Interview with Ronnie Setzer

Interview with Ronnie Setzer

Fishers

Fly fishing

Fly tying

Marching bands

Marines

Setzer, Ronnie -- Interviews

Ronnie Setzer is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Setzer describes growing up farming in Piney Creek, NC, near Cullowhee. He discusses playing the trumpet in his high school marching band, and later joining the Marine Corps and serving in the Marine Corps Band. Setzer shares some fly-fishing traditions passed down from previous generations and he describes fly fishing in western North Carolina. He shares his passion for tying and using flies to catch fish in several different rivers around Jackson County. He explains how this beloved hobby transformed into a way of life and into a career as a fishing guide.

Setzer, Ronnie

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-05-31

Rogers, Dalton

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

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

63978

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63978

1:02:27(duration)

25(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina