Interview with Robert E. Keim

Interview with Robert E. Keim

Autobiography

Dam Kids

Dams -- Social aspects

Families

Fontana Dam (N.C.)

Fontana Village (N.C.)

Keim, Robert E., 1929

Reunions

Teenagers -- North Carolina -- Fontana Village -- History

Robert E. Keim talks about playing on the mountains near Fontana Village where he lived for three years during his early teens while his dad worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the way the town seemed like a self-contained world that his family left only once in the years he lived there, and a tragic incident in which a couple of highschoolers drowned while playing in the river during a picnic. He also mentions coming regularly to the Dam Kids reunions from the 1990s and the changes he noticed had taken place in Fontana Village.

Keim, Robert E., 1929-

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

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

1940s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2014-10-17

Norris, Dustin

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audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35611

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35611

2015-03-03

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Fontana Village (N.C.)

Fontana Dam (N.C.)

Graham County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:27:27 (sound recording)(duration)

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina