1
50
121
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/8d324dfef6f211b99685205324430684.pdf
fa9c832bc4aa973a101c59d0cca86c28
PDF Text
Text
Welcome
to
·.
Boone
Watauga County
~,
and
..
.
. ppalachian
.., - State University
"
'··
~·.
j .
. '
r
Jt
·'.
1
. ' '
:'M.'1/!:'pf
o. l3oiJJle
l-
'·ilV(tJttJqa Co11~1f
'
.~~ :ApptJltJcltltJll $tt:fte
'_-.l · Ji11lverslt1f
,.
$1.00
�NEWCOMERS GUIDE
Emergency Phone Numbers:
B OO ' E ,
' O RT H C A R OL I NA 28608
Founded in 1899 to train teachers for Blue Ridge mountain
schools, Appalachian State University is now a comprehensive
university offering a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs. The university is recognized coast to coast for
solid instruction, faculty who are making names for themselves, and innovations that some schools are just now
pondering.
Appalachian Is committed to serving the region. Its Public
School Partnership won a national award for using faculty
expertise to solve problems in area schools. The Small
Business and Technology Development Center assists businesses and entrepreneurs in a six-county area. The Comprer
hensive Clinic is the only speech and language dine in the state
with accredited academic and clinical programs. And An
Appalachian Summer brings the best in music, theater, dance
and art to the region every year.
The University does its part to encourage literacy by training
volunteers to teach adults to read , and It raises consciousness
about the region through its Appalachian Cultural Center.
In 1989 the University placed in the U. S. News & World Reoort
survey of 'America's Best Colleges· for the third time. The
survey placed Appalachian highly In academic reputation ,
student selectivity and faculty quality, for a ninth place ranking
among 148 Southern schools. ~ magazine has called
Appalachian • one of ten public colleges with an ivy twist,· on
the basis of the university's selective admissions and emphasis
on reasonably priced, quality undergraduate instruction.
Appalachian takes pride in its close faculty-student contact and
the attention given to students. Most students are taL•ght by
full-Ume faculty members, and freshmen receive greater attention through the Freshmen Seminar, which helps ease the
transition form high school to college.
For information on admissions call (704) 262 -2120. For information on campus events call 262-2179.
Fire
262-4520
Police
262-4500
Sheriff
264-3 76 1
Ambulance
264-9486
Highway Patro l 262-1152
Rescue Squad
264-2426
Emergency: Fire, Police , Sheriff. Ambulance 911
Employment:
264-6 13 l
Employment Security Commission ...............
Hospital:
262-4100
Watauga County Hospital ........................... .
295-3136
Blowing Rock Hospital .... ...... .... ................... ..
Licenses:
264-1760
N.C. Driver's License ................ ...... ............. ...
264-1794
N.C. License Tag Office .............................. ..
Newspapers:
264-3612
Watauga Democrat ............ .. .... ............ .. ..... .
264-6397
The Mountain Times ........... .. .............. ... .. ...... .
Post Office:
264-381 3
United States Post Office ............ ................. .
Public Library:
264-8784
Watauga County Library ............... ............ ..
Public Schools:
264-7 190
Watauga County Board of Education .. .....
Tax Listing:
264-1300
Watauga County Courthouse .................... .
Teler.>hone Service:
s~uthern Bell .... ........... .. ... .. .. ......... .. ... ... .. ........
78C}2355
AT&T ...................... .... ........... .... .......... .. ........ .... 8~220-0400
Skyline Telephone .. .............. .......................... 919-246-7141
..................... ............ .. ..... ......... .... ................ .... ..... 919-877-31 l l
Utilities:
Electricity:
264-3671
New River Power & Light ......................... .
264-8894
Blue Ridge Electric Membership .... ........ .
262-4550
Water- Town of Boone ... .... .................. .... ... .
Visitor Information .. .. .......................................... .
Voter Registration :
Board of Elections ....... ............. ......... ............ .
Western Union .. ........ .... ... .......... ......................... .
Recreation:
Watauga Parks and Recreation ................. .
Chamber of Commerce:
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce ........ .
262-3516
264-9259
264-1553.
262-5809.
264-1657
264-951 l
264-2225
�COMMUNITY INFORMATION
TOWN OF BOONE, C OUNTY OF WATA UGA
LOCATION· Located in Watauga County near the Eastern
Continental Divide, Boone sprawls over a long valley which provides a natural pass through
Boone to provide easy highway travel in all directions. The Blue Ridge Parkway is near Boone
and 35 miles of the scenic thoroughfare passes through Watauga County. The elevation of
Boone is 3,333 feet and it has been designated the "Heart of The High Country."
Watauga County has an area of 320 square miles.
CLIMATE· The climate in Watauga County can be characterized as humid and temperate.
The average summertemperature is 69 degrees; autumn, 53 degrees; winter 36 degrees and
spring, 51 degrees. Average snowfall is 36 inches. Average annual rainfall is 53.29 inches
and the average annual humidity is 68%. the growing season is 158 days. Average degree
days per year total 58.06.
the Watauga County Center for Exceptional Children and multiple handicapped.
Aooalpehlan State University was founded through the efforts of B.B. and D.D. Dougherty.
The University began operations in a lone frame building in 1899 and was known as Watauga
Academy. In 1903 the name was chartered as a state institution under the name of
Appalachian Training School In 1925 the name •.vas changed to Appalachian State Normal
School and then in 1929 to Appalachian State Teachers College. The present name,
Appalachian State University, was officially adopted in July of 1967. Appalachian Sate
University offers four year curricula with undergraduate degrees in 118 areas and graduate
degrees in another 68 areas.
Caldwell Com!!l!nlty Colleae and Technlcal lnsthute has a Watauga Division offering
technical, industrial and general adult education programs.
POPULATION· Boone boasted 100 inhabitants in 1850. By 1950 the population was
2,973;3,686by1960and 8,754by1970. By 1983 the population was 10,816. In July of 1986
the population was 11,443 according to figures released by the state capitol. The population
of Beech Mountain is 260, Blowing Rock is 1,503 and Seven Devils is 78.
CHURCHES· Over 100 churches provide variety and depth in the spiritual life of the
community. Denominations represented are Assembly of God, Baptis~ Catholic, Church of
C hris~ Episcopal, Jehovah's Witness, Lutheran, Method is~ Morman, Presbyterian, Christian
Missionary Alliance, Christian Science, Jewish, Unitarian and NonDenominational.
Watauga County grew from 5,287 in 1870 to 18,342 in 1950. It declined slightly to 17,529 in
1960 but inaeased to 23,404 by 1970. By 1984 the population was esnmated to be 33,660.
According to reports released by the NC Office of State Management and Budget, the
population was 35,378 in July of 1988. The Management and Budget Office has also
projected the following population figures: 1990; 36,164 and 2000: 40,231.
RECREATION · The Watauga Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide variety of
classes and activities open to the public. These include classes in dance, karate, gymnastics,
sports, peril programs, tournaments and other activities held on demand. The departmenrs
county reaeation facility includes a three pool complex and bathouse, four tennis courts,
multiple purpose ballfields and a children's tot lot.
There are four eighteen hole golf courses in the county, with five others within a 40 mile radius
and 22 tennis courts. Clean mountain streams and both public and private lakes and ponds
abound in the county and trout fishing is supreme. Horseback riding, hiking, deer hunting,
grouse and pheasant hunting, raccoon and fox hunting, quail and rabbit hunting are all
enjoyed in the county. Seven public camping grounds are in the area. There are 4 ski resorts
in Watauga County and 2 in Avery County.
EARLY HISTORY· Boone is surrounded by mountains which some geologists have judged
to be among the oldest rock formations in the world. Bishop August Spangenberg explored
the region in 1752 in search of land for Moravian Colonists and Daniel Boone hunted here in
the 1760's.
Even though the mighty Cherokee had once claimed this as a hunting ground, no lndains were
found when the white man arrived • only where they had been.
Many of the original senlers came as immigrants from aowded parts of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New England. Later settlements were made by the Germans, Dutch, Swedes and
a few French Huguenots; but population was sparce before the Revolutionary War.
In 1800 Jordon Council established a store at the foot of Howard·s Knob which became the
nucleus for the settlement that later became Boone.
When Watauga became a county in January 1849, Boone was selected as the county seat
and assumed its role as a government center. Land was donated near Council's Store for
a courthouse and in 1851 , the first Superior Court was held in Watauga County. Boone
became incorporated in 1872 and elected its first officials that year.
GQVERNMENT: Boone operates under the Council·Manager form of government This
provides for a five-member council and a mayor, who determines policy for the town and a
professional manager who implements those policies.
The Town of Blowing Rock has a mayor and five commissioners - elected in odd numbered
years. The mayor is elected for a two-year term, comm issioners serve staggered four-year
terms. There is also a town manager.
Beech Mountain has a mayor and 4 town council members -all elected for 2 year terms. There
is also a town manager.
Watauga County operates under a county conimissioners - manager form of government.
The Board of Commissioners consists of 5 members who are elected on a partisan basis for
a combination of four and two years of office, so that a simple majority of the board is elected
every two years with the candidate who is elected with the least number of votes serving a
twO year term and the other members elected serving four-year terms.
EDUCATION· The Watauga County School System is made up of eight elementary
schools and one consolidated high school. Watauga High School offers a basic college
oreoaratorv curriculum as well as business education and vocational trainino. There 1s also
The Blue Ridge Parllway with its many scenic areas, camping and picnic grounds, runs
through the county. Five major tourist attractions in the Boone-Blowing Rock-Linville-Banner
Elk area are open in the summer months. Boone has an indoor roller skating rink and a
bowling alley that are open year-round.
MEDICAL FACILITIES· Boone has become the medical center of the Northwest Mountain
Region. Watauga County Hospital has 141 beds with both u~to-date coronary care and
intensive care units. There are 55 physicians in Boone representing a number of specialities.
Blowing Rock Hospital has 100 beds - 28 of these are for acute patients and 72 are extended
care units. Doctors on staff at Blowing Rock number three.
T
RANSPORTATION· The nearest airport with scheduled commercial flights is in Hickory.
CCAIR serves that facility. The closest major terminals for Eastern, Delta and US Air are
located in Charlotte and Greensboro, NC and Johnson City, TN. There is ample motor freight
capability in the county. Thirteen major carriers are certifl9d kl serve the area. Bus service
1 provided by Trailways. AppalCART is the local authority providing public transportation in
s
Boone and Watauga County.
COMMUNICATIONS· Newspapers -Watauga Democrat, West King Street, Boone, NC
-Circulation 11 ,500. The Blowing Rocket, Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC -Circulation 3,100,
and The Mountain Times, P 0 Box 1815, Boone, NC.
Radjo S1atjons · WATA-313 Blowing Rock Road, Boone, NC - 1450 AM, WZJS -313 Blowing
Rock Road, Boone, NC -100.7 FM WASU - Appalachian State University, Boone. NC - 90.5
FM.
Area Televisjon· Cablevision and home satellite services are available throughout Wallluga
County. Without these services a good antenna is needed for good reception.
�Postal Servjgi· Main Office - 637 Blowing Rock Road, Boone, NC. Downtown Station -103
W. King ST., Boone, NC. ASU Station - Appalachian State University Campus. Main offlCO
only - incoming mail at 6:00 am and outgoing mail at 3:35 pm and 5:45 pm
~ Western Union Telegraph Company - The Sock Stop, Boone Heights Shopping
Center, Telegraph Message: 264-1553.
UTILITIES· Electric power within the city limits of Boone is supplied bv New River Light and
Power Company. Elsewhere in Watauga County the power supply comes from Blue Ridge
Electric Membership Corporation. Many companies provide telephone service to the Boone
area induding: Southam Bell, AT&T and SkylineTelephone Membership Corporation.
FINANCIAL PATA· Vast banking resources are represented in Watauga County through
four major banks. They provide a wide range of services and resources to expanding
business and industry in the Boone area Adding to the financial strength of the county are
three savings and loan associations. Several of the nation's leading consumer finance
organizations have offices located in the area also.
MUNICIPAL $ERYICES· Garbage pick-up, street cleaning, and parking are city services.
Police and Sheriffs departments offer excellent police protection. Volunteer Fire Departments serve both town and county.
The
Chamber
The Boone Area Chamber of Commerce ... is an organization of
business and professional fmns and individuals working together
for total community bettennent by solving mutual business and
community problems. The Chamber plays a vital part in the proper
and orderly growth of the area. Through the efforts and cooperation
of volunteers, the Chamber serves as the department of progress in
directing total community development.
The Chamber office makes available area maps, state maps, telephone directories, travel brochures, organization lists, demographic
and community infonnation as well as business
statistics.
WE WOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU in any way we can to become
established in the Boone area. Call us if we can be of assistance to
you.
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce
112 West Howard Street
Boone, NC 28607
(704) 264-2225
SPONSORS: Appalachian State University
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce
Town of Boone
Watauga County
�-· ...
.
-~
~
-.......
H
_,,_UllfS - - -
_
Ill
,r~ ll(lll:I"
For Information
Regarding Our Products
1-800-7n-MAPS
0
El
WIBllllM'l - A •l
-llS. - r l
.
_
.,.
'
,..
..::.-:.:."".:=.C":"!- "
~--:.::: "=".::::.=.:.":
=--
Published 1991
~
IHll-Arl
___-··__... _
... ___
____ ..__.......
_____
-------_______
==--=:.::.-r.::i..·-::=r---=
---·--- ............______------""-"
=- . --·- ... _
----------r
..
SCHOOL
INDEX
--....--M» fWLISHEIS FOR O\IER 5.000 CITIES IN 50 SJATU. ORDER FllOM: 04AMPK>ff MAP CORPOllAJION,
P.O. IOX 111513, ctl.'AOJTE, N.C. 28211.
6J
2 J GREEN VALLEY
18 J SCH.
HARDIN PARK
15 A ELEM. SCH.
MABLE ELEM. SCH.
7 B PARKWAY SCH.
VALLE CRUCIS SCH.
3 K WATUGA HIGH SCH.
BETH EL SCH.
BLOWING ROCK
ELEM. SCH.
BOARD OF
EDUCA110N
CALDWELL COMM.
COLLEGE
COVE CREEK SCH.
15C
41
BK
3L
13 F
.._
.
311~ol~
:fl~WI ........
31 S-Wngt'l Holl
WHERE TO FIND IT
1'cademio:: Attain ......•• ot3
Accoontmg Oep.Wtment.. 13
MmlSSIOf'lS.
. .•.•.. •3
AJumm AHairs .......••• ' '
Anthropology
Oe9t
At>i-imchian Cu•urat
Cflnlef......
37
. 56
Col~
DI Ari.
&~ .•.•..•.•.. 42
M [)ep-.nmenl ......••. 16
AtnlittJc Offic:a ••...•.. 32. 2
Bell< Hall . . • . . . . • • . . . . . . 1
9eU< Library .•••........ 40
Biology Dep&rtment . . . . 30
Books~··········· .. •7
BowoeHllll."' .•.••....•.. 3
Kidd
&-er Stadium ..... . 1
Lucy Brock Cllikl
Developrrent Clr...
8room6-K" HoNlth &
50
Phi". Edue. 81dg . . . . 32
Broyhill lrm&
~D
Conkffenc.
eerur . .
65
8rayh1ll Music Centef. •. 14
COi•
~Atla.n
........ 43
ul Busmess • • • • 36
Cafeteria •••••••••••••• 41
Cannon Han . . . • . • • .
Career P\enn~ &
. . 60
Placement . . • . . . . . ... 42
Ct\aricellor's HQIT'lll! •...••• 9
Chilrn::ellor's Offic:e ...... "3
Chapptlll-W~son Hal .•.. 37
Chemistry Department ••• JO
Coffey Hall ............. 55
Coltrane Hal. .. . ...••. 12
C0nwnunic91ion Arl9 Dept. 16
COmputer & ManagemMt
SeMcet .............
MEAT
J
To Tenn.
Rt.67
RO~ HOPEWEL~ !j"~
.
CHURC~X
I
N
TROY
. C.
\ NORRIS /J.17
RO.
()ep!
.. ..
Dec•5 .on Sc:: 1eoces
()evelapnlerlt
Atra•"' .
. .... .. 29
Dt!fll • 13
& Publ•C
4J
oovghe<ty Admmislr.!lt1on
Bldg . . . . . .
. · · · ·. 43
0ou9hef'IY Home Economocs
Bldg , . . . . .
• 49
Dougl'lef'IY Library
39
0ougnton Hall .......... 62
Edwin Duncan Hall .
. . 29
East Hall
. 52
Econoniics Dept . .
13
College of Educatoon .... 29
Eggerll Ha II
.. 4
English Dept . . . . . . . . . 51
Facultv Development & Instr
serv1oes Ganter . . . ..46
Far1hmg Audrtorium
.• 15
Finance, Insurance end Real
Estate Dept.
...•• 13
Financial Aid . .
•s
College of Fine &
Applied Art~ .. . • ..
16
Fo1eign Language Dept . 51
Founders Hell
44
F1ank Hall . .. . . •. . . . . .6
Gardner Hall.
11
General College
... 39
Geography & Plann1"!,l
Dept.
Geology Dept
Gold Room
Copyr i Rht
~~oRRl
lt·-; I
<IQ_!..O'..,.
. . 30
• 30
. 4a
4'.2.IG.~1-1-
l.G. G1lll!f Hall •••••••••• <&2
H!l<;l•mM ......... ........ 45
Health Care Mgmt.
*l.~M-o•~--~
... ~--
45. H8gllman ~·
Department . . . . . . . . . . . 13
46. Wniww Koll
Health Education, Phys ED. &
LeiSoJre Studies ~pt .. 31
63
&:oncma Butinv
a-oo..
.......,,.,.,.
Home Eoonoma Cleo!. • . •9
50. Lucy
Home ManagEmefll House 56
Hunan Oevelopmen1 & Ps)dl.
Counseling Depl:. . . . . .. 29
Industrial Educa!IOl'I &
S2
Techno1c9't' ~l . . . . 21
Infirmary • . . • . .
. 53
lnformabon Ca-lier ......
Intramural Prog..ms ••••. 10
~ Cdfey tt.jl
~- ~91"*1!
«
~
57 IMfltutoonal ~""'
~- Cone Reodlonce ......
Justice Hall ............. 19
La~~ I &cep-tlOl'lillibell OapL ..••..... 29
Leadership & Higher
EdualtlOfl Dept. .
29
Legend$ ................ 64
Lit>rary .................
Library Soence & Educ
'!)
~Lootitl~H·I
eo
f'er9onriel
Dept ................. •2
Phylia & Astron'mv [)apt 30
Politlell SciS1Ctl & Criminal
Management Dept. . . . .. • 13
Marketing Dept . . . . • • • . 13
M!QOeot. ........... 46
F'olll ()ti~ ••••••••••... 5J
MiMh Scienc9$0ept .
51
M~itaty Sc~nce Dept. . . 39
MQunUline&r Apia .
. ...• 8
School of Music
. 1<&
Newland Hall
. . . . . . . . . 17
News Bufflllll .•••••••. . 43
Printing & Publiamons ... 44
PTfchology Dapl:. . . . .. 38
PublicatJorm . . . ...... 44
Pure~ ............. 34
0UIM Recreation Center . 10
Rlnkin Softnce Building . 30
....,,_
{The Appalactiian)., •.•
~
. _..
RBBid&nce Lile . . . . . .... .t5
Sanlofd Hiii . . . . . .
51
Scott Ind....,.. Arts Bldg. 21
44
Servir;:8a • • . •
Ptu~ and Religion
ll:l H09)'
Wal~ar Hall .
13
WASU-fM ............ 16
Watauga College .
. ... 52
We11x1m Hall
Student At111;..,, •..••.... 43
Studenl $uP9Qt't Bldg . • SJ
Stl.ldenl Uoion . .
. 48
Su/Tlm91 ~ •
. • 42
SWimming POOi ......... 32
Whitener Hall
WATAUGA COUNTY
RO. (1241)
5 L OOE RIDGE
(1107)
ADAMS CEMETE!ll'
RO. (1375)
Af-IOFIO.
(15l0-15")
Al.OllDGE RD
6M
RO. (1512)
"""'
DUTCH CREEK AO.
6 J, 6 K
~,~:fK
o~~~urn
ID.
~DR.
9L
(1539)
2 L nK CFEBC ID.
(157())
2J
S£Tl1EL AD.
(1602}
cm.
7 J
1J
l'IFiE TOWER RD.
FLANNERY FORK
RO. 115'11)
FLAT TOP RO
113n>
6 L
('~2)
BUIE t.'IE/l.CICPH Oi\.
('Sl7)
elUE Rlt>GE Pl<:.vv,
SOB CAM?Ba.L llD.
(12<1)
00..ll..DER GARDENS
F'O. (11S1)
aowt:R DUNC.0.N RO.
(1l45)
SRIAfl'M)OO RO
(1531!)
f\.ETCl-IER llAAl-ICH
lllK
PO. l'21111)
F\DHERS i\RANC.H
4N. SN
RO. (1~11
SN, 7M FORE.ST GPl:M:
SK, !ll
RD. (12111)
J J l'OREST LN.
~
J
SL
e11..
1K
7L
'"""" """"
""""' """""'
~
""-t
'""""'" ~
I
I"·
Dugger M tn.~ ...
,...
'ti
APPROXIMATE SC A L E OF MI LES
- _J_ - -
C,IJ -
GrandfatMr Mtn. ,\ ;
Elev. 5964
__ -
1=t ;:::::::--
1
ROCK
- ------- - --------
p.y.·J~~~'---·'
©
~t
\~\ ~
.,..- ..
"'
LOWIN~)
C. M. C.
2
'""'
3
0
,__
'
C A L
.,
<!:>~ W
~- ., ~
·;r·
.......
.
•• •
E L L
>w
-'
z
w
0..
LEN0111
---
-4,,~.. .......~
-...... r-"1~,
---
- ../
""''*' -
COFFEY KN08 PD.
Rocky
U N T
- ...
"'"'
Knob
"""'
""' """""'
"""
'"'°"" ...
[11533}
.
...
""~"'
_....
"""
{1834)
... """
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN
Cl/FilY MAP\£ RO
\
{1323)
OAl..E AO.O.MS RO.
I
OAN HORTON RO.
{1l12)
M\11: GREal RO.
(1232)
ot:CK ttU. RO.
(1:547)
I
s\
DeA Al.IN RO.
"''"
"'""""' ...
,
'!\I
OEERFIBD Ill.
HEATHER ST.
7l
"""
HEMLOCK Hill. RO.
HENRY WINEOCRGER
RD. {1 JSl9J
Fil. (1217)
O<Wrn " " " " '
RO. 11114)
"""""" """"
11'.:1.(1~1)
OICI( WATSON RO.
1150&-1507\
>
'
8
9
10
7K
5J
3 J
JK
8 L
,.V
51(, 5L
RD.
4 I
HOWMO WIMllER
!'(). (1e31)
HOWAFl)S Cf'EEX
CHURCH Rl
"""'
IQ<tOB IC.
"""
"""
7 L tfl.9El'ff THOMAS
1L
SMITii llENSON RO.
"""
~RIDGE
OR
(1652)
(1227)
GROVE RO.
{1104-11"'6)
WILSON RD.
ooes
(1JO:l)
7L
HUFFMAN A'.l.
4111
INJIAH SPAHGS
In (ICXI)
IM HoVIMON RO.
(1244)
""'°' """"'
""'"""' ...
RO. (111'1
(1JM)
HA~
"""
(11!M)
OlO 0...NNER RO.
(1111)
OUl FNfr>NAY OR.
(16SO)
""'""""
~
H
(123~)
5L
SJ
...
OlD JUNALUSKA
AD. (1174)
OlD M::IUHTAIN AD.
"'"'
-... 5M 0L..0 NC
SL.. SM
7L
~-=lfE
5K
2K
'l;I.
J 1
!iK
~~15.,:1
Ol.D us 421
ISM
SO:l'I HOLICK Fil.
(1334)
3 J
tQ L
9L
2 1. 1J
IJ
6L
SM
7L
J I
!i L
4 J
.5 K
, L
6L
2M
•L
5N
=:RD.
Tc~~SIMMO"IS
·~~NTAI"
STONEY FOf\K. Fll> .
5~~,~)
T~~RO
~ HIU.S
~~RO.
~ttU.RD.
H0t.t.0YJ
RO. (1632)
2 J OACHARO RO..
1K
4L
~HOOi< RO..
~33
.l.AAO RO.
JI., 3M
(111&)
TUMMI' COOl'IE RO.
=~RISAO.
~~ KN00 ST.
~ERR.
~
..
RO. ("!:540)
VAl.l.E CRUCIS OllCHAFlO F'D. J L
(1152)
V~RPOOL RD
~~7) MORETZ AO.
2l
"(';'3~
RO.
w~~~~~l.SON
~
"';':~ BPANCH RO ,
WAllREH HOU.OW'
AO. (12291
WATAUGA
SK
4 I
21'1
"
"
"
INDUS1llAIL PAAI(
~~=lUVESTOCK MARl<ET
RD. (1615)
W,.TAUGA "'IER
w~~1~.12~un
"
"
WES AA"'°"'ll Ill.
2l. JL
SM
=..Na
~NES
"
ID. (1402)
WKTE Oil\K FLAT
It:>. {110!!)
Wll..DCA T AO.
(13'i1·1362)
ii K. 9 L
10 L
l J
PALMER OR.
SL
4 J
(1610)
PAR!l;WA Y 'llUAGE
DR (16'3)
6K
F>Al'NE BAA.NCH
6M
Will. GUNN RO
(15'11
PE\ ,.
7 ,_.
Will. ISi.AC
JACI( TAYUJA RO.
, '
(11251
EGOa!S RO
(1505)
WllEY HAAMOH RO
(1153)
7 L
....,U. COOK RO
"""'
6
"
I.. 7 L
(1210)
~
1 J
(1377)
~'
6 L
MU£n•
FIO. (1 J.'E I
11329;
F'tilWP'S BAAO.CH
F'D. ( 1211 )
3J
Mw:>wOAUO
CHURCH RO
HOl.SHOUSEA JR.
PIGroN ROOST F0
.JM
WILSON llOOE RO
(1131)
Pl!E Sii.io.NC}'! RD
!! I(
'MNKl..ERS CREEK
RO (1~7-1617)
WORlEY RO.
om,
.......
~MTN.
RO.
7L.. eL
(1!10)
! t. .IM BURKETT RO.
6H
3 I
(12'2!1)
9K
™
,fM~ RlOOE RO,
-ri:1~~ PD.
~Z:RRY RO.
~-
8 I.. 7L
3M. 4M
r:-
SL
4 J. 4 l'I
1':l.
"
~nCRB!.K RD.
el
6M
=.:.IJQA
~M
8LVD. (1606)
S~~i;.~R.l.NCH
3J, 3K
(111().Wll)
~1~12~:1
SNAOOI' MOUNTAIN
7 l'I
-.ii
OlD SHUU..'S MIU.
RD. (1~)
SJ. SK
RO.
S~~J RO.
tiM
7K. eK
60
Jk
SK
St:'~) ISAACS
5 I. GJ
FIO.
Dl.D JU'4AWSPIA
"
(1301-1J02)
(1583)
"114. •
l'I). {1103)
~KE
NIL.EV COOK RO
n~n
Rl. {1148)
.W:ll:
HCITS..
OUl FARM FD.
l'iM
(1189)
OL..O HARTt.EY AO.
!IL
{11!0)
11~1m>
HCJN"!'D!i
~L
7
~R
OLD BASTOI... AD
HOWAFl)S CfEEK
fl).. ('JIJ&lJ.20)
3J
(1l47)
NEW
NORTHFORK RD.
JK
II L
•IC.
6J
i'().( 1~}
MOUNTN!fOME fl().
(1221·1222)
~K
3l
31(
,,_,
MOUIVTAIJll Y11iW
..
~AO
.5/f
fl(). (1609)
~~ CHUFCH
(1S22·1~J)
,/
1J
9L.10L
ll~l
~Jj3~
{135&)
y
7
HAYES wat..80AN
8 1(
"
MCCK RO.
(1343)
MORETZ HOU.OW
RO. n21g1
MOUNT ZION 11'>.
N.C. NOflAS RO.
SK
1J
•J
1 J. 2J
(1207)
~J=tl!US
(12H-1242)
_J
6
{137•)
HATTIE HIU !'()
~~MTN.
~l
J l'I
6l
llAPTIST CHUllCH
llK
~K.
TL
{161J)
SK
!iM
(15711
.~
5
& I<
.&~NCl"-
~~RO.
~VHIUS
• N
COUNCIL WAflO FIO.
,
.!O
4
HARDIN RO.
I
"
(IJ02)
MlLrnN MORET2
l'D. (13!>4/
MINf BAANCH
6L
J~~~~ 110
{lll'Jl-1306)
SKI LOOGE Fll>.
RD. {1384)
{l~)
4M, 5M
SILVERSTONE RD.
(1335-1340)
9K
MIU. RO.
4J
MEAT CAMP
s.\PTIST CHURCH
(1531)
MILTON SFIOWN
1M
S~~'S
4M, 5 M
IU, {1304)
MA.ST GAP RO,
(1 117)
MAA AUSTIN
4 I
1 J
~
HOWARD B>MISTEN
OOWN$
RO. (1562)
-0-
_J_ _ _ _
c
""""
3l
CUNT HDRFIS RO.
CORNETT
"
(1l91)
6L 7L
RO. (1554)
6N
(1596)
~·:I ~LLER
{1319)
CX'.l8flS Cf££ll RO.
4 I 511ERWOOO RO.
(1303-1368)
MARGOT RO.
f\S4J-1.58n
HAMPTON AO. N.
~~WAMS
""'"
""" s>a<
, ,,. ..
(1151)
5 K SEVEN OAKS RO.
{1605)
6L
11.AIEIN fV.
(12J1J
<&N
"""
{123'1)
(1~)
~M ~~~.
3J
(163!1)
SEVEN DEVILS RO.
MA.RION THOMAS
AD.
<&K
CUl'fT LEWIS RO.
\
RD
{1360)
HAMPTON
~J,NO
"~"
SC:ENE-A•F>.AMA OR.
2J
LYNN Hill. RO.
(1365)
1J
GREEN RO.
6L
CLARK'S CREEK
RO. (11:18)
CUll.Y H000ES AO.
\
6N
.
™
SAMPSON RD.
(1526)
RUSH
SK
~s:)RD.
CLARK SWIFT IE.
\
l J
""""
olM
"''"
H
~~RO.
6J
4K
LOWEA
5L
H. STANLEY
Mill.ER RO.
(1566)
H8'8 THOIMS RO.
lM.
~~~
5L
(1173}
LONGHOPE RO.
M!OOLE FOflK RC.
ClAFENa: NEWTON
RO. {1S51J
I
TWP.
.,...
(1550}
11\JSSElL EIEACH
MEAT CAMP RO
HENSON &AA.NCH
IC). (1324)
-l'D,
1
526
sJ
3 I(
BRANCH RO.
C1230J
OFCLE OR W.
{114:1)
\
I - -
cK
II). (1l11J
CHE!ITH\IT GACM:
"""
\
,;
Ma.<t Knob 'l"
SL
(151~)
RUSS CORNET RO.
RO
w ""' """""
(111S)
7M
'"'"
RO.
C1FlCtE OR E.
/\ \
MYSTERY
HILL
2 L
t1'•'l
l'.\JSH eAANCH RO.
{1209)
7 L
~i)PlOGE
~~)ST.
MA~
HATTIE RO.
{1SllJ
""""'~
RO. 11ise.1
-HWJO.Ll<.E.l\RO.
2I
(1335)
(1205)
KAl'll..EV PERRY RO.
6L
RO. (1~7•)
CHAPB... ttU.S RO
'\'o Banner £\I< )-
l !
GUY FOFlO RO.
SJ
""''
\
~\
7L
llREENttlll RO.
(153<1)
~
AO.
CA'-IP JOY AO.
(1.JSelJ
CltNrP l'IOCK li'.l..
... "'"'
""'"'" ..
~ST.
JJ
GAO\IER NORRIS
10 L
CAUDWAY AO,
{1580)
\
~l.l~~~...,~.
(1536)
HAIG
OR {"\&47)
CHURCH tO.llMI
™
~l.Alll'E.L
(181SJ
MA&L SCHCOI. RO
7J
"~'
CASTU!'OAC RO.
{13»-1351)
CECIL MIUBI
lJ
I'll.. 1!1 L
RO. (llo:i)
3 I
tlYNUM TPJ\IETTE
RO. (1J63)
CALVIN BYERS
FIOONEY GREEN RO.
l'OMlNGEP. RD.
llOM\HGEP. RD.
l'1tt•1'21l\
™
6l
4 J
"
(1601)
' K
Gfll:EHBRIAA RD.
4K
HIU. RO.
ROBY GREEN ll:l.
(1331)
SJ
3N
RO. {1368)
~
UN\/!Ll.E CREE!<
GAANOFATIJER
MOUNTAIN RO.
(1373)
FIDlllN P.O.
(1SJll)
2L. 2M
5M
(1~9B)
BURL LAWRENCE
"
11352)
~ l~Lf~~~1 ~.
5J
(1l47·1l49)
BURL SFIOWN RO.
L
~~~
{1514)
GEORGE WILSON
AD.
llOOE: M.
(1J!iS.ll92)
11\11:11 RO.
~
SM
5J
(1225)
SL
4 I. 51
Rl. {1J00)
4 L ROCKY MTN. AO.
3K
SUllKETT RO.
RIDGE PT. OR.
\1172)
5 J
G~Y WINKLER
Fl(). {137.z.1398)
(1516)
RICH MOUHTAl'I
~~FIO.
eK
auo TEEMS FD.
4L
7M
~ ~~LlllE'I' FIO.
GAAOY HIU AO,
BUUDOG RO.
nmi
&K
"""""" "'
7L
(1359)
BRYAN COMSS RO.
(11•7)
BRYAN HOLLOW RO.
(1339)
ELK TWP.
'
• I
(1213)
4 J
AO. {1~1JJ
Sl'OWNWOOO RD.
/
"""
SL, IL
IN
GEORGE'S GOl.P RD.
......
"
"
RHl'Mffi SPANCH
RO. (1S76)
Fil. (1138)
SK
(13211)
BFIOWN OR
/1637)
BFIOWN RO.
(1311!)
BROWNS CHAPEL
RO-
2K
GEQqGE lolAYES RO.
BFIOOKSlilflf RO.
(ll2'i)
REESE RO.
"""
Ull.WIEL Cll:EK RO
(1123)
lAUl'EL F0Rtt; RO.
(1109)
lAUIEL Fil.
(1511)
l.JIW'9tCE GIEEN
RO. (150J)
lA'Z'f tAKE AO.
(116"1)
""""" """"
6L
R,t,VENS RIOGE
CIR (1SJO)
RAY SROWN RO.
6M
CHUllCH RO.
(1525)
4l
3J
2L
(1224)
6J
Yo!
IAUFIEL. Cl£EK
FllENOSHIP
\1317)
,
lMIRY ST.
(11547)
SK
(1644)
BROADSTONE FID.
(1112)
BROOI< HOLU:MI RD.
{1614)
!ii(, 6K
RAYE'I ROCK RO.
RO. {"\218)
3M. 4 M FPANI<. WILSON PD.
4H
SL
lAUIEL BRANCH
4J
(ls.6)
SN, 7N
(1341-13'1))
BLACKSERRY RO
""''
{lllll)
l.AlllDAU RO.
(1-co-4)
2K FAWN DR
Bl.AIRMONT DR
0
"""'
""''
"''"
AAG.lliN ll:l.
(1 J6li)
1Wtf80W TRAll
7L
FARTHING HAYES
{1'06)
PAOFATT RO.
3 I, 4J
7L
KNOl..L.DR.
6L
F,t,IMA I' DR.
(12Cl1-1202)
BIG BAANCH FIO
(1156)
EIJG HILL RO.
I
"'""
(1JD1)
aL
IORl!Y llRAHCM RO.
IL
ELK RO.
3 N EMOAI' GJEER f\O.
BERRY FIO.
{1841)
(11~)
l'El..LWOOO LN.
71(. 7l
f>M. 9 M
PRESNEU. SCHOJL
RO. (1126)
(1S:l8)
Ef,_:17)1.UAMS FD.
SL.71.
(1S12)
,
3l
5J
2 1 El)MjSTEN ID.
BETSY
1K
~~VONS F0..
(1221-1:rni/
BEECH MOUNTAIN
RO (1127}
SEN MH.l.ER RO.
I
KEU..ERSYll.l.E RO.
%~BENO
&AVER DAM RO.
,
3'\
3L
(1514-1S24)
(1102• 1S52)
{1;1'1)
POWOER HORN
MOUNTAIN Fl(),
PFIESNEU RO
JM
21(. 2l
!iK. 5L
ll:l
POTTERTOWN RO.
!it.
! L
{1l37)
BAMBOO FID.
POl'LAR GAO\IE
t.
L
(1137)
Mt.MIA l.N.
{11T1)
BL
RO. (1113)
~
2J
•L
BALL BAA.NCH AO.
~
7 L JUSTUS RO.
~~~)OR
2J
4 J. SK
(11~
(1125-1139)
4L
BAIRO'S CRffK
£EK
JUHALUSKA RO. E.
(1134)
61(, 7L
RO. (1140)
AUBURN TJllYET"TE
Fl). (1237}
AUBl'N FARTHING
F'D. {1135)
I
SK
(1102·1JOI!)
OU01.£1' GRl:EN RO.
(1200)
JM
PINE VAU£Y AO.
(1611)
PlNt-IACl£ OR
(1 W)
JUN,t,LUSl'J\ F'D.
(1321)
FIO. (1~
DON HAYES FD.
' J
1 J
{1:203)
SK
II).
DOGWOOD KHOU.
• K
7K
AFlCHE CAFIROU
3
SH
BAANCH RO.
(1344)
10i5 BYPASS
ARNETT I-OU.OW
2
3 K .X'JE SHCEMAWI
RO. (1J05}
Je»jN WARD Ill.
DIUJt.RD GREEN
ooe
(1395)
I
..... "6
Winkler Hall ........•.•.. 5
Woritman Ha• •....••••• S4
Vose! Ottlee ........•..• 2
'
(159<1)
.5
p
.......... • 1
Wey Hall •.••••....•.••. 16
v.tiite Helt .
. ••. 61
U!Wel1.lty Halt .•.•. , .••• 66
Af'P,f,LOOSA T"L-
0
u.....1114y ,.._,,
66
Univef11ity ThMl111 •••.••• 37
VaBit't' Gymna,ium •..••. 31
. ... 33
Swam Plan I.. .
A...,...,.,. """'
65 8royll1~ IM and
Conle,.,,.._Cef>j ..
Secu"ty .........•...•.. 3-4
C.thenne Smitn Galecy. . t 5
Smitn-Wright Hall . • . • . • • 38
SOCiolog)' and Soc.i Work
Oe!)t .......•......... 37
Speei;:ti & Heering Clioie . 29
Registrar ............... -42
Re:!lidenee Faeiitles •.•••• «
Corporation
~
BALL
1337
/
c.nnooi A-""" l-lloN
61WIWll&~ .....I
62.~~
e>w... Fltlld HouM •....... 2
Lovitt Hall. •••••••••.••• 59
Founo•lon& Dept. • . . . 29
Eal_,......
51 S.nlord H...
5.1. Sa.iJenl ~ e.-.g
5"1. Woo1lifrWI '"""'
MCMXC
c
BooUI,...
..a. PWnmOrW Sk.dlll'I! lkO'I
•&~-
P0. 80)( 18583 CHARLOTTE, N.C. Z8218
COBBS
1325
u~
•7
H"lory Dept. . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Hoey Hall .•... ,,,, ... ,.
-
w....,,... ....
•1
ResearCh ••..........• 52
r Cham.pion Map
CAMP
·... :
46
:.~Ubtarf
Graouate SllJdies &
Cone Hall '.. . . .
. .. 58
con1inu1ng Education
· 66
eoonselrng & PsychOlogoGal
serv Ctr . · · · · · · · · · 53
c..,rncu~"' and IMtructton
JOE fA.RTHM) RO.
(12l!i)
1J
(135l!]
PINE RU-. RD.
(1355":
{1310)
(l~J)
7K
"""
"
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian State University Campus Maps
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains campus guides including detailed maps of the Appalachian State University campus buildings and parking lots. Also included is information about the university as well the town of Boone, Watauga County and Watauga County schools. Three maps are dated.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the Appalachian State University Campus Guides site is held by Appalachian State University. The guides are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection, Appalachian State University Campus Guides, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
CM_WelcomeToBoone_M
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian State University Campus Guide: Welcome to Boone, Watauga County, and Appalachian State University [1991]
Language
A language of the resource
English
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian State University Vertical Publication Files" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/1364" target="_blank">Appalachian State University Vertical Publication Files</a>
Description
An account of the resource
A 5-page pamphlet and guide to the high country with information, including a school index, and a detailed road map of Watauga County.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Appalachian State University--Maps
Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Boone--Maps
Watauga County (N.C)--Maps
Public schools--North Carolina--Watauga County--Maps
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Image
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1991
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
https://www.geonames.org/4456703/boone.html
https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
PDF
Brochures
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a title="In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted" href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/" target="_blank"> In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted </a>
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Appalachian State University Campus Maps" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/50" target="_blank"> Appalachian State University Campus Maps </a>
ASU
Beaver Dam
Boone
community information
laurel creek
road map
Watauga County N.C.
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/7bfe768740570b7362804ca24404718f.pdf
049b349af65133fac2a31f7e2871a6d8
PDF Text
Text
An interview wi t h Robert Proffit by Joseph Skelton and Deloris Proffit,
on October 3, 1980. The interview was conducted at his home.
Mr. Proffit: John Green was probably the first person entering the land
we know as Meat Camp now. This entry was in 1788 and the orginial deeds
which started at the mouth of Howard ~ s c reek to the New river and it
comes up to the lower end of Meat Camp. The line runs through below where
Earl Green lives now, goes pretty well east and wes t across there. And the
Ragan property joined that. I don ~ t have an} P·IIOO f he re r- on l the "first one,
just ex actly where he lived. I don ~ t think Gre en lived in Meat Camp valley
He lived back on the other side where Forrest (G r een) lives in that hollow.
But still the property comes in Heat CAmp. Then the Ragan land begin
with that line and it run thr~ ugh the upper end of the Wilson property
where Darrell Green owns now, and across on each side. And it will cover
the area you are interested in probably alot more. Now Peter Ragan lived
there somewhere, on the land that he entered in the 1780's 90 ~ s. He
had a son named James who inherited all of it as far as I know. I don~t
have the re cords on it, It wa s probably entered but it is certain he lived
in the country at least before 1790 and its certain that James Ragan
owned the property. Now from there on the greater partc of the rest of
Meat Camp was entered by David Miller. There',s tracts here and there
that he missed for sorfie reason. It mifht have been one or two entries
that he didn ! t have, I mean that someone else had got in--while he was
entering it. And do you want to take in the flat woods and Longhope on
this?
Interviewer:
Yes.
Mr. Pro f fit: Well it was up-- James Brown, I think, a Brown anyway entered
the flat woods that was in the 1780 ~ s. Henry Harrison ?fains lived on
LOng hope, he moved there in 1788. And xcept for that I th i nk David Miller
owned practically all the rest of Meat Camp. He entered it in the period
a little after 1800 to maybe 1830 or so. And some of it may have been
entered in his children ~ s names. They inherited all of it, or all of
it he didn ~ t s e ll. Now let !s see you can f lip that off a minute i f you want t o .
Now the Ragan ~ s f amily-- I guess Ralph still owns part of that place
over there where Bud lives. Floyd Norris if he hadn , t sold it owns a
patch in there. His mother was one of them. The rest of it has all been.
sold. It reached from well at least from the top of Chestnut Grove hill
to Riddle's fork. David Miller owned land on Riddle's fork too. He
had one of the fir s t entries ever made but it was over at Green Va lley
school house- That's Just about where his house was. He owned from there
way back over on the big Hill side that was entered by h~ s daddv . And
after he married he started enteru.3 on the creek here.
I'll get this burned down a little and we'll go on but before we turn it on
(in reference to his pipe).
I can give you a list of several people that I've found that lived here.
And I don't know that I've got them all. Do you want a description of who
lived there at this time on the place and things like that now will that help ~
you?
�2
Interviewer:
Yes, it sure will.
Mr. Proffit: Now Joseph Miller was one of the earliest settlers above the
Greens and Ragans. He settled on this place here about 1834 I'd say. He
was married in 1834 and probably lived here then. And his land went from I
couldn't tell you exactly, but it took in over the top of this ridge over here
and over nearly to Riddle's Fork and it went up the creek to about where Will
Winebar?er lived or a little above there. And the next one William C. Miller
moved to Upper Meat Camp about 1835. He wasn't related to these. His land
joined the land Henry Proffit owns now and Flo Proffit owns. It went up
somewhere near the Pottertown Gap on the right and went back down toward
Zionville on the other side. And he bougnt some of it from David Miller and I
think he entered some. And his house was where Lark's family lives now.
Levi Wilson lived on the other side of the creek where Gladys Moretz lives.
He owned a lot more land than sne owns but his house was somewhere in that
bottom, and he lived there from maybe 1835-40 on to the late 50's, he moved
to that section in 1839 or 40. He moved into the country in 39 he may of moved
there directly or he could ~ have lived somewhere else awhile but he was there
probably by 1840, that's the place they call the Tate place now. Tom Davis
moved from Holdman's Ford in Wilkes County to what they call the Davis place
now. Jack Bryan owns it. You know where it is it's up over the Ridge.
And Joha Proffit moved from Holdman's Ford in 1841. He built just out to
the right of where Henry Winebarger lives. lie had a mill down on the creek
just below Proffit's Grove church. I Can remember when you could see the
timbers where the water wheel ~as mounted. Teey are gone no · but --they
was logs in the creek back 40 years ago.
And this was evidently land that
David Miller1 ·m~ssed. The Proffit boys entered it I think. And then David Miller
moved from Riddle's Fork up on Meat Camp about 1844. !le lived in an old
house do~m just in front of where Roby Wineba~ger lives in that bottom.
Jake Winebarger settled here in about 1848. He built his first house just
behind where Earl Bryan's house is in that little bottom. Then latter on he
built down where Harvey Trivette's house is. You can't remember the old house
can yo81 It was a log house.
Interviewer:
No
Mr. Proffit: Well Harvey tore it down and built that house thats there now
on the same spot. And he built it in the late 1860's. Now this Winebarger
was a millwright, Carpenter, and cabinet maker; he built yha~ orginal mill
for John Proffit up on b~e creek before th was married. And he built the
Winebarger milJ l Rt t er on. Of course the orginal has been gone a long time
this is, , I think, ~ the fourth mill now. And Levi Blackburn moved from down on
New river to Meat Camp in 1839. He bought land from Joseph Miller there and
he lived on up the hollar above where Richard Greens family lives. He owned
that place too. Now he was a Methodist minister and he started the Hopewell
church about 1850. The orginial building stood just below the old cemetary
down on a little knoll. Latter on they built another one just to the right
of the old cemetary above where the road is now. Around 1900 they built the new
building over on top of the ridge, where it is, of course its been remodelled
and its been moved a little. It blowed off the pillars in 1905 and they
had to do something so they pulled it on up on top of the ridge, it was down
�3
on this side a little. And they turned it around to face Riddle's Fork.
And there was a man named William Tridy that lived on the upper end of the
creek on 1850 . He was listed in the 1850 census. He evidently wasn't there
so long . There's a place still called the Tridy cabin field, I think Carl
Moretz ' s family o~'lls it now, Some of the Moretz ' s. Corning back down Jerry
Ellison moved in th the iandr that Clyde Winebarger and Herman Bryan owns
now and that was in the 1840's. He married one of the David Miller daughters.
This was iand that she recieved as her inheritance from the orginial Miller
entries. Efird Miller was one of David ' s sons . He lived on the place that _'
Bernard Hodgeson owns now. The Dayton Winebarger place was part of it to.
And he probably moved there in the 1840 ' s. He married one of John Woodring ' s
daughters and she died and then he didn't marry again up until 1850's.
But, I imagine, he probably built there when he first married. John Woodring
settled on what we call the Woodring Hollar somewhere in that section about
1839-or-40. Jesse Vannoy moved here from Wilkes in 1850. He owned the place
now where Dayton Winebarger lives where Willy Proffit lived. Cristian Lewis
married another one of the Miller girls . He moved to this over here where
R. 0. Mains owns and the Claude Norris family and probably more but anyhow
it covered that . I'm not certain where there was any other outside settlers
before that time or not there could have been of course . Now after 1850
most of the new homes in M
eQt Camp was set. up by families; children that was r
raised here. James Ragan had three sons. John built his house a little ,
above where Bud:s house is now . Up in that hollar. Calvin built down on the
place where Earl Green owns--no I'm wrong there - J . B. Green owns . He built
a house just down below where J. B. ' s house is . And Richard built over
here where Austin South lives the old house was down in that little hollar
just the other side of Austin's house. And on the head of the creek William
Proffit built on the land where Claude lived . His house was just above where
Claude's barn is out on that little fidge. John Bryan built up in the hollar
where Herman lives. Oan Johnson bought the place and lived in the s ame ~ house
that John built for years and then he tore it down. Jonathan Miller moved
out :Ln the place where Roy Shipley lives now. The house was, I think, a h
below or maybe behind the Shipley house. And he may have owned the Todd
place too, I don ' t know for certain about that . James Proffit built about
where Ralph Moretz's house is now maybe a little below it . John Proffit Jr .
built over on t he other side abo ut where Jack Bryan ' s barn is. Austin Miller
built pretty close to where Ann Miller's house is or Albert's . John Moretz
built on up where Gene lived . And Edmund Blackburn built over across the hill
here in this hollar, I don ' t know what it ' s called. But anyhow it was on
land that Henry Proffit owned its beens9ld to some bunch of developers now.
But it was between the top of the ridge up here and where Richard Green lived .
Hopewell Methodist church seemed to have been the first one on this Meat
Camp section. It was
determined 1850. Levi Blackburn moved in 1839
and they probably had serv~ c es in homes for awh i le but as far as I know they
didn ' t organize a church until about 1850 possi~ly a little before of after .
I ·-believe I already described where the church stood. The next one was the
Meat Camp church. It was established July 6, 1851. And it was a pretty
strong congregat ~ on, not so strong when it was set up but it was a fast growing
congregation . The orginial meeting house there stood in the little bottom
down below where the church house is now . It belongs to Gladys Gragg's .
�4
Between 194 and the old cemetary. And I don't know just when the new house
was built but probably 40 to 50 years af ter that . And that ' s the only churches
I know of on Meat Camp before the Civil war .
What I've heard told of, I've
a book on Stoneman's raid and
ed on Meat CAmp at the time.
you would just be things that
Interviewer:
got a little . The Van Noppen waman she wrote
there was a few references to things that happenBut I Can't seperate that. What I can tell
I've heard people tell.
Well.
Mr. Proffit: Well in the war then first calls evidently was for volinteers
they had a conscription too. But they was people volinteered that wouldn't
have been conscripted, to old or physically probably wouldn ' t have passed .
And theymay habe been some I don ' t have. I know some that would have been
consideres, Possibly from Meat Camp, But still they are outside a little
of the scope that we are covering here. I ' ll give you the names of the people
I've found that went into the confedrency service from Meat Camp proper.
That was John Blackburn, John Bryan, Elbert Davis, Albert D~vis, Harvey Davis,
Thomas Davis Jr., William S. Davis, Richard Green, Alferd Miller, David Miller,
Edmund Miller, Elferd Miller, Franklin Miller, John Miller, LOzeno Miller,
John Moretz, David Proffit, Jesse Proffit, Thomas Proffit William Proffit,
Marcus Woodring, Rufus Woodring, Now out of these Thomas Davis Jr . , Richard
Green, David Miller, Edmund Miller, John Miller, David Proffit, Jesse Proffit,
and Thomas Proffit all died in the service . There was a time went the war
was going on there was raids through the country mostly by outlaws. Stoneman's
raid was the only one I know of that was offical. But at times there was
bands that would come through and rob the people and go on. There ' s one
story of some that went to Jacob Winebarger's and took his horse. They went
to William Miller ' s and swapped with him . Left an old pug that looked like
it was dead on it's feet . After the war and the horse was feed up it turned
out to be a good animal. And I ' ve heard them tell my great-grandmother lived
at the Shipley place, it was the Jon a th an Miller place then, he was her uncle .
Ane she brought some corn over to tne m il ~l that John Proffit had on the creek
and wheb she started back to get her mill she noticed some people coming
through the gap of the mountain on horses and she tried to get to the mill
before they did, but she'd .; ust got her mill and started back when thay rode
up and they took the mill hwa¥ I ~rom her. It was the last she had, and she
had to go ovee to Trade over in tenn . to get some more . And another time
they had some maple sugarburied . They'd made it and got afraid someone would
come in and take it so they buried it in the woods . It started raining and after
a few days of fain they got afraid that would ruin it, and went and took
it up and that night a bunch come and took it away from them . They was other < <r·
things. Out of all this bunch of soldiers Elfird Miller deserted. He ' s the
only one I know of. He got back home and layed out in the mountains till the
war was over.
1
Interviewer:
Is that---
Were roost of the men you mentioned were they confederate?
Mr. Proffit:
All confederate .
�5
Interviewer:
soldiers?
..'Were most of the rad.eds that went on here donel by the northern
Mr. Proffit : Well I suspect mostly it was just what you might call the trash
of the country . Deserters and people who layed out to keep from having to
serve and maybe it could have been some sympathers with the northern cause.
Interviewer: Yeah . I know I was just wandering because of how bad some of
the raids where by northern soldiers further down south. I didn't know i f
maybe it might have been some of them .
Mr . Proffit: Now they was a trail through in the Tenn. Beach creeR c0.yntry .
That was used quite a bit for people who deserted and wanted to get to the
north . And they may have been some gone through1here . Over the Rich mountain
gap, but from what I've heard I think most of the raiding through here was
just you might say a bunch of outlaws. People who had found a way to live
off the other people.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mr. Proffit:
in that.
I don't think they was any organized connection with the north
There was a school that stood down in this bottom that belongs to Darrell
Green now. Of course it was just a conscription school. The people who
had children to send payed so much for the course.
Interviewer :
Uh-huh .
Did they pay the teacher?
Is that how they did it?
Mr . Proffit : I think so, yeah. There wasn ' t any school board's anything
like that. Just somebody that was capable of teaching would go through the
community and get parents to agree to pay. Maybe a dollar or so a student.
Interviewer:
something?
Un-huh.
Did he work kinda like a circuit rider preacher of
Mr . Proffit: I don ' t know how that was. Wehad a few people in the country
that was qualified as school teachers. I can remember hearing that my greatgrandmother said all she got to go to school was when she would slip off
and go down to this school. Her daddy wouldn ' t let her go . He wouldn't
pay for the course. As far as I know that was the only school within reach
of this section until after --till after the war.
pause . in tape. l r. -'- t1:, .
Mr . Proffit: He:.;wa·s ' brought r b~ John Moretz. He bought the Cooper place
down on the other side of Big Hill . It included part of Big Hill . He put
in a set of mills there several different kinds of mills and brought Jacob
Winebarger with him to keep up the mill, sharpen his stones and all of that.
Interviewer:
Un-huh .
�6
Mr. Proffit: Then Winebarger married one of his girls and moved over here
on Meat Camp.
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
Did they have any stores or anything?
Mr. Proffit: Not back at that time. Gargan Council had a store at Boone.
That was-- I think he started maybe in the 1820's. He had the first post
office in the country too.
Interviewer: Un-huh. People were just what more self sufficient than they
needed a store for I guess?
Mr. Proffit: Yeah. All Council could have sold was just mostly stuff they
couldn't raise here. After a while of course they probably got to bringing
in more stuff like it has been ever since. But orginally I think it was
jist finery mostly and maybe salt and stuff like that. The only store I know
of that was anywhere close here was down --was down on Big Hill and that
was after the civil war throgh . You've probably heard it called Soda Hill. - l·
Do you remember hearing that?
P Interviewer:
I can't think, I don't know.
Mr. Proffit: I can remember when they still called it Soda Hill but its
called Big Hill now. But they said the reason they called it that was cause
the i· first soda that was ever sold in this country was brought there.
.)
Uh-Is that drinking soda or baking soda?
No baking soda.
Interviewer:
/
Interviewer:
Mr. Proffit:
5
They still don't call drinks soda here.
Intervierer:
Yeah. I guess that's just where where I'm from.
0 Interviewer:
/
,) Irterviewer:
Yeah.
They call them soda.
Mr. Proffit: Now what do we need after the civil war?
just the same kind of thing?
What particular
Interviewer: Yeah, What kind of schools, churches, were there---Did the area
change a whole lot after the civil war-- were there a lot of changes that
happened in here?
Mr. Proffit: Not that I know of on Meat Camp. There might have been some
Cilffeqmce pt6bablj would· .have been but the way of life all that was the same
on.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mr. Proffit: There never was anything here to begin with except just the
natural things and---
<•
�7
Interviewer:
Well that's enough.
Mr. Proffit: There was no business of
ever carried on here . And there's not
that unless you have improvements . Of
you could pull by tracters things like
was very little change in general. ~~
any kind, farming was all that was
room for a great amount of change in
course after they begin making machinery
that has changed . But I guess there
~
cl' ' ..,::'
Interviewer:
Part of it or something?
Yeah .
Mr . Proffit: It's actually been a part of five counties in its history but
from the time it was settled in here. Wilkes county was formed in 1778 .
I think and it included this. This was all Wilkes county then on some says
to Mississippi others claim it didn't go that far, but anyway it took in a
great part of Tenn . And I don't know I may have given you that date wrong
did I say 1778?
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mr. Proffit :
Well that's what I meant anyway .
Interviewer :
0 . K.
Mr.
The
and
was
but
Proffit: In 1799, Ashe county was formed and it included all this.
line·-went t not , to far from where it is now between Wilkes county, AShe
Watauga and partof Mitchell was together at that time all of Avery county
in Ashe county. No that ' s wrong part of Avery was formed with Mitchell,
a good part of it was Watauga territory and Watauga was formed in 1849.
Interviewer:
Now Watauga was formed out of thos five counties?
Mr. Proffit: No part of that was took off Watauga . Avery county was in
Watauga county until 1911. The line between Ashe and Watauga is close to
where it was orginially. There's been a few changes to straighten places. And
there ' s been other changes, no point in going into it, a little along . The v Caldwell line and so on . But tis section in here sll that's in Watauga now
was in Ashe until 1849 that's from 1799 on . Now from there was three years that
David Miller represented Watauga county of course he didn't live in Meat CAmp
then he lived on Big Hill. But he owned most of Meat Camp he was representive
in 18-- I think 1810, 11 and 13 . He skipped one year . It was one year terms
then.
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
Mr. Proffit: And as far as I know he was the only politican that we could
clairp, Yeah, I was right 1810, 11, and 13.
~'::.
-10
Mr . Proffit : I may not have anything down on the others and their homes
latter if I don't we can put it together. You've turned that thing off .
END OF SIDE ONE .
�8
Interviewer:
Road, about the same as it was then?
Mr . Proffit Yeah, in places the old road bed shows a good it of the way
it was , over in the bootom a little out here . You may have noticed this
low place in the bottom . And up through there I don't know just about where
it left up about Bernard Hodgeson ' s I guess it took up around the spur and went
up around the hill instead of going up the creek. Expept for that it's pretty
well the same. Now down below here it crossed it about 8 or 10 times . But
outside of that well it ' s still about the same instead of going straight it
went the easiest way I reckon.
Interviewer :
What about briages?
They just went through the creek?
Mr. Proffit :
Yeah, had a footlog for walkers--drive horses through the creek .
Interviewer : Did they~I know they did in a lot of the rest of the country .
Did they get --have people volunteer when they started putting--really cuttin
the roads out alot, putting the tops on them. Did they have people volunteer
to do that in this area .
Mr. Proffit: That was appointed. I don't know wheather local, probably was
a state law that a man over 21 years had to serve so many days a year in road
work. When they wanted to patch or repair it, they just had an owerseer that
notified the people to meet at a certain time . I think it was three days that
every man had to give in a year. He could hire somebody if he wanted to, but
somebody had to work in his name.
Interviewer:
Uh- huh.
Was that ever really inconvient for the people here?
Mr . Proffit : I don ' t know of course at that time everybody just worked at home
I guess it wouldn't have made the difference it woild now. After people got on
jobs of course it would be inconvient, but when you ' re just working the farm
I don't imagine it bothered to much .
