Hazel Henderson recalls the stories she heard growing up in the Tuckaseegee area about the Hooper-Watson feud, about the Hooper and Watson families "bushwackin" each other, murders related to the feud, and the role bootlegging and drinking possibly…
Dorothy Watson Hooper discusses the Hooper-Watson feud, its origins in conflicting loyalties during the Civil War, escalation from minor fights and vandalism to murder, and how a couple of generations later the feud dwindled with the Hooper and…
Grimsley discusses the years she lived in Fontana Village while her father worked on the structural steel portions of Fontana Dam, the moves the family had to make due to her father working on other dams for the Tennessee Valley Authority,…
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…
Odell Wolfe remembers the three years he lived in Fontana Village while he was a student and his dad worked on the Fontana Dam project, and how it differed from other dam projects that his father had worked on in that everyone lived very close to…
Lavonne Casey discusses her experiences growing up in Haywood County, Western North Carolina, in the '60s and '70s during the Civil Rights Movement, the strange dichotomy of living in a mixed-race community where everyone was neighborly and children…
Lin Forney talks about growing up in segregated communities in Western North Carolina in the 1950s and '60s, her memories of the Civil Rights Movement, experiences with school desegregation including resistance from the white students, and the…
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…
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…
Lance Holland discusses moving to Fontana Village and researching on the history of the Fontana dam, Dam Kids -- a group of children whose parents built the dam and who continue to hold reunions--and the North Shore group made up of residents who…