Interview with Billie Chandler

Interview with Billie Chandler

Barns

Cataloochee (N.C.) -- Social life and customs

Chandler, Billie

Family reunions

Frontier and pioneer life

Grandparent and child

Trails

Billie Caldwell Chandler discusses her ancestors, who were among the first settlers in Cataloochee Valley, and their experience of being displaced in the 1930s when the area became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She recalls stories about her great-great-great-great grandparents, Levi and Granny-Pop, who were alive during the Civil War. She talks about seeing the synchronized fireflies in the national park, family reunions, the Caldwell Barn, and the Boogerman Trail.

Chandler, Billie

WCU Oral History Collection - Introduction to Oral History

2023-03-27

Andonovska, Aia

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

sound recordings

transcripts

eng

Sound

Text

71788

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71788

Cataloochee (N.C.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

0:38:09(duration)

23(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina