Bob Thomas, who attended Western Carolina University from 1966 - 1970, discusses being a member of the Men's House Government and his time and involvement in student activities on campus with the Vietnam War in the background of his experience. He…
Eliza Jane Coward Thomas is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Thomas was born on Long Branch in Cullowhee in 1893. She talks about her childhood in Jackson…
Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to…
Barbara Thorne talks about her father, Dr. Chase P. Ambler, and his career treating tuberculosis patients in Asheville in the early 1900s. Dr. Ambler first came to the area on his honeymoon in 1889 and fell in love with the mountains. He returned a…
Susan Moody interviews James R. Vinson on October 16, 2002. James Robert Vinson, a local World War II veteran, served in many famous battles in Germany, such as the Battle of Hurtgen Forest (September 19, 1994 - December 16, 1944). During this…
Dave Waldrop discusses his family history in Jackson County, tracing his mother's side back to the mid-1800s and his father's to 1936. Waldrop highlights the impact of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the Works Progress Administration…
Delia Woodard Watkins, born in Swain County, was 16 when construction started on Fontana Dam. The dam, completed in 1945 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is built on the Little Tennessee River and is located near Fontana Village in Graham…
Erik Watkins is interviewed by Laura Selby on June 2, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Watkins discusses his childhood growing up in Hendersonville, North Carolina and his decision to join the…
Sanji discusses how hard she constantly worked growing up as the eldest child filling in for her father. She talks about her work ethic, her family, and how she was raised to do both men's and women's work. This interview was conducted to supplement…
Harvey Welch talks about moving to Fontana Village while he was a junior in high school so his father could work on the Fontana Dam project, hiking and camping with other Dam Kids, working on the project himself while still in school and joining the…