Anne Collins interviews Ella Mae Rogers on November 11, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born May 23, 1929 in Swain County, Rogers moved to Cullowhee around 1950 after getting married to William Rogers (1924-1980). She talks…
Scott McKenzie interviews Victoria McDonald (Victoria A. Casey McDonald) on November 12, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born February 26, 1943, in Jackson County, McDonald was a member of the AME Mount Zion Church until the…
Scott McKenzie interviews Dennis Rogers on November 23, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born January 31, 1958 in Jackson County, Rogers has been a lifelong member of the AME Mount Zion Church, which his great grandfather,…
Lucy Dillard interviews Damita Wilder on October 27, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born February 5, 1953 in Smithfield, North Carolina, Wilder became the preacher for AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee in 1998. She talks…
Anne Collins interviews Cyritha “Rea” West on November 1, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born February 6, 1950 in Jackson County to William and Ella Mae Rogers, West talks about growing up in the AME Mount Zion Church and…
George Frizzell is interviewed as part of the "Native Plants Project"--a research project of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. In this interview Frizzell, a long time native of Jackson County, North Carolina, and Head of…
Colin Bilichka interviews Sibyl Blakley on November 3, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1940, Blakley has been a member of the AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee for as long as she can remember. She speaks about the…
Adrien Litzau interviews Stanley Rogers (Floyd Stanley Rogers) on October 20, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in Sylva in 1956, Rogers has lived in Cullowhee most of his life and his great grandfather, Will Rogers, was…
Adrien Litzau interviews sisters Hazel Whiteside and Louise Allen (Mae Louise Allen) on October 22, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1923 and 1922, Whiteside and Allen have been members of AME Mount Zion Church in…
Bill Fisher is interviewed by Emily Lower, July 8, 1998 at his home in Glenville, North Carolina to talk about the music he played. Fisher began in his teens, while attending Glenville High School, playing the harmonica and then picked up the guitar.…