Oral history of logging: Jack Hennessee remembers W. C. Hennessee

Oral history of logging: Jack Hennessee remembers W. C. Hennessee

Hennessee, Jack

Hennessee, W. C.

Industries

Logging

Lumber trade

Lumber trade -- Employees

Mills and mill-work

In this audio interview, Tom Baker interviews Jack Hennessee who talks about his father W.C. Hennessee. As the oldest of five children, Hennessee started working at the age of 15 for Rocky River Coal and Lumber Company and eventually became their mill lumber inspector and a timber buyer. When the war started and the lumber business picked, he formed his own business. Hennessee logged with horses and stiff neck skidders, also known as boom skidders. Jack Hennessee recalls his own days working a steam powered sawmill, logging in the winter, and bidding on government tracts. 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

Hennessee, Jack, 1930-

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

mp3; pdf;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

22944

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22944

2016-02-11

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:49:41 (sound recording)(dimension)

15 pages (transcript)(pages)

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