Interview with Wayne Carson

Interview with Wayne Carson

Autobiography

Carson, Wayne, 1939-

Champion International Corporation -- Employees

Champion Paper and Fibre Company

Champion Paper and Fibre Company -- Employees

Chemical laboratories

Industries

Logging

Lumber trade

Paper mills

Paper products

Papermaking -- Chemistry

Wood chips

Wood-pulp -- Bleaching

Jeff Seymour interviews Wayne Carson on November 21, 2002. Wayne Carson (born 1939), a Canton local who later moved to Buncombe County, worked in the Champion paper mill for 39 years. Carson discusses his experience from the new employee stage of his carrer to becoming a retiree. He spent most of his career in the chemistry department, and describes the ingredients needed to process paper. Additionally, he talks about the history of the logging industry, the transformation of the surrounding landscape, and economics of the industry. He experienced the paper mill downsizing operations and the introduction of a union.

Carson, Wayne, 1939-

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1890s; 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2002-11-21

Seymour, Jeff

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

36210

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36210

2019-02-14

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

Canton (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:01:01 (sound recording)(duration)

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina