Interview with Charles Wilson and Kathy Wilson

Interview with Charles Wilson and Kathy Wilson

Agriculture

Arts

Autobiography

Mountain life

United States. Navy -- Medical personnel

Veterans

Wilson family

Wilson, Charles -- Childhood and youth

Wilson, Charles -- Interviews

Wilson, Kathy -- Interviews

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Charles Wilson is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his childhood on Wilson Creek in Tuckasegee, NC. He shares his experience in the Navy and working in the medical ward. Wilson also talks about leaving the Navy and living in Memphis at the time of Elvis and Martin Luther King. His wife, Kathy Wilson shows photographs and tells about the history of the Wilson family in this area and their ties to Western Carolina University.

Wilson, Charles

Wilson, Kathy

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

2015-06-02;

Grant, Evan

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35688

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35688

2016-07-12

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Floyd County (Ga.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Shelby County (Tenn.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

North Carolina, Western

01:11:30 (sound recording)(duration)

15 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina