Walter Ziffer is interviewed by Alex Macaulay, Associate Professor of History at WCU. Ziffer talks about growing up in Czechoslovakia, his experiences with the Holocaust, and coming to America in 1947. He talks about his memoir, Confronting the…
Mildred Peeler Young, current director of a preschool and previously the first female district manager of the US electrical cooperative, talks about her work experiences. This interview was conducted to supplement the traveling Smithsonian…
Lottie Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 4, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Young was born in 1886 and her father had been enslaved. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to…
Julia Rucker Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in Yancey County in 1906, Young talks about growing up on the farm and attending school and…
Mary Jones Worley is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 30, 1984 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Worley traces her family lineage from her great grandparents living in Jackson and Macon County.…
Walt Worek, a strip club DJ, discusses his career, the industry and different roles within it, and how he works with the girls at his club to create an experience for their customers. This interview was conducted to supplement the traveling…
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.…
Ashton Woody, a senior English student at WCU, discusses her experiences growing up in Appalachia as a musician and storyteller. This interview was conducted to supplement the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit “The Way We Worked,” which was…