Interview with Ben Beaver

Interview with Ben Beaver

Artisans

Arts

Beaver, Betty

John C. Campbell Folk School

Wood-carvers -- North Carolina, Western

Wood-carving -- Equipment and supplies

Wood-carving -- North Carolina, Western

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodworking tools

Matt Nickols interviews Ben Beaver and his wife, Betty Beaver on November 24,2004. They discuss Ben’s history and family traditions related to wood carving in the Appalachian region of Western North Carolina. Ben Beaver is the nephew of Nolan Beaver (1916-1998), a wood carver that sometimes sold his carvings through the woodcarving cooperative at the John C. Campbell Folk School which became known as the Brasstown Carvers.

Beaver, Ben

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

2004-11-24

Nickols, Mathew

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36213

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36213

2019-02-14

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

00:25:07 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina