Interview with Boyce Dietz

Interview with Boyce Dietz

Dietz, Boyce

Football players

High school athletes

Jackson County (N.C.) -- Politics and government

School integration

Boyce Dietz is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Dietz talks about growing up in Jackson County as the oldest of five kids. He discusses playing football for Sylva Webster and later coaching there and at Swain County High School. He shares his feelings about being inducted into multiple Halls of Fame, having a football field named after him, and his philosophy on coaching. He talks about why he became involved in politics and his time as Jackson County Commissioner. He also shares his knowledge on integration in Jackson County.

Dietz, Boyce

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-05-02

Macaulay, Lee

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

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

63942

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63942

Sylva (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Bryson City (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:13:06(duration)

14(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina