Thomas Moody is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He describes his early life in Hayesville, North Carolina growing up on a plot farm during the Great…
Tina Holland is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Holland moved to Fontana, NC in 1979 and spent time researching and interviewing Dam Kids and other…
Tom Baker is interviewed by Abigail Fox on June 1, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Baker talks about his time as a paratrooper with the 101st division and going to Vietnam and the Veteran’s…
Tom Frazier, a student of Josephina Niggli’s in the mid-1970s at Western Carolina University and who later taught photography, television, and printing before becoming the print/document services supervisor at the university's Print Shop, discusses…
Tom Massie is interviewed by Helen Miller on June 9, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Massie, a former Jackson County Commissioner, discusses his childhood memories of Haywood County and his…
Tom Oren is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1947, Oren details his experience as a conscientious objector and his alternative two-year…
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…
An interview with Tommy Lee Cabe conducted as part of the "After the Wars" research project of Western Carolina University. Born and raised in Macon County, Tommy Lee Cabe enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1939, intent on making it his career. His first…
Joel Evans interviews veteran Travis Whitson on October 18, 2002. Travis Whitson talks about what his life was like growing up in a rural farming community as well as his time served during Vietnam and the Gulf War.