Interviewer: I was thinking like as times when they might be harvesting and
digging up their crops, that i it might be inconvient for them.
Mr. Proffit:
as possible .
Well, I imagine that was arranged probably to avoid that as much
Interviewer:
Un-huh .
Mr . Proffit: Now on the other things-the work- I mean in the community we had
several people that could do several different kinds of work, blacksmiths, and
cabin makers, and shoe makers and all that. Practically everything was made
in the community.
Interviewer: When people needed something like that or if they wanted a cabinet
made and they went to the cabinet maker did they--I imagine they didn't always
pay them with money . They might have changed services or bartered with them
~.·
�9
most of the time.
Mr. Proffit: Yeah, that was common if a man didn't have money to pay he might
have something he could swop for it or work a day or something.
Interviewer:
I'd kinda like to do that myself.
Mr. Proffit: And it didn't run to much. It might have cost you maybe a dollar
to have a bed made or--of course that was still alot then waking for about a
quarter a day.
Interviewer: Let's see- as far as the schools what was the first public school
that they had in this area.
Mr. Proffit: I guess Winebarger, no I don't know wheather it was called Winebarger then or not. There was an old school that stood where Proffit's Grove
church is now on the same spot, but I don't think, yeah it probably was a public
school too. I mean open to anybody and it was probably built not to long after
the war. After the building got old they condemned that bottom above where
Wilcox lives and built a school house in it. That was the Winebarger school
there. And I think that's all the schools that's been on Meat Camp. Three's
all I know of.
Interviewer: Did people usually donate their land and the building materials
in order to get a school.
Mr. Proffit: They did on the first. Now I dbn't know about the second school.
I don't have any information on it at all.
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
Mr. Proffit: They condemned the land for the Winebarger school. It belonged
to Chap Proffit and I don't think he wanted to sell it. So they just condemned
it and paid him whatever a comminitee said it was worth.
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
Mr. Proffit: And I don't know now about the building. Who paid for it? It
could have been paid for by state funds . Of course that was--I don't know the
daoe., it could have been after WWl or it could have been before.
Interviewer:
Unl huh.
Mr. Proffit: Proffit's Grove church-if you want more on churches was started
orginally as an arm of Meat CAmp, I think I've got records on that somewhere
if you want me to check it would be better than guessing.
Interviewer:
Sure.
Mr. Proffit: The next church on Meat Camp was the Lutheran Church. I believe.
Do you know what they called it? (Question directed to Laura Proffit)
Laura Proffit:
What?
�10
Mr. Proffit:
Laura Proffit:
Mr. Proffit:
Laura proffit:
What did they call the Lutheran church what name ,the old one?
The What?
The old Lutheran Church?
Up here; Well what was the name of that church?
Mr. Proffit: Well anyhow it was the Lutheran congregation.
down below Lucy Winebarger lived.
Laura Proffit:
Mr. Proffit:
Laura Proffit:
I know what the---Well just let it go.
But I can't the more think of it than nothing.
Mr. Proffit: When they rebuilt they called the new one
have been the same as the old one but I don't know.
Laura Proffit: I know where the church is and all that.
many and a many of a Sunday up there.
Interviewer:
Now when they rebuilt
~1ount
Well what was it?
Zion it could
I went to Sunday School
Where was the first one located?
Mr. Proffit: It was on the bank just abive where Dayton Winebarger's house
is around a little behind it. Right straight in front of the old Willy house.
And it was--oh-I don't know-50 yds above. the Willy house I guess or above the
road. It's been down for 30,35 years or more.
Laura Proffit: The f irst Christmas card I ever seen. He sent me and Lunda.
Sent it to both of us. Put both our names on it. And I guess its in there
in that old trunk yet. Well what in the world--I don't know.
Mr. Proffit:
Laura Proffit:
not?
Mr. Proffit:
Well let it go.
We'll get on with this.
It wasn't . Mount Zion was it?
I don't know whether it was or
Anyway it vrns started about 1874.
Laura Proffit: Now that one and Hopewell and Meat Camp was the only churches
there was through this country at that time. Ana people went to them all when
there was meetin or something, everybody -people would all go to each of them
and they'd be houses full.
Mr. Proffit: Well drop that now. We're going on. The Proffit's Grove church
according to the minutes of Meat Camp was first established as an arm of Meat
Camp in Feb. 17 or 1890. They had a-- as it says here- a protractal meeting
at the head of Meat Camp. Condu c ted by J. F. Dotson, L.A. Wilson~ David Green
and they reciev ed some members from that and granted premission to hold services
there as f ar as down to Meat Camp and from then on for several years they had
minutes in there records from this arm. They begin making up money then to try
�11
to build a church house. And I don't know exactly the time I think about 1911
maybe they got it finished and seperated from Meat Camp. That seems to be all
I~ got on that.
Interviewer:
What about the Methodist Church?
M~Proffit:
Yeah, it was--I forget- Ithink there's a sign on the side of the
house there that tells when it was organized- seems like that-- It may have
been around 1911 or 12. I'm not certain now. All the people up there went
to Hopewell to they got that one started. I know in the early 1900's they still
had funeral services for Methodists at Hopewell then. I imagine that it probably
was around 1910 or 11 when it was built. I believe that's the last one until
the Holiness church wasn't it? I don't rememoer that was in the 50's sometime
I don't remember the exact date maybe 55 or 6 somewhere along there could have
been 54.
Interviewer: Have the people in the different churches always interacted pretty
well er have the different churches always interacted pretty well with each
other?
Mr. Proffit: Well, not to a great extent 1n some ways they have. IN community
affairs I think they did pretty much. In there religion they didn't tend to as
much. Each one of them was more of less to themselves a lot of people attained
services other places but that was about the limits of it.
Interviewer: But they did-they were- they did pretty well together in commmnity
affairs and stuff like that?
Mr. Proffit: Yeah, as far as I know there wasn't any what you would say antagonsism
it was just-- .They just differed on what · they believed.
Irterviewer: Have different community affairs or at least needs
community affairs have they changed very much?
i f\' community
M~Proffit:
Yeah there's been a lot of change in the way things are done--back
in the early time according to reports at least they worked together a lot.
In the fall maybe they's have corn s lfckins, bean stringins maybe things like
that. The whole community about would gather in and do whatever was to be done.
In the spring maybe they'd have log rollings clearing fields about all the men
would ho for that. Maybe the women go and cook. I guess that's been the biggest change
you don't find any of that now.
No logs to be rolled no corn to shuck either and
it was said that back in the time after the civil war for years when people
would have there corn in there was a custom more or less to put a gallon of whiskey
under one shuck or pack and when they got down do it. Then whoever get it first
got the first drink out of it.
Interviewer:
M~Proffit:
Then pass it around
Yeah
Interviewer: I thenk its interesting that they were able to take something like
that and make it into a community type of affair and have fun with it as well as
They could take there work and have fun with it. Its kinda hard to do these days.
�12
Mr. Proffit:
Yeah. There conditions was all different. You couldn't very well
get anything now to draw a whole community in. Of course the community is a whole
lot bigger than it was then to, people I mean.
Irterveiwer:
Right
Mr Proffit :
And travel and all that was pretty much restricted to home . You
couldn't go any distance in a day and no roads either . Back when they first settled
this country there wasn't ever a wagon road.
Interveiwer: Do you think. One thing I ' ve noticed about Heat Camp is that there's
not a whole lot of development in this area and ah.
llr _ E roffit ~ :
No
Inte rveiwer
Which I think is good for this area.
would like to see a little bit more development.
Do you think people around here
Mr. Proffit:
I'd say most of them probably wouldn't .
Interveiwer :
Um-huh
Mr . Proffit :
For one thing its pretty well the same families now as it was back
early. Practically everybody in this community is related and with some exceptions
most of land still belongs to the descendants of the orginal families . I think
Probably that would make some difference .
Interveiwer :
I hope so
M~Proffit:
Developing would bring in outsiders . That nobody knows. Of course
this Proffit place over here on the back of the mountain was sold to some developers.
I don ' t know how much of it has been resold . There ' s a few houses been built on
it. I don't know who anybody is . Whether they ' re even from any where in this
country or not . I doubt it .
Interveiwer : Do most of the people-the few that do move into this country-do they
adapt pretty well . Do you think?
Mr Proffit: Well I think so of course some of them just stay to themselves .
They don ' t get acquainted to many. People here don ' t bother them .
Interveiwer :
People still pretty close knit?
MrProffit : Well pretty much . Nows there ' s a few, the Todd family out on the section
toward the flat woods. 0 dpn ' t think they mingle so nuch with the people but yet
they don't slight them or anything like that. They ' ve been here several years and
I think most people who know them seem to like them . There ' s a man bought a place
up here above the mill flune, everyboky that knows him said he ' s a nice man but
they'er was very few that knew him . But I think he's sold it now .
�13
Interveiwer:
Um huh
Mr Proffit: But s-till that's not qu~te the same as a development in the since that
you mean. I mean a family here and there.
Itterveiwer: Right, Yeah I mean like people coming in and building apartments and
that sort of t9ing.
Mr Proffit:
Yeah, I understood what you meant.
Itterviewer: Yeah, I think its really unique to this area compared to the rest
of .Watauga county that that hasn't happened yet and I hope it never does.
Mr. Proffit:
Yeah.
Interviewer: But maybe the strength is in that this area still in the land everythings still owned by the folks who are descends of the orginial settlers. Where
as in so many other places its all just been sold.
Mr. Proffit:
Mostly everybody involves strangers.
Interviewer: They come from some other part of the country, where they come in
here and they, they don't really take the time to look at how people live here
am the way people are here. They kind o f expect them to be the way. that they are,
f rom where they come from.
Mr. Proffit: That makes one considerable difference; you hardly ever find customs
the same in two places. There are people here, practically all of them can trace
connectiona back to some of their earlier families, some of 'em know about all.
Mr. Proffit gets up to clean his pipe and tape is shut off at this point.
Cut back on as Deloris is asking about work ane outside of the area.
Mr. Proffit:
I don't believe I quite understand what you mean.
Interviewer:
Well, I mean like working in Plants.
Mr. Proffit: Well, I don't hardly know that. There wasn't but very little of
it before World War LL. Course there wasn't any factories here in the county
till after the war I guess. Pipe shop at Boone may have been the first to employ
any number of people, it didn't employ a lot. And I'd say that was probably in
the forties--must have been. Tobacco warehouses in Boone went in somewhere along
there, '39 or '40 maybe and that employed a few people at a particular time but
it was just seasonal . Some people went to Lenior and other places to work in
the furniture factories before that, but it was just one here'n there. There
was a hosiery mill--! don't remember the name of it. That could've been in the
'40's. And later on I guess probably that I RC may have been t~e first big
factory. Probably Shadowline was next and the saw plant may be the last one.Vermont American.
Interviewer:
There aren't any plants in the Meat ·Camp area ar all?
�14
Mr. Proffit: There's H & T Chair down here in my place. It's a amall operation.
Course there was a few years that they did a good business. Its still runnin',
but-------I don't know of anything else.
Interviewer: Most other businesses that would be in this community
be like some of the stores?
would ~ just
Mr. Proffit: I suppose it would. I don't think of anything that --nothing that
employs many people or furnishes much business except that.
Interviewer: And farming------that some people might do.
do it on a large scale anymore, do they?
I guess they wouldn't
Mr. Proffit: Not, not much. There's a few people that still with a farm' n
cattle together earn a good bit of money. The Green's down in the lower end.
I don't know, there may be a few others. Farming wouldn't account for too much
through here now.
Interviewer:
Just kind of, you grow what vegetables you need for your own use?
Mr. Proffit:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
Did you have a pretty good year this year?
Mr. Proffit: Well fair, I didn't have as much yeild as I like to have but everything
was good, I mean, all done very well, just didn't turn off too much.
Interviewer:
Yeah- I didn't get much art of my garden this year so I was wondering?
Interviewer: This is off the subject a little but do you know what nationalities
the people were that first came?
M~Proffit:
Pretty well. I'd say that practical all of them, the first one's
English, course its' a mixture after all. We got in t .h e country now, the origial, we got English, Welsh, Irish, Scotish, a trace of Belgian, some Danish,
German, and Dutch. I don't know of anything else. Practically all of us have
got a bit of all of it. Now the Byrans is Danish. Morgan Bryan was born in
Denmark and ·.his wife was Dutch. She was ·born somewhere in the Netherlands
I think.
Interviewer:
Holland probably.
Mr. Pro ff it: Then her family moved to France and she was raised there. ~h'" y
~
me~· in P;;± i ad~lphia . .. , Th~- Prof.fit~ \<!a~ En,giish. - There Is a ·nifxfore ·a f 'possibly
Irish and certainly Scotish in the family. The Lewis'· was Welsh and the Joneses,
course we don't have any Joneses now in the community that I know of, used to be
some, And there's well been another family of two of Welsh connections. The
�15
Greens and certain others were Scottish . The
ijoleman's English but their names supposed to
it ' s called- a Viking settlement in England.
in time. But about all the families here was
than the others. After a while anything runs
Davis ' was Welsh, I overlooked them.
have come from .Danedyher- whatever
They mingled with the English people
principally English I imagine moreso
out, I reckon .
Interviewer: Has un-huh- lets see how to word this. Has as far as where people
are living now, in the homes that their living in--has Meat Camp gotton any smaller
you know people living closer together or do they--is there still a pretty good
distance between homes?
Mr . Proffit: Well, they is a lot closer than they used to be, course they're more
people . P.e say ' s (his uncle) he can remember when there weren't but a half a
dozen or so homes on Meat Camp, on the
------
Interviewer:
Uh-huh .
Are you still able to do a lot of hunting around in this area?
Mr. Proffit: Well you could some if there was anything to hunt for . It's pretty
cleared out of game now . Course the turn loose deer and bear and so on, but I
don't think they allow hunting them yet . The old native games about all gone.
Interviewer :
Were there any doctors that lived in
Mr. Proffit : Uh not that I know of.
(addressed to Uncle)
Tom Proffit:
~he
area?
Wllere did Tom Blackburn live, at Todd?
Yeah, I think so.
Mr. Proffit : I guess he was the closest one, there was one, Sutherland- Stopwell
I think. Some at Boone, but I don ' t think we ever had any on Meat Camp . The doctorin
here was done mostly by the people in the community without a license . Now Granny
Winebarger was a Doctor of sorts . Course she was mainly a midwife, but she treated
people for what they had any knowledge of.
Interviewer: They depended on a lot on the midwifes for a lot of the doctoring,
didn ' tthey? I guess deliverying babies but a lot of general medicine stuff too.
Mr. Proffit : Yeah, they treated fevers and ever so many things like that . Practically
anything except most serious things. I don't suppose they tried to set bones or
anything like that . But they had a pretty good knowledge of most of the general
ailments . Now this Granny Winebarger I mentioned was Jacobs ' wife . The one that
first settled here. Sne had a doctor book . Had, I suppose , a description of simptons
and so on, what to use to treat different things. A lot of it was superstition.
Granny Proffit was a midwife too, I don ' t knm.r if she went in for any other kind of
doctoring or not . Aunt Evan Moretz was , I believe she had a pretty good knowledge
of various things.
Interviewer :
Did they use a lot of they used a lot of herbs I guess, didn't they?
Mr. Proffit :
Oh practically all, even the doctors did back at that time .
�16
Interviewer:
Do they still grow many of those types of herbs or do they grow wild?
Mr. Proffit: They mostly grow wild, I don't know wheather anybody cultivates any
of them or not. You can still find some of them in the woods places.
Interviewer:
Do you remember who some of the first teachers were in this area?
Mr. Proffit:
Well I don't know, about a long way back Epheran Miller was a teacher.
Interviewer:
Is this the same one that was in the Civil war?
Mr. Proffit: No that a different one, his nephew. That would of been at a later
time after the war. Probabably a good many years after. I can't give you the
names of any before then, now. I don't think of any.
Interviewer: Were most of the teachers that came into this area, really at ·any
time were they, were many of them from this area originally?
Mr. Proffit: Well, I suppose they all would've been, early. Ephan w-s raised
I guess in there-- Riddles Fork section, which you would say next door at least.
Well he lived on Meat Camp too, I forgot about after he married he lived in the
Woodring hollar. So I guess he probably did live here when he was teaching here.
Course I can remember on a few would have been teaching, but that's on ahead of
where you wanted I guess.
Interviewer~
·: ~ot, 1 well
( '.Delci>;n-is-
) , Yeah . .
Mr. Proffit: Glayds Moretz was my first teacher. Eleanor Moretz was a teacher,
she lived-uh-well in the house where the Barlow boy lives now. Owen .Winebarger
was the first one I can remember I guess. I don't even know back behind them.
Burt Davis was a teacher but he lived down at Riddles Fork, too or the other side.
Interviewer : How many -uh- months when the schools, like the first schools- were
Proffits Grove church is now- how many months of the year did they go?
Mr. Proffit:
I think that was a three months school.
Interviewer:
You know what year that it was torn down?
Mr. Proffit:
No do you know? (addressed to Uncle)
Torn Proffit:
What?
Mr. Proffit:
The old school house, when was it tore down?
Torn Proffit:
I don't know, the main old one I don't know.
Mr. Proffit: Now they used it for a church building a long time after they quit
using it for a school.
Torn Proffit:
Now when I went to school the main old school that had been there,
�17
it was already tore down. That's been about 80 years ago cause I'm 85 and a little
over and that ' s first school I ever went to when Gutter(?) Moretz was the teacher .
Mr. Proffit: Now he lived on Big Hill.
Interviewer :
He traveled over here?
Mr . Proffit:
to Unclel
Yeah, I suppose he did .
Tom Proffit:
I guess he did.
I guess he went home didn't he? (addressed
Mr . Proffit: At that time they didn't mind 6 or 8 miles so much .
been a pretty good walk, maybe more than that. He lived
Course it had
---
END OF SIDE 11, TAPE 1 .
Tom Proffit:
It was usaally out about Christmas.
Mr . Proffit:
Well it would have been September probably when it started.
Interviewer: Did it interfer very much with things you know like the farming end-of what the students had to do at home?
Mr. Proffit: No I wouldn't think so, They probably would have had the work pretty
well done up by that time. Of course the children that was old enough to do much
worked with it and kept up if there was anything to do anyway.
Interviewer :
know?
What was the average number of students that went up there do you
Mr . Proffit :
Do you know how many went about? (Question addressed to his Uncle)
Tom Proffit: No it was about full, but I don ' t know if they ever kept talley or
not, how many went .
Interviewer:
Who paid the teachers?
Mr . Proffit:
How did they handle the paying then?
Tom Proffit :
I reckon they did, county one, I don't know which .
Did the state pay then or--?
Mr . Proffit : County possibly at that time . Of course the earliest one was subscription
People just paid so much for their own children. The time he's talking about I
guess it was county or state one .
Interviewer : Did teachers back then did they ever like talk to the parents of
the students very much? You know like they've got the PTA today?
Mr. Proffit:
No . No I don ' t think so .
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
�18
Mr. Proffit : How it was, was if the parents didn't like something they'd go down
and jump on the teacher . But as far as any discussion now what you mean is wherehow they are doing in school and all that, I doubt of there was much of that.
Tom Proffit :
No.
Mr. Proffit :
Have you got any other questions?
Interviewer: You mentioned a- one fellow around that was from Meat ·camp that had
been involved in politics back around the civil war .
Mr. Proffit :
Yeah, That was before . It was in the early 1800 ' s .
Interviewer:
Was there anybody after that?
Mr. Proffit: 1 don ' t know of anybody
office above the county level or not.
officers but I don ' t remember anybody
Now Spencer Blackburn was raised over
but I don't think he lived over there
Interviewer:
on Meat CAmp that ever served in any political
Of course we ' ve had commissariers and local
else that went to legislature to congress .
here on the Green Place. He was in Congress
the time he was in congress .
Is that state congress?
Mr. Proffit: No. He was national, but he was raised over close above that place
I told you about that was sold off to the developers, the Edmund Blackburn place.
I don't know how long he served, it was in I think, in the 1890's wouldn ' t it when
he was in.
Tom Proffit :
Probably was.
Mr . Proffit : I don't know how long he served he died in office. But he was a young
man yet when he died so he might not have served more than two or three terms .
Interviewer: As far as Meat CAmp conununity do you-~Has there ever been a time
when it was really ever considered as a community?
Mr . Proffit : Well of course in the earlier times it wouldn't have been . I ' d say
the main development started from about 1835 along there. The Ragan ' s family could
have lived on Meat Camp or it could have been a long ways on either side and still
have been on there property. I don't know where there orginial home was and the Greens
didn ' t live here to latter, I mean, on what we call Meat Camp now, it was on further
down . I expect Joe Miller might have been the first one to live right on--in the
valley here .
Interviewer : Say like about 1835 would they have been having conununity meetings
and that sort of things?
Mr . Proffit : No, that would have been a little to early for that . It was-He lived here then . Billy Miller on the head of the creek 2 miles apart. And
Levi Wilson- 3 or 4 families . They probably wouldn ' t have been much between them
at that time.
�19
Interviewer:
Was it refered to as
~eat
Camp at that time?
Mr. Proffit: Yeah. According to the old tales that we use--the name comes from
back when people from below the mountains would come up and hunt. They'd kill
deer and bear and so on, skin it out. And they had a place where they took the
meat and stored it to they went back. That's what give it the name. There's two
or three places that's been pointed out as the camp. Of course that's just theory
but chances are they are all right, there might have been a camp maybe on the lower
end and one on the upper end too. There's supposed to be one down in the field
I reckon you would call it or use to be a field, belongs to the Greens now. Down
the creek below Meat Camp service station in there. Some claims there was one on
the land, I guess Gene Moretz owns now. And theres a possibility that there was.
They could have stored one time at one place and the other at the other place.
Wouldn't necessarily have to be any conflict in it.
Tom Proffit:
Well the camp burnt.
That's what give it the name Meat Camp I think.
Interview.er: Has there ever been any conflict between any of the families that
have lived in this community?
Proffit: No, nothing more than just ordinary spats. No feuds or anything
like that. Actually the most of what trouble thats been here has been between
people that has moved in from somewhere else,' all the killing that I know of has
been between people that use to live somewhere else and moved in here. Of course
sometimes there'd be fights and people maybe be mad . for a few days. But in general
I imagine its been about as peaceable as any community amoung the originial
settlers.
~r.
Pause in tape
-"') Interviewer:
Do you have any more questions?
0
Interviewer:
Not that I can think of.
J
Interviewer:
I think we've pretty well covered everythin?.
Mr. Proffit:
Are you interested in mills and blacksmiths shops?
Interviewer:
Sure Anythings that's----Yeah.
Mr. Proffit: Well of course the Proffit mill I think was the first one on Meat
CAmp. I don't know when it was built but I'd say brobably by 1850 or maybe a little
before. Jacob Winebarger's very likely was the next. I don't know the date.
Thats been argued at different time but very likely in the 1860's. I think Will
said about about 1873 I think he's a little late oa it I believe it was a little
eearlier than that. I can't give you the dates now or even the order exactly
but Poula(?) Moretz had a rollar mill in the bottom where Clint Miller lives now.
Thatwas a lot later through. There was one up at the Lester Wilcox place. I think
the old wheel may be there yet, I don't remember now. The building is partly there
at least. I think the last time I noticed it the water wheel was there but it
may be gone. I wouldn't say. And there was one up above where Dean Proffit lives.
�20
Lark run it for years, Lark Miller, and--Did Willet have a mill there before Lark
did?
Tom Proffit :
I don't know, probably did have.
Mr . Proffit : He had one somewhere in there . Gene Moretz had one on up above
his house. I think its still there water wheel and building at least or was a
few years ago . I don't remember if there's anymore or not . Jacob Winebarger had
a blacksmith shop back early, and latter Will Winebarger had one . I believe the
old building is there yet . Noah Winebarger had one between the road and the creek
just across from the Harvey Trivette house. Hosea Miller had a shop up upon the
mountain a little .
Interviewer :
Do blacksmiths work on wagons as well as on the horses?
Mr. Pro f fit :
Yeah .
Interviewer:
They were kinda like the early auto mechanics I guess.
Mr . Proffit : Yeah it was pretty good business putting tires on wagons wheels .
They used Iron tires on them. They'd weld the tires and put them on the wheels
and they made other metal pieces that had to be used on wagons . They fired plows
and things like that.
Interviewer: Did they do any tanning or anything the blacksmiths, or would they
let someone else?
Mr. Proffit : I don't think so. That would have been-or might be somebody that
could about everything might have probably-- I don't think it was connected with
the blacksmith work.
Show us an Iron .
Mr. Proffit : Ther ' s an iron Noah Winebarger put a handle in .
broke off he made that one .
The handle got
Interviewer :
Do they set this in coals or something set this in and get it hot?
Mr. Pro f fit:
I don't know how it was done .
Interviewer:
You would think he bought it like this .
Mr. Proffit:
Welded without a torch at that time.
Interviewer :
They welded this without any torch that's amazing .
But he welded the handle in it .
Mr . Pro f fit: They heated the two pieces of metal red hot and put borers on that
piece that was welded to it and hammered it together.
Interviewer:
Uh-huh.
�21
Interviewer:
I don't think I'd like that job.
shows us a device used to make shoes
Mr. Proffit:
Put the shoe on there and hanuner it.
Interviewer: Did they--! read somewhere that use to---that they use to didn't
make shoes for right and · left feet they made so that they could fit on either
foot.
Mr.
Proffit:
Laura Proffit:
there too?
I've heard that, I don't know whether it's right or not.
There use to be one size bigger than that like that.
Mr. Proffit:
That's the only one that's here.
Tom Proff i t:
Is it under
I thought there was two or three in that outfit.
Mr. Proffit: Peopl~ made there oym shoes back then too.
for others. Roby Bryan could make shoes.
Interviewer:
Few people made them
Where they just all leather is that how they'd make them, the material?
Mr. Prof f it: I think so. Yeah.
like that for soles, then.
END OF INTERVIEW , .
I don't suppose they had any rubber or anything
MIDDLE OF SIDE 1.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Skelton, Joseph
Proffit, Deloris
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Proffit, Robert
Interview Date
10/3/1980
Number of pages
21 pages
Date digitized
9/24/2014
File size
14.7MB
Checksum
alphanumeric code
d5ab4a2ab3eac00fce47d679659e8c62
Scanned by
Tony Grady
Equipment
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal; non-commercial; and educational use; provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965-1989; W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection; Special Collections; Appalachian State University; Boone; NC). Any commercial use of the materials; without the written permission of the Appalachian State University; is strictly prohibited.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
AC.111 Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965 - 1989
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape490-1_RobertProffit_transcript_M
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Robert Proffit [October 3, 1980]
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Document
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Skelton, Joseph
Proffit, Deloris
Proffit, Robert
Subject
The topic of the resource
Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History
Mountain life--North Carolina--Ashe County--History
Mountain life--North Carolina--Wilkes County--History
Mountain life--North Carolina--Avery County--History
Description
An account of the resource
Robert Proffit talks about Meat Camp's early history from the first settler John Green in 1788. Over the next few decades, people began to trickle in to Western North Carolina. He talks about the first churches in the area: Hopewell Methodist Church and Meat Camp Church. He also describes the civil war, how many members of the community enlisted with the confederate army, but after the war there wasn't much difference in Meat Camp. Proffit explains Meat Camp well with this statement: "there was never anything here to begin with except just natural things."
Ashe County
Avery County
Big Hill
blacksmith
Boone
David Miller
Early Settlers
H&T Chair
herbs
herbs and roots
Hopewell Methodist Church
John Green
Meat Camp
Meat Camp Church
Proffit's Grove Church
Riddles Fork
Robert Proffit
roots
Spencer Blackburn
tobacco warehouse
Watauga County N.C.
Wilkes County
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/6fea2764da0a51cffc6bbb54b3ddd5f3.pdf
e066c8695761f7b985d295249ebb8550
PDF Text
Text
Interview with Ruth South on October 15 ,".:. 1980, by Wade Hyder and Deloris Proffit.
It was preformed at her house.
Interviewer:
With Ruth South from Meat Camp.
Interviewer: I like find out something about the general history, you know,
about weaving in the mountians, or about how you learned how to weave?
Mrs. South: The way I started was-- I was working on the NYA now you know
that was the national youth adminisration under President Roosevelt. That's
back when there was no jobs, and not very many people went to school. It was
only the---mostly the rich people and the ones that could worked t heir way
through and the.re was not working places for everybody to go like there are
now. And a --- so I was sixteen you had to be sixteen to get a job so I started
working on the NYA and you worked two weeks and you stayed home two weeks.
And you worked nine hours a week. Nine hours that would be eighteen--Did
you turn the stove off? (directed toward her son) See we worked-Mike South:
That's on tape Mamrna.
Ruth South: And I think --anyway I made eighteen dollars that's the way it
was. It was nine dollars a week instead of nine hours. We made eighteen
dollars for two weeks. And then I stayed fiome so another girl could work.
And she did the same job that I did whicn was when I first out I was. a time
keeper and they had the--they had three, four different places. They had
the college cafeteria where they canned the food that the boys grew and the
girls canned it. And they had Green Heights they called it. That was the
house belongs to -- belongs to Mr. Hodges up on Green Heights there in Boon~.
That's where they made quilts. The girls went in and made quilts and they
let the poor people have them for just the material cost, which was very little.
And then out on the Bristol road a little ways, which we didn't go out there,
they had another set up there. They made mattresses for people, you know,
to go beds.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
They made handmade mattress's?
They made hand made mattresses.
Would that have been like down or----
Mrs. South: Cotton, they used cotton in it. Now I was out there a time or
two and the girls would get up on that and just tromp, tromp~ tromp to get
it padded down because they were hard now.
Interviewer:
Where did you say that was at?
Mrs. South: That was out on the Bristol road about where Bue Hodge has his
body shop. Right about there somewhere. And then they had of course the
Watauga Handcraft center there where you did your weaving which was somehow
connected enough with the state until they allowed her to have two girls working there. And I don't remember one of the girls was Irene Coffey, and I
don't remember the other one.
�2
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Who was running Watauga Industries?
Elizabeth Lord, because she started it in 1938.
Intervie~er:
1938 she started it?
were 16 when you went to work?
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
So what would this have been when you
1940.
1940, oh well i'm not very
~ood
at math.
Mrs. South: Yeah, that was in 1940, because that was the year of the flood,
year of the flood was the first year I worked there. Was that 40 or 41?
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
You hear of the forty flood.
You haven't read about that?
Oh, I've heard about all my life, I don't think I've ever read.
Mrs. South: Yeah it was forty, 1940 I think. Well we worked that way awhile
I had to do mine in walking I didn'~ _ have a car to drive. So I would go from
Green Heights that's up above where Smitheys store is up on that hill. And
I would walk down and go down by the crafts shop first and I'd get the girls
time and take it down and it was very interesting to me and I'd look around.
And then I'd go by the college cafeteria where the girls were warki~ g and
I learned to meet a lot of people that way. And then I'd go back to Headquarters where I started. Well I learned that I had some time extra and if I went
the other way around I could spend more time in that craft shop. So I started
then down college street and came down by the cafeteria first and did that
real quick. And then I went up Hardin Street up to the craft shop and I'd
stay there till almost 4:30. And I liked the lady
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Getting there about when?
Beg your pardon.
Gettin~---getting
there about when?
Mrs. South: I'd stay there till about 4:30, just in time for me to get up
to headquarters at 4:30, and get the time in. So. I learned to like the lady
and she did me. And the place soon -- I mean it all soon fell through you know
the money gave out. And there was no more of it-- no more of it anywhere.
Interviewer:
The whole NYA?
Mrs. South: The whole NYA and the WPA now that was another thing that was
going on at the same time was for older men. Because my father worked some on
that and helped build some of the looms there in the craft shop.
Interviewer:
Oh really.
�• I
3
Mrs. South: Well when the money gave out, natually it fell through. But
times had picked up a little till people could get a few jobs. So I was going
then in the dime store to put in an application for a job . When I meet up
with this lady . And you know when it closed dovm I just didn't go back .
So she asked me what I was going to do and I told her . And she said would
you like to work for me at the same price that you ' re getting. And I said
yes I would . And so I worked but it was steady work--it was all the time
you know, not just two weeks . But they soon grew and they begin pating me
more money, never alot of money but I was making instead of 9 dollars a week
when I finally quit there I was making something like 75 dollars .
Interviewer: What kind of a place was it then?
a craft shop?
Was it a weaving school or
Mrs. South: Yes, yes it was a non-profit organization where she had a gift
shop there where she tried to sell things for the people that made them . And
you know,
Interviewer:
Like consignment work.
Mrs . South: Like consignment most of it was on consignment. And when she
sold something she was so tickled to write the person a check for that .
And it grew to be a good money making place . I mean a place for-- to a benefit
the community, you know, and not just for one person. That was the intention
of the plac~ was to help all the people to make a little more income .
Interviewer: Who bought most of the stuff? What was it people from the _
university or were there lots of people from outside the area?
Mrs . South : In later years it wa-. But at first they were people up north,
they called them the good Lutherans because they were the people that had given
Miss Jeffcoate the money to buy the lot there.
Interviewer:
Miss Jeffcoate.
She proceeded Elizabeth Lord?
Mrs . South : No-- --UH-huh Yeah she did . And she----- she had paralysis and she
never did weave much she was never married but she raised two daughters from
uh-- they were Townsends and they were ·from the Lutheran church over in-What was the name of the place daddy?
Austin South:
Mrs. South :
Interviewer :
Valle Gruis .
Yeah. Valle Gruis .
Oh .
Mrs. South: And she educated both those girls, Lois and Annie Alice and
they're both school teachers now .
Interviewer:
idea?
What was her interest in starting the place?
Do you have any
�4
Mrs . South : Just to help somebody . She just -- she wanted to do pomething
to help . She herself had been a school teacher and then she had a stroke
and it paralized let's see her left side . And then of course she got retirement
you see and had money coming in to live on . There was no social security
I ' m sure I doubt if she had enough to live on . She had a home, and then she
just wanted to help somebody else .
Interviewer: So it kinda started as a weaving school and then the whole
NYA thing helped to
~~~~-
Mrs . South: Yes it started first as just connnunity people coming in to weave
and they would buy the thread . Miss Lord would, and just let the peopl~ . pay
and that's the way it went on the NYA . There was never no charge for anybody
weaving there . I don't know how much you paid. I don ' t know how much they
charge now.
Interviewer:
Yeah, its still real good .
Mr . Carlson's a wonderful man I think.
Mrs . South : Yeah I think so . He doesn't need a great deal of money out of it
either and I think he's trying to keep it a whole lot like
~~~~~-
Interviewer : He still- --he lets--Our weaving teacher is Susan Sharp and he
lets her, you know, he just wants the looms being used so he lets her give
classes there. And try to have as many students as she can, to fill those
12 or 13 looms how ever many they are.
Mrs. South :
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
Well that's good they should be in use .
Well they are they are all in use
ri~ht
now.
Well that's good.
Interviewer : He doesn't take any kind of cut for the fee she gets for the
classes. Re just lets her use the looms, So that traditon is still going .
Mrs . South: Well that's good. They are not his anyway, they are like all
other school equipment like these mobile buildings, you know, mobile units
that they took to the school house, and they don't belong to any one individual
you know, it's like the board of education or however they-- it's like any
of the public schools .
Interviewer:
Yeah I see .
Mrs . South: Those looms and that building now is the same thing because the
state paid so much of Miss Lords salary 1/4 of it and the 3/4 she made in the
shop. And they paid 1/4 of mine after I got up and could do more and could
help out more .
Interviewer: I see . So back in the forties and the state was helping to keep
that place going so that for the craft purpose so that weaving could be preserved or?
�..
5
Mrs. South: Yes, and still to help the people like there's a lot of people
now--now like Stella Barnes over here-- he (Austin South) was just at her
house and delivered her some saugasge. She used to work as a~--- in the
dormitory at the college. Then later her husband got sick, she needed to be
at home with him and she wanted to learn how to weave. So she could go there
and learn and just pay for her--- the material she made. And I don't know
she ah-- shes a real young lady now--- she's past 70 I'm sure, but its amazing
what she weaves.
Interviewer:
Un-Huh.
She does beautiful things.
Mrs. South: Yeah she does. And she goes to the fair. She goes to the Southern
Living Show. She belongs to the Southern Highland Guild, and she goes there
and now that her husband's gone she's still, you know, able to help herself.
Interviewer: So you started working with Miss LOrd then--- then you learned
how to weave or?
Mrs. South: Oh yes, yes. That was the first thing I did was learn how to
weave so I could help the other weavers. The new ones that came in. And
what they did we tried to keep all the looms busy all the time and ah-- the
policy was you must come enough consective days to finish the project that
you were working on. Like she would not let you start a covelet if you didn't
plan to come on and finish that cause that takes several days. But people
were very good to come and finish , but a lot of the times they wouldn't come
back to get their things.
Interviewer:
Just leave them for the shop to sell?
Mrs. South: Un-huh. And of course Miss Lord never did do that. We always
we had little scales and we weighted and some of the threads was only 3 cents
an ounce I remember and a guest towel might be 6 cent s. They would be a little
more charged for the pattern that went in it than the plain, you know ~ And
a guest towel would be 6 cents. Of course that's not today I'll tell yo u.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Oh boy.
Linen in 17 dollars a pound now. Whew-----
Yeah Are you doing Linen?
No I haven't tried it yet.
I tried wool today for the _first time.
Mrs. South: You need to come back and finish that piece you worked on down
there. Cause I've never touched it.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
came out.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
I'd be glad to.
I uncovered it here sometime back to show to Dr. Mc Gallion that
Have you much time to do weaving lately?
I've made what 2 covelets since I got out of camp Daddy?
And right
�6
now this past week I've been working on some curtains like this for our daughter
that's moving into a new house, only they go all the way down, the lace goes
all the way down.
Interviewer:
That's real pretty.
Mrs. South: And I'm doing that of linen. But I had some and then mamma went
in and got me a pound from Mr. Carlson the other day. So there's (points to
bedspread) one bedspead I've been working on at night. And of course you saw
the ones that they had up at the college didn't you.
Interviewer:
You had lots of pretty things there.
Mrs. South: Well now my neice is going to have an exhibit. Its going up in
December. I don't think it'll be open to the public until Janurary. But it'll
run for a month I think.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Where is this at?
In the same building.
Farthing.
Un-huh.
I see.
So your neice is a weaver too.
Mrs. South: Un- huh. Toni carlton you may know her. Do you know her? She
graduates what was it last spring. And she's going to have ~ a bed there that
she made. She made her own loom. And then of course she's does modern weaving.
Interviewer:
And you do the traditional?
Mrs. South: Un-huh. And she'll have some modern things there that's she has
made. So it'll probably be interesting for you to go there and see that.
Interviewer: Yeah, I'd like to see that. They--How many looms did they have
when you started down there with Watauga industries?
Mrs. South: Ithink about 12. I couldn't say that,you know, for an exact figure but I believe it was twelve.
Interviewer:
Well just general.
And what kind of fibers did you work with then?
Mrs. South: Linen. We used a lot of linen then. I don't think they use quite
as much linen now. And of course we used a lot of home spun wool. Now that
blue covelet that you saw up at the Farthering was home spun wool. And a lot
of the women in the community made covelets. The material was 2 dollars a
pound. It took 3 pounds of material to make one covelet and the fringe. Now
that didn't count the little extra tabby that goes through, you know, between
your pattern but now I don't know if you can get that home spun wool dyed like
we got it. Now you might be able to get it. No~ I think over at Mouth of Wilson
�7
they have it undyed tha t you can dye yours e lf.
Interviewer: Dorothy Townsend has some that, you know, she spuned as used
those natural dyes on them. But they are all--- I keep looking but the scanes
are, you know, so small that you could make somehting but you could go to a lot
of trouble.
Mrs. South: Yeah a lady brought me up some samples. I guess they must have
been 12 or 15 different colors beautiful colors that she had dyed.
Interviewer:
So you've worked with homespun wool7
Mrs. South: Yes I've worked with it, I've woven with it.
I spun some one time.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
I've never dyed it.
Did you?
Un-huh.
Did you like doing that?
Did I like to?
Do you like spinning?
Mrs. South: I loved that. I was just about 16 through. And my grandmother
West and I spun enough--- Well actually a lady in that community where I lived
then helped me spin it and then my grandmother dyed it and knitted me a pair
of gloves and each finger was a different color.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
that.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Oh.
Cause you get a lot of di f ferent colors or we did when she dyed
Depending on how many times you dip it?
Dip in the dye, yeah.
Interviewer: You were saying that went from up above Smitheys around to your
job. Is that where you--- You grew up in Boone? In tgown~~~
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Well up on Deck Hill.
You know where that is?
No.
Mrs. South: You go out by where the Unemployment of fice is now.
are building the new shopping center.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Where they
Yeah all right.
Yeah all right.
You go out that way and instead of going right up
�8
Winkler creek you go strignt up the hill .
Interviewer :
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
0 . K. I know where Deck Hill is.
And a lot of times I walked all the way from home .
Did you go to at-- --?
Mrs. South : I went to school at cool springs through the seventh grade and
then I went to the eight at Blowing Rock. We were nearer Blowing ,.Rock schoo~ than
we were Boone at that time .
Interviewer:
So you went to High School at Blowing Rock?
Mrs . South : Un- huh, Then I went to night school at Boone after I started
working for Miss Lord. You know, they had night school back during the war.
When people had to work during the day .
Interviewer :
Austin South:
Interviewer:
I see .
What about Berea?
What were you studying at night school?
Mrs. South : I took a business course . I never used it to much, I think
I've gotton a lot of good out of the math that I took and of the writing .
But the snorthand and typing I've never done much with that . And then each
year I would goto school either over at Pendelum or Berea one. I was in Berea
the year I got engaged to him. And lets see how long was I there, 3 weeks .
Austin South:
3 weeks .
Mrs . South: And I always enjoyed the places cause I always, you know, got to
make things .
Interviewer :
You studied weaving at both Pendelun and Berea?
Mrs . South: Yes un- huh. I did some wood work at Berea . I did a little chest.
and then at Pendelum I did some Pewter work. I made some pewter candle sticks .
Interviewer :
Mrs . South:
Oh .
But mostly it was weaving.
Interviewer : What was Pendulum like then in the sense of people who were
.going there to learn crafts . I said just because its so expensive now.
Mrs. South : It was a lot like it was at the craft shop over here. It was
a lot the same way because they were helping their community people too . I
think its very expensive now . And of course you stay there now and of course we
�9
stayed there. They had rooms like dormitories and it didn't cost very much
for us to stay for 2 or 3 weeks. We'd go f rom 2 or maybe 3 weeks when--like when it was a dull time at the craft shop over here.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mrs. South: And she would take me with her and I really enjoyed it.
it was about .the only place I really got to go.
Interviewer:
Caus e
How long did you work at the craft shop?
lfrs. South: I worked 18 · year with her and then she got sick. What year was
it daddy about 58 I believe. She got sick she had cancer and had an operation
but she still wanted to go back and work part time so I went .and tried to
pitch in for her until she got able to go back. But really she never did
get able to go back. So when she passed away in 61, then the place was up.
Miss Jef fcoate was still living and she wanted me to take it and run it. But
I was trying to, you know, help educate our children and help him out a little.
So I needed to ma~e more money--- I needed a way tnat I knew I could have
some money every month. Instead of, you know,
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
got it.
Interviewer:
The risk.
The risk of making it myself there.
How long has she been gone?
So that's when Mrs. Carlson
Did she pass away?
Mrs. South: I heard them talking up at the camp this summer when she passed
away. Do you remember daddy?
Austin South:
No I don't.
Mrs. South: It was about 65. It was not to long after Miss Lord passed away
I think around 65. I'm sure you wouldn't want to ask ~r. Carlson. But I think
it wa s around then.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
And Mr. Carlson's had it ever since
Un- huh, He's kept it.
Interviewer: Tha t's great.
know if you know her?
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
t~en?
:.~o,
That's great.
Sandy his grand-daughter--I don't
but mamma does.
She's real interested, a real good weaver too.
She's real good.
Mrs. South: Mama likes her. She went over to teach her to tie fringe and
she likes her. She said she was nice. Mr. Carlson's been real nice to my
mother to take her weaving and sell it. And he sells a lot f or her.
�10
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Whats her name?
Her name is Nellie Carlton.
0. K.
I've meet her too.
Mrs. South: Now what about this movie that 's coming up this Friday night.
afi- What's---The American Herion-- How you say that I can't---- - Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
see that.
Interviewer:
Herion
Un-huh.
That's going to be shown this Friday night and you should
What's that about?
Mrs. South: It's about the
well not only mountain women but she a
---Stella Stevens made it and she made a lot of pictures of a
weaving
here.
Interviewer:
Oh really.
Mrs. South: And other things. And then also it has other people, you know,
from Hew York and California and all its a way of life of a lot of people from
a lot of places.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Austin South:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Yeah, American Beroion.
So a--- And it will be shown in the Greer.
Did I say the Greer?
The Greer Autotorian.
Autototian on Friday night beginning at 9:00.
Uh--That would be nice to see.
Yeah
you should see that.
I hope she's a
----
Is your mother in it?
Mrs. South: Yes my mother's in it and Toni is in it. And I believe Stella
Barnes over here is in it and Kathren Smith the Art teacher that was at the
college for so long. She'll be in it. And I really don't know there's some
other people from up on Meat Camp in it too, but I'm sure. Do you know anything
about it Deloris?
Deloris:
No.
Interviewer:
When did you get your own loom?
Mrs. South: When I got my own loom was a
When did we go-- when did I go to
Bevard with you Austin? And we married in 45 in August and was it that spring?
�11
Austin South :
Yeah .
Mrs . South : Of
suprise for me.
Interviewer:
4~ .
That Miss Lord had my father make me a loom.
It was a
Oh how nice.
Mrs . South: But and but she - -- he was a person that he- - - he did real good
work didn't he daddy? But he was out a working all the time and he never
thought and I never thought really how important it would be for me to have
a loom of my own. Because certainly I could never go out and buy the looms
at the price they are . But she had him make me one . And that was the big
one that was right behind the one that you worked on. Now he helped make that
one that you worked on .
Interviewer : That was neat . And so did you start selling things in the shop?
Or did you first start marketing?
Mrs . South : Yeah , right along then . She had me put-- . I said what should
I put on my loom and of course she had me do it up, you know, she said I think
it would be nice to put on a 18 inch warp and do runners and towels . I could
do runners and towels and placemats and napkins all on that same width .
Interviewer:
Width .
Mrs . South: And so I moved that loom around . I had it up at his house in the
bedroom and he later moved it upstairs for me and then when we moved into
this house we had it back in that room over there . And then eventually we
moved it down in the garage and that ' s where it stayed. But I use to use-weave off and I ' d go up there to put my warps on . Now he made me a thing
here I have the whole apparatus to do my own warping here.
Interviewer :
Oh he did, and he made that, the warper?
Mrs. South : He made that for me, uh-huh, but I used to have to carry it up
there . And I ' d weave 3 110 yards warps every year.
Interviewer : Boy, that ' s a lot of weaving Three 110 yard warps .
were still working with the 18 inch?
And you
Mrs . South : No, no now after I did this one 18 inch warp, and then she said
You know, I think you could make the most money on a 36 inch warp on your
loom and make aprons . I could make skirts, and I could make runners to with
hemming the ends of fringing the ends and hemming the sides . And theres still
many things you can do on one loom . But she said the material for the aprons
would-- would be less expensive than the linen which I was using on the 18
inch loom.
Interviewer :
Right .
Mrs . South: And I don ' t know . Austin ' s mother she use to help me hem the
strings and help me watch the children . We had 3 little ones and he was away
working . And she said I know you must have everybody in the United States an
�12
apron now.
And I'm sure she felt like it cause I made a lot didn't I Austin?
Austin South:
Interviewer:
Yeah.
What did you use for the apron?
What kind of material?
Mrs. South: We used what they called a sea island mercerized which last almost
as long as linen but ah it was just a highly mercerized cotton.
Interviewer:
What does that mean?
What does Mercerized mean?
Mrs. South: Mercertized that means that it is spun and spun and spun more
times adn twisted tighter.
Interviewer:
I see into a tougher fiber.
Mrs. South: And some of it really has a shine ta it. Like its been polished
or dipped in dye or something, out its only by the spinning of it.
Interviewer :
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
I see.
That makes it.
What does worsted mean on wool?
Worsted, I think you 've got me there.
I'm not quite sure.
It might just be something about the lanolin or something.
Mrs. South: It is and its something about the twist of it I'm sure.
the homespun ah-- we know what that was.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Explain that process.
Now
How would-- How would somebody get that?
Do homespun wool?
Yeah.
Mrs. South: 0. K. You took the wool, the raw wool which ah-- Mr. Hodgeson
up here above you all used to buy it they said from the people and ah--then he'd sell it to companies, you know, where they made it . You take the
raw wool, you wash it first . Then you card it, card it first . You get all
the twigs and anything, the spots anything that's in it out. And with the
cards you make it into a little role. And then you pack those roles up.
I've seen my grandmother West have a pack as high as this here. And they'll
lie right together you see but it won't mash together. But th~y would never
fall over. And then she'd get her spinning wheel up by it. And you take
one of those roles which was about 12 inches long and you start with your
spinning wheel and then as you spin you take another one and it catches right
into the end of this one as this is twisting around it'll catch into the one
that you have in your hand. And that's the way they do the homespun. Now
the worsted- they- I don't know what. They must do something with a machine
with that.
�13
Interviewer: It's not that important I'm sure I could look it up. I just
saw it on a packet of thread . I just started working on, and I wandered what
it meant.
Mrs . South : Yeah, I think that's something that they are doing with a machine
to it the worsted .
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
I see.
Oh I love
END OF SIDE 1.
Uh- What fibers do you like to use most now?
�14
SIDE 11
Mrs. South:
I've never tried to dye any, its easier to buy it.
Interviewer: Yeah. Also since you're such a good weaver why spend your time
doing something like that. Ah---I'm just real vauge on this but I know you
had a real honor in this last year with one of your pieces, didn't you get
some kind of a recognition?
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer :
Yes.
What was that?
Let me show it to you.
What was the award?
I'll show you.
To modest to say?
Mrs. South~ A work of excellence; which I was really pleased with that as
much as the money that was in it.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Carolina Designer Craftsman award for a work of Excellence.
Now they only gave one for the whole state.
Oh really, that's great.
Un-huh.
I was really tickled with it.
When did you get that?
In April of this year.
Well that's great.
Mrs. South: I look terrible there. ( She showed us a book with her picture
and the award winning covelet in it.) So look at the covelet and not me.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Oh, that's pretty.
That's the picture they made of it that night.
Did you do the lace too?
No, my mother tied the lace, I can't take credit for that.
Do you know how to do lace?
I know how and I have a rack that my father made me before he
�15
died, and I've got some dark brown yarn that I 'm going to learn on. I think
if I, you know, do some soil of something or, you know, you can wear it out
trying to learn. I'm going to try to do it myself,because I do want to learn
to before, you Rnow, while she's still living. But she does tie pretty fringe.
Interviewer :
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
really nice.
What's this pu°blication?
That's the whole
show ~
42th annual North Carolina Art and Artists expedition.
That's
Mrs. South: Yes, I 'd had an invitation, I guess they got my name through the
guild probably. I have belonged to the guild since in a----I believe---in
probably the middle forties.
Interviewer:
The southern highland?
Mrs. South: Un-huh. I 've got an invitation every year.
did get around to getting anything in .
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer :
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
But I just never
Is this the first year you've ever submitted?
That's the first time.
That's the first time you submitted?
Yes it was.
Oh boy,
you must just
------
Mrs. South: And ah--- so when I went up to get the award this lady came up
to me and she------ of course you feel out a blank, you know, if you want the
gallery to sell it or if you don't want it sold. You put a not for sell on it.
So this lady ran up to me as I went down the steps and she said now I want
to buy that covelet, and of course I was ' all shook up anyway and I said I don't
know about that, it 's here at the gallery now and I said they're supposed to
sell it, you know, and they 've got there commission and she said well that's
all right I 'm with the gallery. So I want it and she did. The covelet was
sold already before I got over there. But then here is her letter even.
I saved it .
Interviewer :
Mrs. South:
Interviewer :
Miss Lord?
The Whigrose pattern?
Un-huh.
Is that the one
------~
Did you learn that
e~~ly
on with
Mrs . South: Yes, we did a whig rose. It was not exactly like mine. If you ~
notice the blue one that was hanging up there, was one that I did at the craft
shop in 19.40, or probably 41. And it was a little smaller design than the one
�16
I made here. Interviewer: Someone was telling me, I can't remember who it was~ how Ruth
South made her whig rose . You round out your whig rose a little bit more or
something you did yourself to the pattern .
Mrs . South: Yes. Mine's different from Mr. Godwins. Now they say the old
ones were like his. They were kindly long shaped. But the only covelets I've
ever seen, and we had one that was about a hundred year old there at the craft
shop, made in two colors. And it was fairly round.
Interviewer: They were really impressed with something you'd done . I don't
know if it was in the pattern ah--you know, the treadling ·
?
Mrs. South: Yeah, the treadling now that little loom that was setting there.
I made that pattern that was on that. Now it's just like this only its a smaller
I just took out threads now and then and made it smaller .
Interviewer: With a-----Did you learn most of the traditional patterns themselves, like the whig rose and honeysuckle like those at Watauga handcrafts?
Mrs . South: Yes, yes. ~ow I have books with all the patterns in it. Mary
Hardin down at Lily mills, I've bought so much thread, gave one by Margaret
Graham, I believe, one of the better books with all the patterns in it . But
you know I've never used one of them.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Oh really.
I just stick to the old ones.
What are your favorite patterns?
}!rs. South: Oh my favorite one is the whig rose. And of course sweet brair
beauty is what I had on my apron loom so long. Now that's a pretty pattern too.
Interviewer:
What did you like for the towels?
Mrs . South: The towels I had sweet brair beauty. And ah--- one time I did put
two
no I had another loom that I put another towel warp on and single
snowball on it.
Interviewer: I saw some of your placemats with yarn that you did snowball
on it at Watauga handcrafts.
I was going to get you to go
Mrs . South: Yeah that's what I've got on
- - pick me up that loom tonight Mike, of all the looms I've got I still go up to
the camp and borrow one of their looms .
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
~
. _._., ., .
,.,
_, ' ,
What do you do at camp Yonahlossee?
I teach weaving to the girls?
-
..
,.
-
.;
~··
·- ..
~-
'
.....
·-1
(
:
1
I'
"
,-· ,
..
',. '
~
-
i..
':. ,7
.-
(
~ . J
l
�17
Interviewer :
Is that an all girls camp?
Mrs. South : Un-huh, it's an all girls camp .
214 girls . All the time .
Interviewer :
And this year they had around
All of them learn?
Mrs. South : Most of them most of them . I usually try to, well I get everyone
that wants to at all. Now there ' s a few that brin~ there on horses up and thats
about all they want to do. Well ther ' s a few that like to go sailing and
swimming. And of course they swim there and they go to Watauga Lake and sail
Well they don't do much weaving.
Interviewer:
Then there's some that get real interested in reading.
Mrs . South : Yeah some of them get real interested . Now this year I had a
helper that was a camper with me for about six or seven years . And she wove
a lot every year, she was very interested in it . And she wants a loom. And
by the way her mother taught weaving there as a couseler several years ago
and her father is a doctor . Let ' s see he's a
I forget if he's a neurosurgeon or a heart doctor . But she wants a loom sometime, when she gets through
school .
Interviewer :
Mrs . South:
Interviewer :
How many looms do you have up there to work with?
Twelve .
Twelve .
Mrs. South: Un-huh . Seems like twelve is a good number, because twelve is
what the Caldwell community college required me to have here .
Interviewer:
Mrs . South :
Interviewer :
You taught for Caldwell community college?
Un-huh .
Did you use the Watauga Handcrafts?
Mrs. South : No I didn't use any of there looms, because I have five down
here and I had my father had made mamma and me one together and then I borrowed
one of her others- was seven and then: ,I got the rest from the camp.
Interviewer:
How many looms does your mother have?
Mrs. South : She has one of her own. A big one like mine my father made for
her. Then she has one that Miss Lord gave me for her to use as long as she
wasnted it.
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
Interviewer:
Did she get interested in weaving after you did?
Yes .
That's interesting.
�18
Mrs. South: Yes. My mother use to tie fringe for the knotted bedspreads.
And she would pull roots and herbs, she would pull galax and things like that
and she did some hooking like hooked rugs, hooked chair backs and hot mats
for the table. She did that for a long time. And Miss Lord asked her one
day, you know, there was a requirement for students there then, just like
with Susie with her weaving. If the state paid so much of her salary then they
had to be so many students being taught all the time and so that's why we tried
to keep all the looms busy. And a--- so Miss Lord said, you should get your
mother to weave. So I asked my mother about it she said well will you teach
me? I said no you got to get Miss Lord to teach you cause she'll teach you
the right way. She was a good teacher.
Interviewer:
Was she, I've heard that.
Mrs. South: So she did go a time or two, you know, then after she got her
own loom while I usually do. There's one thing she don't like to do is tie
up the looms if a string breaks or something like that. She don't like to
do that. And then eventually, Miss Lord of course, we were needing another
student and she said why don't you get your aunt to weave so my aunt Fatta,
my mother's sister weaves too. And they have taken
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Your sister weaves to doesn't she?
Yeah, My sister can weave.
She has dark hair doesn't she?
Mrs. South: Yeah. She worked there at the craft shop for a long time. Yeah
she can weave and my other baby sister can weave, out they didn't like to
as much as I did.
Interviewer:
Your aunt is a weaver too?
Mrs. South: Yeah my aunt is a good weaver. She's a very good weaver. She
came over just a couple of weeks ago and put a warp on her loom. Well now
she and my mother took over a lot of my orders. When I started working at
the camp I quit doing a lot of orders that I always did and so they took those
over for me. Especially the aprons.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Did they make the aprons that we have at Watauga handcrafts?
Un-huh.
They sure did.
Are they linen?
Mrs. South: No now those ate the mercertized.
aprons. But Miss Lord thought
We still do the mercertized
0
Interviewer: What about the linen placemats and stuff, do they weave a lot
of that stuff?
Mrs. South:
Yes, my mother weaves a lot of linen and I'm doing linen in the
�19
curtains I'm doing for Teresa.
Pause in tape
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
And what have you been making?
I've got work with cotton.
Pause in tape
Mrs. South:
same thing.
And you've got to, you know, . be able to fill orders, and do the
They want the same thing.
Interviewer: Just people saw your stuff and started asking you could you make
me one? That kind of thing?
Mrs. South: Yeah that happens a lot of times especially while I was working
the re. They'd come in and see something in the selve maybe I had done. I
put weaving in there while I was working there.
Interviewer:
Un-huh.
Mrs. South: Or maybe that. someone else had done but they wanted a different
color or a different size or something like that, and I've done a lot of special
orders. I don't like to do special orders as well as I do just like if my
guild shop, see there's five of them and if I keep them supplied with aprons.
They say send me three dozen aprons they say a dozen and half o f the colonial
patterns and they say a dozen and a half of strips. We make them with four
different colored strips. You've. probably seen them there at the craft shop.
Well you know that's a lot easier to. You can make say four or five at a time
of one color which cuts down on your time if you're go i ng into it for production.
Interviewer:
Right.
Mrs. South:But it would be nice just to sit down and make something and just,
you know, not know what you're going to make, not know what's going to come
out. I'm going to do that sometime. Just, you know, make up a new pattern
and see what I can make.
Interviewer:
It's just real f un to do.
Mrs. South: I know its really, its a lot like a painting you don't know just
how its going to look, until you get it painted.
Interviewer:
What makes you like weaving so much?
Mrs. South: Well I guess its because its about all I've ever done, except
what little housekeeping, Mike knows thats not much of course I used to sew
I did sewing for the kids and always £or myself. I've always made all our
clothes until
, I don't know there's still as many hours in a day
as there ever was but somehow they get gone faster or I've got a lot slower
one.
�20
Interviewer:
The wood and the pewter didn't do that much for you?
Mrs. South: No, no that didn't. I enjoy just doing that and I made a silver
bracelet once. I enjoyed doing it and I also made a stencil dress. I liked
that a little.
Interviewer:
Stencil Dress?
Mrs. South: Un-huh. You cut out your own stencil you made your ovm design,
and they had paints and then you set it with white vinegar and I liked that
quite a lot but still not as much as weaving. And I guessed that I liked
it because, you know, I could make a little money at it, I've never made
a lot of money but it was a way I could make a little and be at home with
the family.
Interviewer: That's a nice situation. You say youstarted at the craft shop,
people would have seen your things, creating a demand for them, then was like
the next stage starting at the craft guild?
Mrs. South: Yes, that was a good thing, in helping me sell my things, because
once I got in the guild, you know, you submit your things and they know what
you make and they like it and then they order it and they have it in their
shops and I've never had anything that I didn't sell that I couldn't sell.
In fact I've ne~er made anything much to keep at home. Like I did make a
couple of these curtains about 25 years ago the -----. Ones suppose to te in
the other room but I've got it down right now. And maybe a bath mat in the
bathroom. And one time I did make some curtains for a bedroom which I got
a thread from, it was somewhere in Ohio. And it lt!aS very cheap; it was
fifty cents a pound. And it was beautiful it had a gold metallic through
it and a
those were real pretty. I used those for years and years
and now my sister!s using them in her room. But I've never made a lot of things
for myself.
Interviewer: Did the craft guild take---Did they take just a real big percentage or was it nothing?
Mrs. South: Fifty percent. Do you think that's big? That's big used to
most of the shops only took forty, they _gave you sixty and that was a lot
better. But I guess that's one reason that I don't break my neck to weave
a lot anymore. Now I've got demands for that lace that you liked, you were
doing. They are writing me from all those guild shops all the time when are
you going to do us some of that lace. Well I could be down there doing that
instead of doing those curtains for Tereasa. But it just don't mean that
much to me anymore. Its not that I've got that much money but I don't have
too, and I got more for it I'd probably be more inticed to do it and still
I know that they have to make something. But it seems like thats alot.
Interviewer: I guess that was what I was wandering about.
how you felt about the guild?
How, you know,
-·
�21
Mrs . South : Now Mr. Carlson is really good about mamma . He pays maITllna a
lot better percentage than' she gets when I send fier stuff to the guild . You
see I sell their stuff through me so I have to inspect it and see that
I have no fear ever that they don ' t come up with my standards. Cause I would
be kicked out of the guild, you know, if I sent something that didn ' t come up .
Interviewer: Do you think the guild ------------ Do you think people could
market their stuff without something like a guild?
Mrs . South: I think that a lot of them get to where they do now .
know of one.
Mike South:
years ago .
I think you could now.
I don ' t
I don ' t think you could ten, fifteen
~~rs.
South: No that's right. You ' re right Mike. You couldn ' t then people
had to I used to have to depend on it . I mean I just had to because I needed
to - - - - -
Mike South:
There was no other market .
Mrs. South: I didn't have time to get out and market my stuff . And , you
know, I was going to get the money out of it when I got it made. Cause when
I'd put the money into the thread I knew I had to get something out . So
that its just a little
it seems like its a litt~e t g much cause
that ' s a non-profit place too . They don't pay any government taxes and now
they ' ve built this new folk arts center , which is a beautiful place and they
have beautiful things in it and after us giving fifty percent of our stuff
we make, they asked for a donation for it. That's why I gave them the book
instead of weaving something for them . So somebody is making some money I ' m
sure.
Interviewer :
Mrs . South :
Interviewer :
Un-huh makes you wander?
Un-huh makes you wander where it goes .
I ' ve heard other people remark
---- -----
Mrs . South: I know one person that got out of the guild. Now down here Carlos
my neighbor, he's dying to get in it and I ' m wandering how long he ' s going
to stay in it, because he likes to market his stuff himself . They just came
from a show in Mt. Airy.
Interviewer:
He ' s the potter?
Mrs. South: Un-huh, he's the potter . Now Deloris you should make an appointment with him and talk with him now hes new here. He's not from this area.
And maybe you don ' t maybe its just this area that you're working on .
Interviewer:
How did you get in contact with him?
�22
Mrs. South : He was in school here . And my husband worked at New River Light
and Power. You know, well they always in the summertime hired some of the
school children for part-time work so he helped him. And he was married
· when he came here and they ¥ ere going to have a little baby and they lived
1
in a little trailor . And Austin was building that little house down there.
And Austin took a liking to him and '•Te had him out for Christmas. nis wife
after the baby came, his parents sent her the money to fly to Florida so they
could see the baby and he didn't go. We had him out for Christmas and ·he wanted
to help Austin finish that place so he could rent it and then it went on and
on and we finally sold him a little spot there. So he has his own shop .
Interviewer:
How long has he been here?
Mrs. South :
How long two years?
Mike South :
Two and a half .
Mrs. South :
But he's a real nice fellow, nice quite man.
Interviewer:
How did you get to know Janice Whitner?
Mrs . South: Well let ' s see, . how did I get to know ner. It seems like I ' ve
known her for a long, long time, and where did I first ~eet her . Probably
at the craft shop and then she begin coming out here. She ' s a lovely person
isn't sbe?
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
Sne is, she's dynamite.
Sne really is, she ' s so smart.
I like her a lot .
Interviewer : So much of your weaving that you sell now, your orders are
where people call you and ask you for things?
Mrs . South: Yes. Now with my mats I sell, Betsy Morell out at, it used to
be Country House but now its Green Mansion out on 105 just above the potter
place the kilt room.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mrs. South: Country Villiage, and she ' s in the middle and she sells all of
my mats, that I make. And sometimes I make three and four hundred during the
winter.
Interviewer :
That's a bunch.
Mrs. South : But you see I don't do as much weaving now as I used to since I
teach up at camp three months during the summer and then I'm up there a couple
of weeks doing up the looms.
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
Do you like teaching?
Yes, yes I like the children.
I love the children.
�23
Interviewer: What was the lady's name, the other weaver that used to live
out here years ago?
Mrs. South:
That I just mentioned a while ago, Lulu Ragan .
Interviewer:
Yeah Lulu Ragan .
And she lived on Upper Neat Camp?
Mrs. South:
I guess you call that Jefferson highway don't you Micheal?
Mike South :
Un-huh.
Mrs . South :
It's on out toward Todd.
Interviewer:
Route 194.
Mrs . South: Yeah 194 .
was not in her.e .
I hope I didn't get my books · - -- - -- now her picture
PAUSE IN TAPE.
(picked up talking about teaching for Caldwell)
Mrs. South: I did enjoy it. But the thing is, it kept
I couldn't weave . But I may do it again .
Interviewer:
~y
looms tied up and
How long did you teach over there .
Mrs. South:
A couple of winters wasn't it Mike?
Mike South:
Two winters .
Mrs . South:
I did it down here.
Interviewer :
nice.
Oh right here.
In your garage.
People came up here.
Oh that's
Mike South: They were tied up year round that way, you taught at camp in the
summer and Caldwell in the winter.
Mrs . South :
Interviewer:
Un-huh, you see that way I didn't ever get to weave any.
That ' s no fun.
Mrs . South : Cause here in the winter time and just as soon as my class was
over in the spring it was time for me to go up there. So it was six years that
I didn ' t weave on my covelet loom. Carol Deal, Dr. Will Deal at the University
now, he- --his wife made a beautiful one for a king size bed, I did a lot of
extra work for her to do that . But I was not doing anything else, I mean that
was just something I could be doing while I was teaching the class. What
we had to do was we made two strips with the border on this side then we had
to take the border off and make a middle strip, but that was really beautiful
it was prettier than where the seem goes down the middle, cause it came down the
sides and looked more like it was supposed to be.
�2.
Interviewer:
So you went ahead and clipped those warp threads or tied them up.
Mrs. South: I didn't clip them. I had to take them out of the heddles through
cause once you take threads out if you just leave them hanging in the heads they're
going to get tangled up and break. So what I did was I took out so many sections
and put tape on it just like I was putting on a new warp if you've seen that
done and then take it back to the back and let her go ahead and do her piece
and then latter brought it back in to the border.
Interviewer:
That's a lot of work through.
Mrs. South: That was extra work because I brought it
a mistake in it. I had taken out one thread more and
What I did was I thought I was marking the pattern on
I should start but I had one extra thread out. I had
cause it didn't look good.
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
~rs.
South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
Mrs. South:
Interviewer:
in one time and I had
I'd mismarked my pattern.
my draft right where
to go back and fix it
You have to read those right to left to don't you?
Un-huh, f ight from left.
Did you teach your neice?
Toni?
Yeah.
No.
Where did she learn at?
She did that at the college.
Now she's going to have her own show.
Mrs. South: Yeah, she's goinr to have her own show and she's doing~~~~~
She did a piece for P. B. Scotts. I don't know if you've been out there.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Mrs. South: Well she did that wall hanging there. And now she's
yeah up there the other day I don't know if you was there
Interviewer:
doing~~~
There's a wall hanging in Pepper's I remember.
Mrs. South:
Well she might have one up there too.
Mike South:
Yeah she does.
Mrs. South: And right now she's doing somethinE for a lady that's--- the price --~~~
is $18QO for two panels and its somehow, she's an art teacher too, the lady is.
�She wants it to keep the cold out and its a room divider and its all different
colors and of course sne lays these colors in, like, you know. I have done
a little of that weaving .
Interviewer:
Off loow weaving?
Mrs . South: No she's doing this on the loom in 36 inch strips
And I believe
it was ninety inches ea ch strip was . Something like you see y~u pull in probably
from 36 to 30 so she'll be doing 3 strips for each side of it.
Interviewer:
Mrs.
side
that
have
I see.
South: And one side somehow matches the one room over here and this
matches th~ room over here in color . So there ' s going to be a piece of
hanging in the gallery so you must go and see that. See what all we
there.
PAUSE IN TAPE
(picked up talking about chair bottoms)
Interviewer:
Mrs . South:
interviewer :
That's neddlepoint?
· Yerah, , rrow th'is is -wool.
Oh that's pretty .
Mrs. South : What I got was like in a k.it, it was laid off like in numbers, and
numbered for the colors.
Interviewer: With this linen warp and linen, weave thing.
up that way with linen warp?
Mrs . South:
Interviewer:
Were many looms set
No not very many.
But a few towel looms and stuff?
Mrs . South: Un-huh. Now Dare Strother, have you heard of her, over at Cove
Creek, she always put linen on her warps, always.
( showed us some of her work and other works . )
Now this is a piece that Dr. Marge Ferris did, and I've got to let her come back
and do some napkins to go with it . Now this was made on the same loom that I'm
making Teresa's .
Interviewer :
That's a nice weave .
Mrs. South : Now linen, they say never show linen to yo ur best friends till its
laundried. And this hasn't been laundried . It will feel a lot softer like that
( Showed us another piece . ) I just washed that the other day I didn't---I dryed
it in the dryer it had gotten so soiled. I just kept it for a sample, but I didn't
iron it . Now that will be much prettier and softer when its ironed . But linen
is one thing you can't get away with like this here-- that's why people like this
�2'
thread better-- because you can wash it, throw it in the dryer a few minutes and
its go--ready to go. But this you 've got to iron .
Interviewer : Yeah . That 's true . How--What--How do you think--What about the
history of weaving in the mountains? Did people make looms do you think?
Mrs . South: Yes, they do. Weaving at one time was just about, you know, unheard
of here. Maybe a few people like Miss Ragan had one of the old looms, like Mr.
Carlson gave to the college over there. Have you seen that big one ?
Interviewer :
Yeah .
Mrs . South: I used to weave on that. As a matter of fact I 'm not sure that that
towel was not made on that loom. Cause I made a lot of towels on that. What
Miss Lord would let me do was put on a warp and when I had free time
I
waited for my father a lot he worked in town and when I would ride home and go
home which was most of the time unless it was real bad. And I 'd be waiting on him
and I wanted something to do . So she would let me have a warp on a loom and
I'd weave on it. This is some napkins that I think I made up at camp one time
with the lace center . Now these need washing to before anybody should see them.
Interviewer:
Mrs . South :
with it.
Interviewer :
Those are pretty .
Natural .
What's that color called?
This is the natural linen .
Now do you see anything wrong
No .
Mrs . South: This was one year when
it was about the first year that
thread got so high and I was trying to save money for camp so I used half cotton
and half mercerized
END OF SIDE 11.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hyder, Wade
Deloris Proffit
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
South, Ruth
Interview Date
10/15/1980
Number of pages
26 pages
Date digitized
9/24/2014
File size
15.6MB
Checksum
alphanumeric code
b28169ac9b6f7646ad5fbdd8b21b8121
Scanned by
Tony Grady
Equipment
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal; non-commercial; and educational use; provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965-1989; W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection; Special Collections; Appalachian State University; Boone; NC). Any commercial use of the materials; without the written permission of the Appalachian State University; is strictly prohibited.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
AC.111 Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965 - 1989
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape492_RuthSouth_transcript_M
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Ruth South [January 10, 1976]
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Document
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hyder, Wade
Proffit, Deloris
South, Ruth
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Floods--North Carolina--Watauga County
Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History--20th century
Appalachians (People)--North Carolina--Watauga County
Community life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History--20th century
South, Ruth
Description
An account of the resource
Ruth South talks about working with the NYA (National Youth Administration) under Roosevelt's New Deal policy and the classes she took on weaving. She has been weaving with homespun wool her whole life and sees homemade crafts as a very important part of life. It is certainly an integral part of the mountain community life during the early twentieth century. South also took classes in wood-working at Pendelum and Berea.
1940 flood
Berea
Blowing Rock
Boone
camp Yonahlossee
Carolina Designer Craftsman
crafts
Deck Hill
Green Heights
homespun wool
Meat Camp
North Carolina art and artist expedition
NYA
Pendelum
potter
Ruth South
Southern Highland Guild
stencil dress
The American Heroin
Theodore Roosevelt
traditional crafts
traditional weaving
Valle Crucis
Watauga Handicrafts
Watauga industries
weaving
wool
WPA
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/e71c3962b6026b4437e3f85535e7e0d4.pdf
3ecd91321be125e1d7751174fe430a23
PDF Text
Text
OUTLINE-Phil Templeton - Nov. 12, 1975
I.
History of business
A.
II.
Recession
A.
III.
1967 - Becoming popular w/Fla. people (area).
1. Saw demand so started business
2. Been growing steadily since 1967
Affected all real estate businesses
1. Reason - People no longer can spare money for
investments
Discussion of business
A.
What type of people real estate in Boone is for
1. Offices in business for 5-10 yrs. for investors
looking for property
2. University had increase since '63
a. Students
b. Parents
c. Faculty & staff
SHORT INTERRUPTION BY TELEPHONE CALL
3.
We are in diversified markets
(moble homes, apts., buying land)
B.
How to acquire land
1. You know what land is available
2. Through real estate board meeting
3. A business describes what they want & we go find it
C.
Why do people come to mountains to build
1. Beauty of mtns.
D.
People bringing w/them what they are trying to leave.
Is development changing mtns.?
1. Some people more to Boone & then want development
stopped but a selfish approa~
2. Economic side
a. Farmer who can't make decent living
3. County zoning good but shouldn't go too far
a. City zoning ordinance
b. No county zoning yet
4. Farming here never been lucrative
5. Ecologists inconsiderate
6. To tell a guy he can't grade a mtn. top is one thing
�2
E.
Good things brought about by development
1 . Roads improved
2. Other economic improvements
3. Created income , jobs
4. Given people a reason to stop in Boone
a . Motels improved
5. When you stop development , stop growth
a . To those who have steady income , don ' t
care if Boone doesn ' t grow
b . People narrow-minded in their fixed positions
F.
Will mountains lose cultural heritage
1 . T. V. makes people aware of outside world
2 . Culture & mtn . life as once known will soon be gone
G.
Can there be progress & save culture
1. Don ' t know of any way
a . Would be good to preserve heritage & upgrade
standing at same time
H.
What would you like to see happen in area
1 . As real estate man
a . Boom & growth (orderly growth)
I.
What do you predict will happen?
1 . Boone's growth will level off in 1980
a . No money to invest
b . University growth will level off
c . No influx of industry
d . Not enough people to man industry
2 . No boom for yrs . to come
a. We are gearing down now.
J • . Personal comments
1.
Have enjoyed living in area but desirability depends
on ability to make an income
�This is Janice Young and Jane Efird on November the 12th , 1975.
We're working for the Appalachian Oral History Project at Appalachian State University.
Today we are speaking with Mr. Phil
Templeton who is at Carolina Realty.
And we · re speaking to him
at his office on Blowing Rock Road, in Boone.
Q:
O. K., Will you give us a brief history of your business?
A:
0. K.
The , our business was organized in April of 1967, uh,
primarily due to the fact that the area at that time was becoming
very popular with Florida people and uh people who wanted to buy
resort property acreage for investment , second homes, and things
of this sort.
We saw the demand and , so we set up our offices at
that time and we have uh
grown
steadily from then to our present
time and our present location.
Q:
O. K., uh , how has the recent recession , has it affected
your business?
A:
Most definitely , I think it has affected all real estate
companies.
Uh , the reason being the people that we were selling
land to and houses and investment acreage , were people who had
made good profit in the stock market or who had saved up their
money for retirement and thought they could spare some of it
for investments.
People coming up looking for second homes,
and then when the energy crisis came, 18 or 24 months ago, and
inflation kept growing , people became concerned about their
retirement money not being sufficient for their own needs let
along investment.
They became concerned about having the gasoline
to drive from Atlanta to Boone to see their property. and uh
this curtailed that investment group ) I ' d say a good 75~.
�2
Q:
Uh , you said , you know , your busine s s really got started
when the Florida people and people like that came.
Uh , do not
necessarily you , but other real estate businesses around here , do
you all cater particularly , you build for people like that or are
there some of the real estate businesses geared more for local
people like building homes and stuff like that?
A:
Well , most of the real estate offices that have been in
operation for 5 to 10 years have uh made the main , their main
efforts , directed their main efforts toward the investors looking
for property up here.
And in addition to that , the university
had a growth of about 6,000 , , had an increase of about 6 , 000 form
1963 until the present time and this growth in student population
caused the growth in the faculty and staff.
Uh , it brought parents
up here who had never before been in the area.
that they wanted to buy.
They saw things
In fact , we just sold a house the other
day to a student , a girl student who · s father bought it for her to
live in while she goes to school.
Uh , the university I think has
as much impact , the growth of the university had as much impact on
the area as did the skiing industry and the tourism in general.
So , people , real estate companies , who have geared themselves
primarily toward that market are in bad trouble or have gone out
of business because that market dried up.
the point where
(INTERRUPTION:
We're diversified to
PHONE CALL)
As I was saying , the real estate companies who have, who were
geared to that market alone, the Florida market and the investors
have had a very difficult time.
But we were, we were in a business,
�3
a business earlier and became diversified in the mobile home
parks . commercial development , uh , buying and selling real
estate, ourselves, and the apartment complex we had, so we've
been able to exist where others would have had to fold up.
Q:
That's another question I wanted to ask was , like what
all tyµes of like apartments you were saying and mobile homes
and buy and sell real estate .
How do you acquire your land?
Would you tell us a little about that?
A:
Well , being in the real estate business you know what
land is available for sale .
some is too high .
Some land comes in at a good price,
If a piece of property is listed with us that
we feel like is a good buy , and that we can develop it , then
we ' ll buy it ourselves and develop it , you see.
Uh , some other
realtor might have a piece of property for sale that we find
out about through our local real estate board meeting . and then
we buy that land.
Another case is , is if a business comes to town
wanting a building built and lease it to them.
They tell us what
they want and what they ' ll pay and then we go out and find the
property and build the building for them, or sell it to them or
Whatever.
Q:
So that ' s the method of operation.
I have a question that's made just to be an opinion of
yours .
Why do you think so many people like to come to the
mountains here?
And have do so much in the past?
�4
A:
Well , primarily the mountains themselves.
I've travelled
all over the world, from Hong Kong to Switzerland, and there are
very few places that are as pretty as the Western North Carolina
Mountains, believe it or not.
I've been to the Rocky Mountains,
I've been to uh the Carribean , I've been all over. and for
natural beauty this area is hard to beat.
Q:
It really is .
Well , uh , another man we interviewed made a comment that the
peoole that are , that are , do come up here , like Florida people,
that they're really bringing with them what they are trying to
leave , you know to come to these beautiful mountains.
think , what do you think about this?
Do you
Do you think the real estate
business or all this development is changing the mountains?
A:
It's changing the mountains , but I don't think to a , to a
negative degree because a 200 acre tract of land is nothing , you
know , unless someone does something with it .
So , there are those
people who would like to come up here and say , O. K. , I ' m, I've
moved to Boone , not let's, let's, cut, cut all future growth out,
now that I'm here.
O. K?
Cause I like the
way - Jo~ B~ ow ' s
farm
i s s just like that -=:ana >!'.:·-.don't want him to develop it, see cause
;
I want to enjoy it for my own beauty .
of people I resent.
ment.
So, that's the type
I'm for ecology , and I'm for orderly develop-
But you've always got the extreme element who comes in and
says O. K. , I'm here now
Boone to grow any more .
ago
O. K?
that's all I care about . I don't want
We sold a house to a couple about 2 years
and the other ni ght at a meeting his wife made that very comment,
�5
I don't want Boone to grow any more , now that · r•m here.
that's a selfish approach to it.
Well,
So , I think a lot of times
people have the uh , notion that they can dictate to another
property owner what he can do with his lands.
that the
And I'm sure
Utopia would be that everything would remain in its
natural state and be beautiful and everybody would enjoy it, but,
for those who have to look at the economic side of it , a farmer
whose , who can no longer make a decent living on a farm.
What's
he gonna do . see , is he gonna draw welfare , or is he gonna be
allowed to develop his property, sell off tracts and uh, and
derive income from that, and continue to live of is he going
to be uh , put into welfare for the rest of his days , you see?
I think a happy medium's got to be struck here, so county
zoning , is a good thing providing its not, its not done too far,
you see.
Q:
What kind of zoning laws are there in Boone?
What kind of
restrictions are there?
A:
Well in the city of Boone , of course , you have the city
zoning ordinance , which takes care of your , it takes care of all
the property within the city limits of Boone , that's the residential,
the commercial . the industrial , properties.
of the town.
yet.
So , uh , that takes care
Now outside of the city , we don't have county zoning
There's been , uh , a lot of effort put toward coming up with a
county zoning plan.
But here you get into such uh , a bag of worms
because what one farmer wants to do with his land the other farmer
might not want to.
And you , you get to tinkering with someone s
uh , ability to make, uh, a living off their land , you see.
And
it's , it's much more difficult to have orderly zoning of a county
�6
than it is a city, for the reasons that most of the rural people
are, are very very much against someone in town passing an ordinance or a county law telling them that they can't raise hogs
in their back yard, if tha2s what that guy has for a source of
income.
See, the farming in this area never has been lucrative.
The weather is too unpredictable.
not enough rain.
very great.
If you got too much rain or
The cost of farming hillside land is very, is
So, I am for zoning and things as long as it's done
in moderation, you see.
But invariably your ecologists , and when
I speak of ecologists I'm not speaking of the average citizen,
I'~
talking about those who , who go out and eat the bark off the trees
and this sort of thing , the real , the real nature lovers.
They're
the ones who I think are the most inconsiderate andthe most demanding
on other peoples rights.
Q:
Especially as relates to their farm.
Do you have any kind of restrictions on , like
how it can be used?
land use sales ,
You know , laws like , I mean like, if you sell
some land , is there any way people can use it, like they can go out
and just grade it off , you know, leave it bare?
A:·
Well , inside the city limits, if we sell a tract of land, the
buyer has to develop it according to the zoning law, Number 1.
Number 2, we have the pollution laws now which prohibits someone
from grading off a hillside and just leaving it there without reseeding it and I think that's good, you know.
I think that's O. K.,
but to tell a gµy that he can't grade· off a mpuntaintop is one
thing , but to let him grade it off and then let him put it back in
a good state of appearance and uh , erosion proofing
all right.
I think that's
�7
Q:
Uh , I have a auestion here about not just , not just your
business , but just all the development that has taken place over
the past or however many years.
Could you give us in your opinion
what are some of the good things that have come about because of
this development?
For instance , the economic situation.
Then give
us some of the bad things you think.
A:
Well , I, I moved to Boone when I was must have been 8 or 9
years old.
And , back at that time , the population of Boone was
probably 15 hundred.
The student population probably 900.
we didn't have good roads in through Boone.
entertainment-wise.
Uh,
We had meager facilities,
There was one movie in _town.
Uh, there were no
restaurants to go out to eat to speak of , maybe one or two little
cafes.
The university hadn'g expanded to offer the arts and the
sciences and the things it does today , the local people can take
advantage of.
So , as the area has grown, the roads have been im-
proved , and I noticed in the paper this week that River Street back
there is going to be four-lane . and this is , this is the good things
that come about as a result of growth.
When a business comes into
town . and succeeds that creates jobs for people . that creates income
for their employees to spend in the local stores.
It creates a
better economic situation all the way around , you see.
something more to people coming through Boone.
reason to stop , whereas in years past
It offers
It gives them a
they'd come through town and
s ay , well , there was Boone , what was it , you know.
I missed it.
Now we · ve got a Holiday Inn in Boone, they'll stop and spend the
night.
And, before the Holiday Inn came , many people didn't stay
in Boone simply because the motels were so inferior.
want to come and stay in a dinky motel.
They didn't
So, an upgrading of the
�accomm .iations and I think that uh , just a general economic, uh,
improvement comes from development.
And when you stop the developers,
I'm speaking of commercial developers, land developers, in terms of
residential of anything like that you'll literally stop the gfowth,
you see.
And that's fine for someone to uh be in favor of that who
has a state job at the university , drawing a salary from the state,
if Boone didn't grow another bit it wouldn't matter.
But if that
person weren't employed by the state , and had to depend on outside
employment for . for livelihood , he·11 look at it differently you see.
It's very easy for those people on fixed salaries or state salaries
to . to look out and say well now he shouldn't have built that hamburger joint right there because it will hurt the looks of that
street.
But if he weren't drawing that salary from the state, then
he would be out having to be employed by , perhaps by that burger house.
And then it'll be an asset to him.
I think people are
narrow-m~nded
in their , in their opinions sometimes because of , they're secure in
their positions so the heck with everybody else.
Q:
I think one of the main things that we were , that uh the Oral
History has been concerned with is the question of whether Appalachian
mountaineers are gonna lose their cultural heritage with all the new
~eople
coming in , and all the change going on.
What do you think
about that?
A:
Very possibly you're , that could be , especially to some degree.
If a guy has made a living building mountain crafts, lets say, and
uh the area keeps growing he can get a-job in a factory , then you're
losing one segment of the , uh of the craft business , and maybe that
is never taken up again in his family.
But } with the advent of
television and people in this area having TV's in their homes,
�9
they're aware of the outside world much more than, than we were
when I was growing up here. Uh, when I was growing up , to go to
town on Saturday was a pig deal . you know , and to go to the movie
was an even bigger deal.
when I was growing up.
I think it cost a dime to go to the movie
But , uh , I think the . the influence of , of ,
uh . t.elevision and radio and news , dissimination in particular has
had as much influence as anything else.
So , I think you're right ,
uh , the cultural end of it and the , the mountain life as it was once
known , will soon be , be gone.
Q:
Do you see any way of keeping all the progress and saving this
cultural heritage?
A:
Frankly , I don't know how you would do it , uh, I wish there
were some way to do it , uh , I wish there were some way to do it.
In
other words, if you could keep the culture like it was and yet upgrade a fellow's standard of living , you see.
To go back into the
mountains here and find an old mountain family that's been rooted in
their uh area there for a hundred years and to observe them with
curiosity and amusement is one thing , but to upgrade that fellow ! s
standard of living to where he has an indoor bath , television , uh,
hot-air furnace . an automobile to drive 1 a tractor to plow his
fields with . it's very difficult for that to ever come about unless
he leaves the old ways and adapts to the new , to the new times.
Q:
The last
uestion I have here is , what would you like to see
happen in this region, say within the next 20-25 years in the area
of growth and progress?
�10
A:
Well . as a real estate man . of course . you have a desire to
see the thing grow and get back in the boom it was in the early
1970.s.
On the other hand , I can see that there would be dis-
advantages to that continuing right on without orderly growth,
so if I were to have, uh , if I were to have my , my wishes granted
in that respect , I would say wish for an orderly growth, by that
I mean , a growth that can be kept up with in utilities , in streets,
in services , uh , commerserate with the number of people coming in
the area.
I don't think any area should grow faster than its cap-
abilities for providing the essential services, in terms of power,
uh , fuel . uh . roads , services , shopping areas and schools.
So as
long as the . the services and utilities could keep up with it , I
think it would be fine.
Q:
What do you predict will happen?
A:
Well . if I were , if I had a crystal ball I would say that the
growth of Boone is going to level off sometime around 1980.
Two or
three reasons , one reason I think people aren't going to have the
extra money to . to uh . invest in pro erty , they're going to have to
spend the money that they have to live on.
With inflation, the cost
of everything going up , we're not going to have the excess money that
we once had.
level off.
Secondly , I think the University growth is going to
I think
m~ybe
you get up to ten or twelve thousand
students and that'll be the plateau that uh, that'll level off .
Uh , thirdly I don't think that there·s going to be any influx of
industry here to speak of, because the lack of , of uh, water and
rail service ,
and the trucking up the mountains can get so expensive
�11
that's another deterent to industries moving in .
Another item is
we simply don't have the people to man another great deal of industry you
ee .
Industry ' s going to go where the people are, and
where their products going out you see , their materials coming in
and so forth .
And we don't have this , I would say that ' s the biggest
drawback to . the biggest single drawback is the rail service.
we have a railroad now in West Jefferson.
Now
Giving an example, I
am one of the owners of a lumber company , and we · re buying· our
lumber from the west coast.
It's
sh~pped
all the way to Boone , or
to West Jefferson rather , on . uh , rail cars and we take our trucks
to West Jefferson . pick it up and haul it to Boone.
Now there·s
not enough demand for that rail service in this area to make it a
profitable operation for the railroads, therefore , they ' ve petitioned
the, uh , agency that handles that to eliminate , to let them eliminate
the , uh , rail service to West Jefferson .
Now when that happens we'll
have to go down to North Wilkesboro and pick up the lumber and haul it
all the way up the mountain on trucks which is going to take .more time,
more fuel , uh, more wear and tear on the vehicles , and consequently,
cost more money to someone buying lumber .
So , if we had a rail head
in Boone . let's say , like , uh , we had a good track in and out
ofr
Boone that would make a big difference because then you could
induce a factory to come in , but it's difficult for them to do it
all by trucks.
And this is the problem , one of the biggest problems
we · re going t o have .
So I would say by 1980 we'll see a great
levelling off in the growth of t his area .
�12
Q:
Between the time from now to 1980 do you think there·11 be
another boom like before?
A:
No . I don't think there 11 be another boom for many years
to come.
I think we'll have a , a uh . in fact we're on the , we're
gearing down now .
The big decrease was back in the last 24 months
and now it's gonna be a gradual decrease , I think , you know , as
far as the people coming in the area and then maybe by 1980 we'll
see a levelling off.
strictly speculation .
Of course . what we're talking about here is
I could be dead wrong , but that's . I've
given a lot of thought to tha t very auesti on , because that . the
answer to that question determines what we do in our offices.
Whether we devote our energies to another aspect of real estate ,
whether we develop commercial properties or houses or whatever .
Q:
Uh , do you have anything you'd like to add to this , your own
personal opinions or anything?
A:
No , not really, I , just to say that I've enjoyed living in
the area
and uh , a lot of other people do , but the success or the
desirability of anybody living anywhere is their ability to make
an income and a living whereever they are and we've had many people
come in the area uh , to give an example when
(INTERRUPTION - END OF TAPE)
This is Jane Efird with Mr . Phil Templeton . we : re interviewing
him for the second time on November 20 , 1975 .
Q:
Mr. Templeton ,. you mentioned before that the area must obtain
orderly growth , and uh . you also mentioned that you weren t in favor
of too many zoning laws such as the mountain management act , could
you , uh , go into detail a little about this , as to why you aren : t
uh . too favorable , or too much in favor of this?
�13
A:
I don t know tha
much. about the Mountain Land Management Act
yet uh . but in what discussions I've had with people who were familiar
with it
it seems like that it
uh , closely parallels the results of
what's happened down east with the Coastal Land Management Act .
It
was initiated some time ago , and in talking with people who have had
contact with that law there . it's very bureaucratic in it's set up.
You have to get numerous permits for doing anything.
Uh , almost a
nightmare of headaches and paper work involved in complying with the
letter of the law of the Mountain , I mean of the Coastal Land Management Act that was enacted .
business
Our concern being in the real estate
is that the people who initiate these acts many times have
a very honorable purpose in mind and on the face of it , it turns out
to be a very good act , but then it ' s expanded , added to , changed,
amended . modified or whatever , and becomes a real headache for everybody.
And almost stimies growth completely . so unfortunately the people who,
uh who make these laws and who enforce them are people who . who have
no experience whatever in developing land . they have no concept of
the developers point of view
they . they're trying to create utopia
a it's very difficult to do this and still meet the needs of everybody .
So . from what I know of the Mountain Land Management Act , that
they're working on at the present time , I think I'd be opposed to it .
Not because of it's present statutes , but
expect to grow out of it you see .
because of what you can
Uh , it's , it may be a baby today
and a monster tomorrow.
Q:
Who are these people that are , uh, developing this act?
A:
I'm sure it's the environmentalists , uh , group , primarily , like
the Sierra Club and things of this sort , who get behind it and initiate
the action . and of course , you have your federal
agenci~s a~d
your
state agencies who . who get together and uh , you know, actually do
the legislation.
Uh , drawing up the legislation and submit it to
�14
the legislature to be enacted into law.
And , uh , the Sierra
Club , I think , has done a lot of good things , but by the same
token. they have their own nar row interests at heart.
care less about the economic growth of a region
They could
whether the farmer
makes a living or whether he doesn ' t is immaterial to them as long
as the land is protected for their enjoyment , you see.
And : gh .
I'm not speaking of all Sierra Club members because I've got friends
in town who are members of the Sierra Club.
But I think the overall
thrust of their effort is uh is in that vein . you know , not so much
as to what's the practical approach . but a narrow
a narrow view ,
towards strictly conservation.
Q:
Uh . last time you were talking about , giving us an example
about how much trouble it was to get permits and things like
that
A:
would you tell that now?
Locally we don't have too much trouble with that at this point,
uh. it seems like almost monthly there·s another permit required
to do something , you know.
But I think, by and large , we are
fortunate in that area because we haven't gotten so regimented
that we have problems with it.
I was reading in the paper the
other day someone down east , it seems like they had to have either
23 or 33 permits . I've forgotten the number , to build one , to build
one building . down east . because of this Management Act I was telling
you about.
Twenty-three different
were going to do.
And uh
~gen cies
very often times , those agencies have
overlapping authorities and it's just a ree.1
INTERRUPTION:
had to O. K. what they
(inaudible)
RECORDER TURNED OFF FOR A SHORT TIME
�15
Q:
O. K. , uh . we re talking about . you said that uh , you felt
that we would need to somehow control the growth of the future .
you know . have some kind of orderly growth.
this should be done?
A:
How would you say
Do you have any ideas about it?
Well . I think you've got to have a , a pragmatic approach
to it.
I think you've got to take the interests of the , the farmer ,
the city-dweller , the environmentalist , and try to mesh those together and come up with a program for development that neither excludes any of them "s interests , nor gives uh , any one of them the
right to just run roughshod over the others.
and take situation.
It's got to be a give
And so , I would say that uh , the zoning should
be approached with that in mind to where if a farmer needs to use
his land in a way that's not entirely satisfactory with environmentalists
that they understand his economic plight , and that each of them are,
are made to uh , to work together on it . you see.
Any time you have
any particular interest group dominating the legislation you ' re
going to have a biased approach to it and a , and a biased law coming
out of it
Q:
to where I think it s no good to anybody.
Well . who do you think would be able to get something like
this together . uh , an organi zaton of all interests
you know?
It
would have to be probably be started by somebody.
A:
Well . I think , ideally speaking
from each sector , you see.
you'd have representatives
You'd have environmentalists , you'd
have your real estate people , you ' d have your , your. farmers , you'd
have your uh , townspeople , you know have a committee type situation
where all views are , are at least discussed and , and represented.
And , of course no legislation I guess is perfect.
But I think
�16
too many times legislation pertaining to zoning and what not
comes out of a group that represents only one , one area you see .
One a r ea of thought , whether . and , this has happened in uh, in
terms of developers .
Many places, developers themselves have
gotten on the zoning boards , and have made laws that completely
ignore the environmentalists arguments, you see .
equally as bad .
And that's
Being a realtor , I think it's, it's more difficult
for me to keep a , an unbiased opinion of it than if I were a, a
state employee or something like that .
a . a reasonable outlook on it
But , but I try to, to keep
and not let my personal interests
uh . dominate my thinking to the point where it will work to
the ~
disadvantage of other ueoule.
Q:
Uh . you also mentioned before that developers such as resort
develoµers are sometimes different than companies like your own,
and you were going to give us some examples of that . like that
had ignored environmentalist's concerns , such as that .
A:
Well. I think in Florida , uh and Arizona are the most typical
examples of
of the unscruplous developer who goes into an area and
simply for his economic benefit , striµs the land of all its vegetation,
uh dries up the swamps, to where the , the uh , wildlife can't, can't
live any longer , uh 1 goes into high-pressure sales just for simply
for the matter of selling a lot and making a dollar.
And I think
those type people have caused much of the legislation to be passed
which really is too stringent upon the average citizen , you see .
Uh , and so I can see how the , these _1aws originated , but by the
same token , they were passed almost entirely with these developers
in mind . not with your average real estate developer .
I think 1
by and large , your average develouer has the interests of the
community at heart .
�17
Q:
By average, what do you mean?
A:
Yeah, the local developers in a given area.
Local people?
Now, you, you've
got your exceptions, there are those people who don't care anything
about the local people, the local community.
Q:
Well, do you mean uh, people like yourself who maybe have
grown up around here or are you talking about the people that
aren't concerned are the people that come in, say developers from,
that don't know about the area?
A:
Yeah, people who care less I think are those who, who don't
live here, or coming in from out of the area and say ·hey Boone,
North Carolina has, has got a boom going, let's go down and buy a
piece of land and cut it up into postage stamp size lots and sell
it and move on, you see.
Q:
Have you, or do you know about any of them, those in this area?
A:
I don't know of any big concerns, uh, to speak of.
I think
that uh, that we've been spared a great deal of that in this area,
whereas, in Florida and Arizona and places like that its more
prevalent.
We're not a quite big enough attraction to bring in
people like that, your big swindler s , you know.
Q:
Uh, what part do politics and government play in mountain
development?
A:
I don't know that politics plays much of a ny part.
much inclined in a political vein.
I'm not
I try to keep up with, with
politics in the paper and in the news and what not but I've never
been associated with any political party.
Also, in all the dealings
that we've had in real estate I, I don't find government to be to be
a factor, politics, either,
As far as uh, governing much locally,
I don't think politics has, has near the the influence it does in
some other area~.
In other words, if we have a Republican governor
�- 18
or a Democratic governor, I don't think it makes any difference,
locally.
Now in terms of what influence the government has had
uh, I think the greatest influence has come about in the last four
or five years.
You, You're running more and more into government
regulations about everything, you know.
You can't do that, you can't
do that, you can't do that, and you can't do this, that sort of thing.
So, this is what I'm concerned about that we don't have so many
regulations that, that it stymies growth,
Uh, the Utopia would be
if there were enough regulations that we didn't have to evervhave,
have uh, a bad development.
But by the same token, if you had
that type situation, it would be such a nightmare of paper work and
permits and inspections and government agencies it would be almost
impossible to work within that concept, you see.
So, somewhere we
need to strike a happy medium, do the best we can, with the least
amount of red tape.
Q:
The next question, I think is another one just about your
opinion, and uh, it's just that how, how many would you say real
estate companies and developers in this area are local people like
yourself that have grown up around here, that own the±r own businesses?
A:
Probably, there are probably twenty different agencies in this
area, but I'm talking about in the Boone immediate area.
there's probably Eix locals.
·1
And of those
Now, by local I mean people who've
been here before the, before the boom started.
And then you've
got several other people who have moved here and made this their
permanent home.
Uh, sort of semi-local, I guess you'd call it.
And then you've got those people who came here strictly for the
development that was taking place.
with that you know.
And there's nothing wrong
Uh, back during, during the gold rush, people
went to California because the gold rush was there.
But, and some
�19
of those people I ' think do as good a job in developing as
those of us who've been here all our lives you see.
good local developers, you've got
b~d
You've got
local developers.
got good developers who've moved in here from
You've
other ~places,
and
you've got bad developers.
Q:
What can local people do to control the orderly growth of
development?
Or what, if anything, have they been doing?
Have
the local people gotten together and tried to do something to control the growth as of yet?
A:
No, I don't think there's any concerted
effor~
toward that yet.
Uh, I think your, your best approach there is to work through your
city council or county commissioners.
of a group.
Uh, go as a representative
Don't go on an individual basis.
Try to get a, a
meeting of the minds, people have similar ideas to yours, and,
and approach the, the right people with them.
But, basically,
I think, they've got to be reasonable ideas.
If I were a city
councilman, and someone came to me with a reasonable idea, a fair
proposition, I would do my best to see that it was initiated.
However,
if they came to me strictly with a, a proposition that looked at
their own interests, not the interests of the community at large,
then I don't think I'd be inclined to help them. So, I think that
we need to take our uh, our ideas to, to the local government agencies
and officials but before we take them, make sure that they're not so
biased in our favor, that it makes it impractical.
�20
Q:
Uh, one fellow that we interviewed made the comment that so
many people are buying land now that uh, the land prices go up,
therefore taxes on the land go up.
And, uh, you know, if one
just, if a person just has a steady income, how can he, that
you know, does not go up, how can he cope with this?
Would
there be, do you see any change in that, or help for him?
A:
Not really, uh, that's an unfortunate fact of life I guess
that taxes are gonna go up whether we use the land or whether it
sits vacant.
And, uh, I don't think locally, that's, that's been
enough of a problem yet to cause anybody undue problems.
Now, true,
the county tax rate this year did almost double, the tax, the tax
on your county property almost doubled over last year.
But even at
that doubled figure, it's considerably less than taxes in many
places, you see.
So, I think that this is a part of, a fact of life
we're gonna have to live with, that if you want a lot of land
you're gonna have to expect to pay increasing taxes uh, on that
property.
Which to some degree may be a good idea.
It'll cause
people to put their land into use, to make it productive, in terms
of farm products or uh, developing it in terms of secondary homes
or primary homes, instead of it just sitting vacant you know, and
dormant.
see.
If nothing else, they could plant a tree farm on it, you
There are thousands and thousands of acres of land in this
area that have been non-productive for years and years simply because
the taxes were so cheap the guy didn't have to make it productive.
So, taxes are bad, nobody likes tham but I think it is necessary
that we have taxes and uh, I can see a lot of benefits to be derived from it.
END OF TAPE
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Young, Janice
Efird, Jane
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Templeton, Phil
Interview Date
11/12/1975
Location
The location of the interview.
Boone, NC
Number of pages
22 pages
Date digitized
9/17/2014
File size
14.7MB
Checksum
alphanumeric code
0d8b019193d786f9ac93b39173165d99
Scanned by
Tony Grady
Equipment
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal; non-commercial; and educational use; provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965-1989; W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection; Special Collections; Appalachian State University; Boone; NC). Any commercial use of the materials; without the written permission of the Appalachian State University; is strictly prohibited.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
AC.111 Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965 - 1989
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape332_PhilTempleton_transcript_M
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Phil Templeton [November 12, 1975]
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Document
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Young, Janice
Efird, Jane
Templeton, Phil
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Real estate developers
Rural development--North Carolina--Watauga County
Rural development--North Carolina--Ashe County
Templeton, Phil
Description
An account of the resource
Phil Templeton, a real estate developer, talks about the development happening in High Country over his lifetime. He attributes the development to the growth of the university, the skiing industry, and tourism in general. He is a proponent of the development, even if it means the loss of traditional mountain culture, because it provides a higher standard of living for people. He says: "Utopia would be that everything would remain in its natural state and everyone could enjoy it, but that's not how it works."
Boone
Carolina Reality
county tax
mountain development
mountain heritage
Mountain Land Management Act
mountain resorts
permits
Phil Templeton
pollution laws
railroad
real estate
Sierra Club
West Jefferson
zoning laws
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/1fbd66f7d563f355b9b46038529a8345.pdf
8abd80a56901f7962cea6994bab58322
PDF Text
Text
Ti1is is an interview with Hrs. Jennie Horton of Boone, North Carolina, done
for the Appalachian Oral History Project by Mabel L. Brooks.
Mrs. Horton: My name is Jennie Horton. I'm sixty-seven years old. I'm
retired. I used to cook, mostly I have always cooked. I worked pretty hard
in my younger days. I worked in Monroe, 11ichigan seven, six years, I left
there and worked in Pennsylvania up in the Pokenoles for four years. And
when I worked up there, I was working with my son-in-law, and that work was a
little too heavy for me so I quit and got a lighter job at a camp where they
have young people come in on week-ends. And I stayed there six years . And
then it was time for me to retire, so I came back home. This i s my home,
Boone. I signed up for social security. Then I worked four years down here
at the hospital, down here at Watauga, I got arthritis and that really threw
me, so I haven't worked anywhere in three years. I have two children, a boy
and a girl. My son is married and he lives here on 8 North Street. My daughter
lives in Strausburg, Pennsylvania.
Interviewer: Could you tell us about life during the depression and how you
made a living?
Mrs. Horton: My children were small then. I worked at a hotel. I didn't
make very much, we didn't make very much in those days. We got b~, but it
was close and very hard. I ah1ays had a garden. I had a pretty good little
garden, and I would can different things that I could get, and what I could
buy.
Interviewer: What food was most scarce at the time? Like now we are having
a beef shortage . What was in shortage during the depression?
Mrs. Horton: Just about everything. I tell you, seems like I don't recall,
any beef being in shortage, just meat. Just pork meat. Sugar, it was rationed
also flour and coffee, and stuff like that, just about everything. You could
only get a certain amount.
Interviewer:
Was it per week or per month or what?
Mrs. Horton: Per week. And I sold, let me see what else . I believe thats
all. Most of the food was rationed. They ~ allowed you to have so much a week.
I don't remember about the beef, I guess it was too, but ... you had such a
little money to buy things like that. If ~e could really do without it we
would.
Interviewer: My grandparents said they couldn't get much meat so they had
to eat horse meat on the table.
Mrs. Tiorton: Oh there wasn't anything like that here. Two, Three months
ago, I heard some say they have been eating horse meat. And you know I said
if it ever comes here t6 North Carolina especially here in Boone, I'll never
but it. I'll never eat it. Cause if you read the Bible you aren't going to
find where Christ ate horse meat, nor any of his Disciples, why should I eat
it? When it gets down that low, I just hope the Lord will take me on out
of the way . Horse meat? Uggh.
�2
Interviewer : Well Y.rs . Horton could you tell us about getting medicines and
visiting the doctors and things?
Mrs . Horton: Well it seems like it wasn ' t too hard to get a doctor. Seems like there weren't as many prescriptions filled. They didn't write you prescriptions
as quickly as they do now for medication . But mostly, if you weren't too
awfullu sick, just with a cold and had to have something like that , the doctor
generally gave you a medication, something you didn't do yourself.
Interviewer :
Were home remedies more of usage then?
Mrs. Horton:
Yeah, home remedies were pretty useful then.
" ~
Interviewer : What do you think works best, home remedies, or that you recieve
from the doctors?
Mrs. Eorton : I don't know. Sometimes that old time stuff is pretty good,
yes it is. It really is. Of course the doctors make light of it and all .
I have heard in my younger days where people would have pneumonia fever and
they ' d make onion polysis and put on the patient, and give them some kind of
tea, and it would break up the fever. If you put onion polysis on you, on
somebody now, I guess the doctor would throw you out of the house .
Interviewer:
You said you had a garden before, what kind of tools did you use?
Mrs . Horton: I had hoes, shovels, madigans, what I got now . I raked in the
garden last year . This summer I had a pretty good garden, but last year, I
didn't do any good. I was on crutches with my knees. I had arthritis so
bad and I was on crutches just about all summer last summer, but by the help
of the Lord, I got better and I put out a pretty good little garden this year .
I think I raised enough potatoes to do me all winter. And I raised corn and
beans . I canned corn and I canned beans.. I canned tomatoes , and I canned
apples and I made apple jelly .
When your mother was
Interviewer: Sounds like you ' re pretty well stocked.
raising her garden, can you remember any methods that she used that you don ' t
have to use today?
Mrs . Horton: No, I don't . I was born and raised on a farm. My father farmed
and there ' s not much difference now . The only difference in it now and back
then, people would have to use a horse and a plow . But now they can take one
of these little tillers and go through and maybe dig a few weeds out and you've
got your stuff made. But then they would have to have a horse and a small plow,
a one horse plow and plow through the rows . But all of thats done away with now.
You just get you a tiller and go on through and plow up your garden without
horses . And we had cows, we had chickens, my daddy raised p.igs, raised hogs
and we got along pretty good . Money wasn't plentiful, but we did have plenty
to eat.
Interviewer: Would you think that your family got along better than some of the
other families durinE this time?
�3
Mrs . Horton: Well yes I do because now-a-days my grandchildren, they have
two and three pairs of shoes, which we didn ' t get but one pair of shoes a
year when we were growing up . Now my little grand- daughter, she ' s got two
or three pairs of shoes . Hy nieces little daughter ' s has two or three pair .
I say if you all had to survive what I came through, I say you'll be thankful
that you have just what you have . Ilut I don ' t know, they still aren't satisfied .
Interviewer:
I guess people had to make a lot of their clothes and things?
Mrs . Horton :
Yes, way
Interviewer :
Did you ever have to go to the grits mill?
back then they did .
Mrs . Horton: Yes, I went to the mill. We ' d take wheat to the ~ill and get it
ground into flour . And we ' d take corn and get it ground into meal . I couldn't
carry but a peck or about a half a bushel. It wasn't too far from where we
lived, where we took our meal to. But the mill we took our flour to was about
four miles from our home .
Interviewer:
Did you have to walk?
Mrs. Horton : Yes pretty much, and that ' s a long way. But generally, my
father would always get our neighbors. they had a team of ~ules and when they
would go to the mill, they would all go in and go together . That made it a
little easier.
Interviewer : Do you know any little funny acts or incidents that happened
on the way to the mill?
Mrs . Horton:
No, I don ' t know any.
Interviewer :
What about the educational situation?
Mrs. Horton : Among the children, there . weren ' t but two of us that went to
school. There weren't but three of us . We had to walk three miles going
and three miles coming. Six miles a day to school .
Interviewer:
Were the whites and blacks going to school together7
Mrs. Horton:
No.
Interviewer :
this time?
Was there a lot of tension between the whites and blacks during
No way .
~
.
Mrs . Horton: Not a bit . I ' ve been here in Boone . I ' ve been living in Boone .
I was born and raised in Tennessee, but ~y mother and father moved here about
forty or fifty years ago and I never heard anything about segregation till I
came to Boone, North Carolina , that's the truth . We didn't go to school together
nor to church together, but sometimes the whites would come and visit our church
and they would invite the Colored to come and visit their church . I didn ' t
�4
know anything about it until I came to North Carolina and seems like it got
worse and worse and worse so I hope it •·s better now. Some places it will
never be any better. That's right.
Interviewer: Do you think it was a good thing for the schools to intergrate
like they have?
Mrs. Horton: Yes I do. Especially in a little place like this. This is no
city, you know that, but the Colored weren't situated to teach some of the
children. Especially when they got to high school, at first they didn't
have any high school teachers here and they would have to send their children
off. My son and my daughter, when they finished elementary school here, I
had to send them to Kings Mountain, North Carolina. I sent them to Kings
Mountain, North Carolina to finish high school. And then, as I remember,
some of the children went to Tennessee and some went to Greensboro these that
wanted to. You know, so many will and so many won't. And so many can and so
many can't. But I am thankful to the Lord that everything has turned out like
it has. Everything seems to be a whole lot different from what it used to be
when I was ~ growing up. If they'd get a job, people would get more money than
they did back when I was a kid. I have worked for as little as three and four
dollars a week and you know that isn't anv money. Now just let somebody ask
you to work for them for three or four dollars a week. Some people would get
rather violent. You'd better believe it. Yes sir.
Interviewer: When you were going to school, how were the schools set up, did
they have everybody in one room?
Mrs. Horton: No, we had two rooms. I got as far as the sixth grade. I went
about two of three weeks in the sixth grade and I had to quit. My father and
my mother weren't too well and my brother, there weren't but four of us, and
three girls and my brother. He lives out on up above us. That little white
house that sits down there, he lives up above there in a yellow house. He
married and we had to be the girls and the boys too so we just quit going to
school. Stay at home and help with the house work.
Interviewer:
Did
peop ~ e
tend to marry younger back then they do now?
Mrs. Horton: No I don't think so. I don't think they did. It don't seem to
me like they did. They jump up and marry, I wouldn't be surprised if some
little ten, twelve year old children don't get married, it wouldn't surprise
me a bit. They didn't marry as young, as early as the young people do this
day and time.
Interviewer: Would you say there was a difference in the races getting married?
The whites tend to marry younf.er than the blacks?
Mrs. Horton: Well I don't know, I don't knm» how old they would be, but seems
that they'd be pretty old when they would get married, no older than eighteen
or nineteen. But now they marry younger than that don't they? Some of them
do.
�5
Well Mrs. Horton, I see that you have company coming and I won't hold you any
longer. Thank you very much for your cooperation.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Brooks, Mabel L.
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Horton, Jenny
Interview Date
6/17/1974
Location
The location of the interview.
Boone, NC
Number of pages
5 pages
Date digitized
9/16/2014
File size
3.11MB
Checksum
alphanumeric code
acacad4985e3489eaecff5dca3a621e2
Scanned by
Tony Grady
Equipment
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal; non-commercial; and educational use; provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965-1989; W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection; Special Collections; Appalachian State University; Boone; NC). Any commercial use of the materials; without the written permission of the Appalachian State University; is strictly prohibited.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
AC.111 Appalachian Oral History Project Records; 1965 - 1989
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape288_JennyHorton_transcript_M
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Jenny Horton [June 17, 1984]
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Document
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Brooks, Mabel L.
Horton, Jenny
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Depression--1929--North Carolina--Watauga County
Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County
Horton, Jenny
Description
An account of the resource
Jenny Horton, a black woman living in Boone, talks about working as a cook most of her life. She worked in a hospital for a few years, but had to stop after she developed arthritis. She talks about the rationing of sugar, flour, meat, coffee, and other foods during the Depression and the different views on medicine people used to have. People were much more likely to use home remedies than go to the doctor. She also explains there was "a lot of tension between whites and blacks."
Boone
farming
gardem
garden
Great Depression
grits mill
home remedies
Jenny Horton
Michigan
Monroe
North Carolina
Pennyslvania
Poconos
segregation
Watauga Hospital
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/43395a413921417dae7245f68e238901.pdf
b25813346867e8597f1d7abf616b108f
PDF Text
Text
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, Tape 79
Interviewee: Ted Potter
Interviewer: Karalyn Shelton
Date: 12 June 1973
Transcriber: J. McTaggart
Karalyn Shelton: This is an interview with Mr. Ted Potter for the Appalachian Oral History Project by
Karalyn Shelton at Mr. Potter's home on June 12th, 1973. Okay, where were you born, Mr. Potter?
Ted Potter: I was born up, back up there on the mountain.
KS: In this area?
TP: Yes.
KS: Okay. What year were you born in?
TP: 1908.
KS: Okay. Uh, do you know Tamarack got its name?
TP: Mm no. I don't know unless they got it from the Tamaracks and [inaudible].
KS: Okay, well um has anything happened in this community that you can think of that really changed it?
TP: It's changed a lot. They made that road. Roads are getting better.
KS: They're better now.
TP: Yeah.
KS: How did they used to be?
Female voice: [Inaudible].
TP: [Inaudible] rocky...
KS: Okay, do you know who some of the first settlers were in this area?
TP: The first settlers?
KS: Mm hm, what families?
TP: I reckon it was the Mains and Potters.
KS: Okay, what were your parents' names?
TP: Johno Potter and Lily Potter.
�KS: Where were they born?
TP: Well, I think Mama was born right here in the barn, wasn't she...
FV: I think so.
KS: Well, where was your daddy born, just in this area?
TP: Yeah, he must've been born...l wanna say, I believe he was born back up on the mountain.
KS: Well, how many children were there in your family?
TP: In my family?
KS: Yeah.
TP: Eleven.
KS: Eleven?
TP: Yeah.
KS: Well, what are their names and ages?
TP: [Inaudible]
Female voice: [Inaudible]
KS: Who came after Bert?
TP: [Inaudible] and then Lady Bell and then Boyd...
KS: You wanna read 'em to me?
Female voice: No, I can't see [inaudible]...
KS: Well after Lady Bell was Boyd then Nel and then Rosimer (?) then Ted Ward, Bonnie Lou and born in
1908, and then Ms. [inaudible] was born in 1910, okay. Well, what about your family, your mama and
daddy's family. How many young'uns was in that family?
TP: Five of us.
KS: What were all their names?
TP: Well, uh there's...
Female voice: There's Ted and Ennie (?) and Nan (?) and Charles and Rob of the [inaudible] first family.
Wasn't there?
TP: Yeah and then there's seven in the last one.
�FV: Well, we'll have to count 'em up I don't know how many. There's uh Fred and Howard and Dane and
Velma and Juanita, they call her Tu, who's the other ones?
TP:Johno.
FV: Yeah, Johno. That's six.
TP: And Bart.
FV: Bart's seven.
KS: That's a big family.
FV: I believe that's all of them. Then they've got three, three of the...one of the first one's to join
[inaudible]...
TP: Two, two's dead...
FV: Two's dead.
KS: Well, what did your daddy do for a living?
TP: Well, he uh carried the mail and...
FV: I give up [inaudible].
KS: He logged?
TP: Yeah, yeah, he logged for years when he wasn't carrying the mail.
KS: Well, how did he carry the mail?
TP: Well, he walked to the post office down here at the forks of the road up on the mountain and then
he'd ride from [inaudible] to uh [inaudible].
KS: So he walked and rode the horse?
TP: Yes,
KS: Well, um how much land did your daddy have?
TP: I believe this whole town. Well, when he was dying he was still in charge of 150 acres [inaudible].
KS: Well, did you move a lot or did you just stay around in this area?
TP: [Inaudible] You mean did he move or?
KS: No, you.
TP: No, I've lived right here all my life ever since I've been married and that's forty...43 years?
�FV: I don't know! [Inaudible]
TP: [Chuckles]
KS: But you've lived in this house right here for all them many years?
TP: No; we lived in an old house.
FV: No, we lived in a little ol' box house up here in [inaudible].
TP: I guess I moved well about 20 feet still from [inaudible].
KS: Mm hm, well where did you go to school?
TP: Down here at [inaudible] down by the post office.
KS: How many years did you get to go to school?
TP: Well, I didn't, well I [inaudible] third grade. I [inaudible] didn't go much.
KS: How many months did they have school out of the year?
FV: Six back then I think!
TP: Yeah, they had [inaudible] six months out of the year.
KS: Well, what were the teachers like?
TP: Well, there's uh Charlotte Thompson was my teacher [chuckles] and Ms. Rainy. She's a middle age
woman, wasn't she?
FV:Yeah.
TP: Uh, Louise Sutherland, you remember her don't you? How she looked?
KS: No, I don't believe I can.
TP: She teach school down here. [Inaudible] them [inaudible] that lives over there in the Cove Creek
they teach down here. [Inaudible] Weinberger he teach down here.
KS: Well, what were they like, were they strict with you?
TP: Yeah, they [inaudible] up on you. Well, they'd take kids back down uh make them [inaudible]. I
reckon they're meaner now. They're now [inaudible]. They had to be rough on us [chuckles].
KS: How were they meaner?
TP: [Inaudible] just [inaudible] right there. You know where [inaudible] and stuff like that. They wasn't
uh they hit, when I [inaudible] beat up on you and I reckon it'd make you a lot meaner.
�KS: Oh well, what kind of punishment did they have?
TP: Well, they'd [inaudible] roots with a [inaudible].
KS: Well, what subjects did they teach?
TP: You mean in Boone?
KS: Uh huh.
TP: Here at [inaudible] I don't know what it really, I forget really what was the highest grades. Back then
they had these old timey primers. You know when you first start middle school.
KS: Well, did you just have a primer in the first grade?
TP: Yeah, that's all we had just...
FV: They had ABC's and [inaudible].
TP: Yeah, you just had back in them days there wasn't like [inaudible]. [Inaudible] uh saw mills, logs and
timber.
KS: Mm hm.
TP: And you had to do all the work [inaudible] with horse and mules and steers and oxens would haul
'em.
KS: Well, did your whole family get to go to school?
TP: Yes, they all went a little, I reckon.
KS: Have the schools changed much over the years?
