector. Also present during the interview was Pansy Jessup,…
Lorraine Virginia Beasley Gilley talks about life before and during World War II, and recalls the three years her sweetheart served in the war during which time they maintained their relationship by exchanging letters. She remembers saving the money…
Lottie Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 4, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Young was born in 1886 and her father had been enslaved. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to…
Louise Gaston Colbert is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1912, Colbert talks about attending school in Murphy through 8th grade, marrying early…
Lucy Ann Perry Siler is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The audio is unavailable for this interview. Siler, born in 1894, grew up in the Texana…
Luke Hyde is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hyde operates the Calhoun House in Bryson City, North Carolina. He discusses growing up in Swain…
A student in Western Carolina University's (WCU) Theatre Department in the late 1960s and early 1970s studying Technical Theatre, Luther Jones later became an Assistant Professor at WCU's School of Stage and Screen. Josephina Niggli taught in the…
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…
Mae Powell is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 12, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1909, Powell grew up in Swain County in Birdtown until the Cherokee took her family’s land away.…
Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to…