Interview with Doris Couch Clayton

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Doris Couch Clayton

Subject

Autobiography
Clayton, Doris Couch
Dam Kids
Dams -- Social aspects
Families
Fontana Dam (N.C.)
Fontana Village (N.C.)
Reunions
Teenagers -- North Carolina -- Fontana Village -- History

Description

Doris Couch Clayton talks about living in Tent City which was created to temporarily house the families of Tennessee Valley Authority workers involved in the Fontana Dam project until Fontana Village could be built, Dam Kids reunions, and the constant search to find other Dam Kids who lived there at the time and re-establish contact with them.

Creator

Clayton, Doris Couch

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Publisher

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

Date

1940s;
2014-10-17

Contributor

Bell, Katie

Rights

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

Format

audio/mp3; application/pdf;
sound recordings
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound

Identifier

35634
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35634

Date Created

2015-03-05

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Fontana Dam (N.C.)
Fontana Village (N.C.)
Graham County (N.C.)
North Carolina, Western

Extent

00:25:30 (sound recording)(duration)
00:26:41 (sound recording)(duration)
21 pages (transcript)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Clayton, Doris Couch, “Interview with Doris Couch Clayton,” OAI, accessed May 2, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/35634.