TP: Oh yeah, they've changed a lot.
KS: How have they changed?
TP: Well, you see they put this transportation on and they cut these schools out of the settlements. And
put the buses on them see takes uh the kids there.
KS: What was the first job you ever had?
TP: Well I, I've logged. I've logged here. It wasn't too long. [Inaudible] with a hoe was. Back then you
didn't have no work [inaudible].
KS: Well, what else did they have besides the hoe?
�TP: Maybe some old turning [inaudible] you turn the ground and then I don't reckon there's any
[inaudible] back in them days. One of these old wooden [inaudible] and most of 'em just go over and cut
'em [inaudible] brash, stone brash [inaudible].
KS: Oh, well did you do any...
FV: [Inaudible] just a dollar a day and sometimes it was like 90 cents.
TP: Yeah, now-a-day we [inaudible]. Way back years, before they had [inaudible] it was about 50 cents a
day.
KS: Well, did you have any other jobs besides logging?
TP: Not before I was married.
KS: Well, what else have you done?
TP: I've carried the mail and was carrying the mail when I was married. Then they build some bigger
roads to go on.
FV: You worked over yonder at [inaudible].
TP: I drove on that trade road from Craigstate(?) line. I have to build a [inaudible] over there on that
road that goes through [inaudible].
KS: When was the hardest time you ever had getting a job?
TP: Well uh, to take on the time uh you could hardly get a job.
KS: When was this?
TP: I had to [inaudible] married and...
KS: Was this during the Depression?
TP: Yeah, yeah right in there, the Depression.
KS: Well, how did it affect you and your family?
TP: [Inaudible] uh had to dig lots of roots and skin cherry bark to get along.
KS: Well, did you raise your own food?
TP:Yeah.
KS: What did you raise?
TP: Corn and beans and meat.
�KS: What kind of meat?
TP: Hog meat, killed about two hogs every fall.
FV: Raised buckwheat and make pancakes.
TP: [Laughter]
FV: [Laughter]
KS: Well, did you raise any of these crops to sell?
TP: No, took about all of 'em back then [inaudible]. It wasn't like it is now. You what you made, you see
people went through the summer made their uh what you say your meat and veggies. You raised your
corn and had it to your mill grain or go to the mill every couple during the week.
KS: Well, where was this mill at?
TP: Uh well, there's some all right along up and [inaudible] had one up here. Fred Emerson he lives up
there; he had a mill up there [inaudible]. Earl Lynn he had mill there for years.
FV: [Inaudible] had one up there.
TP: Yeah, Frank Naylor had one up there.
KS: Well, can you remember anything about the banks during the Depression?
TP: Well, the banks?
KS:Mmhm.
TP: Yeah, they went bank, they claimed that they went broke or busted.
KS: Well, did you have any money in at that time?
TP: No [chuckles]. You couldn't have no money back them days.
KS: Uh huh, well, where were you working during the Depression?
TP: Well, I had to quit carrying the mail I just make a [inaudible] around on the farm. Make what we eat
just skinning cherry bark and haw bark and digging roots.
KS: How much money did you get for this cherry bark and roots and stuff?
TP: Well, I don't know it wasn't...cherry bark it wasn't over 2 cents, was it?
FV: No.
TP: And the haw bark it run up 6 maybe cents a pound, wasn't it?
�8
FV: [Inaudible] for 5 cents then it went up to 8 [inaudible].
KS: Well, back during the Depression it took a whole lot of cherry bark and stuff to get money didn't it?
TP: Yeah it just, you had work pretty steady at it. Like [inaudible] you had to work pretty steady at it to
uh get something to eat.
KS: Well, did any of your children have to leave home or anything during that time to get a job?
TP: No, no they wasn't big enough to.
KS: Oh, they wasn't?
TP: And we got a pretty well grown [inaudible] Bernice she took that polio.
KS: Well, um do you remember any programs like WPA or CCC?
TP: Yeah, when they first started that WPA I think we first went to work on [inaudible] work up and
down the roads. And they give a lot, give us an [inaudible] that store up there at Boone. We'd go up
there and get had to go up there and take that [inaudible] team. Me and [inaudible].
KS: So you worked on...
FV: [Inaudible] talking [inaudible].
TP: Nobody gives them...they had to [inaudible]. The store gave enough wheat for your work all week
and you had to take it to Boone up there and [inaudible] the store and take that...
KS: Well, did you work on the WPA?
TP:Yeah.
KS: Well, what all did you do?
TP: Well, I helped build that surge line or sewage in Boone up there on the State Farm. And then later I
worked in Blowing Rock a year or two, didn't I?
FV: Yeah.
TP: Walk up there to uh go over there into Wade [inaudible]. It's through the mountain and catch the
state truck there and ride it on into Blowing Rock.
KS: Well, can you remember the first car that came in here?
TP: Yeah.
KS: Well, uh who had it?
TP: Will Sutherland.
�KS: What kind was it?
TP: I think it's an old A-Model and cloth top.
KS: Well, what'd you think about it when you saw that?
TP: [Laughter] I don't know what I thought about it them days. Shoot. My memories just a little bit
[inaudible]. Down there right well when that old road come up through there then is right in front of
that old house I lived on where my grandpap lived. He drove it up there and turned it. An old two seater,
cloth top A-Model.
KS: Well, before that how did people get around?
TP: [Inaudible] buggies, hecks (?), wagons...
KS: What's a heck?
FV: Riding horse.
TP: [Laughter] Yeah, it's an old four wheel outfit with two seats on it made like a buggy. It had a bed on
it and had two seats on it.
KS: Well, uh what churches did they have around here then?
TP: Uh Baptist Church it set down here where this Baptist Church is. And then the Christian Church uh it
set down right down uh just about where Curtis [inaudible] store is.
KS: Well, where did most people go to church around here?
TP: Well, they split up like they're now, part of 'em go to the Baptist Church and part to the Christian
Church.
KS: Well, do you think the preachers have changed much over the years?
TP: Well, I don't know whether they have or not. They, I know one thing they've done they've back them
days they would walk and now-a-days they ride they've got the cars to ride in [chuckles].
KS: Where did they walk from?
TP: Well, you see they'd walk from or ride horses from wherever they lived, you see, to church.
KS: Well, did they ever spend the night with any of the members or anything?
TP: Yeah, back them days they would stay over. Well, uh most of would have a week's meat and they'd
spend a week with uh Christians one day and members of the church and they'd spend the nights.
KS: Well, how did the teachers do? Did they stay with students or did they have their homes around
here?
�10
TP: Uh, you see Earl Wineberger he lived back in yonder there and he had a big he had him a horse, a
grey horse and a black one. He'd ride one of the horses and ask [inaudible] or one of the boys to ride the
other one across the mountain. And I don't know, I forget how Charles Hompson got over here. I don't
know, seemed like he boarded. [Inaudible] but I have I can't remember where exactly—it seems like he
boarded in [inaudible].
KS: Well, did the Depression affect the schools in anyway?
TP: Yeah, that Depression is hard on everybody.
KS: Well, how did the schools change during that time?
TP: Well, they never changed too much they just keep dragging along you know just people trying to
send their young'uns. Once they got big enough they had to help work the fields, making corn, and stuff
like that.
KS: Who do you think was hit the hardest by the depression?
TP: Well, I don't know. See if the banks went broke like they claim they did then them fellers that had
decent money in 'em of course it hurt them. But [inaudible] to keep something to keep the poor man he
didn't have [inaudible].
KS: Well, back in the days when you was younger, did they have any bad men or outlaws or anything
around here?
TP: Yeah, they were here. [Inaudible] Potters they think he was bad and then they had a killing, well a lot
a killing. Several was killed down there. And they spread the [inaudible]. There were several killed down
there and they [inaudible].
KS: Were those people born here or did they just come into to this section?
TP: Wel,l part of 'em come in from Kentucky. 01' man Brooms(?) then [inaudible] then they come in, you
see.
KS: Well, who was the sheriff then?
TP: I 'bout forgot [coughs] who was the High Sheriff. The first one I remember was uh I believe his name
was Young, Sheriff Young they called him. His name was Young. And he had a daddy that Ed Horton, I
think was his daddy [inaudible]. They change so much, you see, and I think the time I just can't...
KS: Did any of 'em ever get killed?
TP: No, not at all. Officers never did get killed,
KS: Did Tamarack have a jail or anything?
TP: No, no, they take 'em out. When they arrest 'em, they take 'em to Boone's jail just like they do now.
�11
KS: What kind of buildings did they have, like post office and stuff like that?
TP: They just old building, store house just like the one on old [inaudible], store house [inaudible]. Of
course, some of 'em was bigger but just like uh it like [inaudible].
KS: Well, where was the country store around here?
TP: Down there at the fork in the road. Frank Miller owned a store there for years. And then uh after he
quit uh Curtis Potter took up the store down there.
KS: What all kinds of things did they carry in their store?
TP: Well, they carried dried goods and groceries and uh every now and then you'd buy you coffee. You'd
have to buy and the grain. Most of the time you'd have to parch it, grind it at [chuckles] the mill.
KS: Well, did anybody moonshine around here?
TP: Yeah, they [inaudible] moonshining and bootlegging went on back them days, back when I was a
boy.
[END OF SIDE ONE]
TP: ...with a you can cook then you had a six gallon barrel and a little beat boxes back then. They took a
bushel of meal there to the barrel and they put the malt and rye chalk. I've even put a gallon of rye chalk
in the barrel. It takes that about a week to go sour and work off and make the alcohol.
KS: Was it good?
TP: Yeah, just like the on his grain [inaudible] back them days once drain for the [inaudible]. See they,
see they don't know what to make out of it.
KS: Did anybody ever try to stop 'em from making moonshine?
TP: Yeah, the law they's report 'em in and the law they would come and search and hunt for 'em, see. If
they had to arrest a man, they'd have to [inaudible] back when I was a boy put him on a horse up behind
them and take him in [chuckles].
KS: Any revenuers ever come in?
TP: No, I don't reckon there wasn't no federal [inaudible] back then it was just the county officers that
there.
KS: Well, what did they do to you when they took you to Boone?
TP: Well, they was pretty rough on 'em. They fined 'em maybe they'd have to go to jail cells.
KS: How much did moonshine cost?
�12
TP: I believe you could buy you uh it was you could buy a [inaudible] for $10 a gallon.
KS: It was that expensive?
TP: Huh?
KS: It was that expensive?
TP: Yeah, they'd sell it to trade for $10 a gallon and where'd they take a [inaudible] then they'd have for
about $6 a gallon. And take it back into Tennessee in [inaudible]. I believe they put about six and four,
they put about four cans to a hemp sack, tow sack they called 'em, and they'd put one on each side of a
horse roll up on the horse and take it to Tennessee. Take it over night and they'd stay overnight over
there. And then there was a drunk and they come at it. They would get them two or three half gallon
cans and they [inaudible] in their saddle pockets and ride off with it.
KS: [Chuckles] Well, what did you do for amusement when you was a little boy?
TP: For what?
KS: For amusement, what did you play with?
TP: I forget. You see, back then there wasn't no toys to play with it was just, I forget. Little kids back
them days there wasn't much to play with [inaudible]. We had no toys like there is now.
KS: What was Christmas like?
TP: Well, they [car horn honks] there's some difference in it, not too much. There's, now-a-days people
they buy most of 'em buys their cakes and stuff. Back them days they'd [inaudible] and bake.
KS: Did you have Christmas trees?
TP: No, no Christmas tree [inaudible, chuckles].
KS: Didn't anybody have a Christmas tree?
TP: No, they didn't. Nobody had a Christmas tree.
KS: Did anybody believe in Santa Claus?
TP: Well maybe, some of the kids would. And back then they'd go around your neighbors and go around
and fix up some kind of old [inaudible] spaces maybe the night before Christmas. They just [inaudible]
candy, there wasn't no toys then [inaudible].
KS: How much did candy cost back then?
TP: I forget just one cost but it was way damn cheap I [inaudible]. You can get a right smart little pop for
a dime [inaudible] candy in buckets. Well, I guess it [inaudible] in buckets, wooden buckets, the bulk
candy was. The stick candy was in boxes like it is now I'd say. And there wasn't no uh well there way up,
�Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.
This electrostatic copy is subject to United States Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
3
way up that [inaudible] I don't reckon it was the later I got going [inaudible] bark candy, you know,
would break your teeth, it was just all loose candy.
KS: What kind of medicines did they use back then? TP: Well, I don't know. If anybody gets sick they just go, go to the doctor. And I don't know I reckon he
made his medicine.
KS: What kinds did he use?
TP: Huh?
KS: What kinds of medicines did he use?
TP: Well there, use quinine and you know stuff like that most the time. And I don't know what else he uh
made medicine out of.
KS: Well, what about home remedies? What kind of home remedies did they have?
TP: What?
KS: That your mama made up.
TP: Well, they make bone-sift (?) tea and there's some other kind of tea. See there wasn't no aspirins or
none of these pills like there is now. No aspirins...nothing like that.
KS: Can you remember any legends or tales or superstitions that people had back then that's maybe
been passed down to you?
TP: No.
KS: Did your grandfather ever tell you anything about the Civil War or your Papa?
TP: No, I never did hear any him talk too much about it [inaudible]...
[Children yelling in background]
TP: You see, if they wasn't [inaudible] ol' Grandpap he was [inaudible]. He was just uh...his daddy
[inaudible] and Granny's daddy [inaudible].
KS: Was there ever any Negro slaves around here that you heard about?
TP: Yeah, up here on the [inaudible] place used to be a family of Negros that lived up there.
KS: Were they slaves?
TP: No, no they lived up there just like any other family go and make their, made their living.
KS: Well, how did people like 'em?
�Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.
This electrostatic copy is subject to United States Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
_4
TP: Uh they liked 'em all right. They had a little good I reckon they would you know barter with 'em and
ask somebody if they talked to 'em. Yeah they's...! forget what the nigger man's name was but the lady
her name was Reena [inaudible]. [Note: this is the Red or Read family.] Most of 'ems buried up there
just to go up and touch [inaudible].
KS: Would people around here very superstitious back then?
TP: No, they wasn't superstitious.
KS: Was there anything you can think to tell me about the old days?
TP: No [chuckles], you forget a lot.
KS: Mm hm, would you like to live back there in them days, now?
TP: Well I don't know whether I would or not. It's...back them days nobody much tried to save, save any
money like they do now-a-days. Always looking at any [inaudible] to make their what they went up on,
you know, to raise a family.
KS: Well, thank you.
[END]
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Scanned by
Wetmore, Dana
Equipment
Hp Scanjet 8200
Scan date
2014-02-27
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Ted Potter, June 12, 1973
Description
An account of the resource
Ted Potter was born in Tamarack, NC in 1908 and throughout his life was a logger, mail carrier, and farmer.
Mr. Potter recalls childhood memories of Christmas, moonshining, and the Great Depression. He discusses the schoolhouse experience from his childhood as well as farming during the Great Depression.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Shelton, Karalyn
Potter, Ted
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
6/12/1973
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
14 pages
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
document
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape79_TedPotter_1973_06_12M001
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Todd, NC
Subject
The topic of the resource
Potter, Ted--Interviews
Depressions--1929--North Carolina--Tamarack
Farm life--North Carolina--Tamarack--20th century
Tamarack (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Boone
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
farming
Great Depression
moonshining
North Carolina
schoolhouse
Tamarack
Ted Potter
Works Progress Administration
WPA
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/3452c0315f054b3e81d01edac3cda72c.pdf
4c7fcd0af7786bcaa3d72357db39392f
PDF Text
Text
AOHP #66
Page 1
This is an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Greene
for the Appalachian Oral History Project, by Donna
Clawson, at Route 2, Boone, on June 11, 1973.
QUESTION:
Mrs. Greene, I'll start with you.
ANSWER:
Where were you born?
(Mrs. G) You mean the county?
Q:
Yes, the county or the area.
A":
(Ms. G) I was born in Watauga County, or Meat Camp.
Q:
What was the year?
A:
(Ms. G) 1908.
Q:
What about you, Mr. Greene?
A:
(Mr. G) Well, I was born in 1904.
Q:
Were you born in this county?
A:
(Mr. G) Watauga County, yes.
this house.
Just a little ways right here from
That little house that used to stand out here where that other
house was.
Q:
Who were your parents?
A:
(Mr. G) Henry Greene and Lura.
Q:
Who were your parents, Mrs. Greene?
A:
(Ms. G) Pink Jones and Laura Jones.
Q:
Had your parents always lived in this county?
A:
(Mr. G) Yes.
Q:
They were born in this county?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, Watauga County.
Q:
What about your parents?
A:
(Ms. G) They were too.
Q:
Mrs. Greene, I'll talk to you a while then.
did you have?
Both of them.
How many years did you go?
A:
(Ms. G) I just went to the seventh grade.
Q:
How many months out of the year did you go?
What kind of schooling
�AOHP #66 Page 2
A:
(Ms. G) Six.
Q:
Was it a one-room schoolhouse?
A:
(Ms. G) Yes.
Q:
How many teachers did you have?
A:
(Ms. G) Just one teacher, every year.
Q:
The same teacher the whole time?
A:
(Ms. G) No, a different one each year.
Q:
What kind of thing did you study in school?
A:
(Ms. G) Let's see.
Arithmetic, that's what they called it back then.
English, spelling, history, geography, sanitation, and, one other thing.
I can't think of the name of the book. (Mr. G) Grammar? (Ms. G) No.
Q:
That's about the same thing they teach now.
and sisters?
What about brothers
How many did you have?
A:
(Ms. G) I had one brother and four sisters.
Q:
What were their n^^es?
A:
(Ms. G) Well, Docia's my oldest sister.
And Allie Barnes.
You want
their full names?
Q:
Yes, that'll be fine.
A:
(Ms. G) Docia Suddreth, Allie Brown, Bessie Greene, Verlee Brown,
and Stanford Jones.
Q:
Were they all older than you, or were you in the middle?
A:
(Ms. G) I was next to the youngest.
Q:
Mr. Greene, how much schooling did you have?
A:
(Mr. G) I guess I got through maybe what they call the fifth grade.
Q:
How many months out of the year did you go?
A:
(Mr. G) When first I went it was just three months.
There were four older than me.
up to six months.
Q:
Did you study about the same things Mrs. Greene did?
A:
(Mr. G) About the same things.
Then they got
(
�AOHP #66 Page 3
Q:
A:
What about teachers, did you have one each year?
(Mr. G) They teached all the grades that was teached, they didn't
grade them like they do now.
went along.
Passed them through their books as they
Didn't grade them like they do now.
(Ms. G) We never had a
report card or anything like that.
Q:
You just went through?
A:
(Ms. G) Yeah, they just passed you.
Q:
Do you remember the name of the school you went to?
A:
(Mr. G) Huh?
Q:
What was the name of the school?
A:
(Mr. G) Uh, Sands.
Q:
What was yours?
A:
(Ms. G) I went to three different schools.
I guess you know where that is, up Meat Camp.
Springs.
I went to Chestnut Grove.
And then went to Maple
It was only two schools, yeah.
Q:
Well, what year did y'all get married?
A:
(Ms. G) 1927.
Q:
Did you live around here then?
A:
(Ms. G) We lived in PErkinsville.
Q:
How long did you live there?
A:
(Ms. G) Three years.
Q:
Then did you move back up here?
A:
(Ms. G) Yeah, we moved down here where Herbert Foster lives.
And
then we moved from there, down there on the creek, you know where J. D.
Greene owns that little house below the creek.
And then we moved from
there to here.
Q:
How many children do you have?
A:
(Ms.G) Two.
Q:
Mr. Greene, what kind of occupations have you had, what kind of jobs?
A:
(Mr. G) Farming the most of the time, up till the last twenty-two
years.
Two sons.
Then I been working in produce ever since.
�AOHP #66 Page 4
Q:
Can you remember a time when you had hard time getting a job?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, they wasn't no jobs, back then 'cept only farming.
I never had no hard time gettin' a job.
I could get work to do.
body wanted any work done, if I had time to do it.
/
then, you didnjt get too much done away from home.
If any-
If you tried to farm
(Ms. G) They weren't
no plants you know, or anything like that to work at.
Q:
They've not been around here too long.
A:
(Ms. G) No, they haven't.
Q:
What kind of crops did you raise?
A:
(Mr. G) Raised corn, potatoes, rye, wheat, buckwheat.
Q:
Did you sell any of them or did you just use them?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, sold some fo 'em.
his tax.
A fellow had to sell enough to pay
That's the only way we had of paying the tax.
Q:
Is that all you ever had to pay?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, that's about all.
Had to buy a little sugar and
coffee once in while.
Q:
Goodness, that's not like it is today.
What about livestock, did
you have livestock?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, kept one cow most of the time.
two.
(Ms. G) Three, we had three cows.
Part of the time I had
(Mr. G) Three here one time,
didn't we.
Q:
What about churches in this area, what kinds of churches have been
around here?
A:
The denominations and all.
(Mr. G) Well, the Methodist and the Baptist have been around the
longest, I guess.
Q:
Which church did the most people belong to?
A:
(Mr. G) I'm not sure I could tell you about that.
Baptist, most of 'em.
Q:
I suppose the
Right through this area, anyway.
Were the churches a lot different then from what they are now?
�AOHP #66 Page 5
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, they's a whole lot different.
People didn't try to
dress up so fine like they do anymore, when they went to church.
Q:
I guess not.
A:
(Ms. G) Didn't have it to dress in.
Q:
What other ways have the churches changed?
A:
(Ms. G) You answer that. (Mr. G) What?
Q:
What other ways have the churches changed?
A:
(Mr. G) Well, these trends. . . trying to build bigger churches.
And having less attendance, I think, than they used to have.
Q:
That's right.
A:
(Mr. G) That's the way I think they've changed.
Q:
That's true.
A:
(Mr. G) From an old feller by the name of Sands, I guess what give
it the Sands name.
Q:
How did this community get its name?
(ms. G) That's what I've heard.
Can you remember any of the decision makers in this community in
the past years?
A:
(Mr. G) I can't think of any of them.
Q:
I guess its mostly just been involved in the county, iL-/ rather than
so much of a separate community.
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah.
Q:
Has the community changed a lot?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, right smart.
Q:
What about the population of the community?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, more.
Q:
Are either of you interested in politics?
A:
(Mr. G) Interested in politics?
Q:
Yes.
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, I've always been interested.
Q:
Can you remember any special elections?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, all of 'em.
People don't visit nigh like they used to.
Is it more?
�AOHP #66 Page 6
Q:
Oh, really?
A:
Yeah!
Q:
Did you get out and politic?
A:
(Mr. G) No, I didn't politic but I always tried to get over there
and cast my vote.
Q:
Just kept up with 'em, huh?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah.
to go vote.
(Ms. G) We've always just been interested enough
(Mr. G) No, I ain't never took no part in the local affairs
much.
Q:
Well, voting shows a big interest.
How did most of the people
around here vote?
A:
(Mr. G) Well, I guess 'at most of 'em, biggest majority of 'em
was Republicans —
Q:
A:
in this county.
How do you think politics have changed over the
years?
, (Mr. G) I think its got rotten, that's how. (Ms. G) You shouldn't
'a said that.
Q:
No, that's fine.
I've heard a lot 'a people say that.
just about agree with you, too.
A:
I think I
How have the politics changed?
(Mr. G) Used to, the candidates would debate, ya know, at some certain
place and speak against one another, but they don't do that no more.
It's
all on television, or not no speaking a 'tall, or maybe have a few gettogethers somewhere, where the parties met.
An' when they debated aginst
one another, an' face to face in politics it 'uz even more interesting
than it is now.
Q:
I bet it was.
A:
(Mr. G) They'd get so mad they could kill one another when they get
up to speak at one another.
(Ms. G) I can remember going to hear people
speak with my daddy when I was just litt^g,
An ' he'd want to go hear
somebody speak that was on his side, ya know.
night and he'd take us children and go.
They'd usually speak at
�AOHP #66
Page
7
Q:
Well, did they ever get in real heated arguments?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, they'd get in some purty hot 'uns, sometimes.
Q:
What about the crowd, did they get mad, too?
A:
(Mr. G) No, the crowd didn't seem to worry much.
think so.
I can't remember anybody getting too mad.
probably riled up on a few of 'em in the crowd.
that 'ud give us any trouble.
(Mrs. G) I don't
(Mr. G) Course it
(Ms. G) Wasn't nothing
(Mr. G) No trouble, whatever.
I never did
hear of ..having no trouble
Q:
That's unusual.
At least now it seems unusual.
How did people get
around, back when you were growing up?
A:
(Mr. G) We walked, wherever we went.
or a wagon.
We went in a horse and buggy,
My father bought an old steer wagon.
(Ms. G) My daddy had
a steer, yoke 'a steers that I remember we rode to church in.
You know what
a steer is.
Q:
Yeah.
Did you ever walk pretty long distances?
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah.
Q:
How long did it take ya to do that?
A:
(Mr. G) Not too long.
We'd go five or six miles.
Back then when I'se young I could walk
purty good.
Q:
Where did you have to walk to ?
A:
Yeah, ya had to walk to town when ya went to town.
three miles, ya know.
Did you, like walk to town much?
That 'uz about
That 'uz just a short distance, back then. (Ms.G)
Nobody didn't mind walking to town, back then. (Mr. G) Never thought nothing
about it.
(Ms. G) When my daddy moved down here, ya know, where Wilson
Brown lives, we moved down there, and I'se eleven years old when he moved
from Meat Camp down there.
And all of us walked back up to Meat Camp to
church.
Q:
Well, that seems like a long way now.
I guess people have gotten lazy.
A:
(Ms. G) And they'd be running a revival meeting, ya know, at night,
and we'd all fall in, ya know, and get ready in time to go to church at
night.
�AOHP #66
Page 8
(Mr. G) People back then when they had produce to sell they hauled
it to Lenoir and sold it.
On a wagon, and team.
Q:
How long did that take ya?
A:
(Mr. G) Take 'em three or four days to go from thefeto Lenoir and
back.
(ms. G) My brother used to run a steer wagon for hauling produce.
Took a long time to go with a yoke 'a steers down there.
Q:
I guess it did.
A:
(Mr. G) Back then nobody 'uz in no big hurry.
They'j^meet up with
somebody, they'd stand and talk for an hour or two an1 now they won't
hardly speak howdy to ya.
Q:
That's the way it goes.
It does seem to be that way. You'd
\k with people having it easier getti
to spend with people.
A:
(Mr. G) It looks like it.
But they hain't, they've got to go.
(Ms. G) Looks like when you can go so much quicker that you'd have more
time.
(Mr. G) Everythings speeded up the past few years.
Q:
Yeah, I've seen it speed up just as long as I've been alive.
A:
(Mr. G) Yeah, you've seen it speeding up, all the way up. (Ms.G) I
know we lived on Meat Camp one time.
They'uz a having a revival meeting,
ya know, an' they had it in the afternoons and the evenings.
An 1 I can
remember walking and going with Momma, and we went across the
where Mr. Ira Brown used to live, the Dr. Harmon place, ya know, and come
on across that way.
And I can remember, as we went back, ya know in the
fall of the year it began to get dark so early.
And we got down to where
Aunt Mary Jones used to live and it was agettin dark there, and we had to
go through the dark from there on home.
Q:
That'd be something today, wouldn't it.
Where did most of the roads
and the railroads run around here?
A:
(Mr. G) Well, there wasn't no railroads here, till Tweetsie come into
Boone and I don't remember what year that was.
it never did come back in.
It washed it out in "40 and
�AOHP #66
Q:
Where were most of the i(a:ojds and things?
A:
(Mr. G)
Page 9
Only railroad was Todd, I guess.
gauge running into Boone.
place.
And that little narrow
(Ms. G) But the roads now aren't in the same
(Mr. G) And then they built a road that goes up here to Rich Mountair
to get logs out.
And then went on that narrow gauge over to Shulls Mills.
See, they had a sawmill over there.
up Howard's Creek, was there.
(Ms. G) There wasn't much of a road
(Mr. G) No, not much of one at that time.
(Ms. G) Then they built a good road up there.
We can remember it but I
don't remember what year it was.
Q:
What about some of the other roads, like Meat Camp Read?
Was it a
pretty good road?
A:
(Mr. G) No, rough road, and trees so low you couldn't get around them.
(Ms. G) They wasn't many roads that was even just gravelled, much that
you could travel.
Q:
Of course, I guess, without having cars it didn't make much difference
what the roads were like, did it?
A:
(Mr. G) No, they got to improving roads when cars begun to come into
this country.
Got to hard-surfacing 'em then.
(Ms. G) This road that
goes around down here, ya know, this old road, I can remember when they's
a-building that, before I was married.
And then out there at Sands, right
below, or about even with that house there of
( ? Mr.) Cook's, there's a
big mud hole there, ya know, and couldn't nobody get through it.
car had tried to get through there.
And one
There wasn't but a very few, ya know.
They would get stuc^r And they's always somebody coming out to my Dad's
to get Stanford and Daddy to take their yoke of steer and they'd have to
go pull those cars out of the mudhole.
Q:
When did the first cars come in?
saw your first car?
Can you remember the year you
�AOHP #66 Page 10
A:
(Mr.G)
(Ms.G)
(Mr.G)
(Ms.G)
seeing.
then?
I don't remember the exact year.
I don't believe I do remember the year.
It would 'a been about '15, I guess.
But I remember who was driving the first one that I remember
And I was scared of it.
Do you know I was scared of a car back
We lived on Meat Camp, that was before we moved doen here where
Daddy lived.
And we had come to Mr. Dan Cook's to the store, when he had
an old storehouse - - -out ttere.
Well, where was it that stood?
(Mr.G) Right down this side of where J. B."s got# his store.
(Ms.G) No, that first one that was doen here beside- - - (Mr.G) That first one stood right down this side right below the old
Ingram house down there.
Alongside of the road.
(Ms.G) Oh, I thought you said below the road.
(Mr.G) Well, 'tis, down this-a-way.
(Ms.G) Well, it was on the other side of the road.
be, you're right.
Yeah, it would
That one down there. . . .
(Mr.G) He moved out right down and went up by George Hayes', you
know.
When that storehouse stood there.
(Ms.G) You know where Oscar Hayes lives, don't you?
the George Hayes place.
left on around there.
can you remember it?
Well that was
And the road went way around that hill, to the
And right there below where that old Ingram house,
It's not been tore down long.
Q:
Yeah, I think I remember it.
A:
(Ms.G) It's right there below where Charles Hodges, uh,. . .
(Mr.G) . . .slaughter - place is at...
(Ms.G) Well, I don't know what I was going to tell you before that.
Q:
You were talking about the car, the first one you saw.
A:
(Ms.G) Yeah, that car.
We'd been over there to that store, and we
went back around that road, ya know, and we went, walking up around up
through that bottom above where Oscar Hayes lives.
And went on up the road
there a little piece,...we got over in Tommy Hayes' field and walked on
�AOHP # 66
that hill to where the Howard Foster house is.
Page 11
You know, where Howard
Foster used to live, you know, over near Meat Camp.
Who is it lives
there now, Mr. Shook?
(Mr.G) Yeah.
(Ms.G) We'd go right across that hill, ya know.
We heard this car
a-coming before we got to where we always crawled under this wire fence,
ya know, where we'd come up there above Oscar Hayes1.
And I can remember
how scared we was and we run ourselves near to death because we's so afraid
of that car.
And we wanted to get there and crawl under that fence and
get in that field before that car passed us.
it.
And Henry Miller was driving
Henry Miller had bought him a car back then.
And that's the first
car I can remember seeing.
Q:
I bet that would have been scary.
A:
(Ms.G) We was so afraid of that car. . . . because we had never seen
one.
And we's afraid to be out in the road for it to pass us.
Q:
Can you remember the first car you saw?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, I believe it was along back about '14 or '15.
Around
that year.
(Ms.G) It was . . . now we moved from over there in 1918.
And it
was just a few years before that becuase I was a purty goog-sized Qirl.
And I was eleven years old when we moved there.
I guess he's about right.
About 1914 or '15.
Q:
What did you think of the first car you saw?
A:
(Mr.G) Well I thought it was a kinda funny looking outfit.
Q:
I guess they did look strange at first.
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, but I soon got used to 'em.
Q:
What was the first car you ever had?
A:
(Mr.G) Ah, the first 'un I ever owned was a '21 Ford, I believe.
Q:
You remember when you got that?
A:
(Mr.G) I got it off 'a Larry Lane.
�AOHP #66
Page 12
(Ms.G) She said when.
(Mr.G) Oh, no, I don't remember exactly when.
It musta' been
about 1920, something along that.
Q:
Did you enjoy riding around in the car?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, I liked to drive it.
T-Model Ford's what it was.
One seat.
Q:
Did you like it better than walking, and horse 'n buggy 'n all that?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, Yeah I liked it better 'n that.
where quicker and back.
Q:
any-
Go further.
What about some of the crafts in the area?
the curing, and the weaving.
A:
You could
Like the soapmaking,
Have you done much of that?
(Ms.G) I never did do any weaving.
to make all the soap that I used.
I've made a lot of Soap.
I used
Me and my mother used to make soap.
She
done a lot 'a spinning and carding, but she never did any weaving.
Q:
Did you ever learn to do any of the spinning?
A:
(Ms.G) No, I never did any spinning.
Q:
I've heard it's pretty hard to do.
A:
(Ms.G) It was for me.
I never did try, though, very much.
put us to doing other things since she did all that.
Mother
She never did teach
us.
(Mr.G) Yeah, people used to save all their ashes where they burnt the
wood to make lye to make soap out of.
Set off a hollow tree, make gums,
pour the ashes in 'em.
(Ms.G) Set 'em up on a big rock, let the rock be a little slant.
They'd pour water down in those ashes and set a crock down under there, my
mother did, to catch the drippings.
(Mr.G) They'd chisel 'em out a little channel, you know, that'd run
into the vessel.
Set 'em up there, pour water in 'em to get the lye.
(Ms.G) She never did buy canned lye.
(Mr.G) Why back then, people was the lyingest things you ever seen.
LAUGHTER.
�AOHP #66
Page
13
Q:
I guess they had to be.
A:
(Ms.G) My mother made her own vinegar and all that she used in the
pickles.
She never bought any.
Q:
Well, I didn't know you could make vinegar.
A:
(Ms.G) Well, she'd take a bunch of apple peelings.
exactly how she made it.
How do you do that?
I don't know
But she'd pour water over that, and let it set
'til it would work, ya know, and then she'd strain it.
Just have the
liquid part, ya know, and let it sit so much and she skim it.
know exactly how she did make it.
And, ooh, it was strong, too.
Q:
I don't
But she'd make some of the best vinegar.
It'd really pickle things.
What about mountain cures, like when somebody got sick, did you have
cures for different things?
A:
(Ms.G) Yes, we had some.
Q:
What were some of the cures you can remember?
A:
(Ms.G) Well, back then children had worms and you know they say now
they don't have 'em.
And Momma would always give garlic, ya know the heads
of garlic, or the bulbs, ya know, out of the ground.
And she'd beat that
up, andy put it on, . . . between a cloth, ya know, and put that on your
stomach.
And that would cure worms.
And then they was an herb that she
growed in the garden, she called rue.
that was good for worms.
I think it was spelled r-u-e.
And
And she would get that, and beat it up and put
it in a cloth, and tie it on the wrist.
Q:
My goodness, did it work?
A:
(Ms.G) Yes, it sure did.
It helped.
a sore throat she made onion poultice.
she do?
And then she made . . . . for
And, let's see now, what else did
She took wheat bran, I forget what else she put with it.
remember how they fixed that for something?
Do you
What was that for?
(Mr.G) I don't know.
(Ms.G) I remember she she used to take wheat bran and make some kind
of cure.
She did all kinds of things like that.
�AOHP #66
Page 14
We ' s never ever took to a doctor, or sent for a doctor or anything.
Anytime, except when the flu WcvS around so bad, in 1918.
That was the
only we ever had a doctor at my house that I remember.
Q:
Who was your doctor?
A:
(Ms.G) Uh, yes, Stanford did freeze his feet one time in the winter-
time.
They come big old holes in his heels, ya know.
in there.
Big old holes, back
And, old Dr. J. B. Hagaman lived at Todd at that time.
he come on horseback.
And we'd send for him and he'd come over nearly
every night. . . ride his horse over there to Meat Camp.
doctored Stanford's feet.
when we had the flu.
And
And then Dr. Bingham come.
He come and
Dr. Bob Bingham,
And Bessie had pneumonia when we had the flu.
Dr. Jones, J. W. Jones, I believe.
And
He was at Boone, and he come to see
her a time or two when she had pneumonia.
(Mr.G) And they all traveled on horseback then.
(Ms.G) Yeah, they had to ride horse back that far.
make all kinds of tea/ in the wintertime.
whether we's sick or not.
And Momma would
She made us drink it all along
She'd made boneset tea, and oh how bitter it was.
And when we had whooping cough she made chestnut leaf tea and I've drunk
quarts and quarts
of that.
Shti. made peneroil tea out of this big red. .
. .no, that's horseleaf that has big red top, but they was a kind of stuff
called peneroil, wasn't they?
(Mr.G) Uhmm - uh.
(Ms.G) She gathered that and dried it to make tea out of.
she made tea out of that.
And catnip,
All kinds of different things.
Q:
Well what was all that for?
A:
(Mr.G) Spicewood, sassafras
(Ms.G) Well now they said the spice wood was to thin your blood.
How they knew that it was too thick, I don't know that.
But they'd make
us drink it and I guess it didn't hurt us.
(Mr.G) They give you spicewood tea to break you out with the measles.
�AOHP #66
Page 15
And they used a lot of these hot teas, now, for measles.
they had to do for measles, back then, ya know.
tea to get you broke out.
Just use some of the hot
They used spicewood tea for measles and they used
the boneset tea for measles, too.
things.
That was all
And it was good for coughs and different
And they used polecat oil and groundhog oil for croupe.
Just
think of them terrible, horrible things you had to take back then.
And
Momma would get
(Mr.G) How'd you like to be greased with polecat oil?
Q:
I don't think I'd like that at all.
A:
(Ms.G) If you take the croupe, or a real deep cold, ya know, ooh,
that stinking stuff, they'd grease your chest with that, and take a real
flannel cloth, ya know.
They'd heat it, ya know, and put that thing on
your chest right here, ya know.
It'd break up pneumonia.
(Mr.G) People'd take a fit now if they had to be greased with it,
wouldn't they?
(Ms.G) I heard Ern Brown one time, tell about breaking up pneumonia
with those things.
(Ms.G). . . . she'd get a great big bottle, it'd hold about a quart
I guess.
And she would put sulfur in that, and fill it full of water, and
she'd shake that up, and make us drink that for something.
terrible.
Ooh, it was
And then she would get horseradish roots and cut that up and
put it in water, and make us drink the liquid off of that.
Something to
keep us from being sick, I don't know.
Q:
Did it keep you pretty healthy?
A:
(Ms.G) Yeah, we's never sick much.
(Mr.G) Yeah, they's never sick.
Healthiest set of Joneses I ever seen.
Q:
I guess they musta' worked, then.
A:
(Ms.G) You know, them old remedies was good.
an awful bad sore throat, I'se nearly grown.
I can remember having
And she put that onion poultice
on my throat, I couldn't hardly talk and it cured me.
...
�AOHP #66
Page 16
Oh, that old soggy-wet, nasty thing on my throat, it felt terrible.
them onions, shooool
And these old hen-an-chickens, ya know, like grows
out in the yard, hens an things, ya know.
them or not.
And
I'll show them to ya.
I don't know if you've ever seen
But they would get that, and would
get a cloth and beat 'em up, and then they'd squeeze that out in a spoon,
and put a drop or two of that in your ears for earache.
cure the earache.
And that'd sure
See, all this stuff grew for a purpose.
Back then people
knew what it was for and they used it for things like that.
(Mr.G) Nobody knows what it's fer anymore.
All folks knows now is
when a youngun gets sick, take it to the doctor.
(Ms.G) Now, what was that sassafras tea for?
That was just as red.
It made the purtiest little tea you've ever looked at.
Now we buy our tea
at the store.
Q:
I guess everybody does.
What does sassafras tea taste like?
A;
(Ms.G) I don't know hardly how to tell ya.
(Mr.G) You've eat sassafras candy, hadn't you?
Well it tastes
a bit like that.
(Ms.G) It was good-tasting.
wood tea wasn't too bad, either.
No, it wadn't a bad taste.
This spice-
But they'd make it for supper and drink
it at the table for supper of the nights.
(Mr.G) Ole boneset was the worst tea that 'uz ever made.
(Ms.G) Oh, it was bitter.
(Mr.G) I've a mind itis.
That must be what quinine's made out of.
I know it tastes a lot like quinine.
(Ms.G) But that's the way they doctored back then.
Never bought
no medicines
Q:
Well, they were making do with what they had?
A:
(Ms.G) And there was only one phone in the community as I know of.
That was Mr. Dan COok and Miss Bertha.
They had a phone, back then.
of these old-timey wall kinds, up on the wall.
a doctor always had to go there and call.
One
Anybody wanted to send for
�AOHP #66
(Mr.G)
Page 17
Andrew Cole used to run a store down there below where
Tabernacle was.
(Ms.G) Did he have a phone?
(Mr.G) No, he didn't have no phone.
(Ms.G) Well, I'se talking about the phone.
that had a phone.
Mr. Cook's the only one
Now us a-livin1 plum over on Meat Camp, if we wanted a
doctor that was the only way. . .
than walking all the way to Boone.
course that was quicker
But we had to walk plumb out here and
back, and Mr. Cook's was a pretty long way.
Greene's and Mr. Walter's that goes up to
Henry Miller and Etta used to live?
lived a way on up in a holler.
Ya know that road at John
the left there?
You know where
Well, it 'uz up that road.
Now we
Turn out into another road, right there you,
the road, you went a way on up in the holler, about a mile, . . .
(Mr.G) Yeah, a mile, I guess.
(Ms.G) From up in there, that was a long ways to walk.
Q:
Can either of you remember anything about any outlaws or badmen
around here?
A:
(Mr.G) Ah, they wasn't many of them.
boys that was out through here.
I've heard about them Allen
Shot up the court that time.
(Ms.G) I've heard older people than I am talk about the Allen boys
that
up the court.
(Mr.G) I've heard it said that old man Ed Miller brought 'em through
this country,
Q:
helping 'em get away.
I don't believe I've heard anything about that.
Do you know what
year that was?
A:
(Mr.G) Uh-uh, I don't know.
(Ms.G) No, see we just heard talk of that and didn't ask about the
year.
�AOHP #66
Q:
Page 18
Can you remember any folktales that you heard your parents or
grandparents tell?
Or legends?
A:
(Ms.G) I don't know.
I can't remember none.
Q:
What about things like planting in a certain sign?
Do you believe
in that?
A:
(Mr.G) Old people, all of 'em used that.
(Ms.G) Kinda go bit it yet, some.
(Mr.G) I believe in it myself, but I didn't plant in them signs.
..
.
I agree that the moon has a whole lot to do with it.
need to talk to Raleigh Williams.
You
He'd give ya something on this sign
business.
Q:
Can y'all remember much about the Depression?
Did it affect you
much?
A:
(Mr.G) Well, about all it was about that Depression was just big
men and all got their money outa the banks and let 'em go broke and nobody
could get no money to do nothing with and there wadn't nothing to do.
And stuff got so cheap ya could just buy a whole lot of stuff for nothing,
about it.
(Ms.G) But you couldn't get that little bit of money that it took
to buy it with as cheap as it was.
You just couldn't get that money.
(Mr.G) You couldn't pay a debt.
Q:
Prices were real low then, but you just couldn't get the money?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, back then you could buy a pair of overalls for seventy-
five cents.
(Ms.G) Now you spend five.
(Mr.G) Six.
Q:
Where were you living at the start of the Drpression?
A:
(Ms.G) We lived at P rkinsville, didn't we?
(Mr.G) Yeah.
Q:
Were you living on a farm?
�AOHP #66
Page 19
A:
(Mr.G) Un-uh.
Rented farm.
Q:
Did you raise everything you needed?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, raised plenty of grain, stuff like that.
And managed
to get hold of enough money to buy what we had to outa' the store.
But
we didn't have much.
(Ms.G) We didn't raise wheat, and make out own flour.
We had to
buy flour.
(Mr.G) Yes, we did raise some wheat when I lived at Perkinses,
Raised wheat 'n rye.
Buckwheat.
(Ms.G) Yeah, but we didn't make all our bread out of it.
I remember us buying some flour.
with that Truck, you
'Cause
Don't you remember when you hauled off
bought some flour?
But he could get a hundred
pounds for a dollar seventy-five, wasn't it?
(Mr.G) Yeah, a hundred pounds of flour fer a dollar and seventy-five
cents.
(Ms.G) And now, ten pounds cost almost that.
Not quite that much,
but it costs a dollar thirty-five, I think for just ten pounds.
And he'd
get a hundred pounds of flour for a dollar seventy-five.
Q:
How old were your children during the Depression?
A:
(Mr.G) We just had one.
(Ms.G) G. L. was born in '28.
Q:
How did the Depression change working conditions and getting a job?
Was it hard to find a job?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, I'd say it was.
Wadn't no jobs to get much.
(Ms.G) Well, everybody just farmed, you know.
Just weren't any jobs
much to get.
(Mr.G) And it hurt the people
that Depression year hurt the people
like Cleveland and places like that hurt worse than it did around here.
Cause the people there ya know had jobs.
jobs.
And it got hard for them to get
�AOHP #66
Page
20
(Ms.G) And we've heard a little talk about in Detroit, Michigan,
having an effect on the people up there.
and had nothing much to live on.
got out
can
And I heard one man say that this man
and sold, uh, can something
what was it?
They got out of work, ya know,
what was it?
Can openers or
You heard him tell it.
(Mr.G) I don't know if I did.
I forgot about it.
(Ms.G) Seem^like it was just can-openers.
Just any little thing.
He'd get out on the street and try to sell that to make a little money,
after he got out of a job, ya know, his work shut do^/n.
(Mr.G) Yeah, get anything ya could, and get out and sell it.
any way in the world to make a penny.
Just
Course there wasn't as much stealing
and bank-robbing and rogueing a going on today as there is.
Q:
Did you ever hear of any of the government projects, like WPA & CCC?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, they had some projects like that back then.
They didn't
amount to much, I don't think.
Q:
Do you remember when the banks closed?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, they closed when, uh, Roosevelt took office.
'em in the next day or two after he took office.
He closed
Ordered all banks closed.
(Ms.G) I remember hearing Mr. Charlie Hodge say that he acted the
quickest of any president we'd ever had.
(Mr.G) Then he got 'em a foothold or something some way, and everything began to pick up a little again.
a whole lot too.
The^he got us in war and that helped
And then we've stayed in war ever since.
since that day, since war was declared in '40.
Still a fightin' some of 'em now.
Never been out
Never been out of war yet.
Over there in Laos, they're fightin1, I
reckon some of the Americans is bombing yet.
Q:
Did the community change very much during the Depression?
businesses, and the churches, and the schools?
Like the
�AOHP #66
A:
Page 21
(Mr.G) No, un-uh.
(Ms.G) I don't think they's any difference in the schools and
the churches.
(Mr.G) They've changed a lot more since the Depression than they
had before.
(Ms.G) Than they did during the Depression, I'd say.
Q:
Who was hurt worst by the Depression?
A:
(Ms.G) I don't really know, do you?
(Mr.G) Well, I guess the businessman was hurt the worst.
they did get all the money
Even if
. What caused the Depression
was everybody drawing their money out of the bank.
go broke 'n they started drawing their money out.
This fellows was gonna
That's what caused it.
And then they wouldn't pass no bills or nothing that Hoover wanted to pass
so they couldn't do any better.
lican president.
It was a Democrat congress agin a Repub-
They held him down.
(MS.G) If a poor man was in debt, he was really hurt.
you couldn't get money enough to pay it.
Because
There just wasn't any money.
(Mr.G) Yeah, if a man owed anything
A man that didn't
owe nothing boys he 'uz in the best shape he'd ever been.
Everything 'uz
more on equalization then than it's ever been in my lifetime.
(Ms.G) But you just could not get any money.
Q:
Was there anything that was good about the Depression days?
A:
(Ms.G) Well, I guess there was some.
(Mr.G) What 'cha sold brought just as much according as what 'cha
had to buy.
It don't do it anymore.
What 'cha buy is more than what 'cha
sell.
Now they're fussing about such high prices of beef 'n stuff like
that.
And now's the only time the farmers have had a chance 'at raise
cattle to make a penny 'o money.
�AOHP #66
Q:
That's right.
It's unfair to them.
Page 22
I've heard a lot of people say
that families were closer during the Depression, and the communities were
closer.
A:
Do you think that's true.
(Mr,G) They was.
A whole lot closer than they 'air today.
(Ms.G) Yeah, that's true.
They'd work ten whole hours for a dollar
back then and get a dollar a day.
buy much with or to pay.
They just wouldn't get enough money to
Just didn't get much money.
Q:
What do you like best about the way life is today?
A:
(Mr.G) Eatin' 'n sleepin'.
Q:
Well you've been able to do that all along, haven't you?
A:
(Mr.G) Ah, yeah, I've done more sleepin' before.
I can't sleep
good no more.
Q:
Is there any thing you like about what life is like now?
A:
(Mr.G) Well, we didn't have no electric lights, or no power, or
electricity of no kine.
to pay.
Course now we got plenty of it hooked up and have
Nose agin the grindstone to pay our bills.
(Ms.G) Well, I know that still we enjoy the lights.
(Mr.G) We enjoy the little things we have now.
(Ms.G) And now we have a lot more conveniences than we used to have.
We have a electric stove, and refrigerator.
used to have.
We have all that that we didn't
That saves a lot of time, and it's nice.
(Mr.G) Used to have to do the washin; boil the clothes out in a ole
pot and bring 'em up on a rock 'n beat the dirt out of 'em with a stick.
Scrub it out with ya fists.
Lot more conveniences now.
(Ms.G) All the modern conveniences.
I like that part about it.
I have an automatic washer and that's easier.
Now
Used to have to scrub 'em
by hand.
(Mr.G) They's a awful sight o' lazy women, though.
Q:
Do you think it's because of all the conveniences?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, that's what caused a whole lot of it.
�AOHP #66
(Ms.G) That's what he says.
Q:
Page23
I guess that's the truth.
You'd think they'd have more time to visit their neighbors then,
wouldn't you?
A:
(Mr.G) Yeah, but they don't.
visit their neighbors.
They have to watch TV I reckon, can't
Some ole story on TV they want to see.
(Ms.G) Well, that's another convenience that we use.
Q:
What did you do before you had a television?
I guess you got to
visit your neighbors a lot more then, didn't you?
A:
(Ms.G) Well, I don't know that we did.
(Mr.G) All that time she has now to watch television she had to
work than and get her work all done.
(Ms.G) It took longer to get "cha work done.
And you had to work
so much harder you were so tired at night that we always went to bed at
nine o'clock.
tired.
Never stayed up later than that, cause everybody was so
You'd go to bed at nine o'clock 'n have to get up "n get a lot
done ready to start on a day's work.the next morning.
You just didn't
have too much time.
(Mr.G) You go anywhere to work, you had to be at work seven o'clock.
Work till six then of the evenin'. Get in ten hours.
(Ms.G) We had to get up earlier then than we do now.
And had to work
a lot harder.
(Mr.G) Boy, I think today, take it all the way around, is a lot better
time than it used to be.
Q:
It sure has changed a lot.
A:
(Mr.G) Well, I think people's got less care for one another, got
twice, three times as little care for one another as they had back then.
(Ms.G) Well, seems like we did get our work done more back then in
time to visit some durin' the day or through the week or somethin1.
anymore we hardly ever go off the place.
And
�AOHP #66
Page
24
(Mr,G) If I go a-fishin anymore I just have to leave something
undone 'n go on.
Cause there's always somethin' to do.
Back then I'd
have plenty o 1 time to go a-fishin' a day out of a week if I wanted to.
Course I wadn't trying to work on the job then.
I'se working the farm.
(Ms.G) Well, if you work at home you can quit anytime you want to and
go some place if you want to ro go a-fishin1.
ya just don't have the time.
But when you work on a job
Ya come in late, and its time to milk, and
time you eat supper, it's eight o'clock time we eat supper a lot o' nights.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Scanned by
Wetmore, Dana
Equipment
Hp Scanjet 8200
Scan date
2014-02-25
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Lee Greene, June 11, 1973
Description
An account of the resource
Lee Greene was born in Watauga County, North Carolina in 1904 and farmed all his life. Mrs. Greene was born in Meat Camp, North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Greene talk about their education in a one-room schoolhouse. Mr. Greene talks about farming and the changes he has seen in the community, specifically in politics. Mrs. Greene explains how to make soap and homemade remedies. Both recall their methods of transportation as children and the transition of using cars. Mr. and Mrs. Greene also recollect memories of the Great Depression.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Clawson, Donna
Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Greene
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
6/11/1973
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
24 pages
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
document
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape66_Mr&MrsLeeGreene_1973_06_11M001
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Boone, NC
Subject
The topic of the resource
Farm life--North Carolina--Watauga County--20th century
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Depression--1929--North Carolina--Watauga County
Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History--20th century
Boone
cars
Chestnut Grove
Great Depression
homemade remedies
Lee Greene
Lenoir
Maple Springs
Meat Camp
Perkinsville
Politics
railroad
Sassafras Tea
schoolhouse
soap
Watauga County N.C.
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/9bb5d38ab2ac7dd93afbd2e75437af12.pdf
a3788980e9f9bb0a5b8458d91eaa225f
PDF Text
Text
Tape # 49
Outline
Ira Donald Shull
I.
Birthplace, farm, 5th generation of Shulls, jobs, farming.
II.
Birth, house born in.
III.
Brothers and sisters.
IV.
Property
V.
Food.
VI.
Roads and transportation.
VII.
Storing food.
VIII.
Feather beds, shuck mattresses, straw beds.
IX.
Flax, hand looms, weaving.
X.
School.
XL
Civil War stories, slaves.
XII.
Jobs, leaving home, Washington.
XIII.
Churches.
XIV.
Valle Crucis - name.
XV.
Community, leaders, size, population.
XVI.
Elections, politics.
XVII.
Mail.
XVIII.
Badmen.
XIX.
Doctors, medicines, herbs, roots.
XX.
Unions
XXI. News.
XXII.
Telephones.
�Tape #50.
Outline
Ira Don Shull
I. Telephones
II.
Farming, gambling in farming.
III.
Sheep.
IV. Electricity.
V. Depression
VI.
Government projects.
VII.
Blue Ridge Parkway.
VIII.
Bob Dalton.
IX.
Farming, markets.
X.
Banks closing.
XL
Neighbors during Depression.
XII.
Tourists.
XIII.
Selling Land after Depression.
XIV.
Cars.
XV.
1940 Flood.
XVI.
First car.
XVII.
Horses.
XVIII. Recreation.
XIX.
Barn raisings.
XX.
Weddings.
XXI.
Courting
�PAGE(S) MISSING
NOT AVAILABLE
�2.
Q: Now the first thing we want to know is about your childhood, where you
were born, who your parents were, where they're from, how many brothers
and sisters you had, how long ya'll lived around here and where everybody
went from here.
A: Well, I was born on this farm, not in this house, but in the home, the
next house up where my sisters live now when they're here in the summer.
They're in Florida in the winter, you know, up here where you're going.
In 1892, eighth of November, that's when I was born.
Q: Who built the house?
A: My daddy, J.M. Shull.
Q: And was he born here too?
A: Yes, he was born, not in that house, but in another house that stood down
where the garden is now. I can remember when they tore it down and part
of the lumber out of that house is in the house that you and Frank are moving
in, there's some of the lumber in that house.
Q: How many brothers and sisters did you have?
A: I had two half-sisters, my father was married twice.
First to Holly
Greene and she passed away and then later my father married All Baird
and had four sisters and no brothers. I'm the only boy by the last wife Ali.
Q: All this property you have, is it the same property that your father had?
�3.
A: I have a portion of it, he had more than I have.
He sold off some.
Q: Where did the land that your father owned go? Who got it and where
was it?
A: Well, he sold to various people, perhaps, I don't know, any number of
people, the last account I had there were seventeen dwellings or seventeen
people owned part of what was originally the old Shull farm.
I have been
told by the older folks, there were either 900 or 1100 acres. I never knew
which.
That was the original Shull property. All this down here and that
there, the big ridge where those folks live, there was a big boundary. I
own all of this, I think there's around 300 acres yet, I .own 225 of it, my
sisters own the balance of it.
What's left, in the neighborhood, there's
300 acres left of the original 9 or 11 hundred.
Q: Did you grow your own food on this farm when you were a kid?
A: Yeah, all of us.
We had to grow about all of it, we'd buy a little coffee
and sugar, was about the end of the buhing, so far as the eating was concerned.
We used to grow a lot of cabbage and potatoes and vegetables, stuff
like that and haul 'em to Hickory and Lenoir in a wagon in the fall of the
year and trade 'em for our coffee and sugar and maybe a little flour.
Q: What were the roads like then?
A: Just trails, just about like this right down through here.
Q: Just room enough for the wagon?
�4.
A: That was about it and you had to hunt places when you meet people to
pass.
You couldn't pass any place. You had to get out on the banks, I've
seen 'em life the wagons out of the roads so you could get by.
Q: And you'd go that way all the way to Lenoir?
A: All the way to Lenoir. Took three days to go to Lenoir and if you went
on to Hickory it took about a week. Load a wagon here with produce, 'bout
a couple thousand pounds around the tongue, ten and a quarter. Take four
horses, take it to the top of the mountain and from there on two horses could
usually take it down the mountain.
Q: Do you remember period of scarcity of food when you were growing up
here?
A: No, we never had any scarcity of food on this place that I remember.
Q: Did you store a lot of food?
A: Yes.
year.
Used to kill a dozen hogs and maybe a couple or three beefs in a
Kept a big flock of chickens, a hundred or so chickens, big flock of
geese and ducks. We used to pick the geese feathers to make feather beds.
We used lots of feather beds back then.
We did have some old shuck
mattresses I guess back in the early days.
and you'd roll over it it and the feathers
you'd sleep warm and snug.
Q: What's a shuck mattress?
Put these feather beds on there
would come up around you and
�5.
A: Well, it was a mattress similar to the ones they have now, but made out
of corn husks.
straw beds.
They called 'em shuck mattresses.
Straw beds, had lots of
Have a big tick and fill it with straw and sleep on that; lot of
people did.
Q: When did it change?
A: Oh, I don't know, it changed over the years so gradually I couldn't pinpoint
it.
I doubt if a person could sleep on a feather bed now, I couldn't*
Q: Where would they get cloth to make things like mattresses?
A: I don't know. They used to grow flax.
didn't I?
I showed you an old flax plate
They used to grow flax right here on the farm, break it and weave
the cloth on these old hand looms.
when I could remember.
They had a couple of 'em up here since
My mother would weave.
Q: Would she get together with most other women and they'd all sit around
and do it?
A: Everybody in the country had a loom.
If you couldn't weave you couldn't
be a wife hardly, or a housewife, if you couldn't weave cloth.
Q: Were your sisters taught to do all those kind of things.?
A: No, I don't remember that they were.
Q: How about school as a child here?
A: We had four months school; had to walk four miles to get there and back.
�6.
Q: Where was the school?
A: One of them was way down yonder, you know where the next bridge is across
the river down here below Valle Crucis.
You ever been around that a way
to Boone?
Q: Down 194 towards 421, that way?
A: Yea.
You went over to Mountain City didnU you, in the night other night?
On Mast Gap Road? The school house that we walked to down there was right
on the hill. This end of that big bridge that's there now. We also walked to
Shull's Mill to school, went both ways. We little fellows, we had to walk, too.
You didn't ride then.
Oh occasionally we'd maybe get a ride on a wagon or
something.
Q: What was the school you told me once that was in Boone you had to walk to?
A: I don't know, what they'd call, common school I reckon's what they called
it back those days, I don't know.
There wasn't any graded school and terms
they use not, that I remember.
Q: Were all the different ages of students in one room?
A: Yeah. They were all in one room, with one teacher.
I remember some of
my old teachers, Frankham was one. He was a great big, dark complexioned
man with gray hair and had great big eyes half as big as that and he'd scare
you just looking at you. Miss Kephart was another.
Kepharts we have now, I don't suppose.
No relation to the
I never thought about it 'till this very
�7.
minute.
You know Miss Kephart?
Q: How did they keep discipline in the schools then?
A: You'd get hit with an ox whip almost. Make you go out and cut your own
hickorys to give you a lickin 1 with.
Man they'd lick ya, too.
Yes sir, whenever
you got out of line back then you got it and when you got home you got another
one if they found it out.
We were taught to the tune of a hickory stick.
Q: Did your father go to school?
A: Yeah, he went to school.
Q: Sime place you went?
A: Oh, lawd no. The schools he went to wouldn't be a comparison either.
Q: What were you gonna say?
A: Almost as far behind these today, there wasn't ihat much difference.
Yes, he went to school.
One of his brothers, Uncle William, he went to
the state Senate, I reckon it was the Senate or Legislature or maybe both
in Raleigh, I believe he was both.
He was a one-armed man and my father,
let's see, Phillip, Noey, and Benn, all four of 'em went through the Civil War.
Q: Did he ever tell you about what it was like around here during the
Civil War?
A: Yes, I heard a lot of stories about what it was like around here. I forget
what they called them, Rebels, they called them Rebels, when they came
�through here and camped right up here, what they call the old Muster Field
around the bend of the river up here, it's all growed up now, where they
camped and they had to come down here to Grandfather Shull's. They had
big log barns up there and big cribs of corn.
They drove in there with their
wagons and back up to the side of his crip, shoveled his crib out in the wagons
and hauled it off.
Q: These were the Rebels or the Yankees?
A: Yankees, I guess they were.
think.
And they did take some of his horses I
I heard them talk about they had one bay mare, an awful pretty bay
filly and a young mule or two or something and some of them slipped down
to the barn and turned them out, they'd run them across the river in this
big field and the soldiers fell on their tracks. They wanted them and some
of them went down there, according to the story as I got it, they tried to get
them up but they could smell that campfire or something.
They said that
there weren't enough soldiers to get around them to bring those horses in,
so they left 'em there. They had three left, this mare and a pair of mules.
And they took their meat way down yonder in the swamp across the river and
buried it right out in the muck to save it.
Those were old stories before my
day, that were handed down to me.
Q: Were the men in that family fighting in the Rebel forces ?
A: They were in the Rebels, the sourtherners you see.
Q: Would the men in the family have been home here on the farm or would
they have been out fighting somewhere else?
�A: Oh, they were all gone, the men were gone, nobody here but my old
grandfather and grandmother and that old nigger slave I believe they had. And
she stayed right here, Grandfather Shull bought these slaves, he bought a
mother and her child and old Will.
He was an old man when I knew him but
he was young and old Tuck was his mother.
They called her Tuck, she passed
away and Will grew up and stayed right here. Well, he ran away and married
a white woman. Took a white woman and stole one of Grandfather's horses
and run off to Tennessee or someplace, Virginia.
And when boys got up the
next day and found this good horse gone, they called the Shulls (the slaves had
to take the same name as their owners) found him gone along with their good
horse, they inquired around and found that he'd taken this woman, her name
was Lyon something, they were getting their horse to go get him.
"We'll go
get that nigger. " Grandfather Shull came out and told 'em, "No, you're not
going anywhere. You go to work, " he says, "That nigger will be back. " And
sure enough after he'd sold the horse and run out of money and nobody wanted
him, he came creeping back and they lived here on the place the rest of their
days, raised a family, they all worked here. Grandfather Shull just let them
stay up here and they worked right here on the place til he died of old age.
He died while I was in the West.
He was as white-headed as that when I left
here but he was gone when I returned and I just inquired the other day about
Gilbus Mitchell who was the only man I could thing of in the country. Boyd
and I were talking about what become of old Will and I asked Gilbus if he
knew where old nigger Will was buried and he said that he thought the county
buried him on the county jfarm over near Boone. When they were freed they
took off. He just stayed here and worked right on.
�10.
Q: What are some of the j-obs you've had?
A: Oh, Lord, I've had so many, honey.
From pillar to post, happy go lucky,
didn't care much for anything, whether the boat landed or whether it didn't,
just roving around.
Got quite a bit of experience out of it, I don't know. I
never had any education to amount to anything so far as books were concerned.
Q: How far did you go in school?
A; Eighth grade. What they call eighth grade now, they didn't have any
grades back then.
Q: When did you leave home to get your first job?
A: Seventeen years old.
Q: What job was that?
A: I went West, landed in the state of Washington, sixteen miles out of
Spokane, a little town called Cheny.
Q: What job did you do then?
A: I got a job with a man had a ranch with the name of McDowell, Shirley
McDowell.
First job I ever had away from home. He had a ranch outside of
Cheny there and he also owned mining stock up in the Cortalane, you've
heard of the Cortalane Indian reservation in Idaho, have you?
Q: No.
�11.
A: Well, he had some mining stock up there in the Cortalane.
Cortalane
was mostly Indian, and he would go up there quite often, 'bout once a week
I guess, to see about his interest there.
The Indians were friendly with him,
he was a friend of them, they liked to see him.
other words.
He got along with them in
I worked for him, that was the first job I ever had away. I
can't remember Mrs. McDowell's given name but they were a young couple,
they just had two children, a boy and a girl, I remember.
the girl Zona.
Q: I guess.
I think they called
Is that right for a girl's name?
Inver heard it.
A: I believe Zona was her name and I forget the boy's name but they were an
awfully nice young couple.
They were just as nice to me as they could be.
Q: What kind of work did you do?
A: I just worked there on the ranch.
Anything that had come up that he had
to do. He had machines, thrashing machines and some cattle.
I did every-
thing that come up on the ranch and got scared to death there, I never been
scared before in my life or since.
Q: What scared you?
A: Well sir, that was the worst scare any man ever had, to live through it.
They had a big old well out in the barn lot 'bout as big as this table is round.
And Mr.
McDowell had gone that day across the Cortalanes over into Idaho
across the state line. Quite a ways over there. And the school marm boarded,
that's what they called
'em then, school marms, boarded at McDowells and
�12.
and Elizabeth, she'd gone to school, and Zona and the little boy had gone with
her.
And Mrs. McDowell was going to wash.
Well-water was awful scarce and hard
to get where you could find a well that would supply water, great big old
well, it just had a big old wooden door, platform of a thing built to slip over
this well. Hinged over there and you could take a hold of it here and turn it
around until the whole well opened. Great big thing.
Well, Mrs. McDowell
was fixing to wash and I went to get a load of wood and she had her clothes
out there and she's all round thre and I'd built the fire and when I came back,
Mrs. McDowell was gone, there was the clothes, the water was hot and this
well was open. Imagination, I just knew Mrs. McDowell was in that well. It
just scared me; I hardly knew what I's a doing.
I knew I's a stranger out
there three or four thousand miles from home and they'd say,
"Well, that
fellow pushed Mrs. McDowell in that well. " That was just imagination, you
know, and the longer it went and I went all over the place a yelling for her and
a hollering.
Doors was open in the house.
Things scattered all over just like
it was when I went after the wood. And I was so excited and so scared.
His
brother Jim lived up the road about a mile, and always kept a bunch of horses
around.
Two or three saddle horses and a saddle on one most of the time. I
caught that saddle horse and I jumped on him, left everything just like it was
and I just flew up to Jim's, told Jim about Mrs. McDowell had disappeared
and he saw how excited I was and scared and me just a young lad.
he caught a horse and started back with me.
I think
If I remember correctly, he
said no, just forget all that, that wasn't nothing, talking 'bout me pushing
her in the well that's why I's scared.
We met a neighbor or someone. They
�13.
were scared then.
Not many people ever traveled but someone come along
and said she'd gone into town with another neighbor down there that drove up
there in a buckboard, and she just jumped in the carriage and went with 'em
and never left me a note or anything and scared me to death, never thought
about what it would do to me, you know. Didn't intend to be gone long. It
was 4 or 5 miles up to town. I won't forget that scare, never.
Q: How long did you work on that farm?
A: I didn't work there too long.
I went there in spring of the year. Now when
harvest season come along up in June or July, I got to seeing in the paper
where they was advertising for harvest hands down in the Paloose country.
And I talked to fellows around there that had followed the harvest season.
$2. 50 a day then was tremendous wages.
Nobody'd ever heard of such wages.
Well, I decided I'd go down and follow the harvest. I went down there. I
was down there two or months I guess.
Q: Where is the Paloose country?
A: Paloose country? Well, it's south of Spokane. It's all Paloose country
between Spokane and Walla Walla.
forget.
country.
I believe they call it the Downem or, I
Anyhow it was along the R&N railroad, R&N they called it the Paloose
Very rich section of the country. North of wheat country.
Q: How long did you work harvesting?
A: Oh, I worked several harvests, different ones.
I got in with a Richard
Hagaman, Hagaman brothers. They were big operators. I got in with them
�14.
and they were originally from this country.
Kelly that I was with.
I called 'em Uncle Joe and Aunt
There was Joe and Tom and Robie and four brothers.
And I always called Uncle Joe and Aunt Kelly my home. I stayed with them.
They were awfully good to me.
I stayed right with them.
Q: I think we better get back to Valle Crucis.
What do you remember about
the churches that were here? Did you go to church?
A: Yes sir, my father was Sunday School superintendent for years, 'bout as
long as I can remember. We had to go every Sunday.
Q: Where was the church?
A: Right where it is now.
Q: Did most of the people in Valle Crucis go to that church?
A: Yes.
It was called Valle Crucis, too.
Up where I go to church now was
known as Upper Valle Crucis and this down here at the Methodist Church,
they called it Lower Valle Crucis.
Q: How has the church changed?
A: Well, it's been added to quite a bit and more or less modernized, I
suppose you'd call it.
Q: How do you mean?
A: Well, it was a little room to start with. Now they've built Sunday School
rooms.
�15.
Q: Did they have hymnals?
A: Oh yeah, they had hymnals.
Q: Who was the preacher?
A: Oh, there've been half a dozen,
every so often.
I couldn't tell you. Yeah, they change 'em
I don't know who all; I can remember a few names, Dawson
and Burris, Ader at the Methodist Church and I can remember a few up at the
Episcopal Church.
Q: Do you know how Valle Crucis got its name?
A: Yeah.
From the three creeks over there. No one ever explained that to
you? To save my life, I've thought about it a lot.
I don't get it but Dutch
Creek comes down through here; Clark's Creek comes down through here;
Crab Orchard comes in here. Not to a pinpoint, but I understand that it
was named from them,three creeks forming a cross.
That's the old story
I've heard.
Q: Maybe it was valley of the cross.
A: Vale of the cross.
Q: Who were the community leaders?
A: My father was one of the leaders, Jim Shull, D.F. Mast, W. H. Mast,
C.D. Taylor, L. H. Taylor, D.F. Beard, old Uncle Henry Taylor, the ones
I can remember that were the leading citizens in the community.
�16.
Q: Why were they community leaders?
A: Well, just like any other community, every other country, and every
other community you know has leaders, don't they?
Q: Yeah.
A: Well, how would you describe it?
Q: Did they have the most property, or were they just. . .
A: Just prominent men, that's the best I could term it.
Men stood up for
what's right. Wouldn't that be the way you'd describe it?
Q: I sure would. I sure would.
A: They were church going folks.
Q: How many people were in the community then and how has it changed?
A: Comparatively few from what there is now and there wasn't but one house
between my father's house, this house wasn't ihere, these houses down here,
there was one house, little old log house stood up at the holler was the only
house between my father's house and Uncle Fin's down there at Joe's where
these folks bought me the pie the other night live. That house and one other
between the store, just the three houses betweenvthe store and my father's
back at that time. Now then there's another one isn't there?
Q: What were the politics like?
�A: Well, just of the immediate community it was mostly Democratic but for
the township as a whole, it was Republican.
Q: What constituted the township?
A: Township's Republican.
Q: The township of Boone, do you mean?
A: No, Boone township's different, this is Watauga township.
cut up into townships.
The county's
Let's see there's Shawneehaw, Watauga, Aho, Boone,
Meat Camp, New River, Elk, Cove Creek is eight, Brushy Fork, I don't know
whether there's eight or nine townships in the county or what.
Q: Do you remember any particular elections?
A: One more than the other you mean?
No, I don't believe I could name one
right at the moment that was outstanding. Most of the folks in this township,
they're pretty level-headed, give and take in other words, give and take.
I
get along mighty well, this is a Republican township, but I get along with the
Republicans mighty well.
We joke back and forth.
I'll go at a bunch of 'em,
"Hi, Republicans" which used to back in long ago days would make 'em mad.
They won't anymore, they'll take it" good naturedly.
They'll say, "Yeah, here
comes that lousy Democrat. "
Q: You'd say at one time people wouldn't take it good naturedly?
A: That's right, there was a time when anything mentioned in the political
line would create friction.
But that's all gone, people's got above that.
Yeah,
�18.
Jim Church, his father's a Republican, Jim was raised a Republican, fellows
up 'there around the filling station, man that made that remark is dead and gone
now but he was a sort of a tight Republican, he said, "Jim", he was teasing Noy
more or less, Jim's father, owns a motel and says, "Jim married in that
Shull family down there and they made a Democrat out of him, " and said,
"Now Jim's darn near made a Democrat out of Noy. " That's the way we get
along, we just have fun out of it.
over his politics.
I'm not a gonna fall out with my neighbor
I don't care how he votes, it's immaterial to me.
He's
got a good right to vote his way as I have" mine.
Q: How did people get around in those days?
A: On their, what they used to call 'em, mother's, got around by foot, that's
the way you got around. Walkway wasn't crowded. Well, you could ride
horse back some as some of the folks.
Q: Did people around here have carriages?
A: Oh yes, the country was full of buggies and surreys. Stagecoach line
used to run through here and that was long before my day. Had a station up
here at Grandfather Shull's where they changed horses, four, six horse team
to the stagecoach.
You've seen 'em on the movies.
They had a station up
here, he had a big barn and plenty of everything around him and they'd change
horses there, that was a station to change horses.
Q: Where were they coming from?
�19.
A: Running from. Butler, Tennessee, then to Morganton, N. C. was this run
and I don't know where they went to from there any other place. It had quit
running but I have a piece of the old stagecoach. It was up here for a long
time.
Grandfather Shull was a blacksmith, he had a blacksmith shop. Shoe
the horses and help keep up the carriages, and I have a piece of that, we kids,
my sisters and I, we played with that old stagecoach and climbed in it and out
of it and make out like we's a driving it.
Til it run it down, went to the bad
and tear it off by souvenir hunters and I have one piece of it out there in the
cellar now. The old original stagecoach, it run from, I bet it's the only piece
left.
Q: Where did the carriages and coaches come from?
A: That's beyond me, that's what I don't know.
I read something not too
long ago about someone down this state I believe, either in this state or
South Carolina that made those things, built 'em.
Q: How did the mail work?
A: Mail was carried by horseback mostly.
Q: How often did it come?
A: Once or twice a week, I think.
Q: Did you ever remember getting things by mail order back when you were
young?
A: Yeah, yeah. Yes sir, used to order lots of stuff mail order.
Yeah, I
�20.
can remember that. We get stuff yet, we very often order stuff by mail order.
Til it come into the post office though we bought from Sears and Roebuck
mostly; it always come to the Sears in Boone, went out there to pick it up.
Q: Were there any notorious badmen and law officers in this area?
A: Yeah! ; My Grandfather Baird was sheriff two terms of this county, and that's
my mother's father, and there were plenty of badmen and plenty of mischief a
going on. I can't remember hardly, yeah, I can remember it too, barely.
Grandfather Baird that was sick, got rheumatism or something, and my father
sherriffed for him that winter; he did the sherriffing for him.
I remember him
having one man in the county they called Wilson, Lucky Joe Wilson, called
him Lucky Joe.
And he was a bad actor and everybody was afraid of him, I
don't know why, but Lucky Joe was considered dangerous, I think, and had to
be arrested. He sent my grandfather word, called him Uncle Dave, that was
his name, Dave.
"If you'll come after me yourself I'll go with ye, but don't
send them damn little deputies, I'm not blind. " Grandfather Baird got on his
horse and went over there after him by himself, everybody begging him not
to go, said Lucky Joe would kill him; Lucky Joe would do this. He went over
there and Lucky Joe come out and invited him in to have dinner, he went and eat
dinner with him, and after dinner Grandfather said, "Well, Joe, " says, "You
have to go along. " Old Joe went with him right on to jail. Not a bit of
trouble.
Q: Where was the jail then?
�21.
A: In Boone.
'Bout all there was there in Boone then was a courthouse and
a jail, that's all they had.
Now that story's before my day. That was handed
down to me but it was right, because I know it was right. I believe he was
the man.
I'm not sure whether I ought to tell these old stories or not.
I think
he's the man that died out of jail on the doctors over there at Boone one time.
Q: Lucky Joe?
A: Yeah.
I think it was Lucky Joe, now I won't be too sure, but he took a
notion he wanted out of jail and he just died,
^hey laid him out, they had what
they called cooling boards then, they laid him out there, used to have what
they'd call watches or sit ups with the corpse. Anyhow, they shut Lucky Joe
up in this room and all went out and he heard 'em lock the door.
After they
went out, Lucky Joe got up and opened the window and when they come back
to look, Lucky Joe was gone.
He wasn't dead after all.
I think that was Lucky
Joe.
Q: That's pretty lucky, I'd say.
A: Yeah, I've heard so many. Yeah, he said, "Aw, the doctors don't know
anything about you anyhow, only what you tell them. " I guess the doctors
didn't know too much back in those days.
Q: Were there any doctors in this area?
A: No, very few. Very few.
I can remember, I don't believe there were but
two doctors. I don't know whether there was any other doctor in the county or
not.
Dr. Phipps and Dr. Philips. Philips lived in that end of the county and
�22.
Phipps lived in this end. Those are the only two doctors I can remember
hearing mentioned back in those days.
I don't know there might have been
another one, but I never heard, don't remember it.
Q: Did people use doctors much then?
A: No, no. They made their own teas out of roots and herbs and stuff.
They
didn't have much medicine except what they made at home.
Q: Do you remember any roots or herbs that they used in particular?
A: Yeah, sure I can remember some of them.
Not too long ago, I remember
one til now. People used to have a lot of sore mouth. This yellow root that
grows on the bank of the river down here, I gathered it for someone a year or
two ago, they sent here. You get some yellow root. This lady had had a sore
mouth for, oh, just a year or two ago, and wanted to know where to get some
yellow root.
Q: Yellow root's the name of it?
A: I don't know whether it is or not. It's what I call it.
I guess there's
some other name for it, I don't know.
Q: Do you remember any other roots and herbs that they might have used?
A: Yeah.
They made lots of sassafrass tea out of sassafrass and spricewood
and catnip tea.
Yeah, I can remember several of those.
Q: What were they used for? What was sassafrass used for and what was
catnip used for?
�23.
A: Hoarseness, sore throat or congestion or something like that.
Q: Did people use ginseng for much here?
A: Sang? Ginseng? Yeah! They hunt that yet.
house where you're moving in, he was good at it.
This man that lived in this
He'd sell three or four
hundred dollars worth of ginseng nearly every year. He'd get out here on
Sundays and scour the mountains, he knew every holler, rock and spring in
this country. His father was SAP.d at it and he'd been trained good at it and
they'd just hunt ginseng and sell it.
Made good at it.
Q: What did they use if for?
A: I don't know what it's for.
It's high priced stuff.
Q: So people around here really didn't use it much, they just sold it.
A: Yeah, they sell it.
Q: That's still going on a lot?
A: Yeah, sang business is big business.
high priced stuff.
Not big here of course, but it's
Howard Mast down here at this store, I don't know, he
did, he may not no more but he did buy it for a while.
Q: I know they buy it in town too.
A: Yeah, they buy it.
The wild, they have it cultivated, but the wild ginseng
brings nearly two times the money that the cultivated does. Now I don't know
why, I never knew. Oh, these old stories, I don't know.
�24.
Q: When did the unions start coining in?
A: The union, labor union?
Q: Yeah.
A: I don't know. I wish to the lord it'd never been born.
Q: Did you feel it much in Valle Crucis?
A: No, no.
Q: How did you get the news then?
A: We didn't get much news other than local.
referring back then.
Back in those days, you're
You know how we get it now, don't you?
Q: Yeah.
A: There wasn't much, maybe we'd get our newspaper once a week or
something like that.
Q: Where was the newspaper printed from?
A: Well, Charlotte mostly.
Charlotte.
I believe the first good newspapers came from
Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Times; Observer I guess was about
the first one I can remember.
Q: When was that?
A: I don't know. Years ago.
once a week.
Wasn't many newspapers.
You might get it
�25.
Q: Were people much concerned about national politics?
A: No, no, wasn't much concerned about no politics 'cept at home. No, they
didn't take any of it too serious. Good thing they didn't. Those were the good
old days.
People was honest.
You could leave everything unlodked and go back
home and find it like you left it.
Now, you can't sleep with it and keep it. Keep
everything under lock and key and that don't do much good.
Q: What do you think's the cause for the difference?
A:
Greed, I guess, don't you? What would you think?
Q: I guess so.
A: I don't know how to put it any simpler, would you?
Q: No, I think you've 'bout got it there. So, now tell us about when you helped
start the telephones in this area.
A: Oh, yeah. Well, we had a little old local system around here as long as I
can remember. Them little old crank things on the wall.
Did you ever see any
of them.?
Q: Yeah, on T. V.
A: Well they had those 'bout as long as I can remember but they wasn't very,
they's better than no phones. Daddy had one.
There's several in the country.
We couldn't hardly get into Boone or out of the valley, just call your nearer
neighbors.
But this new system came along, Skyline I believe is what they call
�26.
it, isn't it?
Q: Yeah.
A: And the way it all come about, I was in Boone going down one side of the
street, David Farthing, his father had it, the little old system and David had
been in this telephone meeting that I'd never heard of, I didn't know anything
about it.
When he hollored at me across the street and said, "Wait a minute,
I want to see you. " Came over and he told me, says, " If you guys want a
telephone, you'd better get busy. " And I asked what he meant by getting busy.
Says it cost him so much to keep it up and people, lot of them didn't pay for
the phones that had 'em and they's behine and David said, "Tell me, " says,
"I'm not a going to break myself up nor mortgage my farm to keep up this
telephone system. " Says, "What I mean and I been in a meeting down here and
you have a chance of getting a telephone system that will work. " And I got him
to explain it to me, REA sorta behind it or something like that, you know, in
connection with the REA Electric, they got it on their poles.
meeting in Boone and I went, he told me about it.
Well, they had a
That was the very first
thing I ever heard, just fell on to me out of the clear, blue sky.
I went to this
meeting and the people promoting this system refused to come what they called
west of the mountain, the Rich mountain over there, you know what the Rich
mountain is.
Q: Yeah.
A: They would put it into Boone and east but they refused to come west of it.
And I asked him what it would take to induce 'em to come west.
They said if
�27.
we could get a hundred signers, a hundred telephones, they would consider it.
Well, I asked him what a hundred telephones would mean, what it would take to
get 'em.
Took $35 deposit to get a telephone.
it was our only chance.
I went to work on it.
miles, I don't know how much.
Well, I come on home and I seen
I guess I drove two or three hundred
Sight on earth, though, my own car, gas and
expense, and everything a selling those telephones and I had an awful time,
I
go t way up to 85 or 90 of 'em somewhere and I just about got burnt out and
disgusted. I had an uncle that sorta half way opposed it and he said, "You're
running around here selling folks things they don't need and don't want and not
able to pay for. " Anyway I kept a going on with it and I got up 85 or 90 I give
every man that bought a phone from me my receipt for his $35. And I turned
the money in, that was a very dumb thing of me and I poured business to him
but I never took any receipts, I just turned the money in. Well, the administration changed, went from one administration to the other.
Q: In Boone?
A: SJo, in the nation.
Q: What administration was it?
Which one did it change from?
A: I don't remember which a way it went, but anyhow whoever went in up there
in Washington held the thing up. Well, I got out here and sold all these folks
telephones, majority of them Republicans, that's where your politics comes in
again, me a Democrat.
couple of years.
They got so when they'd see me, it was held up for a
"Where's our telephone?
We want our telephone or we want
our money. " Put me on the spot. I didn't have either one, their money nor
�28.
their telephone either one and we had a little meeting one day. They had a right
to demand their money or a phone. One day, when I thought a bad day Saturday
afternoon, I went to the store, Foscoe and a bunch of 'em in there and they
commenced talking about it,
"We want our money or we want our telephone. "
I talked a little with 'em, I told 'em, "Why, gentlemen, I don't have either one
and I don't have money enough to pay you but I'm here to write checks just as
long as I've got a dime to write on. Now, who's first?" And they commenced
talking among themselves a little bit and one of 'em spoke up and said, "I don't
believe it's fair to make Don put up that money out of his own pocket. " I'd
explained to them that I didn't have a thing to show for it and they got to talking
among themselves and I told 'em, I said, "if you'll j u s t bear with us and go
along with us, we'll get these phones but I can't promise you when. " After
discussing it pro and con, "Well, I guess that's about the only thing to do. Say
you haven't got money enough, there's no use in some of us getting money and
some not. " And they just went along with me and the things come through and
now every feller and his brother's got a telephone.
They wouldn't part with
them at all.
Q: So they finally came?
A: Yeah, they finally came, but it leaves me in the position of kinder being a
daddy of this system, you understand?
Q: Yeah, yeah.
When was that?
Do you remember what years that would have been?
A: No, I can't remember. It's not been long, many years. We haven't had
this system too long.
�29.
Q: Would it be like the '30's, '40's, or '50's?
A: Oh, it must have been in the late '40's or early '50's, somewhere in that
neighborhood.
This Mrs. Ayers that died the other day up here was one of the
first 'uns to take a telephone off of me.
She took a telephone and plunked down
here thirty-five bucks, one of the first ones.
I guess I was really the first one
to sign the thing, I imagine I was.
Q: Were you living here then?
A: Sure, yeah.
I guess my sisters was about the next 'uns, a working up the
road.
Q: What kind of operation were you running here on the farm?
A: Oh, I've done a little of all of it: livestock, crops, and produce to general
crops.
Sheep and cattle was my first start.
Did that for a number of years, I
have some things out there in the garage that the bank gave me for being, go
out there and read 'em, they'll tell you better than I can, couple of them. One
of 'em was on sheep, livestock and other one was on the first man in the country
to grow 135 bushels of corn an acre, I think. They gave me something. Wanted
me to put 'em up out here at the road and I wouldn't do it, I stuck 'em up out in
the garage.
Wasn't trying to advertise because you had a little streak of good
luck one year, might have had bad luck next year.
make a little this year and lose it next year.
on the face of the earth.
Q: Hew do you mean?
That's the farmer luck; you
Farmer's the biggest gambter
Did you ever think about it ;
�30.
A: Takes more chances than any other one man.
You gamble again' Nature.
When you're farming, you plant a crop a hoping to do something but it takes
twelve months to find out.
If you play your money on a horse race here you
know in a few minutes, but if I play my money in a big crop down here in the
field, I've got the hailstorms, the windstorms, the floods, the drought, I'm a
gambling again1 Nature.
Q: Does the amount of money you'll make on a certain crop change a lot from
year to year?
A: Oh yeah, you might make some this year and lose it next on the same crop.
Yeah. I did very well in the vegetable business, that is, I didn't go to the poor
house on it.
What I did, when I went to growing potatoes and beans, they call
it majoring in school, I don't know what you'd call it on a farm, but I went to
cropping; let my livestock slip. I sold my sheep.
Well the dogs ran me out of
the sheep business, I just drifted down on them and played vegetables along
here several years, paid off and did very well through the Second World War
period.
them.
They were clammering for something to eat.
I did very well through
Now then I played out of cattle or out of vegetables, I did, two years
ago, quit that, drifting back towards livestock.
Now I'm going to try to finish
out with livestock a little bit.
Q: Who sheared the sheep when you used to deal in sheep?
A: They used to be some men in the county that made a business of it.
Q: Traveling about from farm to farm where they could work sheep?
�31.
A: Yeah, yeah.
We had a man in the community, he's dead and gone now, by
the name of George Lester.
He's almost a professional sheep shearer. He
could shear sheep, did a good job.
Q: How were the sheep sheared before electric equipment?
A: I've a hand shearer up there and a pair out here too.
I can show you the
very first ones that they used. They clipped 'em by hand this a way and this one
up here I have, it turns with a crank.
Clippers they call it. And then the
electric one, I had an electric one. My uncle and I bought an electric shearing
machine together.
And I finally let, I don't know, Frank may have it down
there yet, I don't know.
Q: When did electricity come in here?
A: Our first 'lectricity here came from the dam up the river yonder. You
remember seeing that ol' broken down dam up there right this side of Hound
Ears on'the river?
Q: Yeah.
A:. Well, that was where the power plant was, way down the road here just
off below the road right on the bank of the river. And the '40 flood wiped that
all out, the power plant.
Most of it stopped over here in my bottom, awful lot
of it.
Q: The dam and the equipment, the power plant?
�32.
A: Some of it.
Stopped right over here in my bottom, that great big metal
iron thing as big as, oh, these two rows put 'together. I had to get a settling
torch and the man worked nearly a week cutting that thing up 'til I could load
it and haul it out.
I have a picture of it somewhere.
I climbed up on it and was
sitting there when George Farthing made my picture. It should be here someplace.
Q: When did electricity come in?
A: Well, it had come in before '40. We got it from that little old dam up there.
I don't know, in the thirties, late thirties I guess it was.
thirties. That all washed out and washed away.
Sometime in the
This system that has it now,
whatever it is, Blue Ridge Electric? They rebuilt it and took over after that
system went out by the '40 flood.
Q: How did it get started? Was it part of that government funding that got the
electricity and the dam started?
A: That first one?
Q: Yeah.
A: No, I don't thing it was.
I think it was a local concern. What did they
call that, Blowing Rock Electric or something? I don't rmemeber what they
called it.
It wasn't much service. It was just little better than none.
Q: During the Depression how much did the government, like the national
goverment function in here? I mean how much help was given by the national
government to hereJ?
�33.
A: I wouldn't know.
Q: Did the Depression affect you very greatly here?
A: Yes ma'am.
I'd go farther for a dime in those days than I would for a
dollar now. A dollar's easier got than a dime was then, and worth more when
you got it.
Maybe that's a little far fetched.
Q: I remember you told me that there was a time when money just wasn't
changing hands that much, it was what you grew on your farm.
A: That's right, by golly there just wasn't any money hardly.
Q: By the time of the Depression were you using money more and missing it
more ?
A: You didn't have any. Couldn't miss it much because you didn't have any.
Q: Before the Depression, was money being used more than, say, crops and
barter?
A: Aw, was it ever.
If thre's any way in the world to get along, use what
little money we had and any barter we could stir up. Yeah it was tough times.
I remember one time it took every hoof that we could rake and scrape on this
farm to pay our taxes.
Q: Every hoof of what?
A: Cattle and sheep or anything we could sell to -even pay my taxes. Now
that was a pretty tough time.
�34.
Q: How much was taxes running then?
A: Oh, I don't remember.
Probably half as much.
Not like they are now. Not near what they are now.
I just remember we have to save about every dime we
got all the year to have money enough to pay our taxes.
Q: Doesn't seem quite fair, does it?
A: No, your tax had to be paid.
You have to pay them.
If you didn't pay em,
they'll advertise ya and sell ya out.
Q: But it seems like if you gotta pay more taxes than you do towards your own
living, it's not quite fair.
It seems like if you're paying more taxes to the
government than you are to your own living; if you have to pay more money to the
government than you can pay yourself, it's a little too much. Did any families
around here go out during the Depression; did they have to sell out because
of taxes?
A: No, no. I don't remember anybody being sold out for taxes.
Yeah, there
were, there is yet, not around here though I don't think. Ever once in a
while you see something advertised for taxes.
Q: How did the Depression affect your daily life, like getting shoes or things
like that? How did it affect your children and family?
A: Well, we got along on what we had. We just had to get along on less. We
didn't get everything we wanted. Like Uncle Billy Caringer used to say, "it
was good we didn't want everything we seen. " Maybe that helped some. Now
�35.
a days people wants about everything they see.
Q: Did you have to work any other jobs beside your farming to make ends meet?
A: No, I don't remember doing' that. Oh, I'd log,
yeah. I'd do logging' and
lumber but that was off of the farm here usually.
Q: Sell your farm you mean?
A: Yeah, yeah.
I did lots of that.
Q: Did you ever hear about any of the government projects like the WPA and
the CCC?
A: Lord, did I ever hear 'em. The WPA built this road out here just about
it.
Yes sir, the country was full of WPA hand. That was a fraud, ever I
ne'er saw.
That WPA gang made me sick.
Q: Why?
A: Way they piddled along.
Q: They didn't have to work hard?
A: No, never earned their money.
More or less of a dole the way I figured
it.
Q: Where were they living when they worked on the roads?
A: At home, what homes they had. Anywhere around here in these hills.
�36.
Q: What kind of things did they do, was it mostly building roads and all, that
you remember?
What kind of things do you remember them doing for the WPA?
A: What did they use you mean, the tools?
Q: Well, no. Whad did they do? I know they built roads, what else did they
do or did they do anything other than build roads ?
A: The road building was about all I know of. They might have had other WPA
projects a going but I didn't know anything about 'em.
Q: Do you remember the Parkway coming in? The Blue Ridge Parkway?
A: Sure, sure I remember the Parkway.
Bob Dalton is the daddy of the Parkway
through here. You've heard of R. L. Dalton. He was one of the oldest
congressmen in Washington for years. He's one of the old timer big shots up
there, like Sam Ervin is now. You read about Sam Ervin? Well, Bob Dalton,
they listened to Bob Dalton then like they do to Sam Ervin today. And Bob
Dalton, I don't know how, but my wife was related to the Daltons. When she
was up in Washington, Bob Dalton was there and they called her Bobby after
Bob Dalton because she looked like him.
Reba, Bob Dalton1 s daughter just
passed away, it was in last week's Democrat. Did you read it, Jane?
Q: No.
A: Well, I knew Reba well. I know Hort and Claude. They had the three
children.
They all visited in our home up here. Reba was there,
oh just two
or three years ago she come by here to see Boyd. She and Boyd were
�37.
relation.
She was Bob Dalton's daughter an.c£ they were related and now then
Claude and Hort and Reba, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton, they're all gone, the Dalton
family's gone.
Q: I don't know my history well but did the TVA have much effect
here? Or
was that all in Tennessee?
A: I don't recall anything about that affecting this section.
I don't recall
anything.
Q: Did you have to cut down on the people you could hire and did thegirls,
your daughters, work in the fields with you more than during prosperous times
during the Depression?
A: They worked in'the field a lot when I's in beans and vegetables.
yea, I had hands here from all over the county nearly.
Law,
Truckes a running
from Elk, I had two trucks hauling hands from down in Elk, east of Boone.
You've heard of Elk?i
Q: Yeah.
A: I had one hauling hands from the Beech Mountain and Banner Elk country
and I had one or two hauling out of Grandfather country up here.
I don't remember, Boyd and Bill Leek lived here then.
son and Bill helped out a lot.
We had hands,
Bill was my sister's
Boyd and Bill run the bean picking end of it.
I
was out most, took me all night selling beans and I was out in the night and I
had to sleep a little. I remember Boyd saying, I think she said seventy-five hands
one day was the top number down there. We had 'em all the way from a half
�38.
a dozen to seventy-five in here picking beans.
Q: Who would drive those trucks?
A: Well, I drove it.
Q: Oh, you'd go haul the hands in and take 'em back?
A: Oh, those coming in?
Q: Yeah.
A: No, men that lived in those sections of the country. I had them trucking.
They'd get up their own load, say they come from Elk down there, had a man
by the name of Watsonlived down there. The other man, I had two of 'em
coming out of there, Carlton and Watson. They'd hunt up these hands themselves
and I'd give them so much for bring in the hands. They'd bring 'em in and work
their bunch of hands, say a man brought in twenty on his truck.
He would work
that twenty in the field, would make him oversee his own gang and then would
pay him so much for bringing the hands in and taking 'em home.
Q: Do you know of any farms around here that still have an operation to such
an extent that they have to bring in hands ?
A: No. Nothing like that now. I don't know of a thing like that.
Q: When did that stop?
A: I doubt whether there's a thing like that operation in the county or not.
�39.
Q: When did that stop? When did the farm start getting smaller?
A:
Stopped, oh, not long after the second World War.
When they were
pushing so hard for the war.
Q: And then what happened?
A: Well, we just drifted off into this general trend, what I've told you.
Q: You do like a smaller area of beans and a smaller area of cabbage so you
can take care of it all pretty much with less people.
A: Yeah, I drifted out of vegetables, back into livestock and I've been a
drifting along with livestock since, doing no good.
Make a little money one
year and lose it the next.
Q: You think the smaller farm will ever have a revival?
A: I wouldn't know.
business.
I think each way, you change your mind ever which
Advocating here a few years ago to either get bigger or get out.
You might have seen something to that effect.
out.
It was either get bigger or get
This is not a farming country here no way.
Q: Anymore?
A: No, this isn't a farming county, Law, no.
Q: Would you say that it ever was really a farming country? In the mountains?
A: Yeah, back in the days when there wasn't any big farming.
It was all small
�40.
farming.
People made a living.
Q: And I guess your farm was like supplying people in a smaller area, whereas
now a days the trucks have to go all over the country, when they get ~ a truckload
of canned beans they might go all the way to California with them or something,
whereas those days they didn't.
A: No, they didn't have to go so far.
We had canneries nearer. The bean
market was in Mountain City and they got one in Boone after that and they got
one in Jefferson. You let one thing start off and do very well at it for a year
or two, anything that you make a little money at, then the others will all jump
in and try to get their fingers into the pie.
Have you noticed that? I happened to
be in with Mountain City when the bean market started over there, in fact I got
a little share in it, I just stuck to Mountain City.
Q: Are there still markets in Mountain City and West Jeffer-son now?
A: I don't know whether they're buying beans there or not. I quit and forgot
about the beans.
There wouldn't be any way now to get 'em fixed.
I'd like to
see ya get seventy-five hands down here now. Money couldn't get 'em.
Q: Do you remember during the Depression any banks closing around here
or stores closing up?
A: Yeah, seemed like there was a little bank in Boone that folded up, they
called it the People's Bank I believe.
up.
I'm not too sure but I believe that folded
I think they started a little bank over there they called the People's Bank
and I don't know whether the Depression was responsible for it or not, but
�41.
I imagine it was.
Q: Did any stores have to close down?
A: I don't remember any at the moment.
Q: Was there more of a feeling during the Depression of neighbors helping
neighbors rather than there is now?
A: I believe they were a little better to cooperate in that respect. I've always
had good neighbors. I could go out most anytime and get some of my neighbors,
if I's in a pinch, I could get help.
Q: When did the recreation aspect of tourists start coming in?
A: Law, they had tourists before they ever got to.. . , they didn't know the
word tourist, I reckon.
It was 'bout as long ago as I can remember, better
homes of the community kept what they called 'em then, boarders. Summer
people that had a little money and wanted to get out of the hot weather down
south, come up to the mountains. And the various homes would take in a few,
whatever they could handle.
My mother up here used to keep, well, she 'tised
to could take care of fifty or twenty boarders and had hired help.
Aunt Josie
Mast do the same, and Aunt Vick Taylor. The better homes would take these
folks in. There wasn't no motels those days and mighty few hotels. And that
was way back yonder, quite a while ago.
Aunt Josie.
Q: What would they do during the day?
Yeah, mother used to keep 'em and
�42.
A: Aw, they'd fish a little, some of 'em.
Some of 'em hike a little.
Q: Watch ya'll work?
A: Yeah, and lay around in the shade mostly and watch the rest of us work,
make a living for it.
Q: Where did they come from?
A: Down anywhere, down the country where it's hot weather or be hot.
Most
of 'em out of South Carolina and southern Georgia and down in there where it's
hot; get out of the heat. They wouldn't stay long; they couldn't afford it I don't
reckon.
They's all comin' and a goin', it was just to come and a go.
You'd
get application like you wanted some one come next week, three in a party or
four or something.
You might have three or four going out and you could take
'em in on a certain date; keep filled up as you could.
It was just a constant
thing.
Q: Did that continue during the Depression?
A: Not much.
People too hard up. Didn't have anything to board on.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Scanned by
Wetmore, Dana
Equipment
Hp Scanjet 8200
Scan date
2014-02-18
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Ira Donald Shull, March 27, 1973
Description
An account of the resource
Ira Shull was born November 8, 1892 in Valle Crucis, North Carolina on a farm where he grew up. During his young adult life, he moved out west to the Washington area, specifically Spokane where he worked on a ranch. Mr. Shull had a hand in bringing telephone lines to the Boone area in the 1940s.
Mr. Shull refers back to his childhood and community life in Valle Crucis including politics, transportation, postal service, outlaws, and homemade remedies. He goes into detail about his experience farming livestock and crops. Mr. Shull also talks in detail about the Great Depression including the WPA projects going on at that time. He shares stories of outlaws and the Civil War his grandfather shared with him as a child.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hallstrom, Jane
Shull, Ira Donald
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
3/27/1973
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
44 pages
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
document
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape50_IraDonaldShull_1973_03_27M001
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Valle Crucis, NC
Subject
The topic of the resource
Farm life--North Carolina--Watauga County--19th century
Farm life--North Carolina--Watauga County--20th century
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Depression--1929--North Carolina--Watauga County
Ranch life--Washington--Spokane
Boone
Civil War
Great Depression
outlaws
telephone
Valle Crucis
Washington
WPA
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/bcb8e34ed9f141e0226083baba8ab6fe.pdf
9f07fcc91c91623b41fee6c94065b856
PDF Text
Text
//'
/-
This is an interview with Mamie Graybeal Shull for the Appalachian Oral
History Project by Bill Brinkley on April 3, 1973.
Q:
I'll be glad to know anything you can tell me about the area.
have you been living in this area?
A:
I come here in 3-906, and I've been here all that time practically, except
ten years. But this has always been home and our home post office and
everything.
Q:
How did the mill get it's lumber? Did it buy the lumber from the people
or just go in and cut it off or what?
A:
The mill?
Q:
Yes, Shull's Mill, didn't it deal in lumber?
A:
The first old original part didn't.
it?
Q:
What was it then?
A:
Yeah, Whiting Lumber Company was in here. They come in here in 15 or .16 or
somewhere along there. I don't just remember. But you see, Shull's Mills
was here long before that.
Q:
What vas the reaction of the people toward the lumber mills?
A:
Well, they seemed to like it, didn't they Dean?
of people around here.
Q:
Was there any bad fedlings about the lumber being cut off?
A:
Not that I know of.
Q:
I thought there would be some resentment.
A:
Not that I know of.
Q:
During the depression, what was that like?
A:
Well, we lived in Elizabethon duiing the Depression, down there in that town.
It wasn't too bad for a lot of people but for some people it was. People
with a business it was kind of hard.
Q:
Did you grow your own food?
A:
Not down there.
have any land.
How long
Where Shull's Mill got it's name wasn't
Whiting Lumber Company?
It brought work to a lot
Mr. Whiting you see bought the timber and cut it.
What was your family life like?
We did here but not down there we didn't, cause we didn't
We lived in town.
�Q:
Did you grow any kinds of crops in the area?
A:
Here? Well, we had just our garden and a
have.-enough land to be what you'd call a farmer.
own stuff and we'd sell alittle once in a while.
Q:
Was there anything you liked about the depression?
A:
Don't know that I did. Lived on soup. We didn't live on soup, but a lot
of people did, they say. I don't know. No, I didn't like it.
Q:
Since you've lived in the area so long, I bet you know a lot about home remedies
for different things.
A:
I don't know. Yeah, I used to. My mother's mother was sort of a doctor
around this country, you know along time ago. That was before I came here.
And we didn't have doctors everywhere. There was a doctor in Boone, and
Grandma Shall knowed alot about that. I heard her talk alot about it, and
law, I don't know. Its been so long since I've used any of them. One home
remedy that people might think is foolish now, if you had any kind of infection
if you was about to take the blood posion or anything, go out here to some
of these red clay banks and get you some red clay mud and put it in a pan
and pour cold water on it and stir it up and sort of make a poultice and
bind a cloth around it and you could draw that inflamation all out.
Q:
How does that work?
A:
I can't tell you, but I've done that and I've seen Grandpa Shull do that.
Q:
Were there any more that you can think of?
A:
I can't hardly say right now, that one just came to my mind, because people
thought it was so foolish, would now. I was '-thinking the other day I reckon
thats why I thought of it today. Now, I used to just tell them. Can you
think of any honey? (Son-says touch-me-nots) Oh yeah, touch-me-nots, you
know these wild touch-me-nots. That is good for poison ivy. You can take that
you know its green, green plants and you can just take it up and rub it in
your hands and it would kill the poison ivy just like that. They used to
make a medicine out of it. It was made in Knoxville, but they don't make it
anymore. I don't know why.. It is called Jewel Weed, That is the right name
for it, but we call it touch-me-nots.
Q:
A:
patch was all. We didn't
We had enough to grow our
>
Is there anything for fevers or colds?
For pneumonia fever they used to use lard, turpentine, and lamp oil, and onions,
work your onions in a pan in some water and put that lard and turpentine stuff in
there and cook it all up good together, and take snorts, what we used to get
from our^wheat. They took the wheat to the mill and they got shorts. You
thicken it all up with that and put it across your chest and bind the cloth
around and that was a sure cure for pneumonia. Granny Shull doctored with
pofticf "l . i t 1
r S 1 " -fie\>
Dr'Mck Bln*ham had
them t0
«-ket the
�: ._; Shezkept stirring it, cooking it, and mashing it until it made a salve that
would nearly cure any kind of sore. And 1*11 tell you another thing that will
kill poison ivy. Grandpa Shull used is aid motor oil.
Q:
Motor oil?
A:
Now, it will stain your bed, it will just stain everything. Dean used to have
it so bad, and pappy said to me one time "If you would take some old motor oil
and grease him. Take some old rags and wrap around it because it will stain
your bedclothes, and that will cure him*''
Q:
I have that pretty bad, maybe, I should try some of these old remedies to get rid
of it. I take it easily.
A:
I'll tell you another thing that will cure it to, and you can do that any time
of the year is to make you some real strong balck coffee. Just boll it, don't
perk it, just boil it strong and black. Strain the grounds out and let it cool
and put epsium salts in it. Then wash it in.
Q:
Is that right?
A:
Claude Dean had it one time until his eyes were nearly closed shut. Him and
his wife came down to Lhe store and got some epsium salts and it cured it on
him. You can have that anytime whether you get the Jewel Weed or not.
Dean;
Hemlock tea is good,
A.
Yeah., hemlock tea is good when you have your teeth pulled and have a plate put
in. Take the little green parts and put some water on them and steam boil it
and let it cool and wash your mouth in that and it will toughen your gums and
you can wear your plate, and want have to put anything in there to hold you teeth
in with. No povder or nothing.
Q:
Doggone. Lots of people in my family could have that it they had known about
it. They really had trouble with their teeth.
A:
I know that;
water,
Q:
Their's were about that way. They would take them out and leave them out a
few hours and pat them hack in and wear them again. They just really hurt them
bad;
A:
Wash your plate in salt water and that will toughen your gums.
Q:
Is there something about sassafras tea?
A:
OK Yes, it is good for spring of the year. If a fellow could get a hold of
some this time of the year it would be fine. It thins your blood. You get
all sluggish in the winter time because you don't have all these green things
to eat and sassafras tea will jsut perk you up right now. The red will but
the white don't do no good.
Q;
w4#/do you mean by red and white?
A:
There is red sassafras and a white sassafras and you use the bark off of the
I*ve had my mouth so sore that I couldn't even hardly d,r,ink,
�roots. The roots off the red are red and you dig down in there and the roots
are white. You can make it, but it is not as good as the red. But if you
dig down and the root are red just peel that bark off and make a tea out of it.
Q:
Do you know how to make it?
A:
Make the tea. You just put your bark in an enamel pot and boil it down a
while and stream that off and sweeten it and drink it.
Q:
Any spring tonics that you can think of that were used back then, say sulpher
and molasses. Was that a spring tonic?
A:
Mother used to mix sulpher and molasses and we young ones loved it.
Dean:
Whiskey and rattlesnake.
Q.:
Whiskey and what?
A:
Rattlesnake.
Q:
Rattles/j^ke?
A:
uh huh.
Q:
You mean rattlesnake meat or what?
A:
Yeah, just pour you some whiskey over rattlesnake and it will cure T.B.
Q:
You marinate the meat in it, or what?
A:
I don't know. I reckon you do.
know much about it.
Dean:
Dean knows more about it than I do.
I don't
This guy up here had heart trouble and died and they revived him with mistletoe
tea.
A:
Oh that was Zeb Brown and he had high, blood. He had high blood until he couldn't
even walk across the house without holding to a chair or something. And he
drunk mistletoe tea and he lived a long time after that and got so he could
do a right smart bit of work and everything. And Merfie Dyer, had high blood,
and he drunk mistletoe tea. It helped him. He used to work for the school,
Merfie did.
Q:
Are ther any legends that you are familiar with.
Al
AbTDUt old Lum and his bears. This is a true story. It was before I come up
here but I've heard them talk about it. There was an Aldridge and he was a
great bear hunter. He lived up the river. He had a big family. His boy
farmed but he didn't do much of anything but hunt bear. On time he was up
there and had him a cabin and he kept hearing noises that was a panther. That
evening when he was coming home in from his bear hunting. He had killed a
bear and had the meat there in his cabin and kept hearing this panther squaling
around but didn't think to much of it. That night something woke him up on
top of his house just raking and raising cane up there. He laid there and got
hold of his hatchet and directly a big old claw came through there and he
grabbed that thing by the foot and cut its foot and it was a panther a coming
Any old tales or anything?
�in thereafter his meat. Another time he was up there hunting and tracked a
bear into a den and he crawled in after Mr. Bear and he had him a pine torch
and he saw that old bear's eyes. There was two in there and the other one
ran out over hime and liked to have killed him. That hole was to little.
That is about the only two right now that I can think of. Can you think of
anything else, Dean?
Dean:
Not right now.
A:
There is lots of them but I can't think of any right now. I've heard people
laugh about them. He was the great grandfather of Boss Aldridge. He was their
great grandfather. Their daddy's name was Linville.
Q:
They called him Rolling Bum.
A:
I don't know
remember the
have if they
I don't know
Q:
Probably because he was rolling around when that bear ran over the top of him.
how you spell it. I've seen it, though. There is a book. I don't
name of it. There might be one over there at Boone. They should
don't have. They had the story and they called him Rolling Bum.
why they called him that, except he was a bear hunter.
A;, Might have been, I don't know.
Q:
Can you remember when the first cars came into this community?
A:
Yeah, I can remember.
Q:
What was the reaction to that?
A:
Most people was afraid of them, and wouldn't ride in them.
Q:
Scared the horses alot, didn't it?
A:
Oh, boy, yes, they saw the danger. There wasn't many. Wasn't but one for a long
long time. There was just one up the river here. Hub Wagoneer had it. He is
dead now. He was a young boy then. My husband thought they were the grandest
things that ever had been. He always wanted a good horse to pick up and go.
These cars could go faster than a horse and that was fun, Roby thought that
was the grandest thing that had ever been so he was crazy to ride in that car.
He just wanted to ride in that car so bad. That has been years ago. So one
day he went up to Foscoe and Hub brought him back down home in it. Roby come
in and said "Come out here. I want to show you something." And it was the car.
Was the first time £ had ever seen one. He said Hub come down to take you a ride
and I said "not me in that thing," Roby rode back up to Foscoe with him and
walked back down, rt iv&. only two miles up to J?oscoe and we walked up there.
It wasn't long though, until, I don't remember who had the next car. In other
words, it wasn't to long until Whiting's Mill came in here and there was several
car. But that is the first car I can ever remember seeing. That must have
been about 1912 or something like that.
Q:
Can you remember your first experience in a car?
A:
I didn't ride in Hub's car.
Pop got one not long after that.
A Ford.
�A:
The first car I can ever remember, right now, was in West Virginia. No that
wasn't the first one I'd ever seen. Hub Wagoneer''s was the first one I'd
ever seen, Roby went to West Virginia to work and he had two cousins who
worked in the mines and one Sunday some man took us up to the mines in his car.
That was the first time 1 had ever rode in a car.
Q:
What was your feeling about that?
A:
I didn't like it much. The roads were rough and they would just beat you to
death and I just didn't enjoy it much. I liked my horse and buggy. I loved
horses anyway. I liked my horse and buggy. I'd take Dean when he was just
a little bitty thing, so little he couldn't sit up and hitch up that horse to
that buggy and go anywhere I wanted to. And I could take him up on my lap and
ride a horse anywhere I wanted to. He had on a long dress. He was little.
Babies used to wear long dresses, now they don't do that.
Q:
Were there any major accidents caused by horses and buggys running away on the
account of cars?
A:
Yes, I expect there was, but right now I can't remember any bad ones. They
would scare the horses, but the people was usually nice. They would stop their cars.
Alot of places in the roads you couldn't pass. The things that scared the horses
were these old motorcycles. They would scare them nearly to death. When Mr.
Whiting had the mill over here there was this fellow had a motorcycle and he
would scare the horses literally to death. He could ride it out to the side of
the road anywhere and stop. I don't remember any of them ever having any bad
wrecks but the horses would just jump and rare and pitch and go on.
Q:
You were talking about Mr, Shull wearing the dresses and the way child rearing
was back then. How would you compare that with today's way of bringing up
children and how has it changed and things like that?
A:
Well, we live in a different time. Different enviroments and everything. We
raised our children the way people raised them and dressed them the way people
dressed them. Now they do the same thing so I guess if I was young and a
raising my family I would raise them like they do now. Of course, maybe I
wouldn't leave them by themselves as much as people do but some of them can't
help it. They have to work and get out and do tMngs. Back then mothers didn't
work as much as they do now . They were mothers and homemakers. Now its got so
that the wife almost has to work, when you think about it. The two things, I
guess if I was raising mine now, I'd just raise them like other people do. I'd
try to teach them to-jnind a little better than some of them do, but so far as
the general raising is concerned it is just a different era and time we live in.
Q:
Do you think that the mothers place is in the home?
A:
Personally, yes I do. And I believe that there are alot of mothers who are
working had rather be in the home if they could. But they can't. If you just
stop and think about it. I think especially if she has children. There is
nobody who will take care of your children like mother does. If she is a
real mother.
Q:
Do you think if the mother were in the home now<-a-days that things would be
differently concerning the student uprisings and such things as that?
Ai
I think so,
*
I really think so.
If they could be in the home and raise the
�children and take care of them. The children seem to think that their parents
don't care for them, because they can''t be with them enough. I don't know whether
this causes so much of this or not but it has affect on children. Most of them
have babysitters, and the babysitters are all right. I've got something against
them, but they don't love the children like the mother does.
Q:
Alot of them feed them and put them to bed right away.
play with them.
They don't have time to
A;
There good to them and see that they are fed and kept dry and warm and everything,
but that's still not the mother. To me, I might be wrong.
Q:
I agree with you. I agree with you one hundred percent, I think that a child
can tell the difference between the mother and say another woman.
A:
Sure they can, yes sir, they certainly can.
Q:
People say stuff like when the baby is small they are not really aware of their
surroundings.
A:
Don't you tell me that there not, You take a tiny little baby, maybe a month
old that knew their mother*s voice from anyone elses.
Q:
Is that right?
A'
Yes, I have. But a week or two, well, they don't notice much, If they're normal
children and everything by the time their a month old they can tell their mother's
voice. You take a little baby who is a month or six weeks old, and its mother
doesn't wear glasses, and someone takes it who wears glasses, and it will look
at them and squal, Nine times out of ten. Don't feell me they don't know the
difference,
Q:
There is something there just in bodily contact where they can tell the mother,
A:
Yeah, and anyone else can take them and pick them up and out of their bed or take
them off of their mother's lap, sometimes they don't care, but with some, the first
thing they will do is cry. When their mother's take them they ffuit and don*t tell
me they don't know the difference. Now the little things know. There is something
about them that knows.
Qi
Do you think that healthier babies are breast fed?
A:
Yeah, I really do. That is if their mother ±s healthy. No some mothers if they
have T.B, or something like that their babies are not healthy. If their mothers
are he<Ry their babies are better. Grow better, I think. There is not many
of them anymore.
Q:
How did you discipline your children when they were growing up as compared to^the
way it is now?
A:
If Dean did what I told him not to I paddled him, Thats all I can say, Taught
him to mind. Not to sass you and not to talk back to you, and things like that,
Q:
Crafts, did you ever do any of the weaving?
A:
No, I've never done any weaving, but I knit and
Today, this day and time, they can.
Crochet sometimes, and do some
�sewing and stuff like that, But I've never been to any of the places where you •
make this stuff. I've just never had any chance to go.
Q:
Did you ever make any soap?
A:
Oh, yes,
Q:
How did you go about doing that?
A;
Well, we burnt wood. We always burnt wood and in the winter time if we could
get hold of any hickory wood or maple, Hickory made the best soap. We had an
ashthopper. Daddy built an ash hopper. This was when I was a girl, Me and
Grandma Shull made soap after I came up here. We would put all those ashes in
that hopper and keep it covered up with something to keep rain and snow from
comming in on it. When warm weather come we would save all the scrapes from
the hogs, all the bones and scraps and everything. We would put water on the
ashes in the hopper and when it run out in a little box it was lye. It would
eat the hide off your hand, and we would put that in a little iron wash pot and
put a fire under it and start it to boiling. Then we put pieces of meat scraps
in it and stirred it with a sassafras stick. We stirred and stirred it until
the lye eat all that up. It would boil and get thick. We would let it sit there
and cool. My mother never did make any that you cut out in squares, Some people did.
We had a big barrel! we put it in and that was what we washed clothes with and
washed our dishes with. We had other kinds of soap to wash our hands and face with.
But, we washed our dishes and clothes with that lye soap.
Q:
How did-',you make the other kind of soap that you bathed in?
A:
Daddy got it at the store somewhere.
Qj
Oh, I thought maybe you made that,
A:
No, mother never did, I don*t know if she knew how or if it was just to much
trouble. We were a big family and we would buy a cake of soap ever once in a
while.
Q:
That lye soap was pretty strong?
A:
Yeah, after it set for a while;,, after it got old it didn't bother you. But when
you first made it, it was strong. See, we rubbed our clothes on a wash board
and it would take the hide off your hands. Off the fingers where you rubbed.
I*ve had my fingers so sore.
Q:
How often did you have to make this soap?
A:
We made it once a year. Just when we killed hogs and had plenty.
have meat scraps and that greasy stuff.
Q:
That one barrel! would last you?
A:
Oh yes, Made a great big old wash pot full. Sometimes we made two washpots full.
Sometimes Daddy would kill hogs on Thanksgiving and then maybe the last of January
or the first of February. Daddy would kill another hog, and we would make some
more. That's what we done, I don't know what other people done.
What we called stores-bought sopp.
You had to
�Q:
I bet you did a lot of canning back then didn't you?
A:
Not when I was a girl growing up. I didn't know much about canning until I
married and come up here to Grandma Shull's, My mother dried everything nearly.
She pickled beans and corn and aade kraut. She dried apples and peaches, pumpkin,
sweet potatoes, corn and that stuff,
Q:
She dried corn?
A;
Yes.
Q:
How did she do that?
A:
Well, the way mother did it, you take roasting ears when its not too hard, Pour
boiling water on it and let it set just a little bit, then take it out and drain
it off and cut it off the cob in whole grains and have your oven not too hot
and put them in a long black bread pan. Spread it out and set it in the stove
and stir it every once in a while and dry it until it got to where it would
rattle. We would put it in jars of some kind and keep it. You would have to
soak it overnight and cook it like cooking corn. It was good.
Q:
You mean after you soak it, it was just like regular corn?
A:
Yea, just like roasting ears.
Q:
How did you fix the pumpkin?
As
Just peel them and cut them around and around. ^Moth^er bad a rack up over the
cook stove and she hung the pumpkin up over that cook stove,
Q;
I've seen my grandmother dry apples.
A;
I dry apples every year.
Q:
Do you still dry apples?
A:
Oh yes, we love them.
Q!
They make good pies, don't they?
A:
Oh, yes, good fried pies. And they make good fruit cake. That was all the fruit
cake i ever seen or knew anything about until Dean was a great big boy.
Q:
With dried apples.
A:
Yes, Did your grandmother make any gingerbread?
Q:
Not, that I can remember.
A:
Boy, you're not as old as Dean.
Q:
She was in her 70's when I was just a small boy.
A:
Well, I bet she could tell you about this. You make cookies. You make dough
just like cookie dough. Its made like biscuit dough but it is made sweet.
1 didn*t dry any last year.
I've got some now that I dried last year.
He can remember.
�10
Its got sugar and stuff in it. You roll it out and cut it out round and bake
six or eight layers. You have your dried fruit cooked and mash it all up like
you were going to make fried pies and then you put it between those layers of
cake and let it set about a day and night and its good. That was our fruit cake.
