Interview with Felix Hooper

Interview with Felix Hooper

Agriculture

Cattle

Chestnut

Floods

Hooper, Felix A., 1908-2007

Industries

Jackson County (N.C.) -- Antiquities

Lumber trade

Felix Hooper of Cullowhee worked for Blackwood Lumber Company from his early teen years to 1939, and he talks about the company’s arrival in the county and the infrastructure they used up until 1929, when the market crashed. He worked in the company’s mill until 1939, when he left the company; he then talks briefly about his life farming and the effect of the flood of 1940, and he shares his memories of the flood before resuming his discussion of Blackwood’s lumber operations in Jackson County. He also shares his memories of the chestnut before the blight, and he then talks about Cherokee relics and artifacts in the area and shares some stories of his grandfather during the Civil War. He then discusses pasturing his cattle in higher territory such as Bald Ridge, and how that land has changed since then, and he also shares some information about a planned dam on Caney Fork that never materialized. He closes by talking about what may have helped him live so long. Also present during the interview is Hooper’s wife, Fannie Mae Hooper.

Hooper, Felix A., 1908-2007

WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories

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

1920s; 1930s; 1940s;

2005-12-06

Coyle, Philip E. (Philip Edward), 1961-

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interviews

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2015-05-22

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:01:22 (sound recordings)(duration)

15 pages (transcripts)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina