Interview with Phil Drake

Interview with Phil Drake

Autobiography

Businessmen

Centers for the performing arts

Computer software

Drake, Phil, 1951-

Electronic filing of tax returns

Industries

Investments

Tax preparation industry -- North Carolina, Western

Tax returns -- North Carolina, Western -- Software

Phil Drake, a born and raised Franklin native, discusses his past, from being a math teacher to an accountant, to a tax software retailer and owner of the Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center. He talks how he has worked to better his community, as well as the changes he has seen in technology over the years. This interview was conducted to supplement the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit “The Way We Worked,” which was hosted by WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center during the fall 2018 semester.

Drake, Phil, 1951-

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

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

1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-10-24

Smith, Nathaniel

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36017

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36017

2019-05-06

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Macon County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

21 pages (transcript)(duration)

47:53 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina