Interview with Amy Ammons Garza

Interview with Amy Ammons Garza

Autobiography

Garza, Amy Ammons

Oral tradition

Storytellers -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Storytelling -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Amy Ammons Garza recalls listening to her grandfather’s stories about the history and people of Jackson County, and how he encouraged her to remember and pass them on. At age 39 she dreamed of her grandfather and this prompted her to go to college for the first time where her English professor had her tell stories to his beginning classes. It was also during this time she wrote her first novel, ‘Retter.’ Garza states that, as a professional storyteller, she varies her stories according to her audience, for example, she tells stories of her childhood to school children while to adults she presents stories full of nostalgia. She values the tradition of storytelling pointing out it helps people find their roots.

Garza, Amy Ammons

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

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

1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2009-11-09

Lansford, Laura

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audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35559

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35559

2014-12-04

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

01:01:01 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina