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…
Charles Sanford talks about moving to Fontana Village from a community located on "Old Road" 288 behind the Fontana dam and moving from a house with no running water or electricity to a community which had swimming pools, tennis courts, and other…
Charles Wilson is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his childhood on Wilson Creek in Tuckasegee, NC. He shares his experience in the…
Chelsea White, an Appalachian native and community organizer at Down Home North Carolina, discusses experiences from her childhood and today. She discusses her mission to reconnect communities with their roots in fighting poverty and other problems…
Joyce C. Dugan, who was at this time Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, discusses tourism and the Cherokees. She begins by discussing the history of tourism on the Qualla Boundary, which began during the 1920s and increased when…
Chris Wilcox 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 1973, Wilcox talks about growing up in Sylva with two brothers, training and working as an…
Christine Cole Proctor speaks about how her family and others were moved from their homes so that the Fontana Dam could be built. The dam, completed in 1945 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is built on the Little Tennessee River and is…
In this interview, Clarence Benton of Asheville discusses his experiences working as a waiter for several hotels in Asheville, including the Battery Park Hotel and Grove Park Inn, during the period from the mid-1950s to 1965. He talks about learning…
Claude Douthit discusses a few of the logging companies operating in the area where the Fontana Dam was built. According to Douthit, the lumber companies were the main source of employment for people in Swain County prior to the building of Fontana…
Clifford Cotton talks about his grandfather, Edward. W. Pearson, who founded the Burton Street community and started the Buncombe County District Agricultural Fair to celebrate the African American agricultural community of Asheville. E. W. Pearson…