Interview with Jim Buchanan

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Jim Buchanan

Subject

Buchanan, Jim
College student newspapers and periodicals
Journalists
Newspapers

Description

Jim Buchanan is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Buchanan shares stories about growing up in Jackson County as well as stories of his Buchanan ancestors dating back to the Civil War. Buchanan touches on his time at Savannah Elementary and Western Carolina University where he graduated in 1983 as a Mass Communications major. He shares his love of history and describes his role as Vice-President on the Western North Carolina Historical Association board. He talks about his time working for the Asheville Citizen Times, including the evolution of producing the paper, and more recently, the Sylva Herald and its importance to the community.

Creator

Buchanan, Jim

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Date

2021-05-30

Contributor

Martin, Emily

Rights

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

Format

sound recordings
transcripts
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound
Text

Identifier

63948
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63948

Spatial Coverage

North Carolina, Western

Extent

1:02:04(duration)
12(pages)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Buchanan, Jim, “Interview with Jim Buchanan,” OAI, accessed May 1, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/63948.