Q:
That really sounds good. We had this old wood stove and she cooked some stuff
on that like fried chicken and baked some bread. I believe it was the best that
I had ever eaten.
A:
There's nothing like a good wood stove to cook on. 1 like the gas and the electric
stove. They are quick and they are clean, but give me a good old wood stove
to cook on. Bake cornbread, arid have shucky beans. Did your grandmother ever
make any shucky beans?
Q:
No, whats that?
A',
Mother dried beans.
Q:
No.
A:
WeiV, Dean, he's never had nothing to eat.
Q:
Don't believe that I have ever had any.
A:
You take these litt/e short beans. We used to call them cut shorts and cornfield
beans and when they are green and have pretty good sized bullets in them. You
fix them like you were going to cook them. Sometimes I Break them up and
sometimes 1 string them on a string and hang them over the stove and keep them
until they are good and dry, Then you put them in a can or something to keep
the bugs away from them and cook them with a piece of ham_bone or ham hock.
Q:
That sounds good.
A:
You never.
Q:
No, I guess I am just used to all the food comming out of a tin can. Grandma
died when I was in the second grade. So I really don't remember too much of
this- stuff, I do remember that cooking on the wood sto^e. Cause that sure was
good. It seems like a one side there was a tank for hot water.
At
In your time. When I was young they had that. Now, my first cook stove didn't
have that, but than, Dean can remember when my stove didn't have a water tank on
it. We heated water on top of the stove in a kettle. I've got the tea kettle
yet.
Old iron tea kettle. Then finally, we got an enamel one, it was lighter,
and wasn't so heavy to lift. And I cooked on a fire a whole lot.
Q:
In a fireplace?
A:
Yes, baked,. -bYead and boiled those shuckey beans oni-the fire. The fireplace had
a crane that had three different hooks on it. And they were facing to the side
of the fireplace and you could pull it out of the way or put it back on the fire.
You hung your pots on that. I didn't ever have one. I just set my pots on the
fire. Had to watch over them sometimes because the logs would burn into and
your stuff would turn over incthe floor. If you didn't watch.
We dry beans yet,
Dry green beans, didn't you ever eat any?
I've never heard of anything like th&t.
�11
Q:
We have one of those iruour house. We live in my grandmother's old house.
We remodeled the inside and when they did they closed up the fireplace. What
was the kitchen then is my bedroom now- They closed up the fireplace and all
that old stuff, The crane is still there closed up in that wall.
A:
You ought to open that up.
Q:
Guess that we would have to tear the wall apart.
A:
YQu ought to open it up and have you a fireplace there.
Q:
We still have one of those old timey iron skillets that has legs on it. It is
a great big old;;thing that is as heavy as can be. It's got a great big iron lid
that goes on it to. She probably set that in the fireplace.
A:
No, you let your coals burn and set them out on the hearth on top of the coals,
is where you baked your bread. You put your bread in there, and put your lid
on and then put a little coals and hot ashes on the top. And that is the way
you baked your bread.
Q:
We still have her old iron skillet over at fohe house. I remember when we were
kids getting water out of the well. Having the old well and winding the water out.
We didn't have running water when I was real small.
Ai
We didn't have running water either not until to long. I mean water in the house.
We had a well when Whiting was over here with the mill. We had a well, I reckon,
when we went to Elizabethan. That was the first time we had water in the house.
Wasn't it Dean? Had water down there. Then when we come back here we still had
the well for several years.
Q:
We left our well just like it was.
it still.
A:
Its good for it to draw water out.
Q:
Weil, I think it is a lot better, than comming out of the tap.
A:
This old well that we use down here in the front yard. But Grandpa Shull dug
one before he was married. That is Dean's grandpa. We had to have it cleaned
out ever once in a while.
Qj
I can remember that. They had a great big wench with two men on each side and
they would let them down in there and they would come out with .all kinds of
toys and stuff that my sister and I had threw in there
A:
This well went dry and we finally brought a pump in the kitchen.
put some pipe down in there.
Q:
Is that bird not common in this area?
Dean:
A:
So we could go out there and wind some out of
A hand pump, and
Kind of rare.
But they're awful "wild, They very seldom come this near to the house to feed. But
in the summer you can hear them around hollaring, In the grandfather there are
lots of them. We call them Joe Winks, Maybe you know them?
�12
Q:
No, I don't believe that I have heard that name.
A:
Well, thats what we used to call them a long time ago. Joe Wink. But they
call them toe hoes now. They make a kind of noise like they are singing
To hink, to hink, to hink.
Q:
Are there any animals that are extinct almost now.
of hunting.
A:
No. I guess they are animals
there is not as many. People
the river. There is not many
Their hides are a big price.
Q:
Did your husband ever sell any of his hides?
A:
Oh yes, that is the way he got money in the winter time. Grandpa Shull had
two sugar orchards. One was right up there. Some of the old trees are still
there yet, one is out yonder where the golf course is at Hound Ears. Me and
Roby tended that one and Grandma and Grandpa tended this one here. We made
maple sugar and syrup and sold it in the spring. That is the way we bought our
sugar, coffee, clothes, and stuff like that. We would take Dean down there
and put him in a box. They had a big furnace built along and a boiler like
they make molasses in. You have seen them make molasses.
Q:
I've seen the thing they were made in.
A:
They had that kind of thing. Roby would work and get a lot of wood piled up
and had a shed built over it.- I would"set Dean's box right over in there where
the wind wouldn't hit him, and keep him down there all day. We would take our
rations with us and stay down there and boil our sugar water. We had to carry
it when it was snowy and bad. Grandma Shull would keep Dean while we was
carrying in the water. Then we would come back and help carry in their water.
We sold our stuff in Blowing P.ock. There wasn't any sell for it right around
here. Anybody who came in and wanted a hunk of sugar or a pot of maple syrup
or something we just gave it to them. We sold it at Blowing Rod: and got a
dollar a gallon for our syrup. Made a many of a gallon of syrup for a dollar
and took it up there. That was a big price then.
0:
Did you have any brothers and sisters?
A;
Nine.
Q:
Nine.
A:
I don't know whether I can remember their ages or not.
Dean:
A:
Any of them gone because
all through here like there was then, or course,
fox and coon hunt, and catch some in traps along
mink around here. They have been caught out.
Thirty-five dollars for a big mink.
How many were in your family?
Do you remember their names and ages?
Well, close to it.
I could look.
I doesn't matter.
Well, I was the oldest. T" was born in '89. Then my sister Lucy
She was three years younger than me. Austin was the next. Then
Roger, Fred, claude, Frank, Ruby. I am the oldest and there two
between most of us, three years between some. I could go get my
was next.
Grace,
years
book
�13
and tell you just exactly. That sort of gives you an idea of how many of them
there was. We are all alive but two. I have got two brothers dead.
Q:
Did you all go to school.
A:
Well,they all got a better education than I did. I was the oldest and I didn't
like to go to school. I got married about the time that I got grown. I guess
I got about an eigth grade education. The rest of them finished high school
and most of them college. Three of them Fred, Grace, and Austin were teachers.
Grace taught in college for years and Austin taught in High School in Johnson
City a while and then he taught ar that College down there in Johnson City.
Dean:
A:
Dean:
The University of Tennesse
Yeah, then Fred my other brother taught at Washington College until he retired,
about four years ago. Two of my sisters are trained nurses. They both finished
high school and they are trained nurses.
Registered nurses.
A:
Yes, registered nurses. Then my sister next to me finished High School and went to
business college and she is a bookeeper. She doesn't wonk now. She is about 80.
She lives by herself and does her own work and everything. Then I had another
brother he finished high school and went to work for Free Service Tire Company
in Johnson City and worked there for fifty years. Last fall was fifty years
when he retired. He was 70. He went to Carson Newman College. He had been
there fifty years when he retired.
Q:
That is a long time.
A:
When I went to school?
Q:
Yeah.
A:
They were good schools I guess for the time. But they weren't nothing like they
are now. You just had one room and one teacher. The first school I ever went to
had two teachers. Over in Ashe County at Sutherland. That is where I first
went to school. Then I went to school down at Beaver Creek where they just
had one teacher most of the time. Professor Franklin, and of course he was a
good teacher and we had to mind him. That was one thing we had to do. But
they are different to what they are now. They didn't grade.:them like they do
now. Thejr weren't as good as they have now. There wasn't so many people,
Vie didn't have any cafeterias to eat at. We took our own lunch. They had a
bi^g old water bucket setting in the corner with a dipper and we all drunk out
of the same bucket and stuff like that, it didn't kill us. Played ball and
stuff like that when recess and dinner time come.
Q:
I can remember hearing my mother talk about peanut butter and homemade biscuits
and putting it into little buckets and taking it to school with her and eating
it for lunch. She said that some of the rich kids brought the sandwhichas maHe
our of bought bread would trade their sandwhichss for her peanut butter and
biscuits. That was something to them and the sandwhiches were something to her.
How were the schools back then.
What were they like?
�14
A:
Of course. My mother never did bake bread much, but grandmother baked light
bread. Baked it on the fire in that great big skillet I was tilling you about
on the hearth. Put two loaves in there and raise them up. Mother didn't
bake light bread so we took biscuits to school. We were always glad when
they killed hogs because we would get one biscuit with a piece of sausage on
it.
Q:
That was a treat?
A:
6h yes, that was a treat. We usually had butter and applebutter. Daddy always
managed to keep us a couple of cows. Had to because there were so many of us.
We had to have milk and butter.
Q:
With nine, I would expect so.
A:
We had apple butter and jelly and stuff like that in our biscuits mostly. Some
of the children would bring cornbread to school. We didn't have biscuits for
breakfast every moring but mother almost always tried to keep biscuits for us
to take to school, but we had cornbread sometimes for breakfast. We had our
own corn and had our meal ground but our flour we had to buy. Because daddy
didn't have enough land to raise wheat. We had to be saving with our flour.
Q:
How were the books back then?
A:
Books?
Q:
In the schools.
A:
Blue back speller. Dean didn't use it but I have got one. Dean had a little
spelling book like they all had. They had the primer and then the first reader,
and the second reader and all. Then, I've got all of them until he went on and
finished college. I've got all of his college books.
Q:
Where are you keeping these?
A:
Yes.
Q:
Was there something called Stone Algebra?
A:
Dean, do you know anything about it?
A:
Now we had algebra. That was another thing I could never do no good at.
But I don't remember the name of it. How old is your mother?
Q:
She is fifty-four.
A:
No, she's not as old as Dean.
anything about that.
Q:
Did the teacher take sections in the one room?
A:
She had all the little ones setting up in the front. They had big long benches
when I first went to school. We didn't have desks then, until I was a pretty
good sized girl. The little ones would set up front because they would talk and
What were they like?
Have you got them stored somewhere?
That is something they had later.
I don't know
�15
he would have to get after them. Thei,-second reader was next then on back. The
bigger ones were in the back. Professor Franklin could tell which one was
whispering and he would be standing up ther in the front. The blackboards were
painted on the walls. I don't know whether you heard anything about it or not,
but you know that school house that burned down. Shull's Mills school house
that burnt over there at the Horn and the West Grounds. It was from over here.
Bernard Dougherty got it and took it over there and it had one whole side of
the wall painted black. That's when Dean first went to school in it. They
had this thing along there that held your chalk and erasers, and T-slant.
You would lay your stuff down in there. We had slates. All the children
didn't have slates, but we could all go to the board and do things. He could
be up there putting a writing up there on the board for us to copy off and some
body in the back a whispering and he would turn around there as quick as
lightening and tell them who it was and call them up there and punish them.
A;
Old Sutherland in Ashe County was the first school 1 ever went to.
know where that is at?
Do ypu
Q:
No. I know where Ashe County is.
exactly.
A:
There post office is Creston. They are R.F.D. It is way back over there in
the mountains close to Potter Town. You've heard of Potter Town. It is not
too far from there.
Q:
The students didn't have pencils and paper?
A:
No, not when I first went to school.
I've heard of Sutherland but I don't know
They just wrote on slate?
You didn't have any pencils or paper
We had our slate and our slate pencil. We carried it home of the night. We
put our salte pencil in a book or in our coat pocket. It was usually about
that long and you would eventually break them.
Q:
What was a slate pencil like?
4:
A piece of slate.
Q:
It was a piece of slate?
A:
It was about the size of that thing you have in your hand. It was sharp at one
end. Some of them with chalk on their saltes, but that ruined the slate. It got
it so it wouldn't write. Daddy wouldn't let us write on them with chalk.
Whatever daddy said we must not do we didn't do. Later, when I went to school
at Beaver Creek we had tablets and pencils. But even over at Silverstone I
know I did.
Q:
There wasn't much emphasis placed on education back then, was there?
A:
There wasn't much, not like there is now.
Q:
Especially in girls,
A:
Our school was always out before Christmas when I was a child. I guess we had
about four months of school and that was it. Our school was out before
Christmas.
�16
The week before Christmas we had our spelling bee and our school was out and
then we were free until the next time school came around.
Q:
Do you mean that was the end of the school year?
A:
Yes, unless they had a summer subscription school. Daddy always managed to
send the children to taht. That was when I was little. That was the end of
the school year. Then they got up to six months of school and that is the
most that I ever went. We would go a little while after Christinas. Now,
they have the nine month. I think it was just six months when Dean first
started to school. See Dean i,? 65 years old. When he first started to
school it was just six months. They would get up what they called a
subscription school and they would pay a dollar a month for a pupil. Say
somebody had three children to send, they would pay three dollars a month.
They would hire a teacher and this teacher would stay around among the pupils.
She would stay one night one place and the next night another place. That way
the people boarded her and what they paid in for teaching was her salary. She
usually taught two months. That was when I was little. When we lived on Cove
Creek.
Q:
A dollar per pupol was alot back then.
A:
When you had two or three children to send it was hard to get that three dollars
a month. There was very few who could ever let very many go. They would let
their oldest ones go. Daddy always managed for me to go and after Lucy
got pretty good-sized he managed for her to go.
Q:
Did the older one come back and teach the younger ones what they had learned in
school?
A:
Yeah, we sit down and made them learn their ABC's and learned themlto read
and write before they ever went to school.
Q:
My mother was the baby of the family and she skipped two grades. They would
come back and teach her what they learned at school. In the first grade she
knew all of her ABC's. She could read and tell time. The teacher moved her
up a few grades.
A:
I was the oldest and I can remember teaching the other children what I had
learned in my books. They were just tickled to death when I came in of the
evening with my books to learn them what I had. Dean knew his ABC's and
could read and write lots of words when he started to school.
Q:
Alot of emphasis back then was placed on the children learning the way of the
home life. Cooking, sewing, and things like that. The boys learned farming.
A:
Whatever daddy done, thats waht they done.
Q:
What was the reaction by the^parents when the school was increased to six
months a year?
A:
Most of them liked it when the school was changed to six months.
like the children were out to much without enough to do.
Q:
I was thinking that some wantedathe kids ther at home to help.
A:
Lots of times the older children would miss a day or half a day.
Wasn't it?
They felt
I missed alot.
�17
I guess that is why I didn't like to go because I had to stay home and help
wash and iron. It is hard on the children like that. Hard on the parents, to.
In the fall it was time to gather in the crops and apples and stuff. Some
would keep children at hame all day to help do that. Maybe two days out of
a week they would have to miss. It was hard on the children to keep up.
Some of them didn't have to miss at all. They had older brothers and sisters
that could stay at home and do the work. The younger ones didn't miss at all.
It was the older ones that it was hard on.
Q:
Emphasis was placed on church going, wasn't it?
back then.
A:
Everybody went to church.
Q:
What were the churches like back then?
A:
They were sort of old fashioned like everything else was.
smart like country churches are today.
Q:
Were they old fashioned hell fire and brimstone preachers?
A:
Yeas most of them was.
Q:
What were the church activities?
A:
Go to Sunday School and they had preaching once a month on Saturday and Sunday.
That was it.
Q:
Did you have any church socials or picnics?
A:
Not when I was young.
Q:
Do you think the churches have changed a great deal over the years?
A:
Yes, they have changed alot.
people and the times.
Q:
Do you think that the beliefs have become a little bit lax over the years?
They are not quiet as strict as they used to be.
A:
There is more denominations now through this country. Used to be just
Methodists and Baptists when I was a little girl growing up. You never
heard tell of anything exceot Methodius and Baptists. You were either one
or the other. There was usually one of each church,in a community. They all
got along. They didn't disagree. You were just a Methodist or a Baptist.
Now, there are so many different kinds of Methodists and Baptists, presbyterians,
the holiness folks, and all that stuff until it is just dirrerent.
Q:
So many of them are church splits. One group goes off to be their own church
and they build a church over here and one forms out of that to.
A:
I don't know how it was in other communities but when I was just a girl growing
up you never heard tell of anything like that in the community. There was one
Baptist Church and one Methodist church and that was it.
Q:
To which did most of the people belong?
Good preachers.
Religion was really a big thing
They were a right
Most of them were older men.
Just like the people.
They change with the
�18
A:
I believe the Baptist in our community. Some of the Methodist churches had
more members and some of the Baptist churches had more members.
Q:
Preachers back then were God called, weren"'t they?
A:
They were different. Not many of the preachers had a college degree back
when I was growing up.
Q:
Just high school degrees?
A:
They were good men and good teachers. They preached the bible more than they
do now. They just got up there and read their bible and preached about it.
They talked about all that was going on in the world and everything. You were
SHved or you wasn't. You were going to heaven or to hell and that was. about all
there was to it. They just preached that and that was it. Everybody was
happy. The best I can remember that was the way it was.
Q:
The preacher was a very respected man in the community, wasn't he?
A:
Oh yes.
Q:
Had a lot of influence with the people.
A:
Yes.
Q:
I guess that was what held the churches together.
A:
I was. They respected the preacher and they respected each other. The church
was something sacred to them. That is about the best way that I can explain
it to you.
Q:
There were a lot of old customs that were held to back then, wasn't there?
A:
I guess so, but I don't remember much about them.
Q:
A lot of tradition.
A:
Yeah.
Q:
Can you think of anything else that I have left out?
A:
No, I can't.
A:
That store house down there used to be turned around with the front of it
down toward that other road because this road wasn't through here then.
The first post office was in that building. Shull's Mills post office.
I've got old tintype pictures made of that building. The front of that
store house and people standing in frcont of it. Dean has got the first post
office certificate in a frame. See when they built this road through here and
this high bridge they moved the store house down that way. Dean had it turned
with the front down that way. Then he rebuilt it and fixed it all over.
Dean's daddy said he could remember when Granpa built it. Roby would be 90
years old. The man who moved it said it was the best old house he had moved
since he had been moving houses.
Q:
It is well over a hundred years, isn't it?
A:
It is put together with pegs.
Some not even that.
Things being past down through the family.
I think I've covered everything all over the county.
�19
Q:
Dean:
A:
That goes a way back, sure enough.
It is .tall hand hued.
Those shelves in there were already there when Grandpa Shull had the store
there. Then Dean's daddy had a store there for a while. Now Dean has got
a store in it.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Scanned by
Wetmore, Dana
Equipment
Hp Scanjet 8200
Scan date
2014-02-17
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Mamie Breybeal Shull, April 3, 1973
Description
An account of the resource
Mamie Graybeal Shull was born in 1889 and has lived around Boone, North Carolina since 1906.
Ms. Shull begins her interview talking about Shull's Mill. She then talks about home remedies and other traditions like the legends, myths, and food. Ms. Shull explains her experiences with cars and the reaction of the community when they were first introduced. She recollects memories in the schoolhouse including school lunches, text books, and the layout. To finish her interview, Ms. Shull explains what church was like as a child.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Brinkley, Bill
Shull, Mamie Graybeal
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
4/3/1973
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
19 pages
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
document
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape54_MamieGreybealShull_1973_04_03M001
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Boone, NC
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History--20th century--Anecdotes
Boone
cars
legends
myths
Shull's Mill
traditional food
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/58ff95d2b028b2ec93c0758972e26588.pdf
1049511367f11e1e67f8b698cefd232a
PDF Text
Text
AOH #39
Page 1
This is an interview with Mr. Stanley Harris, Sr. for the
Appalachian Oral History Project by Bill Brinkley at Boone on
March 20, 1973.
Q:
Mr. Harris, could you give us your age and place of birth?
A:
Well, I was born in Johnson County, Tennessee, where the
name of the place was Trade, which is just over the line from
North Carolina, October 31, 1882.
Q:
How long have you lived in this community?
A:
When I was two years old, my father moved to what is now
Montezuma, N. C. and I stayed there until I finished high school
and in 1902 I went to college at Athens, Tennessee which was
at that time part of U. S. Grant University, main plant being
located in Chattanooga, but the liberal arts department was at
Athens.
That has since changed to Tennessee Wesleyan College.
I graduated in 1902, and took, a post graduate course at what was
then the American University at Harriman, Tennessee.
that was sold and the American University was closed.
Later,
At the
close of the school in 1903, I went to work for a furniture
factory in Harriman, Tennessee and a year later moved to
Lexington, Kentucky and worked there in a furniture store as
a salesman.
In 1907 I became the assistant secretary of the
YMCA at Lexington and in 1912 became the secretary of the YMCA
at Frankford, Kentucky, and in 1916 became the state boys work
secretary of theYMCA.
Correction!
I went to Frankford as the
YMCA secretary in 1907, and in 1908 started a Boy Scout troop
under the British Scout Association which troop was recognized
and chartered in December, 1908 and became so far as we can find
�2.
any history the first chartered Boy Scout troop in the United
States.
After I became the state boy's work secretary, my
headquarters were moved to Louisville and the Boy Scout troop
in Frankford was expanded and a council organized with four
troops in Frankford.
In 1917 I went with the National Council
as a special field commission and remained with the National
Council of Boy Scouts of America until October 1, 1947 when I was
automatically retired because I had reached the age of 65.
I spent a few months in South Alabama where I had a little property,
then came back to Chattanooga whece I was associated with Jake
Bishop in General Insurance and for a time, lived at Johnson
City.
In 1948 we came back to Watauga County primarily because
in 1930 and '31, we had built a very modern residence across
Cove Creek from Henson's Chapel Methodist Church.
At that time
it was called Amantha, and we lived there until we traded that
property with Gene Wilson and officially moved to Boone.
1949 Watauga County celebrated its 100th anniversary,
In
and I
was elected president of the Watauga'.Centennial, and we produced
a type of play called "Echoes of the Blue Ridge" and published
a brief history written by Dr. Whitener as a history of Watauga
County.
In 1912 after graduation from the Grant University
Branch at Athens, I came back to Watauga County as (principal
of Cove Creek Academy which was an imaginary high school and
taught school until about the middle of January, 1903 when I
went to the American University for a short post graduate
course, ant it was at Cove Creek Academy that I met Mary Swift
then a student, which in 1919 became my wife.
We lived in Memphis
for a while and then moved to Chattanooga and eventually came back
�3.
to Watauga County to live, and the family has been here ever since.
In 1949 I recommended to the Chamber of Commerce that we should
develop industry to balance what was then a college and tourist
business as about the only industry.
The Board of the
Chamber
of Commerce was not sympathetic at that time to developing industry, but within a year or so, that became one of their major
projects, and as secretary of the industry committee, I directed
the campaign to supplement the purchase price of property for
IRC, and had an important part in bringing industry to Boone,
which was the first of the major industries coming here.
Later
the industry committee arranged with Shadowline to establish a
plant here, and after that, we found that Blue Ridge Show Co.
was disappointed in the location they had chosen for a new plant,
and persuaded the management to investigate Boone.
That was
other being a trip to New York made by Glenn Andrews and myself,
to interview Mr. Herb, then the president of the parent company
and he agreed to investigate Boone.
We did all the preliminary
work necessary to get Blue Ridge Shoe Co. to come to Boone,
including sale of bonds on their property, most of which was
bought finally by the Northwestern Bank, though several thousand s
of dollars of bonds were bought by local citizens.
Later, the
industry committee was successful in persuading Vermont American
to establish their plant in Boone, and each of these instances, we
had to supplement the land purchase for the new company, and I
had the privilege of conducting the finance campaign, all of
which was easily successful.
One of my big contributions to
Boone and Watauga County was as a member and the chairman of the
board of Watauga Hospital, and conducted the finance campaign to
�4.
to rennovate and improve the then Watauga County Hospital building.
This resulted in our acquiring our modern surgical department and
a very successful surgeon.
Also, with tie help of the state and
the Federal Government to build a nurses home all of which became
part of Watauga Hospital.
Later, when the people of the county
divided the money through bonds, the modern Watauga Hospital, this
property was transferred to the college and later became part of
the equipment of Appalachian State University.
If I have been any
value to Watauga County primarily it has been in developing these
industries and providing opportunity for people in Watauga County
to get employment at good wages, and this has resulted in many
homes and smaller businesses that would not have come without these
manufacturing industries to provide the employment.
I'm still
secretary-treasurer of the industry committee and a member of the
board of most of the organizations that continued to have a responsibility except to encourage and promote them.
We built the
building for Shadowline and they operated it on a rental basis for
a few years and then bought it, and we bmilt the building for
the Blue Ridge Shoe Co. which they still operate on a rental basis.
Same is true with Vermont American which is operated on a rental
basis as far as the building is concerned.
The "Echoes of the
Blue Ridge" finally developed into "Horn in the West" and has
been one of the great advertising projects for Boone and Watauga
County.
It resulted from an invitation to Kermit Hunter to be
the speaker at the Chamber of Commerce where we persuaded him
to write the story, and we conducted a finance campaign for the
money to build the theatre for "Horn in the West" and again I
had the privilege of being the director of the finance campaign.
That's about the story of my connection with the development of
industry and the "Horn in the West".
I have remained as an
�5.
active worker in the Chamber of Commerce, but recently no v&ry
major projects.
Now, what other questions you want?
Q:
Weren't you also connected with Coleman's Tobacco Warehouses?
A:
Well, soon after I came here probably in 1950, Coleman employed
me as a sales supervisor and at that time had the radio program
promoting the tobacco warehouse and Boone as a tobacco market.
I'm still the sales supervisor for Coleman, though we have not
had a radio program as such for the last five years.
Before
Warehouse #1 burned, the year before that we sold in excess of
6 million pounds of tobacco at the Boone market.
Less than 1/3
of that tobacco came from Watauga County, and a considerable
proportion of it came from Tennessee and Virginia, but the tobacco
warehouse in Boone hasbeen a great help to the farmers, not only
in Watauga County, but in this whole section, and last year sold
in excess of 4 million pounds for mighty close to $3 million.
Q:
You organized the first Rotary Club, is that correct?
first
director?
A:
I was one of the group that organized the Rotary Club in Boone
and because I had previously been a Rotarian was elected the
district governor for District 780 which included all of Western
N. C. from Charlotte and West Jefferson through to Murphy some
40 clubs.
I'm still active in Rotary; I think it is a great service
organization.
Q:
What I'd like to ask you now is a few questions on the Depression.
When did the Great Depression start as best you can remember?
A:
Well, the Depression started in 1929.
We had had a very prosperous
�6.
period after the war closed, and things were going great when the
Stock Market had a tremendous setback, and by 1931 we were in
perhaps the worst depression we had ever had.
This depression
didn't seriously effect me because I was then employed actually
by one of the Rockefeller Organizations, and they didn't cut my
salary, but salaries went down in many instances, more than 50%
and thousands of people were out of employment.
It was during
that time that I decided to build a rock house over in Cove Creek
and believe it or not, purchased well finished lumber at $14
a thousand, employed labor only one carpenter on the job got
more than 350 an hour, and he as the foreman in building the house
made a little more than that but not too much.
Common labor
could have been had for 100 an hour, but I couldn't persuade
myself to go quite that low and paid 150 an hour for common
labor.
The rock that built the house was delivered to the site
for a dollar a yard, and even the rock mason made about 750 an
hour which is not much more than 10% what the same would cost
today, and while we later sold the Cove Creek house to Gene
Wilson and his wife, we decided to live in an apartment, and
not finding what we wanted, we bought the lot on W. Queen St.
and built Westmont Apartments which five or six years ago we
sold to a corporation which now owns them, but I still manage the
apartments.
Q:
Where were you living at the start of the Great Depression?
A:
Well, we were living on Cove Creek though I was travelling
out of New York and came home about once a month for a few days,
and sort of kept track of things, but Mary and the children run
the house.
�/ "••
Q:
How many were in the family at that time?
A:
We had two children:
7.
Stanley, Jr. who was born in 1923.
Wait
a minute, he was born in 1920, and Martha was born in 1923.
Q:
Was there a scarcity of food dtiring that time?
A:
No scarcity of food.
The scarcity was anything to buy it with,
and since my salary was continued, I made more clear money from
-"]?
1930 to 1936 than I had ever made-jfeior to that.
Q:
Did you raise any crops?
A:
We had a big garden, but as far as farming is concerned, I didn't
do any farming, anything that was done on the farm was done on a
rental basis, and that was not a cash render, but a percentage of the
income.
But we had a big garden, and I got some prestige as a grower
of roses, for we had a very beautiful rose garden.
Q:
What animals did you have on the farm?
A:
Well, part of the time we had a milk cow or two which Stanley
learned to milk as a 10 year old youngster, and we usually kept a
horse which he could ride or plow, but we made no attempt to be
farmers, but we did have a good vegetable garden along with the roses.
Q:
Were you familiar with any of the government projects during
the Depression?
A:
Not too much familiar with government projects during the Depression,
though during WW I, I was the federal director of the boys' working
reserve which organized boys to work to produce food during the war,
and a big part of that was done by Boy Scouts who produced the gardens
especially the big garden in Washington city which was down on the
�8.
peninsula furnished vegetables not only for the White House, but
Walter Reed Hospital, major hotels in Washington, and was honored
frequently by a visit from Mrs. Wilson, wife of the President, and
on a few occassions President Wilson accompanied Mrs. Wilson to
the garden for she always picked up her own vegetables twice a week.
I didn't do the technical work; that was done by a man from the
agricultural department who supervised that big garden, but I promoted
the idea of boys doing things for the government not only making
gardens, but distributing literature, make Black Walnut surveys,
and numerous and sundry other things, but I had very little to do
with government projects during the Depression period.
Q:
Were prices higher or lower during the Depression?
A:
They were down at the bottom.
I don't know the figures, but
certainly meat prices weren't much more than 10% of the present price
today, and as far as I have any memory, there was an abundance of
food if you had the price to pay for it.
Q:
Did new ways of making money arise due to these conditions?
A:
I didn't make any money except my salary until I retired, but
since I retired I made considerable money out of projects I've been
interested in.
Q:
Do you remember any of the banks closing?
A:
Oh, yes.
The Watauga County Bank in which my wife and children
kept their deposit was closed, and their deposit frozen.
That
didn't affect me very much because I had continued to keep my account
in a bank in Chattanooga which, while it was frozen for a short time,
reorganized and went right on in business, and my frozen deposit was
�9.
promptly reinstated.
But there was another bank or two in tte county
that was closed and if the Northwestern Bank hadn't taken over the
assets of the Watauga County Bank, the IE would have been a worse depression
in Watauga County.
But the Northwestern Bank took over the assets
of the Watauga County Bank and some months earlier Mrs. Harris sold
her stock in the Watauga County Bank, but most of the stockholders,
in fact, I suppose all of the stockholders lost their stock, and not
only that, they had to put up an amount equal to the base value of
their stock which was $100 a share before the Northwestern Bank took
it over.
And that was a real depression.
Q:
What were the community reactions to the banks closing?
A:
Well, of course everybody that had any interest in ttee bank,
particularly the stockholders were very much concerned and some of
them very bitter at the officers of the bank.
But they had loaned
too much money to too many people that couldn't pay and therefore
there was nothing that the officers of the bank could do but accept
the closing when that was decreed by the Federal Government.
Q:
Whom do you blame for the collapse of the banks?
A:
Oh, I think the officers of the bank were too liberal in their
loaning money, therefore, had a good many notes that weren't collectable.
Don't think that there was any one individual that was particularly
responsible.
It was the policy of the bank to loan money particularly
to farmers and a number of the farmers not only couldn't pay their notes,
but some of them lost their farms and that was one of the reasons
got so bitter at the bank.
�10.
Q:
Did the schools change very much during the Depression?
A:
All the schools went on as far as the county schools are con-
cerned, teachers were paid $25, $35, or $45 a month but that was in
line with other things at that time so as well as I observed there
wasn't much let down in public school situation.
Q:
Did tfee businesses and country stores change very much?
A:
Well, some of the businesses went into bankruptcy, but not too
much change in the major businesses.
They weren't making money, but
nobody else was making money at that time so they went along with
the crowd.
Q:
What do you think caused the Depression?
A:
Well , I had an experience in connection with the Depression that
always stood out with me.
I went as the guest of a very prominent
stockbroker in New York to a dinner in Dallas.
Everybody was asking
him questions about how to get rich on the Stock Market, and he
finally got a little irritated at that attitude and g^ve them a good
lecture about trying to make money without working for it, and told them
that if that attitude kept up there was going to be a depression,
and hence I was sort of close to it.
What happened was, as he told
me later, he went back to New York and had the stocks that he held
analyzed and began to sell the stocks that they thought were dangerous,
and as they began to sell, prices began to go down.
I've always
thought that the fact of his starting to sell stocks was one of the
basic reasons why stocks began to go down.
Because if he were selling
stocks at a lower price, pretty soon everybody was looking for them at
that price.
And as a result, stocks went down, and that was the
beginning of the Great Depression.
Fact of it is, I had some stock
�11.
that I paid as much as $20 a share for that went down to $1.25 a
y*''
share.
I didn't well(mine for several years after the Depression
was over and finally sold them for $60 a share instead of the $1.25
I would have gotten for them in 1931 or '32.
And that was an
illustration of what happened in the stock market.
Q:
Who was hurt worst by the Depression?
A:
Well, the common people are always hurt worst.
Laborers/ small
investors, small businesses—they were the ones that were really hurt.
Q:
Well, what do you think was best about the Depression?
A:
What was what?
Q:
What do you think was best about the Depression days?
A:
Well, it probably brought out the stamina of the American people
and showed that by hard work, they could still live even if they
didn't live like they had been accustomed to living.
But I think
it emphasized the importance of hard work and sticking to it which
would be valuable today.
Most of our trouble?today are because
people don't want to work and a good many people don't want to put
out their best at work, whether it be in building a house or running
a business.
Q:
How is life different today from life during the Depression?
A:
Well, it's only different in the luxuries we have.
had automobiles.
Very few people
You could buy a good Ford or a Chevrolet for four
or five hundred dollars, but most people didn't have four or five
hundred dollars.
�12.
Q:
What do you like best about today's way of life?
A:
Well, I like the comfort of feeling that I have a reasonable
income, likely to have as much as I actually need as long as I live
which I hope to be at least another 10 years because I'm only 90
and I want to get to be 100.
Q: .if you could change anything about the way things are now, what
W^
!
wouj-d/jwant to change and why?
A:
I'd want to change the willingness to work more than anything
else, and I think people are happier and live longer when they're
working and that's the reason I keep working now because if you•
keep busy whatever your job may be and try to put out the best you
can you don't have so much time to worry about the aches in your
knees and your back and so forth.
There could be a different
attitude toward life and willingness
to be done.
End of Tape #39
to do anything that needs
�Tape #40
13.
Q:
I would like to ask you some questions concerning your childhood.
A:
As a kid, I was connected with a lumber compantf.
There were
seven of we boys, and we did whatever work there was done on the
farm, but I happened to be down among the younger ones and the older
ones didn't like farm work, so by the time I was 12 or 13 I was the
chief on the farm, what little farming we did and one of the big jobs
was to get my two younger brothers to do what I thought was their part
in taking care of the farm.
Father did encourage it to get through
high school and we all did.
I was the only one of the three younger
boys that finished college, but we all got through high school.
But we didn't have any of the luxuries and we worked even as kids.
I
think one of the troubles with youth today and I don;t think there are
nearly as many of them as people think, but one of the troubles
is children are given too much and are not required to make an
adequate return for it.
I think you can spoil the child by giving
him too much maybe worse than if you made it pretty hard on them.
Q:
Could you give me the name of your parents and their birthplace?
A:
My father was William J. Harris and he was born out in the county
from Abingdon, Virginia, where his father owned considerable farmland.
My mother was born just this side of Mountain City, Tennessee,
on the road about 2 miles this side of Shouns.
Their education
was limited to grade school: I don't think that either one of them
ever went to college, but they appreciated the importance of their
children in getting an education, and while they didn't have back then
in those days too much money to help them through college they did
encourage us to make our own way so I worked my way through college
and that was good for me.
Q:
How much schooling did your brothers and sisters have?
�14.
A:
All of them went to high school, what in those days was
considered high school.
My brother Kemp went to college to study
to be a minister and had the best education of any of us including me,
but he didn't go to college until after he had decided to go into
the ministry and that was when he was 25 or 30 years old.
He was like
a lot of other ministers now, young ministers, he went to college
and pastored a small church someplace, and managed to get through
college that way.
Q:
When you came to this area what sorts of churches were here?
A:
Well, over at Cove Creek where I taught school and where I lived,
there was a Methodist and a Baptist Church, Henson's Chapel and
Cove Creek Baptist Church which is still there, and so far as my
knowledge is concerned there was an Episcopal Church, a Methodist
Church, and a Baptist Church in Boone.
But I did not know too much
about them even when I was teaching school at Cove Creek.
Q:
To which church did most people in the community belong?
A:
Baptist.
Q:
What were they like at that time, and how have they changed?
A:
I don't see too much change ao far as the religious attitudes
concerned.
I think they're a little bit more liberal toward other
churches than they used to be, that's true to both Baptist and Methodist.
I think my father tried to give me the impression that all Catholics
had horns and tails and I learned that people in the Catholic Church
were just as fine as the people in some other churches so that seems
to be a drifting of not being so antagonistic toward some other and
I think that's true between the Baptist and the Methodist, all the others.
�15.
Q:
How did this community get its name?
A:
Well, as far as I know it was the legend of Daniel Boone that gave
this particular community its name.
How much Daniel Boone really ever
stopped here is still a question; he undoubtedly passed through a few
times.
Q:
How and why was it formed in
A:
I don't know the answer to that; I suppose it just sort of grew up
as most places do to start with.
the first place?
I think the Dougherty boys and the
school has had a tremendous influence on the building of the town.
They
just had vision, they didn't have much to work with back in those days
but they got a school started and kept it going.
Q:
How has the community changed over the years?
A:
Well, it has changed a lot in the comforts of the people that live
in the community, other than that I don't see too much change.
A
large proportion of the people now are making pretty good wages and
they're living them up pretty largely.
Businesses have grown, some of
them tremendously.
Q:
Who have been
the community decision makers?
A:
Well, the folks at the Northwestern Bank have been a tremendous
influence in making the community.
Alfred Adams has been chairman
of the industry committee, and from a business standpoint there is
nothing that has even approached the importance of the industry
committee of the Chamber of Commerce in building the community from
a standpoint of industry.
�16.
Q:
Have the Dougherty's been in this decision-making group?
A:
Yes/ very definitely.
One of the interesting things to me was that
back when I first came here, Dr. Blan Dougherty was very much opposed
to developing industry, but a few years later he had a very definite
change of mind and particularly in the promotion of the International
Resistance Company was very important promoter of industry.
Course
he had one love, and it was above everything else, and it was the
college which he built up from a little grade school to quite a
sizeable college and laid the foundations for a tremendous growth
that happened under Dr. Plemmons as President and is still happening
under Dr. Wey.
Q:
Could you give me any other names of really important decision
makers in the community?
A:
Well, I think Clyde Greene and Russell Hodges were of tremendous
importance, and Winklers have been important promoters, especially
Ralph and Gordon, and the three Wilcox boys-Herman, Charlie, Dempsey
have been tremendously important people in developing the community.
Q:
Would you list the Farthings and the Councills among these also?
A:
Well, Farthings and Councills held a lot of property and Grady
Farthing has been tremendously important as president of the Watauga
Savings and Loan which when I first became connected with it had assets
of very much less than $500,000.
Now I understand their assets are
listed at about 36 million; Grady Farthing has been tremendously important
in that connection.
Some of the best citizens in the county were
Farthings, but Grady stands out as the high man so far as promoting
the community is concerned.
Q:
Are there any minority groups in the community?
�17.
A:
Oh, yes.
There are minority groups, but they're much better off
than they are in cities, and we don't have much trouble with the
minority groups whether they be black, or something else.
Q:
Were some families poorer than others?
A:
Oh, sure!
That's true today.
Some families barely lived while
others were living in luxury.
Q:
Did the others look out for them to a certain extent?
A:
A little, not much.
Q:
How many people were in the community?
A:
Well, the first time I came to Boone, there must not been over
300 or 400 people living in what is now Boone.
There weren't any
paved streets or even MacAdamized streets, there were jyst mud roads
and when it rained they were really mud roads.
Q:
Has the population changed greatly?
A:
Numerically, of course, it has changed greatly.
A large number of
people now living in Boone lived in the county but a greater number of
people lived outside.
tremendous difference.
From an educated standpoint, there's a very
Back, when I first came here there was very
few that you could call educated.
Now, a large portion of the
population is at least high school educated.
A very large proportion
of the high school graduates go on to college.
Q:
Do you think that there'ivas a certain time that the population
change was greater, or was there a sudden influx of people, or was there
a gradual change over the years?
A:
Well, while there was a gradual change, there have been two or three
�18.
instances where there
was an influx, and the last five years have
probably been the worst, or the best whichever one you want to put it.-,
Q:
Concerning transportation, how did the people get around in the
community?
A:
Back then they walked, or rode a mule, some of the better ones
had a buggy, the automobiles finally came, and very few had automobiles,
but it kept picking up and picking up and automobile companies
have probably sold more new cars this year, 10 to 1 than there were
in the county in 1947 when I came back here.
Q:
Where did the roads and railroads run?
A:
Well, of course 421 was mapped out east and west of Boone, 321 and
221 were mapped out but they weren't paved or fixed up.
The road to
Blowing Rock was one of the best, but that was organized as a toll
road and they had to pay toll to go over it, and county roads were
generally poor and generally dirt.
Paving of the roads has been done
in the last 20 years, mostly.
Q:
When were the railroads built?
A:
Well, the Tweetsie Railroad built into here, I think, was built
back > in the teens, and was built primarily as a lumber road, though
they had passenger coaches.
Pact of it is, the railroad didn't come
beyond Cranberry when I was a boy and the first train I ever rode on
was Tweetsie from Elk Park all the way to Cranberry, but I remember
very well how afraid I was of it, that my brother carried me on board,
and I got down to Cranberry, and that was about 81-83 years ago.
They built on up here after the William Ritter Lumber Co. had developed
�19.
Pineola, which they called Saganaw, and pretty largely, and the
Linville River Railway came on into Boone, but both of them from
Cranberry to Boone was primarily built for lumber.
Q:
Are you very familiar with any of the mountain crafts or
customs?
A:
No, not familiar enough to talk about it.
Q:
Are you familiar with the folktales, legends, and superstitions
of this area?
A:
Well, I'm not too familiar with that.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
An account of the resource
In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965-1989
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Scanned by
Wetmore, Dana
Equipment
Hp Scanjet 8200
Scan date
2014-02-14
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Interview with Stanley Harris Sr, March 30, 1973
Description
An account of the resource
Stanley Harris Sr. was born on October 31, 1882 in Johnson County, Tennessee. He went to high school in Montezuma, North Carolina and then continued his education in Athens, Tennessee at U.S. Grant University. He wene to post graduate school at American University in Harriman, Tennessee. Mr. Harris had many different occupations throughout his life including salesman at a furniture store in Lexington, Kentucky, assistant secretary of YMCA in Frankford, Tenessee, and boardman on the National Council of Boy Scouts of America in 1917. He moved back to Watauga County in 1948, where he was part of the Watauga Centennial and secretary of Chamber of Commerce. He was a big influence on bringing industries to Boone, North Carolina.
Mr. Harris talks about the effects the Great Depression had on him while at that time he was emplyed by one of Rockafeller's orgnizations. He does explains how the banks were affected and what he believes caused the Great Depression based on his experience with the stock market. When asked about his childhood, Mr. Harris recollects his experience working, explains his family education, and describes the religious community. He then talks about Boone and describes how the minority groups of Boone are treated.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Brinkley, Bill
Harris, Stanley Sr.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
3/20/1973
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
19 pages
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
document
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
111_tape39-40_StanleyHarrisSr_1973_03_20M001
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Boone, NC
Subject
The topic of the resource
North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century
Tennessee--Social life and customs--19th century
Tennessee--Social life and customs--20th century
Kentucky--Social life and customs--20th century
Depression--1929--United States
American University
Boone
Boy Scouts of America
Great Depression
industrialization
Kentucky
Tennessee
US Grant University
ymca
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/eba170932a6b808a18f08378e9843e55.pdf
63af78b3ec77db12150419c09136b4f9
PDF Text
Text
0
0
0
n~el1'
ew
IU11hl1t ~ [p>(Q)Wel1'
!HI ftsit(Q)Il}?
1915
New River Light & Power Company was formed. A 10-foot wooden dam and power plant
constructed of native stone were located at the lower end of the Edminsten Farm on the South
Fork of the New River. The power plant produced 75 kilowatts. The company had 3
employees, served 6 customers along with Appalachian Training School. David Shearer, an
Electrical Engineer and Consultant, was hired to supervise the building of the dam, placing the
machinery, construction ofthe power lines and maintaining operations.
July 12, 1916
A flood weakened the wooden dam and destroyed all the machinery, leaving Boone without
electricity for two weeks.
1922
Mr. S. McKinley Ayers ofthe Tennessee Eastern Electric Company came to Boone to begin work
on a new power plant, and soon became the first Superintendent of NRLP.
March 23, 1923
A fire destroyed the power plant and machinery, but not the dam. Boone lost its power again.
The original structure was repaired and resumed operation on July 12, 1923. During the same
time, work began on a new plant located on the Middle Fork of the New River that would offer
a constant water flow and thus provide more consistent electric current to better serve the
growing Appalachian Training School and town of Boone.
1924
A steam plant with a generator was built on campus.
October 30, 1924
The new power plant with a 26 foot concrete dam located on the Middle Fork of the New River
began operation. The complex was located three miles outside of Boone near the Old Blowing
Rock Road at Devil's Gate. This power plant remained in operation through 1972.
'
'0
'
'
~ ~~
'
I
; ,.-
'.
0
0' I
r
~
1
00 '000 ' 0 '
v
'
~ I
'
~
~ "
I
'
v I
v
'
"
1
v
'
'
~
'
0'
0'
'
�" _
'oo
NRLP was able to switch to the campus Steam Plant as a back-up power source. Electric ranges
were introduced in Watauga County.
1926
The first steam engine (Chuse) began operating and produced 180 kilowatts. It was located on
campus and used 5 tons of coal per day to operate. Meters were placed at all outlets through
Boone.
1935
17 year old Grant Ayers came to work at NRLP and began an apprenticeship under his father.
1937
An Erieball 250 kilowatt generator and engine was installed on campus (in addition to Chuse
engine).
1938
A Skinner 260 kilowatt generator and engine was installed on campus (in addition to Erieball
and Chuse engines).
August 13, 14, 1940
A major flood strikes Boone, the worst in town's history at the time. While there was damage
to the dam and machinery, adequate electric service continued due to the operation ofthe
Erieball and Skinner engines located on campus. It took one year to repair the dam. It was
measured that 8 inches of rain fell in only 48 hours.
Fall1940
NRLP gradually started an association with Blue Ridge Electric Corporation.
1945
Erieball and Skinner engines were replaced by a 1,000 kilowatt steam turbine generator and
engine.
-0
Q _
"
�1946
Grant Ayers came back to work at NRLP from his absence during World War II. He also earned
his electrical engineering degree from the Chicago School of Engineering a few years later.
December 1954
IBM electronic clocks were installed to control the power plant machinery, replacing the plant
operator. A hydro induction generator was installed on the Appalachian State Teachers College
campus and produced a 10 percent increase in power efficiency.
1955
There was tremendous growth within Boone, the Oak Grove Substation was built, some rerouting was done and the Physical Plant was enlarged.
Fall1963
The 1,000 Kilowatt steam turbine generator was replaced by additional voltage from Blue Ridge
Electric.
1966
Nearly 3,000 customers were served by NRLP. A fire destroyed ASU's Administrative Building
which contained the administrative records for NRLP.
1967
S. McKinley Ayers retired and Grant Ayers became the Superintendent of both NRLP and the
Physical Plant.
1972
NRLP stopped generating power and started bringing in electricity exclusively from Blue Ridge
Electric Membership Corporation. Renovations were done to the campus steam plant.
1974
The boilers at the steam plant were converted to coal-oil.
1978-1981
Grant Ayers left NRLP to become Director of Utilities for Business Affairs and Head of the
Physical Plant.
�1989
Hurricane Hugo
March 12, 13 & 14, 1993
The Blizzard of 1993
1993
Relocated ASU's substation
December 25, 2009
Christmas Day Ice Storm
�New River Light & Power
General Managers
Ed Miller
Rick Presnell
Greg Taylor
2010 - present
2008-2010
2006-2008
Don Austin
Grant Ayers
McKinley Ayers
Circa 1967- 1978
Circa 1922-1967
Circa 1978- 2006
�River
Liaht and Power Co. Plaut. located I>'
BOONE. . C.
New River Light & Power Plant
July 18, 1923
MISS JENNIE COFFEY'S STOR
.
BOO
. N.
miles from
��Boone, N. C.
Altitude 3,332 ft.
Highest County Site East of the Rockies.
�Newland Hall. AppoiAchirm T rainin~ Sr.hrml.
B ONE.N .C
1923 - Hydro Plant
Middle Fork Station
�1926 Chuse Engine
Steam Plant on campus
ASU Steam Plant
L to R: Stanford Berry, LH Timmons,
Ray Estes, S. McKinley Ayers
1927 Chevrolet
�Steam Plant- Early 1930's
1931 Automobile
�Late 30's or Early 40's
L to R: McKinley Ayers,
Stanford Berry, Earnest Hartley,
Clyde Hollars, Grant Ayers
�1940 Middle Fork Flood
McKinley Ayers & Charlie Hartley
�1940
Middle Fork Flood
�1946 or47
L to R: Voyne Edmiston, Claude Miller,
Ross Hollars, John Hollars, Austin South,
Grant Ayers
Late 1940's
�,
1
-~-' ....,
•
1958 Truck
L to R: McKinley Ayers, Grant Ayers,
JB Clawson, Norm Greer, John Hollars,
Late 1950's
L to R: JB Clawson, Norm Greer, Grant
Ayers, Ross Hollars, John Hollars,
Austin South, McKinley Ayers
Len Stokes, Austin South
�Late 1950's
Grant Ayers
r-
~
Circa 1950's
�Circa 1950's
Grant Ayers & McKinley Ayers
�Circa 1950's
�Circa 1960's
New River on campus
�Circa 1960's
Voyne Edmisten, Lorn J. Harrison,
Ed Culler
�Circa 1960's
Grant Ayers on Right
Circa 1960's
L to R: Grant Ayers, Bobby Denton, Bob Brown, John Hollars, Cecil Proffitt, Austin
South, Joe Proffitt, Grayson Trivette, Norman Garland, Rodney Adams,
Bill Wellborn, Blaine Miller,?, Bobby Greene, Len Stokes, Lank Craig, David Clawson
�Circa 1966
Middle Fork Stone Power
House & Substation
�Circa 1973
Steam Plant
�Circa 1973
Steam Plant
Circa 1975
Steam Plant
�'
t
,,
•••
��1988
Lto R: Margaret Greene, Stuart Shook,
Jewel Thomas, Janice Walton, Tony Mccann,
Tony~~ Woods, Janice Jackson, Don Austin,
Vlralnia lyrd, Mike Stanley, Marlene Coffee,
L"" N~n, Charlie Smith, Sallie Swift,
�1988
Pete Wilson
..
�1988
~Baldwin
•
j
�1988
.~ ..!!"!.Adams
�1988
Lawre~,!!-!~
j
�1988 Safety Newsletter
�-
1988
Frank Butler
1988
Blaine Miller (last day -lost pant lep),
Janice Jacbon I& Lawrence Greene
1988
Joe Proffitt
�1988
�1988
Kathy Woodall (Hamby)
1988
Len Tester
1988
Lto R: Stuart Shook, Tonya Wood,
Lori Beane & Marpret Greene
�1988 Scholarship Recipie nts
L to R Front: Genia Payne, Brandy Gray, Tracy Norris,
Donny McCaulley, Scott Cameron, Christy Smith,
Diana COffey, Ja mie Goodman
l to R lack: Jerry Moretz, Jerry Dancy, Ken Shull,
Cirllc""'-..._ Greene, ~ Vannoy
�1988 Christmas Party
McKinley Ayers a Don Austin
1988 Christmas Party
Grant Ayers a Don Austin
�1988 Christmas Party
John Hollars, Austin South,
Lank Crail& Don Austin
��1988 Christmas Party
�1988 Christmas Party
�1989 Scholarship Recipients
L to R: Don Austin, Herb Geozos, Heather Roberts,
Mandy Untback, Jeffrey Cornelison, David Shockley,
�1989 Scholarship Recipients
�1989 Scholarship
Recipients Reception
�1989 Scholarship
Recipients Reception
Janice · _..
:t:"
1989
Lori Warren (...ne)
··''·
'"'"""
.. 4>·
.,
'·~
1989
J
........
��1989
�1991 Scholarship Recipients
Lto R: Don Austin, Julie Moretz, Erica Slate,
Chris Jones, Ann Griffith, Dr. John Thomas
�1991 Scholarship Recipients
L to R: Don Austin, Akram Barghothl, Matt Arnold, Joe
Greene, Jeff Wilson, Emory Malden, Meredith
WI
, Dr. John Thomas, Robert Bare
�1991
Janice Jacbon • Lwn H
�1991
Community Christmas Tree
T...,
���1991
NRLP lamplishters
,·
T
.···.
J
�1991
Marlene Coffey
�1992 Scholarship Recipients
L to R: Don Austin, Rebecca Weaver, Matt Raymond,
Stephanie Beach, David Jamison,
Melanie Morrinaton, Grec Smalllnc, Casl Norris,
Dr. Harvey Durtww
�1992
�1992
I
f
,,
~
��Oct.1992
321- 105 Intersection
•'!
Oct.1992
Andy Wood operatlnc tension
. . . . . . . . , . .,,:
'·~
;_.<f_
'
,J
Oct.1992
Terry Ward
�Oct.1992
Terry & Bob anchoring
fiber optic cable
. ...
�1992
\
\
\
\
�1992
Charlie Smith
1992
Len Tester
1992
GC Bryan
�Dec.1992
Charlie Smith's
Retirement
��Dec.1992
Charlie Smith's
Retirement
�1st Day of 1993 Blizzard
March 12, 1993
�April1993
�April1993
Wayne Winebarger &
Eric Norris
�April1993
Arrival of Switchgear
April1993
Frank Butler
April1993
Len Tester
�Tearing down old "H" stand to
replace on single pole- May 1993
Tearing down old "H" stand to
replace on single pole- May 1993
l
�May 6,1993
Tie in jacket to line.
May 6,1993
Switch lines to be tied to
Stansberry lot.
May 6,1993
Switch lines - ready to make pull for 3
phase wire to new substation.
May 6,1993
Pull being made of wire to new
Substation "3 Phase"
�May 6,1993
Pull being made from Stansberry lot
to Substation "3 Phase"
May 6,1993
Jackets being cut off so wire can be
wrapped with electrical tape until used.
May 6,1993
Wire turned into pipe until
ready for connection.
J
May 13,1993
Cone connecting to transformers.
�June 30, 1993 - Dedication of Switchgear
L toR Standing: Len Dollar, Don Austin, Andy Wood, Bob
Baldwin, Terry Ward, Joe Proffitt
Kneeling: Wayne Winebarger, Eric Norris, Bill Wellborn,
Frank Butler, Len Tester
�1993
Elaine Moody
1993
Jewel Thomas
�June 30, 1993
Dedication of Switchgear
L toR Standing: Don Austin, Len Tester, Dr.
John Thomas, Joe Proffitt,
Squatting: Wayne Winebarger, Bill
Wellborn, Erin Norris
�1993
Terry Ward
1993
Tim Carroway
�1993
Wayne& Eric
�1993
New Transformer
�1993
New Transformer
�Dec.1993
Standing from L toR: Frank Butler, Len Dollar, Pete
Wilson, Andy Wood, Joe Proffitt, Bill Wellborn, Len
Tester, Don Austin
Top Row L to R: Eric Norris, Bob Baldwin, Wayne
Winebarger, GC Bryan, Terry Ward,??
�1994
Len Tester accepts 1993 Safety Award
From Royce Lyles
�Jan 1994
Bucket Truck at corner of NRLP
..
Feb.1994
Bob Baldwin pulling wire
Through conduit.
r
�Feb.1994
Frank Butler & Eric Norris
�Feb.1994
Eric Norris
�June 1994
Underground- Bodenheimer Dr.
�June 1994
Underground- Bodenheimer Dr.
���June 1994
Underground- Bodenheimer Dr.
1994
Stuart Shook, Tonya Wood,
Margaret Greene and Lori Beane
�1994
�1994
�Circa 1995
Tonya Wood, Mike
Stanley & Lori Beane
'
Circa 1995
Circa 1995
Mike Stanley
TonyaWood
�Circa 1995
Janice Jackson
�Circa 1995
Tim Carroway
�Circa 1995
Circa 1995
wava Hodges
Bill Wellborn
Circa 1995
Bob Baldwin
�Circa 1995
Len Tester
Circa 1995
Eric Norris
�Circa 1995
Joe Profitt
Jan.1995
Seated: Elaine Moody
L to R: Tonya Wood, Sallie Swift,
Stuart Shook and Lori Beane
Len Dollar
�Jan.1995
Rick Presnell
Jan.1995
Kathy Hamby &
Wilba Brannen
\.
Jan.1995
Elaine Swieter &
Tim Carraway
�Jan. 1995
Margaret Greene
Jan.1995
Sallie Swift
Jan.1995
Sheila Gentry
�Jan.1995
GC Bryant
Jan. 1995
Wayne Reese
�1995
�July 25, 1995
Strawberry Circle
Major Storm Damage
�Nov. 30, 1995
Oak Grove Substation
Installation
�Nov. 30, 1995
Oak Grove Substation
Installation
��Nov. 30, 1995
Oak Grove Substation
Installation
��Nov. 30, 1995
Oak Grove Substation
Installation
�Dec.8,1995
Oak Grove
Substation Installation
�Dec.8,1995
Oak Grove
Substation Installation
r
�1998
Margaret Greene
1998
Kathy Hamby
�hom \eH- -\n ~6\-.-\- :
J\ \\o.V\ ~rcl) llin Ooox.- <:\~ J.R. E1l l56\')
' Vq~
�1998 Crew
L to R: Frank Butler, Pete Wilson, Eric Norris,
Wayne Winebarger, Wayne Reese, Joe Proffitt,
Terry Ward, Andy Wood, Len Tester,
Bob Baldwin, Jamie Bledsoe
�March 2000
Repainted transformers
after fire (NR Substation)
�r
2007
Admin Building
Repairs & Remodel
�·.--
~:-····
2007
Admin Building
Repairs & Remodel
Greg Taylor
�2007
Admin Building
Repairs & Remodel
�Debra Greenwell
�Teresa Isaacs &
Amy Moody
�Mike Stamey
�Robert Holder
TonyaWood&
Stuart Shook
�Diana Wilcox
�2007 NRLP Staff
L to R in Back: Debra Barr, Len Dollar, David Walls, Alan Byrd,
Len Tester, Pete Wilson, Wayne Winebarger, Terry Hale, Dan
Cook, Jamie Pennington, Jason Herman, Lori Beane, Eric Norris,
Amy Moody, Mike Stamey, Stuart Shook, Mike Combs, Debra
Greenwell, Diana Wilcox, Marlene Coffee, Robert Holder
L toR Seated in Front: Teresa Isaacs, Tonya Wood, Joey Bledsoe,
Philip Hiatt, Scott Eggers, Frank Butler, Greg Taylor
��March 2009
�October 2009
�Christmas Day Ice Storm
December 25, 2009
�Ice Storm Clean Up & Repairs- Dec. 2009
�Ice Storm Clean Up & Repairs- Dec. 2009
�April2010
�New Generator - 2010
From L to R: Scott Eggers, Alan Byrd, Bo Henson, Len Dollar, Terry Hale,
Joey Bledsoe, Frank Butler, Wayne Winebarger, Dan Cook & Jason Herman.
�Wayne Winebarger's
Retirement -July 2010
Standing L to R: Bo Henson, Jason Herman, Len Dollar, Dan Cook, Terry Hale,
Jeremy Walsh, Jamie Pennington, Joey Bledsoe, Ed Miller, Rick Presnell.
