In this interview, conducted as part of the "Agriculture (Past, Present, Future)" project by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, Tommy Beutell of Tuckasegee discusses his life in the Christmas tree industry. Beutell was born…
In this interview, conducted as part of the "Agriculture (Past, Present, Future)" project by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, Tommy Beutell of Tuckasegee discusses his work as a Christmas tree farmer. He talks about guest…
Bobby Bishop recalls the 2004 Peeks Creek mudslide in Macon County from his point of view as chief building inspector. Having lived in Macon County for most of his life, he also shares his memories of the event as a member of the community. He…
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…
Skagit and Snohomish Counties in Washington saw an influx of Western North Carolina migrants between 1900 and 1950 settling in Darrington, Sedro-Woolley and Lyman and bringing their customs, culture, and traditions. In 1947 the census shows 500 out…
Annie May (Mae) Bolden is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bolden talks right away about her grandmothers, then proceeds to moving from South Carolina, her father,…
Jim Bowman (James Claude Bowman) is interviewed by Joel Evans on October 14, 2002. Bowman talks about his time serving in the United States military from the time right after the Korean War, until the time of the United States entry into the Middle…
Vallie Mae Bowman is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bowman discusses her and siblings education levels, her parents during the depression, how they…
John Brindle was born in Indiana in 1947 and moved to Bainbridge and Fort Valley, Georgia where he graduated high school. Brindle moved back to Indiana to attend Ball State University and got drafted in November of 1967. He discusses his basic…
Manuel Briscoe is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Briscoe talks about sharecropping quite a bit in the beginning, church customs changing, excitement for…