Oral history of logging: Jack Swanner remembers Tommy Thompson

Oral history of logging: Jack Swanner remembers Tommy Thompson

Industries

Loggers

Logging

Lumber trade

In this audio interview, Tom Baker interviews Jack Swanner about logger, Tommy Thompson, founder of T & S Hardwoods. Thompson bought many Ritter Lumber Company mills in 1959 and that jump started Georgia-Pacific’s success. They talked about the use of an old railroad to get up to Cashiers and Highlands, North Carolina. Swanner and Baker discuss the sustainability of logging. This interview, along with others, was created by long-time forester, Tom Baker. Baker interviewed men who worked in the timber industry to create an oral history of logging operations in western North Carolina. Included with each interview is a transcript of the audio file.

Baker, Tom

Oral History Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

2006-11-13

Swanner, Jack

Western Carolina University. Mountain Heritage Center

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

mp3; pdf;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

21965

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/21965

2015-03-23

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:28:22 (sound recording)(dimension)

9 pages (transcript)(pages)

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