Seated L to R: Scott Eggers, Philip Hiatt, Eric Norris, Wayne Winebarger,
Frank Butler, Alan Byrd.
�Rick Presnell's Little Burger Redemption!
Fond Farewells from Frank Butler & Greg Lovins
�Scholars Reception
August 2011
NRLP Nissan Leaf
July 2012
��NCAMES Lineman's Rodeo
May 16-17,2012
Joey Bledsoe
Scott Eggers
�Ed Miller as the MC and Diana Wilcox
preparing to sing the National Anthem.
�Jeremy Walsh competing in the Conductor Tie-ln .
�Terry Hale competing in the Conductor Tie-ln.
�ASU & NRLP Support Team
Jeremy Walsh in the Hurt Man Rescue.
�Terry Hale in the Hurt Man Rescue.
�Terry Hale in the Hurt Man Rescue.
Terry Hale in the Underground Elbow Installation competition.
�December 2012 - NRLP St aff
L to R on truck: Philip Hiatt, Travel Wilson, Bo Henson, Jason Herman, Joey Bledsoe, Terry Hale,
Dan Cook, Jamie Pennington, Scott Eggers & Alan Byrd (seated).
L to R on ground: Ed Miller, Stuart Shook Mike Combs, Robert Holder, Mike Stamey, Heather
Davis, Rachel Safrit, Tonya Golds, Torrey Tye, Lori Beane, Len Dollar, Jeremy Walsh, Sorina
Mcinturff, Eric Norris, Frank Butler, Diana Wilcox, Joe Piazza, Teresa Isaacs & Elaine Moody.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
New River Light and Power Scrapbook
Description
An account of the resource
The Dougherty brothers established the New River Light & Power Company in 1915 to provide hydroelectric power to Appalachian Training School and the local community. The original 10-foot wooden dam and power plant constructed of native stone were located at the lower end of the Edminsten Farm on the South Fork of the New River. NRLP still serves the Boone area today. This scrapbook documents NRLPs evolution and nearly 100 years serving Watauga County and the Boone community.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
145 pages
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
New River Light & Power History Scrapbook
Subject
The topic of the resource
New River Light and Power (Boone, N.C.)
Hydroelectric power plants--North Carolina
Description
An account of the resource
This scrapbook documents the history of New River Light & Power (NRLP) through historical documents and photos.
Blanford Barnard and Dauphin Disco Dougherty established the New River Light and Power Company in 1915 to provide hydroelectric power to Appalachian Training School and the local community. On March 23, 1923, a fire destroyed the power plant and machinery. The structure was repaired and resumed operation on July 12, 1923. On October 30, 1924 a new power plant with a 26 foot concrete dam located on the Middle Fork of the New River began operation. The complex was located three miles outside of Boone near the Old Blowing Rock Road at Devil's Gate. This power plant remained in operation through 1972. In 1972, NRLP stopped generating power and started bringing in electricity exclusively from Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
New River Light & Power
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915-2012
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
All rights are retained by New River Light & Power.
Language
A language of the resource
English
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
NewRiver_A
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Boone, N.C.
Appalachian Training School
Blanford Barnard
Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation
Boone
dam
Dauphin Disco Dougherty
Hydroelectric power plants
New River
New River Power & Light
North Carolina
scrapbook
Watauga County N.C.
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/8eafc2a469b218b7b4642d8144e6b6f3.pdf
5d358774997ce043f1dbc9c8b94adb78
PDF Text
Text
•
lPiliP
i liil
™ffim
�,4
ii\i,i/
i'i> .
. / fa 6.
.4 t
-,^ -i < «-^ /J > • i r,
/y . ,yfr A '/ ./<
/•-//> »•-
"'/ :
'/-
P.
H-^'J
^
/
^
/
i.
_.
fi
f t l t t
/ .
r 4
—
.
/ .r
,/
/ ,* 2 ^-<
~/&
» > <•
(i
-^ w ^ •>- »
> V
7
rn.-z*-<
'-
<> v7
/,
-/
(?Lc^ /- t-o^-1—7^
*—-V-V--1
A
6.
} LTsin t*-'
f-llV.
C.
f } i i 3- A-c /t
/v', }l v-WL. J
&~-'J'-'tt'\,4--l^-Z-'{^-~3
,
/ rlSY.
/• A- f»- - r-rt.^
C- f
-i^?y
f-.
P—-
^O •
^y'
a
i'^ fr-'l-Z'-
^.X—
{.<-
/'.
0
�-^ ^
-
<?
v
J$ 1"? -Q
1.J
* / ^^ «
— '0 £ l~r~^l
r
-r _/
fr
0s*
^r^ /
/,x» ?
'
I* *
• ' '
s-st^i-<3
•
'J
l-a^
>-r\T0
>& ^Cn^ft
4"*
-y-
*?*< t / -r-r-i• /
t
Av
/)
Q'f
&
4
0
> 'T°/ >///:
V
» ?/
'
c
-z-f;
Y
-f
-/* n-
'• ^^7 f
*
•^kf'i ~*''~TTff
„ f
�C/-7
/ -
[Al tf-A-
z-z<-«-«-^-^l^-
,^t--t
/
pt
^tUV
.
T--iS
(,m& .
i--w
-n4*
./*—
tsi-f^-*'-
.
t- n-e,
I tJ^tf- -*—•
&z*-*i£ ^
tf^/f-y
*ji-**^~_
I
—-*• i^i
s(^-f
I
>-L^1
(f
A"
T..TSV
g^r
't& ,
<- :
(
C.
*. t.
//,
/
..
M.
. J_
-
1S
t-rr'-*
/-i*~ -f*
Ci.
>-i-&.
IP
l. 7,-
S^
rl^
�.J
^>
^
^
f
X
?
f* J
;'
\
v
*.
N
V
^>
<^
rK.
\ s^
<b-
f
;
V ?*
ft
\
\
t
f
?>
\
«
v
^
^
N>
$
k
K
•*!
\
o
I*
1
>
I
c
R
-
k
F '
^
^
\
>s
y
v\1
*
>, ^ s . 4
F
^>
*
^ It
K
{
^
;
'•
"
sr
;k
1
?
^
?
w
x.
v*
t
xt
N
f
^> "
1 V
t'
r
V
N
^
e.
*.
r*
^
V
i >
»* V 1
f J
^
I •?
h
r (
^ i
v.
I 5
k
k
r
* 4
r
^
v
s
\
.
I
v:
» »
t
V I
<?
K
r>
>[ i
t
^
1
T Nf-
r
^ 5t '
^ t*.
«s
>^
?
i '
v
V
t
A •
\
i
T
e
v
:. >
V
r
>-
1
4^ ?'
V
:s
? 5
/
�)
V- K
^
^
\1
fa
H
1
\k-
,?
s&
3?
I
H
V-
t
*i .
-i
t
"\
4
j
'
* '>
» \. 1
x
\o
^
^
jr
»b
N
N
<
I
^
^
K
>
n
la
t ••;>
4
>
^
r
r-
^ ^
v M.
1
f\
^
g
s
*
V
^
.
r
A
-
^
\
sr
A
N\
>
V
L
i
t
^^
I
.
^ ^
i
\
•y
^
^
it
C
'}
Vl "
v1*
^
^
1-
,
^- r
' JV
? ¥ J> ^ 4^
v >
i
r\
I 5"
^v
^
V^
^
V
k
.s
J- '
\
'
V
t
^
I
K
^
A.
V
^
1
!
V
Xj
V
NL
PI
l-f
r
i
f
N
Ni
\
<p
�le
1C
^
V
^>
A
•
5.
4
*v
A
i
^
\
- >ij
V
i
'1- j.
4
. V
' V
S <?
\
^
f ^
^
>
^
^
* rI
* r
? v
f-.
I- V
?.
f
^
^
I"
.p
1,
H
V
i,
V
*'
No
^r
V
I
^,
?
3
i1
>«
\-
^
f
•V E
V
Q'-
, -r
h v
3
5
i "
\
iV,
w
t^
N,
&
'i
.^^\. ^N.
r
VK
^ ^
\
'\
\
4
V
>J
i
f-
.
\
r
4
f
i
T\
�V
-
k
V
I
~
a
;- >
L
¥
v
^ •-.
r
I 3^
r
V.
'
'S
-
sh
^ V
K
\
v
?
MV
^,
]
\
S-'
r
r-.
t
\
\ ^
v.
>{i'
V
N
•\x
V
v.
\
i,
1^4-
i
1
f
N
^
^
-^ 1
^
V
\
-4
fc
^
^^
F ^
T
4
s v
r K1
f
I ^^
V
^.
-
M
^
v
v
if
£
r f l
-
�T_-£ M/" -. -1 • . - ' • * ' ."• f'
—>'
^i -u^->-t- x ~
. '; .- i^rS ,
•'/ <-••
£*--->
/
���r.•••(
J-
'"?*&2f
7
/'
/
//
fr
*^f
7
*
^
i
£*~^£
/i
ff^O'i^
^stJ-v-tAs—y-i^~~*S
&^_^/ ^^-TT^-^^
^i**v"t,fi^
/-Z^z«^l
^—^w'
^t^fl—
^
'/VV-'l
UX* ^ ,
^-<^'
7>C^ / 7 / ,
^
<&lsl*
�-r <&,
/
t
Ji
£~&/t
/,-
/<-
iJ^lA^cJt^
.
-^X^^/- S&SIs
-/C-Z
sf~
1 f-J
J
7~.
�12
-^r—tJ
^^CI^^AJ^—
z.X
t i\
V / <#
#
'(V'/irV. Q-'lj _
at-'
/
' ' >'
^-fc-t—cA
„
& i*-~v~ts
i-*L
'*&--i^ ,T{X--
^t/T/. /*;—
l^£
^3--i t-^X .
tL/
f^
tv-S-tt - C^-y
f^^—~^!^ei/s'
f
s//
I
£^-.
£-
^
1-— ^ .
(T
^ff
L^C/C ^L--t)
__
L '^L^f~
S--tA--7-»-t<^-
- ' •'
W*~V~~V—1<A-'
.*^~1sy~is£.- -0-^l~s\A/\st,'1s/{ ^<
—
'V
C-*
--»L-*
1-ftio -
J
ji
^•-
-^
�/
0
i^—,
cxx
f-
->^—-a
f
>i n C i
'
CO
-^Lv-r>~-
f
7
-V-7-—>••£--£--
^-*£-
/^L£~~t->—c^tL-
_ ^
/(J
_-~ft^C4-~~t~r—^;./^
/
.J~—
-pf-v—?-~""~
_,*CXZ-£_-rf«-£-^
--/^ i
^itW^^-z-z^Vc?
—7-7 £>—i^^^L^-
7^-
i^y ^^
£^^^tJ:
v-gC/-*^--*-.
�•4
-
r
V
(i
\^
^~
\
^
1
|
\
\
t
V
\x
i
f
^
i
\
V)
N
X
^"
X
^
X
$
X
N
^
V1
k
r\
^
•r
vl
^
<$
-1
>>
A
• s»
o
\
>1
X?
<^t
^*
J
M
4
1
V
V
^
-
j
^
Nl
±: >
\
^
^ i
fc
~\
y
i
\\\ ^*
*
vV
^\.
\
N
%!
ji
X
\
i
^
"X
1
\
^
^
w
4
i*
i
v
•4
j
.S
.
N
J
S
^
*,;
i
i;
xi=
^v
,t
.
>
:
•K
f'
f
-ri;
^
1
:
••V
i
^
^
-1
r*
.»
\
i
^
^-
N
^
4
.i
K
1
\
•
'' <
K
'X
1
N
�>v
£
<H
>
lO
i
*>
\
VA
V
v.
v
r
r<
^-' "£"
1 —
(
•«
v
X
V -
, ^
tx
^
I '
>
.
K
^
^
*T*
^<
V
V
*.
!j
V<
>J
^
V '
\ '
r*
W
^
it.
X
r
1
'b'
4
* SI
<t
>.
^
*
\N V C
i
s)
\.
J
v>
X
S
^
^
.S>,
\
\
•
f
f;
"Hk
"
^
,
L^
I
r
V
^
:-t
>
K,
.1
^
>
V
^>
1
i
vl
^^
v~l
'5\
r*
f
^
" t
^ )
*•*
fe
>"
^
^
x
X
^ ;^
^ x1
Vi
!•
^
j
^
>
X
6
*
t
r,
^
f
J
5
X
•s ^
>*.
f ^ 1 ,^f ,
r
^
X^
>i- vN ^ • vN
i
* *» ' <-> "^
r-i
<?»~ . i•! ^ • to
^
c.
Cx
^
f
^ -
X
^
r
^
t-
5
"**
\i,
v
,
V
^ -*>
x
>)
\l
\
x,
"
^
^
^- A; ' x\* ^
v
^ ^ '^ ^-
^
"
>
v".
V
S
w
\
>
^
'
S.- K V^
\
^
:F
i
-
J
^
^
\
J
:]
:l
-
^
•<
'
4"
J
.
' T
te
1^ fc
t V
^
]
'r
'*
I
^
1^
r
i?
, "
\ -
^
k :
^
N
!
^
rs
^
^
f
,(\
:X
^
-N
\t
.„,
f^
r
- &*
vj
t
X
\
i^
r
.:0
•^
r^v
K^
4
5
C '
T
si
X-
f
>
f
^
i
r
n>
N
J
^'
V
^
V
v
^>
^
r
-
5
V
^
C
r
^"
i
v\I \ V\
v^
rt . • >' '
b
^
K ^
^i r
i >-
^ !i i
t v
V
r i
h ^
I
v»
V
*f '
^
;^
\
X
V
k
<*t
�I *- '•
C-,
I
'
( I
/ 1 ->->•
'
f^-^r
) 2 "- '
2 "3,
K
/' P-zyt^i- j
'!/ ' *
.< -t. / ^ ^ x > <
f-
/'-
£—ZX-
ft,/
2<-*LZf
/
/
X?.
z/
'•'
.
6 * /*
*-&- s i.*
^ a
"
•
et/
<ff
0
/
/"
^ tc
^'
/ ^
A—^d-^-r-'
? 2. /
/
j
•l^^!
. Ji 1^-11
'
j
\
" ^ ' . S?^ ^
22.
.. i-c<u r
S:&-ZZ> rr^-*~l*~cS
,- t*,j^eS
/
.
~". _^_
/
-* 5^ .
t
<^ '
�3M...-^ (<•
A > i - , '.-
ir.,; .
0
- /' A
^
C- LL-
J
&
^
:=£dit»5
Z,
t^ifi-
I S
f
l t»~*f
K^i,,
^ I
J
/ - "• ^
^ it n T^-<~ ti
J
-Z>^-r-**
— J~l &•
- L£ f
£yL~i.-is-. *3~,
/i
CA^~Z\, 1^1 ,
^T
'i u. L A <£^
-f"
- 'C »-
**—,
^" ,
Ji, -Li~-&-,
J
• <
-1-O,
>
/r^/K
C-^i
—™y
t/ .
A;
a- i
Oj^~-tT7.
Jir
S £
^ <
L
tf>-
JL
X / '/
/- / / c
>y
7
'
//L>
. c in
-i >-». ^
X?
/f
(.1 f i t /
/? zv-o
- K c-t 7, t^
/> /•
�' i5rf>7TX^-^-'^ ^
__*
•-r/ '
,/T-~~?
f
«
'
%><*-<- 4-1 i.
tsp~"
lp
~-~*
/>
,
r •*
7
-3=* r/ /:
; 7
—
IT
~>t
7X r:
y -3^7^ ^t t /
^
z
<
'^j^-rV
hff--nsf
' W-z ij} j ri f •
/
^fcvrvt^
-vy/ i7
tr
~l
r ^
�/X
-L —
C
J
-
/ /' i •'
" ^-*•
j
~>* Zf- J
j j ,<
J /2 -
\
,
-(>'
ac
-,
/;
/ ~"
J
>»
;
/T
i
,
/^--2«-/<—<L. '
I
&^^i^2^—~
a
St. {&">«
//..I- ^
J- £ *-
557
'i_x_
. (, t^e. >-> T »>.*;/
^ j7u-~-
v-u
,
/TL-f
> j-
r
-^
I tA
til-
'
>^- & /^^~ .,
A
^W^erZ2I
//
D
t
^
-
J
-j, -yl
,
- ^
L-
.
/7-
''
, / i£
7 > £.
/' - t • , '
'
. 1 -^ ^
A
^* ^
yy /
-» ^--7. ,
��J- C-
~f-— c <L-K-~
/
f~t^—*l-t ' > '—t—T
~t^~L
-^3-
~*~r-*~^£*^~1.—•
^ ^
i
J?2 ?<-
M^
_ -??&-.
^
~-&*
T, /'
--'
:
0 v-trll
C ^-V -i, ^-£L
,
V ^A
^-'/Z/
t
U-
^^^-^^
't-J,2- -
.
-•
'•
e<<'Z*-,
.
fX
^
A
/- / '
c>
/^L-C.-e-
-
<"- •/,'
^
S-
�J-m: £*,
i
/
fr't, C-^'t- £—-
i
i
"7
A
t/U-f
J
^
TuL
-As^+lf-^-fls'
C>~ Is- [^
n
1
C'i^J
C VL
lt^-f
,
9
-••&-<. ,
r^ta
•-•J -<L > , 2
fc
V^ C^C
£—£.*- -y
/l^ex_
t. ^ . *
iif
~
7^X
/^ A.
«^£
1
�' >
y-
_
r
<^2
~T}J V %/ /*
' ^^l-^f'T^&^rt •'
y? -Z
'<.
-Z'-^'
/—>_-z -t
' -i;
/
^T"
V
-/ ^
L
•&r&~*J*7/J
'•
-7 -t
%7
\S
•
^T7
' ' ^ 5 r/
•
/ /
' 0
�_/
"' ~ '
y-1-?-"7
.-^^
•V,- *~^-^ j - ^f
-_
v. .^-^7
s
^7
717
'2?^:^'"
/
, ^^-
~^£/
_^
-y/
A' "^' ^
/
*"
i
^, ?,~ • __^ .^..
•y-.
<f
'-^n--
-^y-
'"'"7'"
:)
TV
--T-
/
V,^^
I
-^r^t^/
-</
r
y*—<~T7
--i
t"
'if^^^L
i-a^Si
-f^L~O/?
~i***7
v
(
'r^**^lT'-
<f
7
-^^e^il JT
\^r
l "" /
^^T~
/
L.
31^ ^
~y7-*rzt
/
d
p'-ij f
/""'•
2 'TJ
t*~'*~z:{'/t " X7 /
-*T-Tt7
-/".
IV VZ- -V?,
?T
'd
-V?
"yi-tS^Z^<
y
'
' -Z, 7s
- /?
7?
t-1 T 7
__ ^ "
{
i-xt
V?-
�*
1 ' \ °" ^
^>
1 4 1 * -*
XJ
^
>
J
4
i
^
.
•< A- '
4
^
<xJ
j
^-V
1 *
^
^
5 |
>)
it
-^\
Q
,
V x ^'
i
i
>i
^
i^
^»
^
V
!
4 U v - ;1 i
*
v>
\
4
A
^
^
r<
r-
<^
^
^
^
\^J
1
>
V
1"
v
Vi
X).
I
^
k
I
"
i
14
rJ
\
t
^ ^
^
\
\
^
Si
^4
\
i
M
>
^
\
L^
i
4
4
K,
^v
s ! V
-L ^ ^ % - " ^
i 1 mf N ^ X
f 4
^ ' < ^ i
<k
T
\x
\ \\{ v
r
x
^
^
•
S
-M,..<
•
r^
V '
' i1
< i
:
i^ S «V , t
Vo "V 'H
'*
*
^
^
^
. -
i ^
t ;•
X. "V
<4^ i
^\ ^ 1
4
v
^ 1
""s,
V
^
r ^ <?
\A
x\s
^
^
t-o
^
- r^
W. **
^
X V A J
F
1^ \ ' • \ ^
vi
' TV
i
i
H I[
^
-ft
^
•
A
o ' ; •'\
4 '• rx. "*^
^>
* : ^ *i
\
< •.
\
"
A>
4
^<L
^
•V
t
^
^
"\
^
\1 ;•
^ ' 1
L
^\\ \
J
^ i 4 - 1 < '^
' i ^ > j •(. ,
s X } V *
'
J
^
^
<»
'
\
xi
^
\t
^Vx
V*
l| t ^t ^
4\
o
A'
*\
^^
^
:i
! ^^ H :
iA ^ ••
'i
^ •-\-
V
M
1
S*
0
^
- • V^ ^
^;^ s
\
^
>
\f
*»i
i
I
c-Ov
•*•
1
^i
^
0
^ r^ I v
', Se - '"^
f\ i^ ^\^
t
R
i^
^
s
1
n
'{
^
S
\
4
4
t
^s
>
t».
U
^'
f
1N
\
I
i
X4
J
^
1 vS
^
-s -
. <••
^S i ^
^
^
9:
�7'
X"*?
-7-»-v^- • crrf'ts-
-XL -f
7 -/I
M
_
* T < ,-
a*u
�x2-T^
-™*
A^ff
\-**ir~3?v
u
—vOxK-V_/y?
' ~jz—«~^2—^M-^V'^
/
-n--f> -
' s~rO
*t*
' i{{ 'I
.^
&~i* t-^^-a 2,-d--
'->'L/.
/
72
-^ y^^
�^- - f i
/*?,• ^^^-^-f,
�ZK--7--
s
l~*—>^
••
X
/£*-£—Z^P
->•
e.*—*
c
-^
x2- z>-
^
^ x
-^i^-x^c?
/
/-^,
/'/
A Vl
^^-7-7^-rrv-uxtc^'
^fc>i-*"~ ^-^2-oo
/<~t*^i a&£<\
.
YYMw
V, —
I
{. ,
^--^X—B«-y
�.?
(7
It*,-
7 >z-
^-*->~4r-1 v—i.
A/
7?
L*s^-
-
^
, •^i~~tS-
-^-^/
/L^-iArfi-c^s 7^
A /^~
£-ZVV
-/~^rv"
^V«—
%
/—
A,
�*—*I4,
{/cAt-
A ^-^-ue^^-T-^
y
--o*
s* -
*--,
'
/?
0-x ->^>~*' ?
,
I
o—y
a
9",
-st,_ ^/
J"-
1
7
a
W
'
[h^z^-^-i
*" ^^ —*z"
$±v^k*^/.
J--
ch^i
•
• •
X-^.
-^i-2>-ti—^Z-e—e^T
«v
-tS-
L
^d^-fi—i^-i
^s$~=>
�' cv^-z^/KT-sf-^-^-i*-^-^
o^i—-p^T^^
fo
-t—<1—J"
—*^i-r-z£r*-7
-VTxfVv-TX?
'^Wt'i^a^if'
v^ -- ^-><7
f*tt%s*
^^.^t^-i^fz-in
�~jr
-20.—
3^~f&£*^<^£
,~
'•'&-Z
&&-~t>t*T^
0£tt—*~V*^—
^T
2. 2-, —
!
*
if, —
M>-»>- #
trf/^o**
^>—^
~^z-v^->~^
t+^^ZZi,
£J~t*^4^-
tV-C-
^~*T^y
X
&—~£-£j2^
--^-^
#,-
�fi^t^f-
&vty
^<2~^^tf^y^t^i^
J£
iu*^u^<- 3 &
**^—"**
—^-r^-O
�fi^t—"V—rA
I
,
tt*^~*-—t_j>--zy
^
A-«-v^»-w
0i-fL^*
,
�TTf^^d
-/^y^^r^ ->&
�7M-
-¥t-*V—r^< -
Q^t-tA?' c2 5?,
/
^•^e^-Z*-552->»zX/
,
^-C-V^IA
_
I/ l^-l---t^. -£/>
^t**'
^i^-^l^-^^-i-^-^a
&/ ^^et—r^-ls^?
^p^U-y''
,'S>tfn*-*~
1
<^6 ~>+~£~-y?^-}^-3^e2f
t
�Li
-^C/
-4'
3^^
f
/
^/!t. z>C
•fyy
f^~
If
L*
S
^ j^
f
-J?—^^. - ''&—• "~}lfl*1'*
J
/-
J'
/,
*^0
,
/
f
/;
/,
A/^
1
.
z^-t/
J:
/»
>
-Z^C-
/
>- r
*
^
^z_-^ z^z.
si&- **- J-^~
^>
ii
. (?,
?{
^?^-1 V~ tlA-ts .
-
14
/> / '•
ff
i4«>
t-t t^f^ A / r-r&y0
/;
A"
Tsi^£t //
'iZl-Ct- ~i^i--f.'l <ex-t^
/
It
± 3
y>> ,
i i{
. fz'c. £t*-i. >->-*-*£"
£ ~r <%, p*. vi--*',?,
UL
^7
/a
•&- ,
£i
/' sue—
,A ^ -5=32
*. .-
/^
£
4t^^4/"'
-fh.
t-Tf-
/
•/
/At-
n*-
V^
>^
/V -y^^^—
p. /~
yjkj- ot.tJt, t+r
' Clu^a. (ft^
ff
/".
if. v ^/<
} *-i #- Z-T^-
lA^o^Ji-e-J^
/jh?~->^.
,£~
�/ t\
r*--D—ts
t*- '«- *-i_--
t 1 1 f 1. fJUt-
IAJ~~S\JL^I,
*T
:/
• /, ^
fa
<~j£>L~D~f
l^S~
�' l/
y
. /
^W^7
. /^
"J^1~&7'J7~
-Lli
^ ,r
• /;
7J^
•Lp
./
' IK-iE-*-^^^? T^'7
'
*t - y
^^ '
SI*.-*?
T-i£l,-0 (ft
--«•
~-£ fc •
y/.-a.-it~—/
' -v^z--z^f.-az--j, ^ C'^2— n-^~
^^
r^T--"
r7^ -V
i
t^. t--,^
vf'-z
-,s> n^
jJ
~f
t^y
^--
&z
�/
(•4., >-->-> n*t/f'
1
,*^v^i^Lti~
Jr.
'£. </^*i
Isl/. -4, i.i*'T
3- "*" ?'*^x/
r
&
^
&
V
at
^
tfidte&ttz^&L, •
JU
z>—
& .
<T
_
,
U^V*
tt^SL^
.
^e±±2^3L '
\_AdAsO. 3 Oj—
/
^Cf-
L^V't-*- w fin*-
7 A
-t-^
f^v"
21 -tf-i^-i^i^
A^r
-^/
fz
~&^ri^
7
�</
r-
cWi^A
S
A ^tt^rt,
} -* 1 & &t^
Jilt*. JLr, ^sJioJ^ )r^t
-t - o ,
,
V lA'-ts
A-C7
Z
'I* *• it-
'
-—
�a
f
^&"
o^-t
22^
^
-^Z'^-^-*»-">^l^
^^^i-^4t*S ' *
/
. y ' /:
^n^tw? /
3-
^
/•
T2-1^
T /iA-/xV'^*/<-'c -^-
.
f-yLs
VTS*~
60- lr
^
/£ z^z-
&* j/l
�/*~-z»-.
y
. -(A/_ _
lfl
•* +? ff
-A^t^ri^ff— O^T/".
.
-&T.
^SL-tj^t^t^e^f'f
'
*y-??i
~—L^t^&C^o
: 77,- //
s^jtS^~f
X
ff
/
-sQ^tJisf^ \2 J, .
^^ry^x-WT^r^
/•/- --T*--1—
-^v
�frr.
t
tt-
Let:
''**~
• .* t^L^
^«^
&/
V
u-
*~-^T
C t *
.^ A^* *~
L i*
'
*
//
�. f i 2 ** ^ /- "
10
& T+-L. A 7
/*-&
J- •*
t
.. &tL+^Jb-
�e
!
* zt-
/—-
•*/
*y
6* t
^/
•& <
>z *-z»- ^x
j£ &tf~
jf'I
<m~*
?
y
i i if-7~
t\. -L* t.
fr*e-<i»«je--<a .
/O
J
»
J
-f A
a
}•
/*-••/"
*^ *t ,
/
7/7 ^ A
/l-ffrl,
x-
-TT.
�IA-?U£ »
l-
.
}-?*
T! ,
f£
3,
/i-r — rt i
y?
i #
4
--;
*--
7^
/>iy
,
*
ff
>. »
t'
t i ZC. 2 O
t S2
•
- £.t/"
h pi
**• * '
-V ^V
^
-^ .
fS
. 2.. _
J 'TU.
tT-
Ji
./ J .
/,
J.
t s^T,
4
lt
t±
&.&
t*-r 7??
^
�frt
^ is-
*=>-- / x
-rZ <?/ > *
kMjst,
i«H
~lv—t
>*
.**-'
/tf-
*/*<?
0-ZS
�r
-ft
,K 7
fc
/-*?-
^S-a-sj. -y
' —>
.M
'*-*'**? ~7
_^-^?
^^^^
-TT-4 /
< * tW
—yf^?^5^
*
14-
x^^I
•*
J)
'
-X
^-»iZ
:
r
y
yjv
-*y
L
i r
r
-«2 * "7
i <-
�t.2.
A
JL *IL-^
�*~*-
r—Z*t
<C—#,-47
/
7*77*^77*7
<r
t-t-t
i n-f^tfr Jf. -y*
Y^^li
•».
'r^-op
\ o
�I o (,
/^-z>^/^ &£i^n
K> J^
f 4f
�C*&*-i „
_-«£•-/**-*x£<w--<: •*-
?^2-
X/
-"7
#*»
>-^r •
—^-—y—z->—^i-c? ,
. ra^a
ir?
~ST^~
/7
->
.
"^
/^f-
,</
.A/
y
•>^x-.
*&t!
�/'J
tA- *i-^
f / ,
^
fe~e-d^
&/o~
z/
^gr
J"""
tJ]~
7*-
/ '-i
*— 2" AT
;
e^Z.
/
i-^esi^f ^*J
-
;
4-«fc=
/-
/
WfrSL^rb^L^
/- ^- ^T
^~~
/
&^r^-
v
y.
iJ
7
/
-'
o/ £ f
A. ^
•
/ />,
/^"^
sT~
rasC
*-*-f
^
77,2^-
<?-</--
s>-
._. /^—
^ .^
zr
-rtt**^;/,
^
�/1
•isis&sf
~
h
L-
-a- "--yt-t-T— /j/l
-'<?£•
&
-ist-y-zS
c*r?t2''Z'*-^—>'~l^-.,
/ ^^t^Z-*^-'
'
/
<^
r//
'
^z^t^f-^"
«>-^-e,^t
�MM-
£
A
7 -fi-
<
J
ill
11-
J~ J'-
1
2 I-' °
J~
^dfi J
_f^j.t^i^ -r
V
<&&
&^tf-&—cM— /Z^^Xz-*
tr
fr ^t-2^
*&
^
�Y^T-
T7
"1?
-—1-vZ—1, ~L -«-
T^/,
/'
/.
^< -*]•
r
X^7 / '
'
•^.^
^ / / <-•
7
/
7z-^^-
^z *
-/"
f
/-Z- 71 > -*?~1f/
jl>
**->v Ti^r V
^"'
-ri
& i* t
>^7^r^/y /
"? /*~
II
t t
-f
�O
S
<N
/
^
. ,^ ii A
>
•
M iU V• ^M
y
¥
f
xW
\
v
^>
*-
^
V.
?i
t
,V
|^'
�r-^3^--•&—>?—1^2-
IT
•1 <•-
<r
j£"-~i-
-!-*-£-
•
-
rf^Y
J-J
'1^0
M
y-''
V
'
<? 1
{ J
•^f^f-f-
7^ '4 'z ~r^
vr^
-sy%^-y?
'^vt^.^
X
*
/-t
v
y*^^
^~r-^S\-jl—i
-A '-*•?-->«•»/
<yr
^-y,- /
- 'y •
V
�/ 2 5
I 3. 2^-L^ir^r-*-
;i J
"
/ 5^"l_
t fz-'
P~T-J
, /
/-* ^i A 7
j ^K / 7
/7- '
t-r
'f-0
l/t-s- M .
^ *~^
I^*--^IY
JA-^—-
-»7
a
£--£L*-*t i -ivt-^exc /
&
f-^L^-
v- T--Z-^l^t^l^
S^Z, ^i^ -( -i*--y
f
�— >//
-r*?"
>
r
'"?7^
-*s^
~f
^ut^-
'~IS -f
y^-^t?
^Z .<-
V
/
• A vixj,.-,z t
AV-T--
y
f-
"
>r»-
/S - -
-ffy
'.f..*.^^-/^-/
i
c^'i-if
ri
-ri*
«.-r l r
7~-
7
ty
A-^T^t-
_ - .
r^ >
1 tt t
^y
--^
«/
^~-~
_/^» ->->?•/
"
ft
/?
^r
-•
b*-*^L- ^-v-J
<7
vrj
'
�73-
,f
J
w
•ll<* gy
<=*,
r
(-- -»<»•
�'
'
' /
l*
-r?
L t
.Z
?Y
v
^-T^i^i^t
-~r~^l
~r^r^l'
'?!T r^r
CT^T£
�/1 o
>**
^
zs-£—%
2
£ S-ll/
/Txu^Jy
/V
Z^"t"
^titrZ^
*—
/#
,-&-*-
<
T T, -
y/z -s&y*_
^^^ t l
^ ^A
<-^(s-~
2s
£ ^
/ZJ
X^A<
I
jJi
"7- "? ^ <T> ^'
/*?
/
- /'"P-T^Z^I-^-
// * <^
*y*.
^
^/-
7 / -7
ttf
^
0
_
T-~*Z
-J_S>
L /)
A-
<t+-
J-
. &.
^ x __
ji^?_^j.L
�1 3
*
-vn^-'l*—<- 7- /^—t *• r
7
feu
/ ? !<-,
/
^L-
W
^^y
-4l
C£-
-V-* L. t?
S
(/I—
// ,
f t
/"
£^+~^
pfl
I ^-
,
f
/
> Z-^-t>2-^-
Jl^-i^ i >
/)
<5/^*^^ ,
/}
f
^ / L^y,-^^^^.
*3--t^1- ? >r? y- 7 T^
I 1^-?s^o
&L ft-
^I-L^
>->i-«':*-^-!Z^
#, f2/f~
S
Zti-l^
^^
t /~
(/
&J-
,^-^^fi^^^t
<2-~
^1s-z^~<3
/^" i-
^-^- ZK--
^
> Z-^-S
^
/A/
<a
>-
/
J?
Zx- -t-
X'
y
-&~^t.
^^ 2
& 7
t*'
j*
�3 i-
y/7 ^
.2-
U-
''/C-C-t ."z,-l^-
J
7
-l^is— i^^>
""7"Z.-- ^y^2
7 «
1
-
tfit-
eL^7>/
r
s;
/ A'^
-TL~
-iC-Tjl
X>
ri
e
"7 7-z.
^/w
•lA^L^-^l
^
^ ^
»
'^T-^'-^^-^-^^--f-t,
T- -L-Y'
t7
J-
/*-
^t4 y^
/
zt-y
^
/
>^.
-7
/^ • t^r
�I 3V
737
-it
fcA/
if
-if-
fi>
. /
"7 7 ' '
a/^£--e*~
7
2
'•
I
e.
I
V~
-£_ -"v--£»-
~>"Z-' "-3
2^«_—^L ^«_
^
^
"7
^^-t- —ts^-^? x^
�o-»^ ~r-y2 1
__—-T^-7'?
->g
72
L;
?
r
^-^€7
-^/
~—r~i^Y ~/^*-T- -K? -^ -i?
U £ /•
/
'^^y ~~* ^~^ ^ ~r
^r^t
-vt --r-f-^/f
If-
*-"*-/
I -
7-->-*-7»^-T5?
|
-^
(^
ttrro
-/
/&
•
/H-1.-C
- l^~
^T^nj^v -sis
' _ /
^A-i^i4^f
f>j
c/l
^.
7°
-v
—'///
�•>• v f
*? }•<
^
k r^> f i £^> v>i
i i
•
K ^ L> . ^ t s ^
s s ^ J " *« 1 t ^
-1
i i > ;fi ^
l I h
v
V
f
\ ..-.J,..:^L.
�•-tX^T;;
7
-3- 7°
>--J--z.
7*
7"
^•T-Y ^^^^—^r
X? -
ogy^-™--* -^/
)- 2S /*
-siy2-
?•
A^-tf^
y
7^ ^
^8 /
&Z
^
7
/OC2
-tv
\_
jr
*,
t-h
—/ *
7
^
Ol^Li
^- y
V^V^/^7
�T""
_A
^
\
R
f
-
A <$
'.
^ ^
^ •
1
j-V*j~
i
•\<
\**
' I
N
I
;
>s
j
ij
A
^
s
4
i
}
IN
r4
i
i
'4
N
ci
^:
^
£C
t
'^
x.
4
N
'vl
«4
^
s
is
|
i
i
!
-
^
(^
IVJ
5^
^
<4
v)
.^
vA
i
^
V
I
|
>
^
i
$
t 'V
4
/
4
<
K
>
V
N.
$
! ^^
1" I H
^: J1: ^
r
\
\
i
^
fj
* . ^
^ 1
•'
.i
\i:* \ ^ \l
i
^
«
S
VJ
i
(<
"t
1^
N
(
rt
^ ] L^1i >L
5
^
K -i
s
V-
v
I
\
^
N I
*
S
S
I
i
\
ri!
*
V
K
1
V
V
Ni
M
- 4
�•CX
�U-i.
7..A+,
'. 3 o,
V
ttrr^C.
r~L~-c •f-'-i"-*" + 7 *7
/~i
i
t
7 7Z
Pll
/0/--
-*-
2-
rt
* /f
f^*-- —'
z.^
��
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/842242b2cb8232133db780f7c6be0b1b.pdf
666f22db5f1cd953d87950aeee228186
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
77
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 1 [July 15, 1906 - April 30, 1908]
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1908
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
48.8 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_001_1906_0715_1908_0430
Description
An account of the resource
These journal entries range from the dates of July 15, 1906 to April 30, 1908. Included, there is a brief description of what Andrew Jackson Greene experienced each day. He included information about himself, his friends and family, and community events from the time period.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
A.M. Daugherty
Alden Isaac
Appalachian Training School
Beaver Dams
Bertha Eller
Boone
Bristol
Cook Brothers
Cove Creek
Cove Creek Academy
Dr. Lynch
F.A. Linney
Farmer's Institute
Hoosier Schoolmaster
I.G. Greer
J.C. Davis
Literary Society
Mast Store
McGuire's Store
Moses Cone Mansion
Neva
Polly Warren
Primary Convention of the Democrats
R.M. Greene
Raven Rock
Reverend David Greene
Reverend J.F. Davis
Reverend L.C. Wilson
Reverend Savage
S.M. Greene
Silverstone School
Smith Brothers
State Fair
Teacher's Institute
Teacher's Record
Tennessee
Union Baptist Church
Wake Forest
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/dcc3738c163ef45a6ef5ff2187e3c28b.pdf
100d3ca2aed8cb8265d8a51974d2ebcf
PDF Text
Text
�r
��^^^^^^^^^^^^M^^^^M^S^m^^sm^^^^^M?-^
7^7 ^
'i-7-+-3?-3
^
-^y? /
-.,.--
^r-p~/
• ^-^-r^-Trt
.ye' _""
•<?
'^f^^~i^^i x?
--"
'
<s
'
^
' ^2-wi i> i
>-T.
&^?y^£j~^-,~
- ' • A^.
,
^.^-i^-.^T^ • _^z^^;^-r^^
"
/
',
/
-
^y/7 -XL^-^^-/M[
L-^-—P^^T^/T^-CXVT^/
G^istS
/
f>
"T V
/Y1--T-*. -- ^?
7
'-?-(. - *
/
-->>iV7>v^? ;:
--p-^-Ti? -7 / <
.'_
�,^-O^L ,
.C-
L,^
; ;
J
X*
* 5
' -/ ,
( - . < • > •
lj^K=iA
>
^
S"
7
>
"i
<s
r <,
/f.
_.- -t
/
.
/
>, /y, />y ,- - j / 0
/
^.^
•
', ,1^.
% •
/
<?^
.
^f
tl)'
A
, ^
(
'
i
Id, ••
;/
. ,
^.
./
<• /. -y"
^ ^i' l-C-7- ^
/1 I
/
»
2 7/ :
•._-
��I
'
' <
' '
L* .*.*>,L^-^L^
^H- ,
1
^
-. /
' / ' <-
/
•'
/
L^rf
C
,
/r
'
'-
,
ffc^
^-
'' / / . ' « : r
/ ••"
- :^"
'^T
£A^-'l. t'
jTlj£-
Z>^ »
,. *. / / .
�-rf
->-».,
^yi
••^^C-^-^^^:
-«-*—7?---7y.."'
.
>.-t-t <-•/
•1 •/
—>O?—yx-«_^-vL
-/"
^>^r ^
^—v/
<-'..- f
/
-».(-*^iy -tV7
•
£y
,,^-vt^TO-V^ 'P'
^
^/*^*~'1nsi/)s^r~l
f'--.'--, /',
^6
^.-?
.^--,2^1
~i'~j
/-~ : • V^^?/ ._ '
z-'^
'
rr-^^^:f-^v*l-'rj
^^^^'^^V)
'
.^t~)-^^T^-^e. -f
£
; . -f
,
~^J—f>^~r
(
f
'
' ^x-Tc7
;y
-^7/
cy.-
/
A
3 "p-ppr -i
'
�1
^LX
^W^?-
/^ _
/0
/,
-,
.4^
^3^
>-
S2
/
-/*,
..
-
g
o/
"?
/V
7
- "^-t ,
s^-JtA^-/
> ^ » I
/
,
J
-
i ,
/
,
,
^
{t
I, "ls~
f
'•
•
.,
.
13,-
"
;
li
L,,
CAS
it '•! (jt- .
',
/-
-v^£-^j(7
-v^A-
,
•
/
/ isZ?
^
J
.
. ' ' . < -
C
,
,
^
,
_/_?!-?
f
",
/
t
tfv-
//L<^
r
^_
- z^"
/
{A.
^
;
,
<
/ t-^f
.
l^v
1
i.{;('V~i_j'
L
£*—- -r- ->
•y^-cu-^2-—t/—»*—--C-"
/ ; ^2 ^ >;«,.
^
/^_HL_
/,- 7
/ i . v»wXlx-L
/
•
s'
^/
^
2^^"
e
>~-^/-
c
/
�^ew U/
-^-K? • • -
/rT?/^^t-t-»T5--
^
'7^0^
' ""Z7
•i,-^-"T!2-^>'^--^>^'.^'^^---;^31--^-^^i''"
_/L
.7
—y"i
- • _ -^^^^- /&:j<L^^t:s:
^>
^_/t-t
7
7^>7-rZ—y?
l-^—»^Yfj}
7
/^
fi-Tf^-v
—<1—J-I-T^—t^ .-
' -p
t5
./!-.
•••f
^t-
-^7
^
^
^
o-r
1 t^
--r*
7/rt
* y
X-V3-
>'
y
Z*
*~
-z-^-^Z-—
r>7
'—rtr'V^?
^
y
'->-^Y
^>
y .
•
—r
�I7
,.—-£<•—T-
.
V '
/• •
^
'•
J^Pz^
•-,/
<-,
^ -X- £,—
y»
.'t I ' <—
ft
•
3 *'
' /V ,
1 /—
ssc~
•f
—-^
,
*v
/)
'
'
y
' f~
/
1
U
f
,
^^
^\^-/~~>
, \^~
,A:
/
" .'
^M/
^
t-^f-
/
•
i
h/~fi-i
£-e*—z*-~2X-
�.'
X^
—--* •'• / 1 /r '&
/
J 0,
rj. ;•• • t
'T, ^v^xt-iX-^C.
J^-^--8t—ny—
c'i / /
/
, ^r7
l
4.
( /i a', r /!/
f~~
' ; <• f <&-y
. h/ '• r •fj- -L/ y
/
•d,--r
/
£i *t-
J
^—
, O^-^/ •
,
»~~
-t / x_
/'
v>
'
U (SL^,
I' i
' •'
t^a'~
•' Lt;
^
L
^-^
/i
'
C
• •
^,—
'
-^
/y /
'
i •••' ,
<L^
'rl'l.t. -Z-—^e
.'
-2
•' ( 1 3 - /"
a
/
• ' ^
&^1-zf
^
{/
•
,, , '
.
I &
J
/•,__
-
/^ -
,
/• X ^:
/
?-A-^ «K*
> 'tv>
~^ '
£,
•',
<!'<-- '/K-'-C-^
//^
• A
*-/
?<• /t.^ ;j *
/
- • ,
;
'
.
i/.
>^
>••', y,
•
•
'
, i
tk^tAJf-T^^Ls*-
6L-^>c,
�n^-rz^s^-
£>?^t-
f
P
/
/
Yls-&—75^-
f
'4^-i^y~L-S^f
ff—i-
��l—-^^^-' ,
^
<
�—•/
�0
C/—^—V—->-—-7
1-
,
T
D
/.^—
/
�~^i-~c—-f-i-~T/ — z^-^t^
2^—P!r^
�ff
*<
�f
_
—-^i^v-i^U^O'
w -^t-^i-t-t^z../
rv ^'f-j
f J—•L-^t*-^CJ-'
/m^
y^C^t-^-^-—
* ^•t^-7^^- c--^
.
/
z>
?*•
<^r3?i:-2fesfefc3fe^t2t±:
X^L-£_^
—'^L^e^^-^y
s,
/>
—^_^^'—c-<—?^2-v7
�_ ^—»~—*^
X
(f
^
��,
/ ri^A^-
US
/
, A/u^u<_
^^--^^M^>Z^^_^-T-<)
.^ f^u^ti
/-Ax-.
�?
ff^^T ^^Lc^T
/
/
-•/*
' ' />
&^uc)~~~'
^
if
7^7^-^^
�3disi£l<T*^**f
A2^^t^-tx^ fr^-i^Jt. t^-vL^fc
i
<^, -^v^t^^L'
<^v^
£4^3^T^~
/"Z-Z^'Z^Z/"-
»?x^r
4)
JJ^n^r- —-./^-z^—z-z-zs-*^7.
&JT~~
iW4 \ Y^
i^^-T^L-
r*--<-^>—z)*~
.23,-
)J^~z£
^
i
tx—i^tJ-
^Uu
^4^if^i^J~
jh^t^T^O
-^l^t^2
L/3Vvv\_x-x<--
C/\^~-j/~
/
,
/
P\^C4^_
�£/->-,
KI/X
<St-^_
~^i~*^l^2s~V-~<-s'
/
J
^ns^l^l
j\^&A$v<~~^
^. >7-^-VU^.
^^[^"
£-^/—is-^-s
fJ-r-U-
,
^
Ot^f- , PU*rJL
*£*3&*£jz
l^t
T^a^
~'
' ^"
/
f
I^J-
�'
-'is^—&^
o
r<^\~-rt.
^
/
$
1^-^2—t
a^ttf-^
' V
Z-t-jp-T/j-T.^i^i'-i-'-rv
iTTT^TT
/
/Tjs^r>-r}''t^72^-^^~>?--^l^~-
r-v
" /^ / -4-
y
-yT—^i^-}
^-v^-rZ-—^-^L^-->-7>
y /
r
_?
�-^l/'
W
(jJ^L^^Js-J^
L
, 2/^£^xW
V
/7
Ufi^v^fL
^uJi<A^
^^l^,
<7
f
/^-^
-
�U Sl^t>-~c^L'i^t+-t*/~f ^f^ut__
LA-^MxU—si/"
ir
-4
£/
g^fo^e
�-^*-y-
"^yy^7 •*%f *^-
j
l^^^^b^f^-
-r^/ ,7 ^^^A^
�•?iS)
-^^^2J
-rty
' -~^~t^T^T^~U,
^^^4
—4/rf
/
-X^^Vv^^vi^r
j
>I
�L
.
/
^
�;
���/I
/
r
�W" UJ^^^
>-/-u^-
/ItA-tA^
^
' J>jt
-L-^q/j/vt
/
&J\~
&^v, ML A ^^i
c^^A
6*-^-*-
�0 k [)
A^L-^LV^-
CA^
i~fi~ '
I*1
VJ
/-fL-t-L-r - t'Zx-t-7 tyKA^-y,
ff
°i
^—>
r"
It"
J
^7
- /j
,^J^
V-,-0
' '• J.
Jd^=3^&
(I
1^U<_^
^^>~d/fa-'
''^v
-l^/~z>
^Lfe;
V~^
jx^VO
�»
�
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ded685e1dfca1a0eeb4c62cdb2eabc1a.pdf
897fc22a46dc17fd64ec2036a55594de
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
39
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene,Volume 2 [May 1, 1908 - December 31, 1908]
Description
An account of the resource
These daily diary entries were recorded from the dates of May 1, 1908 to December 31, 1908. Each day Andrew Jackson Greene wrote a few sentences about his day and what he was thinking. He included information about himself, his friends, and community events during these dates.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1908
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
33.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_002_1908_0501_1908_1231
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Alden Isaac
Appalachian Training School
B.B. Daugherty
Beaver Dam
Boone
F.A. Warren
Forest Grove
Ida Moretz
J.C. Davis
J.L. Tomas
Jack Greene
James Warren
John F. Eggers
Justice of the Peace
Mabel
Mast Store
Ollie Eggers
P.C. Younce
Polly Warren
R.A.Thomas
Reverend E.F. Jones
Reverend W. Swift
Reverend Wilson
Silverstone
superintendent
Temperance Rally
Walnut Grove
Watauga Literary Society
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/8d2f848e58abfdd930e91bbd569730c8.pdf
87f741239b2c9508da4ff72652cd70da
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/fd9872abb4a2588f5a17b07e036ca159.pdf
47942a1e1e750684f680e944f447c775
PDF Text
Text
IIUU
-fi~^r
�__ -ft^&sZL.
-~l*-£sis<s
- ^wtA-^o , /^--W- ^ <^U*«>*£<
d-rtst^O—<-^&>—c£/
/
ts-ts-7$t
�0*sT~'^n^~it^-rr-u<—
-•TT^v—Zst/
A-'
^-
r~^
(Zsl^-^lf—zsCs
J^>-i~-
-•?T^l>-~4.
—-#--C/--»-t— •
i/^
x^^xl—
^i«xi-t^*^<*t-*t-t-».
>^<—
�^v£-*v &sv—t*-Ji
»
^^>
^
*
/)
-^rtCrx-v/~ ^i~-fe-iAS ,
!£,
/<t —2^—£/£•
/
�>l
},
fc
�~>9"
sryyiua^J
71^&
-^—VTT^^^T-^, .
~*f.-v-r-*f^-
rH^p^*,
(T
*1
^4^f\SL4^l*-t4sTA^t^~9
�Lt~^&^n^*~
ft
. /,
^t^ri/Ms(^r-isc-v*-
—77*y
f
l-^rt-^-»*-t-*<}
•^U^^- ^-t^-i^-tttt^--'
^i^t^rl^V —l>-t--
^>^t*
M^«-ixK~
—-t<-^-~<—-t^-^
--'fc'V"^>t-t—»^c- ,
-7h—t^t-^~- ,
r
r~*_
�/3
/
/
-
^^-T^-^UV^T^-T^
n/
/ X?
^^tf-Z^C.,
<.
A^*.
*t*^(j-
�r
> '
/
7 /
y
r ^M^^-^^/y
/
tlJL^i^Jt^
^zx-^3-t-^ix-
//£<-<
^U^
*4-
/ix_-i-»-T_-«s'
7
f
-^r^v-v^t.
l^a^t
/2^V, /Jft^, A^-.
^ >
C
�L_«_^^_
]AJtM^r-
2^t^Ji&>*vl/.
Jj-rJL
4^l^4r-C
t*^
�/^c
/ '
is~f'
P
lj*~i
h '
t
M^v-^tsv*-*-~>- ',
/
���^rt^A^ry**
M-*i-*- x
/
l%-t>-+—.jrjll4r'
-^f*-t-^4*~*~-z-
/
�ON
�&-^)^-^ir->-i-tf
/
txl^<—f—£X*-
.
^^i^i^v^/h
^C*Tr—<^-*-£-*<-'^'
CA^-i-^J
*_
•£-&-?- £*^f£*-** ,
^-2^?C
(^A^T^T^-v—
-k^<^4^ -^!it~*i^~<£~£~-£
�'£444*~~
'0*
3
^
1
~^H^$
4xtl
4/W
4<J^^..M^J^
^A^x£txix*a-<i-^£.
.Jas^t^j
JO**.
J>V—
^^t^^y
�-Tl^^O
<&l±4s~
—-wa-*<^>v^
—'f-t^t^*
<^^
2. <f, —
^/ /&/•
A-^~ -st-t-^U^-r^-***->-T-^_
r
f
? —. rf-**1* tst~*^t/L
jbsLJ>O .
/
^Cx
(7
/^ItA
_^^t-<7
>
�5^-?Wvt4^lxW
a
f\
_
;
-A-U
v
7
c^^Si
/
f
°rsi>~~
r~ . 3Lj«^
yprw , L> , _O
J -^rv— #LzL+f
f
-^n^t^o
^t-r^J
A/
, -Jt^l^«-^lA^*--MX3 ,*
^7
7
*^^^_ . ^, __
^WU-J*^-
. V-T
-->->-*Y
^5™ ^^»*^*—^~
�Jfct
-^L~***v-v**ts i
'r 7T_-*--i-<-
/T^tA/^vc f ^
yru^sh-
i^,/^.
/
i/ls—tr-**
l/Li-VWts
-^2-~t.4^tsCy
^L*s3 , l^rt^^n^~~
Iv-zJsf-l
/Ql—a-r/ &J fa^.&'Lf
^A^1 fl/ f
-*
/^-*vt>- k> J"-^"' /^>W^,
^Tf^*^- • I£ . -
0
I <J— ir-i*-••— --- 1*
J
<-I
Ifao^fa-
/
3^V—£+T.
�_/l — V~-^-t^l^t^
O-1-v—i^v-^
-
&4/L~ i^->»-^X—
^- iff-
^e^V-*-*-^*- ,
x^
6"""
C^H.—tt-'Z-ix^l^y
^A,
J>
-^lAt+A*1/2
/
^sJfU-iX^-.
�h
i
/
r
-—»z—»--t^—***v
-^~lA-4*A-^f
7
Os4
�/f
£1^-
J-^V^T^ .
o
^^
^i^tt <£<—. i^^~ £ *£*** -^ ^
,
Y
/^fL<-~
a/i^v-^^i^-csC'
K-,
Y
��f
'
Sl>^>-S>Jf^?-Z^-
^»-^^*->-^--»-X-T*—K^
^
�£<^14A/
>
/
^^>T^l6>
—^Z'—Z/—7Z.
^l^C^i>-^^~
/ '(/<_
^
>/-
�_^-^-ti—t-—^v
/<>, _
j>
^I/uy
J
fjifi-. / sy _
/
r
~^lA-i.—-r-n^t*
r^b-
-^™>^T^I^J
/^^r8' -*^£**-^"
^^ ^^ ^^ ~^wt- f*> £ -*«***/*
^ISVTS
*
^^y ^wv>4>**oy
�x-v{7
' V-^-'V?
—y-VL*--£^
~~*SJ-™*r-ir-n-S7
. •4^**-*^T^t-y^J7
^Lz ^r*^> M
"%
i/
11 Jj-1^^
t'»**~Qs *
t*
�xv^-^-t--l<7
/
>^2-^'
</
Tty?
V /
-W-^Ot^V-l-
I
,/
'^*~~r^LJf\
^^v
�TM-.^,-
/J-z^-
^y^i^^r^
—-^-T^-**-*-*-^^
,4
/
X^ ^
-**~~~
o *
i
xiAxue--n--^-tX<3
�—i^c--r?^i^--
AuT^t-C^"
L/
;
"^^
—y-T-->^w-iA-^2^-^
X*-*-»7
v-r>
" M^t-y-wi^
-ff
.
L^^L^,
&
'V^TW?
a
/
-/
^'l/""
"^ x^r^—*—/q/
.^-Vfc-T-T-vZ^(f
-^-^-7-W^
/
->^vt-^-T2^-j1
�—
(s-Asv~^-^—
^f-t^f^-t^-C^,
/^V-t/.
/lAt-£<I--ZX--»t-—
, %^4^
^
^
[zsris\*4^3^l^U
i^-«--x_
,
/
J)
^ _J^-X--V
>^V--TA--lXt'A-*
-^fd,*-
C*-^~**
&^&4-T)
^-^/^ A^-Wr/^
^^L^t^jt
&s4^
-?'
��-It*GA^-isy^i^r-i~A-~-rl
/
-v-vri
^r £x&
•/
/</—f-v-^t.
j)j>
/
Ti/1^1^—f*^>L-«--ext^
^L'-rt-*-^~-i^ . ^f A
^-*-*^*^ /t*^^
~ff^—*lxl—V-—»—»-•_—»
�^
''^T^
—V-^T?
'o-v?^—^7 ~*T^
*-'
ty
-*-—»~-t—^,
.
c—»z—-t.^
vr*
*%4^-<>ffl*2^C4,^
/^?
�^T^-^^-Ct^n^tf .
-^M-^
7~trr Q^w^<-~*~-
Qfez &; _ n*M2jL
�'*N.
'
X-a^^^
_^-^_—v£
_y
' r***<»-«o«>-pp-*
-
(
^/ ^y
<•—y^t-tst.—r-^-j7
-<-r-VT^
L^^vp^-
^-twa—j^-
>P/^P
^-^-f9/
'
y*-i-i--i<?
'
V3—*"""?#'—
O
v*-#-vnf -^^^YJ
*
/^*—LT^>^
fy\~ 'J ' AWY^
'Ya^>^l-*^uxT«^'
^77?
^ O1
~f7~^ fy~ ^^
~^~i
�^-7
(Jf^C^C^ —z^z^-£xO-<--^-v-—-•
<s
/
�<"^-^7vJ-7
"ty?^^-
__—«-X-—™1
rt^Wl/J
-/
�-^^^rY^/L^
'Y—f' ->-v^-vf.^_yv>'-K7
1 (/
^<*?
c—Y~>^<^st--~is^T^&—£3_
.^*-^-~*r7
_ry
rt7^% '
—j*i~-<T^l.<f^
—^^f
'r~yl/1
~rf~^—^—>~~tTf
' t^r>n^7^~
-TnsT^^yj
�CV^T"
-&*-*£-•'
ixO-,^-^7
r-y^t-t^-^lf-
«-j*fr-£.-
-^T-^i^a^jyi
�V^-Vt^7
�7"
•'»• •
COLUMBIA, GEM OF THE OCEAN.
1. Oh, Co-lum-bia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, Th«
2. When war wing'd its wide des-o.la-tion, And threaten'd the land to de - form, The
3. The
star-spangled banner bring hither. O'er Columbia's true sons let it wave; May the
shrine of each pa-triot's de - vo-tion,
ark
then of freedom's foun . da-tion,
wreaths they have won nev- er wither.
A
world of-fers horn-age to thee,
Thy
Co • lum-bia, rode safe thro* the storm: With the'
Nor its stars cease to shine on the brave. May tha
-*-
mandates make he - roes as - sem-ble,
garlands of vie - fry a-round her,
ser - vice u • ni - ted ne'er sev-er,
EBS»—fr-
When Lib-er-ty's form stands in view; Thjr
When so proudly she bore her brave crew, With bet)
But hold to their colors
so true; The
S— STT-=P^C -- N— 1•*3-^ri£* -«j J
p^—^sT^
^^
1*—*r
*— tf- • \* \*
J-
ts
borne by the red, white and blue,
boast of the red, white and blue.
cheers for the red, white and blue,
banners make tyr • an - ny tremble,
flag proud-ly floating be ' fore her,
ar • my and na - vy for - ev - er,
rfr-t
^—i
N
M \
^1
:^^^UH^jLg^_^-^_^£:^J.
banners make tyr - an - ny tremble,
flag proudly float-ing be - fore her,
ar - my and na - vy for • ev . er,
8%#
P* | £ i^
P-^-S —J—J—^ '
m
When borne by the red, white and blue,
The boast of the red, white and blue,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.
