George Frizzell is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Frizzell was born in Sylva and raised in the Little Savannah community where he has lived his…
Vimala Crispin is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Crispin describes growing up in Sylva, NC where her parents started Sylva Medical Center in the…
Robbie Pittman is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pittman discusses growing up on a tenant farm near Saratoga, NC. He talks about being drafted and…
Rita Hooper is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hooper describes her life growing up in Mexico and then moving to the United States where she faced…
April Ferguson is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Ferguson talks about growing up and working on the family
Ray Pressley 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 Sylva and a lifelong resident of Pressley Creek, a road named after his great-grandfather,…
Luke Hyde is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hyde operates the Calhoun House in Bryson City, North Carolina. He discusses growing up in Swain…
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…
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…
Joe Sam Queen is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Queen talks about growing up in Panama in the 1950s and then in Waynesville in the 1960s. He…