Anita Coggins is interviewed by Tessa Davis on May 27, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Coggins talks about her childhood memories growing up in Jackson County, N.C. and her motivation for getting…
Louise Gaston Colbert is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1912, Colbert talks about attending school in Murphy through 8th grade, marrying early…
Martha "Alma" Blair Coleman discusses life during World War II, working in the defense plant that manufactured atom bombs, the effects of the war on friends and relatives who served, including her brother who returned from the war shell shocked, and…
Stacy Dehart Coleman and Rhuben Dehart are interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 24, 1986 and March 17, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Sister and brother, Mrs. Coleman and Mr. Dehart trace their…
Janneth Colin, a first-generation WCU student, discusses her past and the adjustments she made in moving to the United States from Mexico with her familly. She talks about the differences in lifestyle, gender roles, work, and education. This…
Skagit and Snohomish Counties in Washington saw an influx of Western North Carolina migrants between 1900 and 1950 settling in Darrington, Sedro-Woolley and Lyman and bringing their customs, culture, and traditions. In 1947 the census shows 500 out…
Zenophon B. Cook is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith June 28, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1900, Cook moved to Asheville in his teens to work at the Battery Park Hotel, then went to…
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…
Bill Crawford is a lifelong resident of Jackson County and a historian at the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Born in 1935, Crawford reflects on the Flood of 1940 and the devastation caused by it and its related waterspouts. He discusses the…
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…