Interview with Lebern Dills
Dublin Core
Title
Interview with Lebern Dills
Subject
Authors, American
Barbers
Dills, Lebern
Dills, Lebern -- Childhood and youth
Freemasons -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
Description
Lebern Dills is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1942, Dills grew up in Cullowhee and was one of eight children. He shares stories from his life, recalls going off to barber school in Winston Salem, being a Mason, and after nearly dying, he wrote How Marvelous which recounts some of the stories he heard as a barber in Cullowhee.
Creator
Dills, Lebern
Source
WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives
Publisher
Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723
Date
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;
2018-06-05
Contributor
Macaulay, Alexander, 1972-
Macaulay, Lee
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Format
application/pdf; audio/mp3;
sound recordings
transcripts
interviews
Language
eng
Type
Sound
Text
Identifier
36089
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36089
Date Created
2019-08-15
Rights Holder
All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;
Spatial Coverage
Forsyth County (N.C.)
Jackson County (N.C.)
Extent
12 pages (transcript)(duration)
49:53 (sound recording)(duration)
Is Part Of
Oral Histories of Western North Carolina
Collection
Citation
Dills, Lebern, “Interview with Lebern Dills,” OAI, accessed May 1, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/36089.