Interview with Otealia Baldwin

Interview with Otealia Baldwin

Autobiography

Baldwin, Otealia

Dams -- Design and construction

Dams -- Economic aspects

Dams -- Social aspects

Electric utilities

Migration, Internal

Rural electrification -- North Carolina, Western

Otealia Baldwin is interviewed by Joshua Lynch on March 15, 2003. Ms. Otelia Baldwin talks about her life as a young girl having to adapt to the destruction of her little Nantahala community called Aquone, which was flooded out in the creation of the Nantahala dam and lake. She talks about the major changes in her life that followed, the biggest being the reception of electricity which ultimately made life easier. She recounts going to live with her grandmother and how different life became after the construction of the dam. Ms. Baldwin notes positive and negative contributions of the dam, but overall, she makes it clear how much she misses her childhood community.

Baldwin, Otealia

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1940s; 1950s;

2003-03-15

Lynch, Joshua

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

transcripts

eng

Sound

Text

36263

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36263

2019-02-14

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

Macon County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

24:38 (sound recording)(duration)

7 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina