Interview with Brenda Oliver

Interview with Brenda Oliver

Autobiography

Community organizations

Jackson County (N.C.) -- Politics and government

Local elections

Mayors

Nurses

Oliver, Brenda

Oliver, Brenda -- Childhood and youth

Sylva (N.C.) -- Officials and employees

Brenda Oliver Coates is interviewed by Holly Miller on June 1, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Oliver talks about her early childhood in East Tennessee and her career in nursing including working in the operating room at C. J. Harris hospital in Sylva, North Carolina. She reflects on her 17 years as mayor of Sylva, her time as a town board member, campaigning, and the many accomplishments that were made. Oliver recalls various organizations that she was involved with including the League of Women Voters, the North Carolina League of Municipalities and the Board of the National League of Cities.

Oliver, Brenda

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2016-06-01;

Miller, Holly

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35772

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35772

2017-06-10

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Morgan County (Ala.)

Sylva (N.C.)

North Carolina

00:38:01 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina