Rob Gasberro, an entrepreneur, discusses the work and life experiences that led up to his decision to co-open a local outdoor store. He talks about the benefits and challenges of owning his own business, and the importance of building up a rapport in…
Robbie Pittman is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pittman discusses growing up on a tenant farm near Saratoga, NC. He talks about being drafted and…
Robert E. Keim talks about playing on the mountains near Fontana Village where he lived for three years during his early teens while his dad worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the way the town seemed like a self-contained world that his…
Robert Turnbull was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina in 1947. Turnbull discusses growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s. He entered the Army Reserves right out of high school and attended Officer Candidate School. Turnbull shares his…
Roland Osborne discusses the importance that Champion Paper and Fibre Company had on family life and the Canton community. Roland examines the significance of the creation of the YMCA to the mill community, as it was the center for teenagers and…
Roland Osborne and Phillip Paxton speak about the Champion paper mill and the Town of Canton. They talk about the early days of the mill, community outreach and infrastructure, environmental issues, and the daily operations within the mill.
Ron Rash is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Rash, a local nationally known writer, talks about how growing up in Appalachia and living on his…
Ronald Hicks discusses growing up in West Virginia and Alaska, and how work ethics have changed since he was young. He talks about his family, different work experiences from owning a putt putt company to being in the Navy, and the different places…
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…
Roosevelt Jeter is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1904, Jeter moved to Asheville in 1934 from Union, South Carolina, Jeter talks about the…