Jim Buchanan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Buchanan shares stories about growing up in Jackson County as well as stories of his Buchanan…
Matt Buchanan 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 1986, Buchanan grew up in Burke County and enlisted in the army at the age of 20. He talks…
Edie Burnette discusses growing up in Canton, North Carolina. Burnette and the interviewer discuss her book, which examines the changes of Canton over time. Burnette examines different changes in Canton from the building of I-40 to the environmental…
Dan Butner and Sydney Sieviec discuss their work as Executive and Assistant Directors of the Foothills Arts Council in Elkin, NC. They share their thoughts about small rural communities and how the Foothills Arts Council works with these communities…
Charles Byrd, a student at Western Carolina College in the 1950s, discusses playing football first under Coach Young and then Coach Dan Robinson, the role of sports in the social life of the university, life as a student and an athlete, and briefly…
Joan Byrd, a teacher of Ceramics at Western Carolina University in the late 1960s, reminisces about her friendship with Josephina Niggli. She aslo talks about Niggli's personality, her relationship with students, with religion, and her connections to…
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…
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…
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…
Darryll Cagle discusses the positive opportunities that Champion Fibre provided him. Cagle worked as an electrician and went to college at Virginia Tech majoring in engineering.