Ode Bryson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 15, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bryson grew up in Jackson County and discusses starting work at a young age after his grandparents died and…
Odell Wolfe remembers the three years he lived in Fontana Village while he was a student and his dad worked on the Fontana Dam project, and how it differed from other dam projects that his father had worked on in that everyone lived very close to…
Ola Mapp, (born St. Ola DeShields, 1915-2009), is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on October 2, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1916, Mapp moved to Asheville in 1921. She talks about her…
Ollin Dunford is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his experience in elementary and middle school during desegregation in his hometown…
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…
Otylia Sudderth is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 8, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The audio of the interview is unavailable, but the transcript is. Born in 1912, Sudderth’s maternal…
Pam Degraffenreid is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Degraffenreid discusses her early life in Charlotte, NC. As an alumna of Western Carolina…
Pam and Keith Shuler are interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pam Shuler discusses her career in health care. Keith Shuler grew up on Buff Creek in the…
Mayor Pat Taylor discusses working in Highlands' hotels before and after the purchase of the Old Edwards Inn in the early 2000s. He discusses living and working in Highlands, as well as the current controversy the town is facing over short-term…
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…