Interview with Jerry Day

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Jerry Day

Subject

Autobiography
Basic training (Military education)
Day, Jerry
Electric industry workers
Families
United States. Marine Corps -- Military life
Veterans
Veterans -- North Carolina, Western
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives
Western Carolina University -- Alumni and alumnae
Western Carolina University

Description

Jerry Day is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Day grew up on a farm in Nantahala. After he was drafted, he volunteered to join the Marine Corps and discusses his time in Vietnam where he worked in the adjutant’s section. He shares his life after the war, including marriage, college, children, working at Nantahala Power and Light for 31 years, and his grandchildren.

Creator

Day, Jerry

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Publisher

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

Date

1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;
2018-05-22

Contributor

Moody, Lane

Rights

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

Format

application/pdf; audio/mp3;
sound recordings
transcripts
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound
Text

Identifier

36116
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36116

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

Swain County (N.C.)
North Carolina, Western

Extent

13 pages (transcript)(duration)
39:55 (sound recording)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Day, Jerry, “Interview with Jerry Day,” OAI, accessed May 2, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/36116.