Interview with Natalie Newman

Interview with Natalie Newman

African American business enterprises

African American businesspeople

Businesswomen

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-

Municipal government by commission

Newman, Natalie

Sylva (N.C.) -- Officials and employees

Western Carolina University -- Alumni and alumnae

Natalie Newman is interviewed by Kate Macaulay on May 25, 2022 as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Newman discusses operating a business in downtown Sylva, North Carolina, and how Western Carolina University prepared her. She describes her experience serving as an elected official on the Board of Commissioners for the Town of Sylva, what issues the Board faced, what she hopes to accomplish, and what she envisions for the future of Sylva. Newman also explains how COVID-19 affected her work with both her business and the Board.

Newman, Natalie

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2022-05-24

Macaulay, Kate

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

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

65162

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65162

Jackson County (N.C.)

0:27:49(duration)

11(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina