Beckie M. Sebastian, an Appalachian native and business owner, talks about her experiences growing up. She discusses differences in generations, and talks about the community and family values instilled in her from a young age. This interview was…
Ronnie Setzer is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Setzer describes growing up farming in Piney Creek, NC, near Cullowhee. He discusses playing the…
William Rogers Shelton 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 growing up in Jackson County and working on his father’s farm where he has…
Booker T. Sherrill is interviewed by E. C. Smith (Edward Clark Smith) on June 6, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born on September 1, 1907 in Hickory, North Carolina, Sherrill talks about his parents…
Jane Shipman talks with James Taylor about how Champion Paper Mill shaped the town of Canton and the surrounding area. She remembers with gratitude the role Champion played in her childhood during the war years and beyond. Shipman also recounts the…
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…
Bobby Clester interviews Dorothea A. Siler on December 2, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1955, Siler has been a member of the AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee all of her life, although for a time she lived in…
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…
Dera Smith Simpson is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on February 17, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1898, Simpson discusses her family members and growing up on the farm in Union County,…
Morris and Wilma Simpson are interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 19, 1986 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1914, Mr. Simpson discusses his family members and growing up in Bryson City, North…