Ali Rivera explains how she came to learn through a DNA test that she is a descendant of James Vester Miller , an African American who was a master brick mason and responsible for building many of the historic buildings in Asheville. She discusses…
Andrea Clarke recalls family history in the Clarke/Miller lineage. She also describes moving to Asheville in the late 1960s from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her family’s experience with urban renewal in the East End neighborhood in the 1970s and…
Lynn Hotaling is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hotaling moved to Jackson County in 1970 to attend Western Carolina University. She shares stories…
Brian McMahan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. McMahan grew up in Jackson County in the Willets community. He shares memories of his childhood and…
Hilliard Gibbs 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 the 1930s, Gibbs is a lifelong resident of Haywood County. He shares memories of growing…
Gayle Woody is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Woody grew up in Chicago in the 1950s and '60s and was involved in student government in high school.…
Pam Degraffenreid is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Degraffenreid discusses her early life in Charlotte, NC. As an alumna of Western Carolina…
Mary Jo Cobb is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Cobb talks about growing up in Jackson County on a farm during the Depression and shares the history…
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…
Ina “Sam” Bryant is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bryant shares her early life in rural South Carolina, living and working on the family’s farm,…