—j
1
m
p—\ .}s
When
The
Three
^ " ~~ 1
When borne by the red, white and blue,
The boast of the red, white and blue,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue,
y
With her
The
When borne by the red, white and blue,
The " boast of the red, white and blue,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.
rff^Mqt
f-gglJMJ
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
43
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 4 [October 1, 1909 -April 30, 1910]
Description
An account of the resource
These journal entries range from the dates of October 1, 1909 to April 30, 1910. Each day, Greene wrote a few sentences about what he did that day. He wrote about important towns that he visited, what was happening in the church, the work he did, and about his friends, family and neighbors.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1909-1910
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
25.2 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_004_1909_1001_1910_0430
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Alden Isaac
B.B. Daugherty
Boone
court
George Laurance
Henley Greer
J.C. Davis
J.F. Eggers
J.H. Mast
John Daugherty
Mabel
P.C. Younce
Pat Laurance
Reverend Rox
Reverend Wilson
S.M. Greene
schoolhouse
Silverstone
Sunday School
teacher
trial
Walter Icenhour
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d323432ce061db0e19052b25e168ae08.pdf
d3ec28397da6dc876d3d54db858375cc
PDF Text
Text
�I
^f~-
�, Ij _
^n^i^<i
/>LL- ^
--f\_x^-n^
-f^tx-^/w ,
7
/
-- V-JUlsT^-
-e /
0
-D Sn/^ /^-?/^>£. —^h^rrist^-
ft'Wi'&ris
cH- ^v-wn.
'
�K-OE^-I-t-
--lX-X_^^i^-
J&LI/ , / / - / - y -
—-fr^e^w,—
-^^-V^
l^U^, bmJ, rh^z^tA^6 ,
(£- *«-T^>T—•*-•
O
f
"**&•
/2-^4txoy /^Cc
•f-^-y
. / JT, —
,
•<-S\S\JL
^u_>
Jt7~v—iJL
sriyQ
_riL
r A-v^x/-
^r^<»*^: ^ J^' A
n
/djL^t^V^-^-
^Q-&^-rri
^-7
/,
//? ^
'
, '*<
•* - f
�, 0 * 0
'—&y •^-^^L—ti.'i o^t^i^^i^yl
/^™^~*^)~P
7
": \^UL-f)j
.' '
I
/ /
^
^
••' .
' A-«^K?
V
-r^/
V4
, '
/•
' ^, ^ ^s.^-i^s S^T/?-•^L^^y
T* <7_
y.^^rf^^a^n^-
• /
^e^^fie -yp 6, -Wff
* T^T-
->*-«-vZ
f
-/?-ri^vvv^ -^v^-
/^ i+^lsvrvy
,
/
^£u*tw<w *^7PT°7 /? 7Trf~~'^p
^Hp1
«^B^
A^-^7
/
w^-^ -^g- "'^r
^c^^^^f
'W1*^ -j^*^^-
^1^-^^,- O-*^y~ ^-^7? ->v^
7
T
-Tn^f
'-'/rr>7^ <X/
X
5^- -^^-rT-vl^-" ?5-^-»^- 7 >W><
-^
a
(7
1-^-^-^^-t^r
'fafTW-^l'+^p^'
V^T^^ X^7^ ""V^^T
y^
•^_x^zv/
^Z
^—n^z-/
"M
'^r^f-
>^
-^^^n^^^fi/l
-t^/-r-^ ty
v
-/
/
/vo^^vix^?^.
-I^^rzvrT^Z-^SSaga J"&*~ c-^i~*^' y^-^^-^-v j^^-^^^
?~f*tAs^
/
' S
y^
/7
AitpO jy-t^ty ^ ^-4_fl
-~'t>r~**$T
^ '^T^T^^
-v^rtJAl
-rv^v*
^/ 3^1
Xl
IT^^y^l^^/
~
�t^k
../-^ tteJL&d/-*
A
^ ^-^^ £'tm^3-^
'
-'
f
M^-zt-^
—-tt^vt^
4J
^l^t-
-7^-2-^l-^>-Z-8^'
^
* r * i/
^ v-~-\*ir f f-
^L^, 3 7
t^ t'
•v^
\
^
./ot^t^
I/I/—s^ ^ ' >lsvT—•
y
/
*4~lf^n^v-T>ts{/i
ft
^t-J^-ZX'
y/
7P-0siS~ rf /rv~
(/ ..
/ 77
/^
fi<&^n^—
, %1
t
^ 7
i ^^Y
^xf wft^-l>-^-H^<-v
^U^ , ^ f y _
Jjh-z)*
f~]/~pS\st—i*-<-~O
-J^V~^
^2xU^-2^_
/flV**tr<
^?t-V-w-ZXt
a
/
-A-Tn*-<
OL<v~ir-Jt
<H-*~»X
V
t
�trU^jt^y .
Jfc- ^^Ci^Wzx
/
^c-^i/u-',
/
/
fa^Zt-^3
/
l^J- g-^y^tJ-> ~^£-~
A
£?
,
./ ^
fa^L^^is-
/
l/\f—T/-*3
_
font
folsT^,
&; —
j
is4-^ri*r-v^V'.
//
L£-~-*-^nX-~
(/
.
„ •
yCt/L^,
#/- ^.is^YT-^cd*- l/L*-~tt/r~~ ^r~
£A^T&**~Z^
m??z:>
#- &4&_±.k £j&&*Jl
/-, i
*V
�.^L-c-A-'i^- £-et-^*t/. sd-&W-i—(/*—
, /C-T-Z-^ZT^-O
A
W^n . //y _
. jJ—e-iA'
<£./^>i
^
-
£*-^A
i^y
-Jfr&^v^.
W~
?>KJ
MA-^A- r^f^^3^/: x-^- «=: ^^sJ^:
T
V
(
/ '^
-£ ^. (/
*
^
, I/If
^/•Z^^^tJ^ri^?^
I
-
'^&-~t*-£j£
,
I
&rf£&T^)^l*fp
�t^/UA£4*~
//--£•—l/C
a^v*~*~ </%t, /t^>^i-^)o7 ^*-^L
.
~-pt^r-V'-^' JuM^t-fi-
•t+T^* -^°-->-K-y
y d
.
•n^v^ts*
fc'
/^Co
,
', ^ , - y^-o
J/
T^LsL-
A^<7 _
tfat-^-tA ^J^ri^f-ii^C'
-alOfl^ts-^^l—
fi*U~^^4--i~-
£&-i(£&*f,
,
�' s^*--^i^l~-/LsL/I,-^'
_s?~t>m^?
7
J
/
/2T
<2f
-/
-L
/
"M^n-rt-—
TwrvVO
tyif >»-i-t-Tj?
*--32-K^
�tTf^e^'f
oj Y1—*^y
7
• j
• •
-^-^nfy
"i-<-Y '
r
j^^L^£ \*4*-e3^V^^l(/
'APt^-^
~J]gf
~~t^^n
C^^^-v^
'
'
c*—r-*^-ii^?--j-vt
*****t**fir'Wlsttsf
^j/i
I
—^<-7V/
-^2p?s*—<*~T-^
C^1^f
'*'**'
^
y^—*-~~f\/
V
nfpt**^e^c<
yv-r-rp/ >U/ v-^-<' -^
{(], ^ r
^
X^-^-^Z-T*
J
(]
- -y^-^^y
ff
�o~*
IV-TTfl-^tr^-w-r^
£s
•s*~4-r^b --^^-^^v-i^-, ingf
-xy
v^-^y
->*-v-»#-rp* T^^1^?^
—^^-^7
C^
_
.
_
.^
/2-^W
-v-.^//
' "V^W-/
_^-K»
-3^
—»--7l-*<-«-v-
r?
^»^*^7 -+-^f
, ^ M ^ ./
,f
I
If2-^^1
•
�',-
T^L
ft
erf ^r^tstx^Ao
luJ/rtAAA-^+^&i
.
'"fti-vvt^—»
Vt*b
/"i/—-vi&*~f»
P
&
^i^lA-6-
J&^-niZ
f-~b
'
h~*v-Tsv—
i/
Lt^z-t-fuo
,
/^/
WWlSJsT^
tyi^T^A/'
C--1>-^V>T-^- ^v^W
t'-^/-
fr^-J-s
M—«-
- <l^--^--^>z^^(t-2xK-t.
T&,
ll^^djL^
V
/fl4^JL4/l*-l/tsZ!isyT^-s<-
err;—>^-<^tx^>^x-^o
—•
i-
;_
-^v-r&^i
�_*/
/'_x^>—.x>t-r*-«-^--1-
\/
~~f*t^z-r*>-}>y:
—r-f^^-r2-~- y
9
xj^a-*-^y >y
x^-i^t—^
T/3~vt
ff
-7
/^>vy?
�. I $.; _
c£~-&^r>~t-**-
.
6^-Z/1—Z-i__
A-"**—W-U,
�2V-
oM
c4
Uf-1,. •±
J/
fS™^?_
'T1-1-Tr
^--/X-c-t^-i
: -
^xt J
Q*
Ix^vc'f
_^-^ ~i^\ (M
.
t-
LJ^W!^~/
^M^T-tl y^^<Z-O
/
/
l^h
7;
^0
• j-
' '/'i
(I
tASI^—lf-
^
'Z-k'
/X>-ut«
jj ^<3 ,
7
I/O
/
UA^"
^^-'^
/
0*.
t
>^, ^if 2,Ay,^«
'
/h-
,
~
....v-*-
/
(>^^fu^t^(-^,
/
f
^<fi-c (
erf
D
to
tst ^X'-*
tA^-t' W
TZr
'
SL^-^itf ' -
^
--t^«
f
^ ^ ^^-«
-v^r ^-
�V*~~rY*l~^~*~~fl—i^
'^xO--T--»-f2-^''
(y?
£
/&-*> -a^h
^>^>i-S2--**^C^t~iSl£
�32-
r /-£> /
'/-i^i
si
Mxfcfi.
/i-frv^
,,c*™-iA.
~ f^-T^-^ —.
-iJ'
\AJ~~ t \ --<f^i«/ -A/-~f
^
/ :
£-£-»—>T^>-J-W»
/7-->T-?']
f
£-T/
i»
/i_£—c-X^
/
,, J?
h
^f^-'i-l^- »-—»^i^->-—1
IXJ
"
J)
0
^-ZS*
/U-
/
~-
' gA-
^-
pi^T~-*~
H)
•^)^r.--0^lif
(A^^->
i/) ^/ ^\^'
yi-^>-->i^<K - I r • \
«
i^
yO
^^_
x
Lvi.^,(-
- J
wr '
^t*O^
/>i
0
,.'-^7-Iso*f
x^i*c^-t.-«_'
,3/x-^-Aj^ ^
/ J.
CAs*S*1 ' ,"
G^v~-rT^-
^L^l^T^jt^i^v-V^C^
l^f~L*4.
if
J?~U-*^'Z-'
�J&u
.
ifv^K.
•^nw-f
'
,-b^-js»^jS-
* dL>
Q^-vJ
0^*t&-;
J-
-~-£l^n*^-
jt-u^yjli^-
f
&s --^-t-T-s^^r
-»U«^~ ^f-mr-
ff
Mft^
^V^ts--r^^L*^r~~
(&V^^Mj^U-<J(.
I
-
'" V~-<^~*^
-w-it<2-i>-*»-
�/7->^2
-- A-X-^-vv
&/
&^~tr7~. -.
h^^-
*i ',
-•f*
v^*~ -f-tf-TZsts
,
�^
>t^.
^o
TT^y
ft^Tu-v^-
3fV
Q.'
y
^-»^-TX £T>~££*~-r',
lAs-*-
/-.
^
A-Z'-x-t /A**^-*-^-,^
*
(/\-&
6
-^TTz^^y
�\
£.. ,(
•tf
,
9/v—>^>^er
tfaJft^-l^-
y^^cV^X-
f
tf
~
//~
"
�_/xl^-^r'^-p -
'A*^-t0-7
—ixt^T-v-^.—
C>-4-€/
' A4--is~-''1--'
*-V~W-«--I.A--
�I
<M^- ^?
r
/
—
A-
/7
>^n*r-*iA- - hs
' r^LJsV'
i.
'• *.*ls J
4
,
- M^<?J~^
*,
^
f
/
»
~Hfa4£-d
/"*"
/^ufi-K-
^v^y^.
fr+J^
t-v—t<
/Vzk-K,
,- Y^JisTsi*-
&
•MxW--<i-d-3u-nx£-
2>--^—'x->->-
^rrcb^^-, &L4AJL^ IsdM t^f~ -wpJiJr
�ft*.
>i^u—VT^--*~V- «^~7^-
/ /•
JC/-P-W/: 3^4+-*Ls<AJ-
v
•i-i
**<-•*-
/^
10
$*V-
.1
^y
rv^ 4*^4^ *
I
jfiuAJU
x.
,,-L-irr-
a/w~>~*'
.V <w-v
—^UX_f-*-l_
/
/i
< _y
*4c*^
^»
£-~&~~1^l^-
(
°tt?*
*<>
c*w~~
try
V l
',&CL-
t^J^JU*^
X^
4-^-2^——l^-«^T—
X**^
^-
y^V2^--^UC^^-*^^
9^
/
^^
2
/O
/
<f
l^r^!^ fJLe*4-^~-
^
^?-r**~*~
f
A/
.Uj^v^-vt--
^f-
^
y /
A-y
>->
c^-^^^-tK-^-T^-v-y ,
-^lX-4-O
. /^T^t-^^i^^^t^-T^-^t-twi^^^
�f
^^Ttf
ir-rfV&y*-*
'
J
/
hwls-Q^Vv
'
'-»-<---O^VTL^ -n<tf "i^i
TZ-^'
-^~-y
U* ^rV^Hf
-
�i
>
^ .^b-jf-L
^jut^y^^-n^*^
c^i^e^j J
.
b^-*t--^z^^C^
faslSlA^-Z^&Z^t ./
pfu.
C^^JL^r-
�•K/X-t^rfXZ^-
-*vvO
ts^sf—
�UTh^.—
ft—^-TA-»_ <^t>->-ox_
<£•->»-
&.,
fi^r-r-*'
^-7i/Uxtx^j-x^">-->-T-y
^fysT^ls-^
1*^1
/
/%r7^A-
/*-~->^-it^U
>/r~ &^££
Cttsy*T^-~fr*~—
�\
fl-J^»jusia
A-z, i^t'VT'
'
�i>~^-^-tc^
ts-l^LSlsU^iS—
/~
>OT--^<—-^T^TT'
&r- r*^™*^-
6*?~*r
'
**
/
*'t-^—
^-»—zx ,
�r
?y
y^-*Tr-z-"
1£
. f
�BUTTERFLIES.
T
HE name is probably due to the popular belief that they steal butter or milk.
The distinction between butterflies and months is more for practical purposes
than because of natural differences. " Butterflies are all those Lepidoptera
whose pair of wings are never fastened together in flight." Another distinction is
this, that butterflies as a rule go Abroad in the day time, seeking no concealment,
and they are usually brightly colored.
In butterflies the head is distinct from the thorax. The anteunse are for hearing
and smell, and at the end they are thickened, usually into a spindle-shape, which
terminates in a bent point. The mouth is a sucking organ to enable the butterfly
to feed on the nectar of flowers, and on the sap of trees and plants. The thorax
bears the wings and the legs, the latter being of use as a support while the gay little
creature is resting.
Some butterflies in the tropics have an expanse of twelve inches, but there are
also microscopic species.
The wings are covered with scales which are really hairs. These scales can be
taken from the wings, thougJ^tSPfrbwer of the specimen to fly is weakened by the
process.
Hundreds of thousands of scales are on tile wings, acting both to brace
the wings and also in some cases to give a welcome increase to the wing-area. The
gay colors are due to pigments contained within the scale or its walls, or else to fine
striations on the upper surfaces of the wings.
Males are usually more gayly decorated and exceed the females in number, the
latter usually dying after the eggs are laid.
A fact worth noting is that where there are several broods, each may have a
characteristic coloration, which has led to some sad errors, as in the three-brooded
Ajax species, for before the facts of the life-history were known each brood had
been given a distinct name.
The mourning-cloak and a few others are able to endure in a state of torpidity
the winters of the North. Others winter either as eggs, or as pup:e, or as caterpillars.
The eggs are laid near the plant which the young will need for food, and they
vary in number from one hundred to several thousands, while in form, and color,
and in the time required for hatching they vary as greatly.
The eggs hatch as caterpillars ; worm-like creatures, with conspicuous heads
and saved from destruction to some extent by their protective colors, and in some
cases by their bad smell or in others by a bad taste. When attacked they take awful
attitudes to frighten their foes.
After molting four or five times the caterpillar becomes a pupa, in which a
tough integument covers the developing insect instead of a soft skin as in the caterpillar stage, and the butterfly is now said to be in the chrysalis t-tage.
Finally this covering is split and the butterfly comes out for its life of gaity.
But they are useful, too, for they carry pollen from flower to flower. While the
greatest variety is found in the tropics, some species are found in the Arctic zone,
and on the summits of snow-clad mountains. Some butterflies, too, migrate as do
the birds.
Boys and girls—we want you to open your eyes and see if you can find any of
the species illustrated on this cover, 'and also we hope that you will read up in nature
books more facts than we can tell here about the intensely interesting—butterflies.
NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES ON COVER.
1. Buckeye Butterfly. 2. Mourning Cloak. ;>. Banded Red Butterfly. 4. Orange
Colias. 5. Black and Yellow Tailed. (1 Copper Butterfly. 7. Mazarine Blue.
8. Red Admiral. 9. Zebra Swallow Tail.
�
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/7573c983527c05669bcd2ec6efbd1457.pdf
bfa220209f2169263704c7d028139e79
PDF Text
Text
�������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
33
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 6 [December 1, 1910 - April 30, 1911]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1910-1911
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
20.6 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_006_1910_1201_1911_0430
Description
An account of the resource
These diary entries range from December 1, 1910 to April 30, 1911. The entries contain information about the weather, the church, his family, and friends. He wrote about friends such as the marriage of Chas M. Greer and Jennie Swift, and his evening with Jasper Hagaman and Lemuel Wilson. He also included the names of several local places such as Fork Ridge, Mabel, Boone, and Beaver Dam.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Beaver Dam
Beaver Dam Church
Boone
church
corn
Corn Pone
G.P. Sherrill
Hagaman's & Co
Henly Greer
Henry Norris
J.F. Eggers
J.F. Oliver
J.J.T. Reese
J.L. Thomas
J.R. Wilson
John Norris
John Sherrill
John Wilson
Justice of the Peace
Lee Swift
Mabel
Missions
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Plowing
Prayer Meeting
Reverent Owen
S.M. Greene
schoolhouse
Silverstone
Singing
Sunday School
Sunday School Institute
W. Jasper Wilson
W.F. Reese
Watauga County Sunday School Convention
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/1c66d72668d6d0c5f779ce2f7e9251cb.pdf
e3dad0bbf507b013c86bf8dd2a5afb62
PDF Text
Text
�•u.
A
/
A
Ao{
�1 I
-.T
Jl^tM.
3
�TT,
"
—>'-"iTW/
-/
^¥
"~>n4~P
'
-ryf
^2wt_v2_jvj
-i-vt^-S
Y^*^tf-
���\ '"
�/V
, .^
v
/•
/^rfr^l<J
^y ~Y*-^-iY\)
""->,
y &
T"
' •:^V^^T^y
/,
��-7
7"A' •^-^Y'f
• ^
> -
'e^^^f^uf
^
. ^vjW,^
-
,7
*
' c^-TO^Sb
—>^i*~e—si^u
7 -i^>-fn '
L^^rr-rii/^T-f
A^Vt
"~*~f f
M
-^^
Tl
�'
,
/V
y
T}S*l~M
.^x
* _y*-~i^utsusis1t)
-v»--^^va^-V
'**'#'
h
.1.4
y
/
(i
V •# ^ _^V
-^^<*£--v
' j^u rYt^m^f
/ .
r
—7
c^_
j
-suf
'J
/>
'J
�(IxIf^U
y
•*-U->(-l&*^~
I
�22
s***/-
Ft3/is-**-tJL-
t*.*
£<*^
f
^-i^t-tXl
./V, _
QA^^—
<9
/
/T"
V
/7-29«-'V ,
/
__
r
/
/
^o-i-—tX.
)^?T, /nx-<- ,
}~$ *i''
•&-JL. d»-
—-fi—»t—i-^-vK><L
r
I",
'A'
�-fit
a'.
QsUsG * ^1 f —
^xt^vi^-fn^L^-r pst"**,
/^"
,
i^^t-vtsa^rt***
�—
/
#>-
"f
fi^i^-^ —i^-rV-t-<J
l4^t^^-^-^H^C^J
.
(
ft^TT^Lr
<£W
i '^<-
-^T^n^-i^cJ
/
�iM^V^^<^
^-VT-VU^ ,
.__
^^^/^f-ur^^y^^i^
C^f^/^'
--~°L^r^-lr?^/~ _ J/*/^s>~&t^L f^~ ^?
-^l^^
lv~TM^rt.
rHrt
^
}A>i
CJ~ X i
_
tsts-z*A-m~--
/
,
l/i*— 4^-_
�/
7T^
'l~Slfa
^-^ V-f>T.^-<
,. .
7
'./
—*--Vfre-:«2-<U^~ >"7
>&—'—t—t-t'-rvt'jr
f
/
-12-^%?
v
-\L^^L—^\^~
v
T
/
/
/•?"K--ra-vy
-~-^^-<-*rJ, ~nj /
/^
rcxv^t-^7
/
f
"X2/1
~*f**^rf'
/
/
�3
/ AT^-U—
^^n^t^-
ifT
. p4MSl~*
-*^
n>&-*^^
-/
—
/jJX^*- ^ ^^4-*^t—
•'^a ,
l^^- *
^~ $*~ . t-te-/r
ii
^_
fa/^_^^&^^
\M^~ fc fa< A^^ JM^^-,
-M-^ **&
^rvv-vvvx-
�^i^-tM^K.
rVT*S3
^fUA^t--
v^ui^' /v^*ty_
A-^>^_
/
_.->••;
f
>Xy~*. •//^-fS£sr*i4-*v?—*
<P^~-~~e*^
A*^n
(/
.
�. J-C^fi^ts —JA-V'
9^
Jn^L'
i-*'
^/i^_
^^-^-^^/—•
a
AJ->— -V1
ftrv,
~"
^&U/<^~—
t^-r-*-*—tV
>
V v
/
n^o ^fas-ii 4s*
/*
(jp-o^-t/
/t<-
^
^-T~—«/i .
/
^j^^it/—«*y
/T-U-J
\/\fiULA
~^u-
~^h~ut*> ,
tL/O
/ '
^c-</v^-
/•'
7c
n^&.
't- ^^yi ^t^L^_
Ifr-V^O
^^->-rT^^~
^C-^n^v~-i>^L.
~-/riis^
^_x^>>--i--
bj- .&%**
#s
'—v>*-u*--A-1-tx^
s3
W
'
l4^~
O^^^- —£-~*xl-X
/
>^i^
4s~
- wu**V
n^v-v^
4"
7'i^^
>^V
*9'j^rrL^<~^',
�.
Qe^CrU^-
Th*- au*
If /
lA^CS
^^T^yt^yr
-^fa^t.
&*&^^*-~,
/' 0
(j^v
U a
(*Tr^M
&L^v^~y^>~*
(f
JW-4—S--
k&o
^-^i*-t--va-»-v^'
4
t £*W-^,
fnsV^*-'
^f^v-^1s*^t*^T4sz>
A-
^tx/t^*-f*^-<7 <%s£v-*i far ^*si~
•fi^t*-^**-'—
�_$&
ftty-
A
Jj&~
i^h 3 D, .:.v
/A^ ^ta^L ^4L<_u~*^ 6t^ ^L^y
l^t^~<Jke^-${
3^^d2<lltA~e^
/
e^~ ,^*TOA-
Tj^ujj?
.(2/^y.
�^
j^AilML-
P^
f
\A^C
%V~tL*
#r
^-tr-1/
(7
e^-J
fr^+JL'''
(7
-MU^^tf^^i'-^n^V^i.
^><-U^t^
i^-t/TA-iA ,
>*-
- -L-^-77-L-i-O
#+~t-+J-
£*™~<A.
t/
�U-f
/ •/
c^^T^tA-I ^'J^n^f t t/wvc^ft^i'jf
Igr
•L<i^tj*J~ ^i^^-tJ^u^<>. M-<,
(JkJ~~, ^
7
�^VUX3
&£
/
Lv-^^tJis
t/\~*^tsit-v(
^__^^VT^?^W*L
t>c^o
f-f.
_J^
A^-VK__.
#>
f
tj
-i^i^k-
AH<^/~ ^^t^txj uJ^^-
&~>~J(
~f-^^>-i+^y
,/
~
-u~uw^
-^>-)--Ux(^V-»-tA
1
__
ti
l4AL*s
AT^U-«-
/7u_
-
£>is-~^—tA
'• ~£~v-y6
^"
/^Lo*~
�M^
t^Alw^ -xt/W^&Ut/-",
I
i
#
^t
rvvuv^.
c^^^^C^Ji^-^--
/^x~ %^r-zJ(
t^-
d^-ys-gX^
/
, .
/^^ ^~
k
^-—•^-•^-tr—T^^Y .
c£^
�to
Lr\W-v*^ .
faWi^
juTfJ^IL
,
U
/H^>wW
/Cpt-f»'v»-?*-i*u>
Tsi/i>/vl+^~
*<
*3
/
'
—^
£*sJs\tswjL*w,
*
*•
/xu*^- t*i*~J^
�' I I ) '—
T*-JtU*i .
Ut^A
-^U--V1^-V^l^t-
b-
\J-^^i^^—
r csw**.
frt^s^tJ.
¥
—•-t^-^n-
/
n^-<L ~^A~U**/
fris—
bJffii^jlv^AS-
,
l)-7-^-»-
&/f—
^X-t^-
^l-a~<A
'
j
(I /Vui*^-t-Z^a^i
-—
A)
1
"-T'K^VLA- ^^T^ao^-Ax-t/ . yvu*
~^J^
,/,
c^^-^-*^
/J
V
-fJUt^l —
-W~
10
CX^VV
6^-t^A
_A/V^M&4-lt^vV~
/-^vn-^-^fX^H-^^ ^
t^~d<
^~
'JisvUl(w<™1^
(^<A^
<^stv**-.
,%x(/-^HM^- »- $X <>^-
'^UxL-^vU-
w-
I
&x^w~o
Ui^~
-fivwpJU-
s^XU p_^
M^vt^c-
^ieAxixiv^O
* fcVTA-t^xt ^t^-i-t^_
�fa/
A-* M
<"A. ,
y
J^4S\^ist^L*-<3
'
ll>~l/&
If I
/-Ax.
*7
i<>
l/v~7»~r-t/ ,
/°W-*»—1A
t*^~
^h**u_
>i
~?
�-
^VV-U^-V-HTV
^LM^Uo~,
' cJ*>
^isi^^~
_^ti^iX<^
InA-
/
Is^^^A.
-1*^.
Uu£J~iAAj~vr~
'<
ll
tfJ^-r^6^{
-JL~^
�K^ ^MM-V^V^V i
^•is^tsts^Ks ,
to
4_
i/U) .
-4-A>^'/^" "^
A
L-
u
x
Mj^*^~*~
v^ry. "**i
ksV— v-vu-t-
fss^^iHA
LV —grV—I/
A-^-tX
x-?O^^-71xM
rn~U
\JtsTAJ^-n^-t^>^tt
i\
f^r"
f-T^tf^-v^^-—,
*
�/nt- ^yd/ujt^
' .^i-v-^uix- --£-t-£,
^ ^/"Z-*—v-T&y
af^e^i
(^xfctxz^*^^*^*^-**—
.-^K--#t-^-tMx
vO f
^g^v-^i^-
/,
-jsT^tj
l*^-~#.
MJt^-^1S*^~
(
j
<^M-/Vt^tjH^A
Ci^v
<^t—
�/no/.
Jr—cj^-,
/
oJ^J^
y
Ts^^4s&t-
/
'
^sWWTAM
/ ^ .'
--'Vi-'vv
V-H--ZXXK^f
«
i q^£<f*^n-Tx^i-.
_, —&-!*/tey
L
i^-ft-
ls*S-&*l*r\
f\Tt
<^V^4s\s«J
II
J
D
AnU--fA--
--<u^vv**
f
�IA»—iyiAk.
^^txt-Vp^^—Z^J-U-TU-C'
.^t^r—V^r*.
,
^
-f2^^t>-*4—
/^«_^_ U^e;
» X - c e
. 2 3^ _
•«-**<-'
7hsi*> ~^k^*^J
-K-<_^-v-(_-
?y~->^trt*rfu-^-t-T^
<?t- ^^-ir^A
^viAt^U^-^^
eJ/o*f - /^-^—
Iv-V-dL
/
. £ ^,—
oL
,
rn*.
iu.
K^-T^U-C
fhji
Jic^f
tw-4_
--WL^ISI^-
CAS
\t^n>-->^aM^c.<-
. K^ul^-xu^-o.
�THA- -hJb&siUAA^I
CrTr
f
ih^y ., ^vt^v
/
7
V
\AJ-S-
jL-
{iJ(jL^4-4 — i^t*S>
n^H*O
^2/Y^l>~^(sJ~~
-k-t-t^^s
tfj-
,
</
U)
9
j
fl^>~~~
<L0~4/(~ jv^ix'l/.
-y\sv^*^t^^ *.
LsM!*-
K>
f(^-
M
nr,
�CXS
t&ISAS
(
fas^V-tA'
Us
fystS~~
/J/>-t-, Jl/ __
riXXv-i-cV
^t-v^u-e- o-T^xt
(AJ-
fo^i>-^~rT~^—,
D
Ct^r—r>—T^~
T
\
i>AoA-J-
tJf/U^-tJ^cA
i^ts\s^-*-~~v-~~^—
;
lA^-'-v-^-^-'/ .
M^y
h
f
.~-A I
U
Cft^^t^h^^
r
'
•-/VilL^L^--ci~-l^~
I
#^%H^ .
' D
^1-^-cA
C^4fyt*S3
&SL^> . U/ds4-v~-L~-
}/&\s^—1^*1*^3
J
* f)
^V-T^O
/
£>
£~~9-
"T
*
0/r
y-^i^t^V
4sUv-t^*-*-t/^
£H
£
lsf-is-n/f'-
-K-C^t^
14
£4^—v<
IV
c/U?
(V
yjfa
n
<]
/
(I.
'
,
/
/
)
v
*Ut-^t^vx—
.
5L
$JJs*\.
(Wtn/-,
r.
|W-v-
, ^
,
1/tM-
ft^
^L
^>^(_
uf
W^M^^-^v^, JTUXJL
�6t^~c/^
sj
>^4
t*>s-i^-^tA
^ML
JfAxfc^*
-SU—v—t*.
l^rn^
,-1s~^-4Lo~*-
CAJ-^V-^V '
.
.x^/'fr**4faL
--f^—
JJJU, , I3f-
/wsa
-^KX»MX
AA>w^Jii£L ,
\/o
-
1
O-TT -t-i^M/;
i f
7>U-
MM- -Jh<v-t*J~ -^u^b**
*4*~Jb>v-dL
K^AMJU^
-^ywl
^Ar
/
4^^-^,. ^^
/
- -K-<-^-M^-
>0 , --bfi-L^JL
OL^irrt*' ,
O^l*4
&CVLS
iJL^^JL ^
KJ
OLA,
v-^vL^vnJh^>^w>T>^~ ^^vtx^
�-^M^M-t-
0-V-Ut-zX--
~-r-&^ms<sC'y l*d
0(^\/—v-^\T—
/
/
_^>-ui«^ixtr-
I
^tA^
^
, ()u*4/~ ^o-^^~-
<J
(JU4A;
/Xt ^I*^v4/- tylAJL^ C^L^T^J-
/
c-t^^h- t^ivsw-^*. ^^^ Ju^M^-:
'V^'-^VU
/^
i^iA^d~f*— -^iv-l$Lr &. &, {jtsuu/,
7,
7±
,
l/iA-t- ^<^x_
/W<_
{UjsT^
�_<K?-z-^-^^y
C<ww
--^LA-^^v--v^-tx«-
r
Ajt-v-T^-
rL^frV-^f
j
J£M*~^I{
^t-»-v*x
</
r
c*^~JL -[MM/—
�•fn^v^t*~<—
&/ .^W\r~v~<y
g
i r&
-<\j\sts*s^- ffo.,
r
' 0
^i^4/h/L~~
^\^ <2U/Oy~-vl_V('
&-^t^v-L^-^-«y
«^—
rTsts^^—
7lAn>-^->-v=4^vu^1^<>-
bs
v
^-<-A-*«-«-O ,
v
..--rt^-i^
if
.>^i>V
�r
f^<A^
Y*-~~V
-—•vt^vrrL
fa
-ru^u* yj--4-U
>
' ^^^^t^/h
J
/
v*W--j;VX
/
&>w*~r3^ll^yp
•V*T-'J-T>
'
"tt"^r~»^Yl^~
"
•
•
i
(
fa
-v^-rvv4-—
t—^"'-^^^b
^^-s>~-f
—"<-»-2xt---n^-txL^7
V* -- 1->^
A^-KZ-t^-t
~^y-f '
'T'W
—vi^v>>
T
/
�fry
�r
V**TW<I
' -~w^><i^u
A-^-r?
rw
—T-M / ' hrwi vawJwHfe
-rrt
r<V\5
m^v\
'-
-I/
AVTM.-
_^£-v-V"
/-
-ft '
V
"V
�A^i^-t^ux.^
$^1ll^yi/t~
X$X
&sif-v—t?S
y^^l*^
M-A^-W' ~-*-t-£Z_(
/C/-4- &-&l^—ts-is*l_^<7
^^c-<!>c*^L ,
-ft^y
%XH^ .
7
QV-V-&-
~^V~&^—-
.,
, Jnu.^
U^WS/,
r-w
/
-hsT^wsLJi—
•tt^t-
^^Vv^
/'
f~A.
^^V ^Vt^
/--y-
�r
•*3t+**
•^u*
n^frn/te
(MS-
�fr?
K)
X^l>-W-t-
«
/
A
V^n^, 2/,~.
fiWJ~ ~A4sv-ib'
es^-v-J^
/I
A-^t-«*i^-
-JlJ^e-is^^fL
^l-ASi*.
^-r
~@L^&fcji^ ,
�>-n-"2<--7-7'-t/
^LA^V—J^M^fe-^W^-^o
-TT,
~^r+v-~n^y
^t***-t-^
,.
fa^ts-^&£t-
-^-^/a.
T // •
yi-
Is^iSU^ttsc a ^-K^ffc.
^
\-4^ns
V
A^VL^**^^-
^?^^?W
J,
~*Tsls—l>-^7Z.
J<VK^&3,
�-tf-^dsfa-**^ ^-tWL
' • - L^
V
-r" \&w ,
n^
�+-v~r-
j^fL^~3'
a,
cdb&Mr K? ^^H^jii^'ti^^^-t^ -
/AI-MA
--vvx
^^-J-t-ix^N
^<3
/^-n*-tx«--
C^V-T^^r-V*^^
>"t^t->-r-u»- ,
"JLsiJiA^
V- *
£*
W-
^UxXi-zA-vt^ ,
A
irfr-
f*&v~t>^- c^i^Ct-
Qyujx^o ^U_,
.^-n^tuxvy-i^c,
(
�~f
<£
i ^\-^o^n^
-^tfW^V
J*
ex?
WY&J
-y-*«wi-<
y^^tstf
-rvi^-
..
^
-rw
1
7
r?
^ J
^^ryt.
-Y^L^-ft^tA.
M
&
-*^-rYW
i? y
*H*<t-vi-^—M?
-^-yyj
^^rT^f^tf^txxyy^
I
• /v-#^j<9
��'
—
I- V. V — ;
.**.*4LX^;
�THE; BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Orioles are inhabitants of the whole of North America from
Canada to Mexico. They enter Louisiana as soon as the spring commences
there.
When the Orioles first arrive the males are in the majority; they sit in the,
spruces calling by the hour, with lonely querulous notes. In a few days the females
appear, then the martial music begins, the birds' golden trumpeting often turning
to a desperate clashing of cymbals when two males engage in a combat, for "the
Oriole has a temper to match his flaming plumage and fights with a will."
t
This Oriole is remarkably familiar, and fearless of man, hanging its beautiful
nest upon the garden trees, and even venturing into the street wherever a green
tree flourishes. The materials of which its nest is made are flax, various kinds of
vegetable fibres, wool, and hair, matted together so as to resemble felt in consistency. A number of long horse-hairs are passed completely through the fibres, sewing it firmly together with large and irregular, but strong and judiciously placed
stitching. In one of these nests an observer found that several of the hairs used for
this purpose measured two feet in length. The nest is in the form of a long purse,
six or seven inches in depth, three or four inches in diameter ; at the bottom is
arranged a heap of soft material in which the eggs find a warm resting place. The
female seems to be the chief architect, receiving a constant supply of materials from
her mate. Like human builders the bird improves in nest building by practice, the
best specimens of architecture being the work of the oldest birds. The eggs are five
in number, and their general color is whitish pink, dotted at the larger end with
purplish spots, and covered at the smaller end with a great number of fine intersecting lines of the same hue.
In spring the Orioles' food seems to be almost entirely of an animal nature, consisting of caterpillars, beetles, and other insects, which it seldom pursues on the
wing, but seeks with great activity among the leaves and branches. It also eats ripe
fruit. The males of this elegant species of Oriole acquire the full beauty of their
plumage the first winter after birth.
The Baltimore Oriole is one of the most interesting features of country landscape, his movements, as he runs among the branches of trees, differing from those
of almost all other birds. Watch him clinging by the feet to reach an insect so far
away as to require the full extension of the neck, body, and legs, without letting go
his hold. He glides, as it were, along a small twig, and at other times moves sidewise a few steps. His motions are elegant and stately.
/
�
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ac25cbf609ea771b812b47b3f2c568b7.pdf
0ebb2add535e3bc6c7d8531bd08ad326
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
53
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 7 [May 1, 1911 - January 31, 1912]
Description
An account of the resource
These diary entries are from May 1, 1911 through January 31, 1912. This notebook was damaged and several pages are missing. Greene recorded his daily activities and interactions with his friends and places such as Miss Nancy Hagaman, and Henley Greer, and Zionville and Mabel.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1911-1912
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
33.9 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_007_1911_0501_1912_0131
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
A.J. Campbell
Beaver Dam
Boone
church
Cove Creek Academy
Cove Creek Church
drought
Farmer's Union
Forest Grove
G.H. Thomas
Henly Greer
Henry Norris
Hugh Hagaman
Hunting
J.C. Davis
J.F. Eggers
J.F. Oliver
J.J.T. Reese
John Sherrill
Lee Swift
Mabel
measles
molasses
P.C. Younce
Reverend L.C. Wilson
Robert Garland
Roy Eggers
School Fire
schoolhouse
sermon
Silverstone
Singing
Sunday School
Teacher's Institute
The Farmer's Educational Cooperative Union
trial
W.F. Reese
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d960bd540c9a561f709dea5159dfde84.pdf
eb41702a544e117e9e0b80be93290a29
PDF Text
Text
�I
l^T
t
n '^>v
UAS
^V--f^n~J~
y~i-f~
]rH^r
^>hid4~
fi irr
/ '
m
•f*l£tt*1~~
/
L<6 ,
—'i*~t*t>-+A*4tj
7
^
�I
I
�£*—1-u-^Vt-*
t_^.^*!=±±*4- c>-rJ^t^'-^t*-i»-i.
/"~
'
' j^
^S-ZU-<-*-t-
^x
£*-l*-&t-^
/
fin a^~ <x^ -^~>
^{L~<t~<>£^l ^^z>J- &£^
^
/4^L-^>
h
r£-
(^u4^U^-t^L
t/k
^^*-^jL**-^^j~-*^
<?<" —^rt^0—-t^tA/,
V— £* /
>*_
- ^^--?Tx^^^31^^'
*~
/%^
—-fXr*-*-
^ ^U0^^> ***~ tfij#L
(sV-^-rf~**^-«-~*---t^~-
�«-
-p-ey ^<?ws
<f '
- -k-vdt'
V
W<
/^^-2><1
^
T'TT-**'!-*'^—XT--*-^'' ,
�T
- f,
fl j —
"/
ja ;&.
^si^^UK, $li*s»*~ . /Xc- CS&T'
s
v~^
—^t-^-
tt^^t^Ct^g/!
f^*—)—
f^a. .^#L<-4^^- }-i<&W~
�4^rt
J -^
^ l V
U
a/*
fl^u**siS~
/ ' ft 4^^^^
,
(SL^ct^ri^
/fe
J) yJ^t4/f
~ ^4^4-
h~-v-<^^ _
*^nsT^rT~>r ,
£ J&-ust*>L^l
cAo*^ —
f
�/
*^-ir& ls
' ~ ^ ^ ^
1
- -
&s-^-*<j
*
�^JL •?// -
''T
/
CU*4< I y ^ _
/
/
7^i^-~W<—-^
U/t^. 2,~
</
fcuirpjj-' idht^h.
%^rr*-*—- - l^<t-~frX-~-
pv~- t>~*A.
.-*<I-^I-**M_-.
?riv^v-d*>-y
^
^
�rr
A
sr^v-»~>^^^^^
^/??7sA^~is<s
X'
.^^
IA/^— <— 2--^-^-v>-ix_^^£/
-
(f^/k,^,^^
- -
.
^
KV-
^
- - -
/^^-Z^i^^^^/
->
�Iff
^r^^r
(A^UJ, )7>,- LXU>-V^
ixtA-t—z^-tA
W
,
L
^
-•
r^
...^rf^r..tj2. :-J^
Cf—&
-7-7'T-*'
s
^UT_-V^\
�K/">u-t^-
"\^Uw
~-f*~tr*'
A
J .
l^f/~C' «-<-«c
f^^r^i^T^<j ,
~>
't
l/^sw^4
P)
fas'
&4AS-' -
•tJ-. ^
^is^i/ytJ-v
J' , J> .
/^L-£-z*-^~ £&~
£A^li^4-^c£'
/%^ ^U^e^^/^'
Ct^r^
-^t&<3
Mo^AtX-^v-T-T---^
iL^J^it^
I
ji^-^-^^*1^1^-
^
�A^£>£-^-~-^//
£*rr
tp
' /- /
^Mi^OL^f^t^-tA-'
(/ (f
J>
^Is-lt-ySL
/
/>
0
. <£o-^~-<- —1>-<+-*2^.
r
-
>-^^^
-
n *
.
<fe>
#u
�^*Lx^6^^-L^
I
^-
/ VL^
' o
/
&?**?_„ l^^^i^y^^^^- (^—J
�_--v2_/--ty
/
p
"-vyj//
I
S^rfo •</••-*&
ffwfi
^
- '/
�(ML -^d^t<---i-MX^W>
£/K^-v~^-
Ik
V^h^t-C.
JlL-
•&
(^n^4^, ^^K^>-VT^
7±_~>
<%-4STst£, yTC^t^,
1 x^
�-^Pt--t^f--t,,<»X*-
f
-i-- ^
i—*^fi^-t> — v-^L/
/ ^t-C-A-*—
L—-^i-*«-fc-«-txs.
O—*L*is-'\—
ix\
,/ix--<-—«=^L
,
'
^
^
I&-TS—I/*/
[x
'
�, -,
I
'ty^a^-r^ ^^^-^ ^ 0? r '-/^Vr
' ^\^~a.—*i--^--7-^—
V-
^v\^-^-^^A
�>
y'7& 3
,
^
'' cf1'
o^/yt
kT
rnr^i T
*-^*svtsy^.
71 W -V^
��. '
^
•-^^^
*S;
r^
pS'
^
J^-^i^^/^'
£^..-
U^i^J\
^v^w-- •
/^A-<_
�r
/
~—f^^-Zf
~~*~^1
£=% 1^1
"^^L^^^
/ (/
—wt^-xy
jt^? <~y?^vrf-
' •—-3_W2_^-i.5^-:?-^/?
•rfr^f, ^^
-^-T>^2o^?-— D^t-ri*~>?~^~4^t^t^~
"~t^r%7r^ —vt-£-*—)*--jyr-'
ix
-->-*-7->-T^
~t^9^T^- SL^)-Jsys?^->
°^//
�if a,.
*
^5*±^C:
/
' Ca^^
7
r'sfr-^^-^b^Sr-
'
•/
fc^
y
L
^^^-^-^t^^..
^:
y
''/,-
ro
,8
i<-~£-^t^
r\ A^Axs-
�Tih^fafil *T^&
->-^t/Z-zy
~—t^-r-\^v<L
' \/' ;f xy^^r-V\S~y
V,-VV>7
-WZ^
-^^^---^-Z^tY-^"
-1^*2^4. -
~*S?^~^~%~1 1
'
£ l
> ^/
�A^te**^^
i
^-*"3_
/I
V\^JL^^-
,^W-W*^~
&s^r~v-vL
,
./•KX^V^
fl/AviV^-^-X
M
te.tf.
�n^v^vv--
/
(^Tr^L^^ _-<L-<^t^-«^
�(/"~
• "
/
Q
1
—«
�1 cU^-
^^
. _ &T
.-fO.-
/
~ I&**L* J^^m*£-J&^ ** ^^
Ifaj
^-
^t^n.
-siu-0*WL*-
o-^- <rt ^ f**- A
' 7;
. LJUU , }*rn~\
J
W4viA-
^.'
r*^***—
�'f ' ;^>i^ruMV\''*"
l-t-t-7*v
'^ft^J
<--~~l*i'i'ri'->£^
' -7^
V^^-A^^
.sT
~t
s*3~-4lsi^
1
ff /• ' rtjy\j
-1
-<il'.-fil u*ffi' cx**wsslfa^^
mz-^x-
�A—Zc--/§?^-
0^
I
/LJ^-^xf-txx^v-z^-i^^
?
y
/W*-*<-«-^<^
ft d
^ fj
i
•^h^-t^ ^/li^^i^^^: ^^-^-*/^>
^u&^ur-v-^ls
/A^^ i^^-L(^u^^~' - h^<3L_
^-L^ri^^^
C/ls\s*^Ts^
CA^^V^
^(^V-~*f/t>-Jtshf
1^t<^L
�2?^^^^*^
<^^
^^^^
^MSuA*-4'~' ^t^^U ,
jQtJlSl-*—.
�- A-^-t?
^-tL^e-T^Lb-<*-^___
�O^l^uds
C*^-—•*_ '
^v*-->o-^^a-^>u---T--t>--^ux-
- t4^t«r«-&**3-*<"'»£Z
- Az-f—j^-vt-"—-
^t^t—Xl t^^t^^
J t / " 1/ls-frO
rT^-p-^i>^i^L~—
M^Lfafet-<^* J? t"fo^?~$
t
£>^-T>—*C
. /c^-<^-6>^/S
—&~&-£ft
&J^r^e^^f
^C
>^*—p*-?<—*—
L^e*Ji*-
cV C*^^^*2
l^^^t^e^—
(f
^^^-^<-tX.
�X— ^-^-z^>-<—
fTstn*^—
^<_-i_£-z^t—
f^V-^r^K.
sQe&Z&dE?^
-^t-tvt-^-«x-
^^i^^^-tp^^f^C*-
<?^xz-£rt
t^-JL^tjt
J
^
^
^ >^
^4^—T>^T?-
<%^v~?^*--ft^zs-*st~*-^—
£--ts-ts~rz4.
,
�^n^i*..*-. /f
/)
LSrlssQi/ls^Tsi. —•
/
£s\^*-*^l/L'
^^ ,
/
/
; 4>L^*s£r,
-^H^^o
^n^n*~z>^ris<j
-
<%*-is-&~dL
�---<^?^-^l^<?^-->7-—^
A
lA^-^L^j^^j^,
/]
»
,
^_ £/
IA^- /C-£/
/•
bZ^(.^t*~~T^O
H^f>~i^
W^l**^-J[S(*S~
KX-^>^
^~ c^u^-o-^r X^cX/--
Jl^^Csho^
';
/^-tic-v ,
^iWU/fc
O^AAS
"jr
M^«ll/
_^Cs\sVV~-V~JjZ
//*--^*-nyv^^^^^^^--^<x^z/t-^c'
pi^-^-C^wOi^-j^-fca
^W
/
>!,>.
^
^t—v-t—CA: ^-^
^t^i^g/L- £ru~
�/Htx^^x?. iK- <&• IA^J<*^^-/^z-^^^*-*^*-^
<7j ,
• 4^m«-t--T'"ix<"-~>'^
•rTsir-i*^\s
<• M 0tZ«*d~*-*</
�fe^^C>< —
I
,
f (7
- £>tS-i*-*~
/^h^t^r
^2*-^^
^->*-z^z-«--t^-^^-t-
/^T~>
**~**^~
,V>
>4O-X~
r-^.
^"-<—
�K^i-^-^xJbh~
^//
~*
^
Q^ ^J^^t^fiM^Tr fa-w/>~\
±0,
7l^o
'•&**
d~<^-<^^
J_
JT.—-
//T^O
^!fi-C«O
^Ct_^^
-^-zW^
f^^^ &h<^^
i
v_J--zxx\xVi-jHr'
-xtxu_A-i^-- t*
Sf-
1^-7>KL
/xt/ - jr' i^LJax^-^vv^
,!5HL.
^-1^0
�./^--Z^-t-t-—
^Txkf^r
^A-C-£--><^ ^--
^
J
fast/-Ts-<*-~ --^lt-'O<--vi_--
�r
_
7^-zx, u/ *fi
•~A*^*~j^ir^t*sii~c)<-
^
/)
£x^2>#—jxTx-^x^' ,
<f
^
�T>^zA/~~
4-Bfe**-?, £/ - uL*. cJ^-y
ri&*_ ^v~n*si*^L
n r-
<f
rz^o~ ^
�frs
v-m
4^v—i^^_
, ?<— T&^
,
i^l^T^l^^--^/
h^Ts-i^- <-_
—4^t/-&~^r%.
/f
£-z--i*-L-c-4-<—
-t
—
51
/^ - /f- y^_
*
•
l^~l^r*iL^*T- —f^t^f^. —tX--»-i—-^_
�n^ir^V-*~
^4-^^TV^1
Z
*-^'/
�~>^i^^-ri^t^^
o i -
^'
-—T-*-^T_S *
? / '^*^&k
p
^ W/
O^2-/l^>it~- 2-7*- -xy
/?
^^T«2xf
C/
(7
�^^>7-LX_,
14*-^-
�f>^r-i^- - •f<~*-£-'-i^. —.
&y&f.
V
&--i*Ui-j!L*s&&
i
J
i/r~
/
^-7 i^t^^rt^-
^MSW^t&A—
�ff
h/XX^W
9<3>
i
4^tr-^-tX
T-ff
fy^^—J^t
..^S^VK.
Y-^1
ff-l^
^^^-*^-»^<z. ^*
U ju^
.
V
WsJiM^^
fr~*> —t^
A T
'l/l^^C^t'l^
/
'
�v\T^t,
w
-yi
'*~*M^
'i*f%''**n
S*^
^^
• <+
V
-7^-Z>
-Jtf^^D
'-rW\M
�A.
-^>TXU3
-"KZ-^^-T^-v^-
—-'KL-Z»-O
^_^*U-<_-£--Z^-T—
yt
- fy^is—is-ir
f
/
^
(ynXMxM/
�J-°
f
/
Hid
$rr« CM*-™
j »
i
3L £X
9
�(if'"
THE: EUROPEAN KINGFISHER.
E Kingfisher occupies the whole continent of North America, and although
migrating in the North he is a constant resident of oiir Soxithern states.
The illustration on cover shows the European jMngfisher, formerly found in
England and portions of Europe in great numbers, but irow rarely seen, owing to an
unwarranted persecution by game keepers, and also by collectors who are always on
the lookout to capture this beautiful bird. The habits of European kingfishers are
identical with those of the American bird.
Like most birds of brilliant plumage, the Kingfisher is a very timid bird and
prefers a quiet and secluded haunt. It loves the little trout streams with wooded
jid precipitous banks, the still ponds and small lakes, the sides of sluggish rivers
and mill ponds.
Here in such a haunt the bird often flits past like an indistinct gleam of bluish
light. Fortune may sometime favor the observer and the bird may alight on some
twig over the stream. It eagerly scans the shoal of young trout sporting in the pool
below, when, suddenly it drops down into the water and almost before the observe^
is aw?re of the fact, is back again to the perch with a struggling fish in its beak.
Sometimes the captured fish is adroitly jerked into the air and caught as it falls.
Fish is the principal food of the Kingfisher, but it also eats various kinds of insects,
shrimps, and even small crabs.
It rears its young in a hole, which is made in a bank of the stream it frequents.
The nesting hole is bored rather slowly and takes from one to two weeks to complete. Six or eight glossy eggs are laid, sometimes on the bare soil, but often on
the fish bones which being indigestible are thrown up by the bird in pellets.
The Kingfisher has a crest of feathers on the top of his head, which he raises
and lowers especially when trying to drive intruders away from his nest. The
plumage is compact and oily, making it almost impervious to water.
It is said that few birds are connected with more fables than the Kingfisher.
The superstition that the Kingfisher when suspended by the throat would turn its
beak to that particular point of the compass from which the wind blew, is now dead.
It was also supposed to possess many astonishing virtues, as that its dried body
would avert thunderbolts and if kept in a wardrobe would preserve from moths the
woolen-stuffs and like contained in it. Under the name of " Halcyon," it was
fabled by the ancients to build its nest on the surface of the sea, and to have power
of calming the troubled waves during its period of incubation ; hence the phrase,
" halcyon days."
�
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d1ea57cc443f24c75c191cf27b832928.pdf
fa2d9f88479191a1ff0581ba01cd84f6
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
52
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 9 [July 1, 1912 - January 31, 1913]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-1913
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
34.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_009_1912_0701_1913_0131
Description
An account of the resource
These entries range from the dates of July 1, 1912 through January 31, 1913. In this diary, he included poetry, which is not featured in his other diaries. A.J. Greene recorded his daily activities, details about the weather, details about his work, politics of the time period, and many details about church and The Bible. He writes of several local places including Mabel, The Appalachian Training School, and Bushy Fork.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
B.B. Daugherty
Baltimore convention
Bible quotations
Boone
Brother Wilson
cherry picking
Christmas tree
church
corn
Cornhusking
Experiment Station
Farmer's Union
farming
Forest Grove
Fork Ridge
Governor Charles B. Aycock
Henly Greer
Henry Norris
J.C. Davis
J.F. Oliver
J.J.T. Reese
Jacob Norris
Jethro Wilson
John Norris
Justice of the Peace
Lectures
Mabel
mill
molasses
Report on Education
Road Superintendents
schoolhouse
Shakespeare
Singing
Sunday School
Teacher Recertification
Teacher's Institute
Three Forks Association
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/b4f1cc4ae494de135b6f9e0fcf612d2c.pdf
fbf8771f2c47a90133ce3f88eb4ceb00
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/5545a85fc48539e157e9b79ec7e70d8b.pdf
2612464bc376e741fe4ef79f7d7b4098
PDF Text
Text
��������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
53
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 14 [July 1, 1914 - September 30, 1914]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
45.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_014_1914_0701_1914_0930
Description
An account of the resource
These diary entries are from July 1, 1914 through September 30, 1914. The diary is based around the actions and thoughts of Andrew Jackson Greene. He wrote about work on the farm, Fourth of July festivities and the details of church life. He also included much opinion about religion, and people. Community members involved include James Horton, P.C. Younce, and J.R. Wilson, and many more.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
baseball
Boone
Brother Trivett
calamity howlers
cherry picking
church
corn
David Stern
farming
G.C. Norris
G.P. Sherrill
Harrison Church
hay
hoeing corn
J.R. Garland
J.R. Wilson
James Horton
Literary Society
mill
P.C. Younce
Republican Convention
road inspection
Roy Eggers
schoolhouse
sermon
Silverstone
Singing
Solomon Younce
Sunday School
trial
Upland
W.H. Campbell
World War I
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/adc7cf39606dcb2a64a1b868b0c978af.pdf
eb694bcd2eaba4a60b33fd81e2b53ee1
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/c1e82ae02bf1d2fef25b5b4069acff51.pdf
75aac19c457d85e8d9e63bd4436f6c2f
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
61
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 16 [December 1, 1914 - July 31, 1915]
Description
An account of the resource
Entries for this diary begin on December 2, 1914, and end on July 31, 1915. These entries include information about Greene’s social life, and his work. He wrote daily about what he did the weather, and what his friends had to share with him that day. He mentions many local people and places including, but not limited to J. R. Garland, Reverend David Greene, Mabel, Vilas, and Boone.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914-1915
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
64.4 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_016_1914_1201_1915_0731
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
automobile
B.B. Dugherty
Boone
Brother Trivett
church
Commencement Day
court
D.D. Daugherty
David Greene
Doctor Butler
Domestic Science Department
Euterpian Literary Society
flood
G.P Sherrill
garden
Hunting
I.G. Greer
J.F. Olivers
J.R. Garland
J.R. Wilson
Junior Reception
Lee Swift
Mabel
Meadow View Club
mill
Newland Hall
Professor Downum
road work
Senator Lineback
state examination
Sunday School
teachers' club
Union Baptist Church
Vilas
W.F. Reese
Watauga Club
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/7be4d5ee6a18a116b99249d22412fdfa.pdf
ced52d8c63610690af85ba550c835621
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/b1dd0037a08dd33821dad47e367bd429.pdf
c7aa5ebbb693bdec814da09da3e5d92e
PDF Text
Text
��������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
51
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 17 [August 1, 1915 - October 22, 1915]
Description
An account of the resource
These diary entries range from August 1, 1915 through October 22, 1915. Greene wrote daily about what he did and what his thoughts are regarding current situations. He also gave information on several community events such as the Conference of the People of Watauga County.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
37.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_017_1915_0801_1915_1022
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church
blues
Boone
Caroll Jonson
Conference of the People of Watauga County
court
Episcopal Church
Mabel
Newland Hall
Professor Downum
Reverend Payne
Singing
Sunday School
Teachers' Institute
W.M. Thomas
World War I
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/2e81cbc8688d7562f958d36881e6ea2e.pdf
b358ca188ec6c977968d25b1b024b77f
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/c78f68c4406f47ab87fe106fc9aa7bf7.pdf
d77aaa84bfc2d430f8dbc62d5e1a4f51
PDF Text
Text
�����������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
33
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 18 [October 23, 1915 - December 12, 1915]
Description
An account of the resource
The diary includes entries from October 23-December 12, 1915. Andrew Jackson Greene wrote each day about work on the farm, the weather, church activities, school and business. He also kept record of the people that he visits each day, and community events that took place during this time period. Greene also made frequent reference to Appalachian Training School.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
31.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_018_1915_1023_1915_1212
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Boone
commissioner's court
D.D. Daugherty
Declaimers Contest
faulty meeting
Mabel
Mountain Regions of the South
Preparatory Department
Professor Downum
Reverend Grimsley
Sunday School
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/5ce4610fd91898b0a1b1ce2f7ac37467.pdf
2a3c9820448fe5ecb4b86de3f917d0b5
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/58fb76149b2a84f6e603a6968b8a630b.pdf
f8ba606d3393eca1f01d05a93bb6e892
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
51
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 19 [December 13, 1915 - March 12, 1916]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915-1916
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
37.3 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_019_1915_1213_1916_0312
Description
An account of the resource
Diary entries from this diary are from December 13, 1915 through March 12, 1916. In this diary many of the entries are about the weather, Appalachian Training School, and Church. He wrote about a new program that he started at the school called the teachers club, and the small numbers of students that decide to brave the harsh winter conditions.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County--Diaries
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Boone
Christmas
church
commissioner's court
D.D. Daugherty
faculty meeting
J.J.T. Reese
Mabel
Newland Hall
Professor Downum
Reverend Bradshaw
Reverend Waters
Roosevelt the Citizen
snow storm
Sunday School
teachers' club
The Star Rover
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/be3a115b38eb3b56d497918049dbb0f3.pdf
8663b6d167c9c81fcbbc797d42b494f6
PDF Text
Text
�����������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
43
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 21 [March 13, 1916 - May 11, 1916]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1916
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
21.8MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_021_1916_0313_1916_0514
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from March 1-May 11, 1916. Each day Greene writes about the weather, schoolwork, church, and the friends he visits with. Because this diary was written in the spring, most of the entries are about the weather, how he longed for warm spring days, but was greeted by snow in the morning. During this time Greene is living in Boone at Appalachian Training School in Boone. He makes visits home, but he doesn’t permanently reside there. Greene often speaks of getting dinner in White Hall, which is still the name of a dormitory at Appalachian State University today. During his time at the school, he began to attend the Baptist Church in Boone.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church
Boone
Court Week
D.D. Daugherty
Elizabethton
Mabel
Professor Jones
Reverend Adams
Sunday School
Watauga History Company
White Hall
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/c6d49fc60dc6c5a2e59073bb95d1c510.pdf
288cc272e5f20cce284aa0112525338e
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/48175b7d62ad60b15b857f2bb66f8fe4.pdf
8536178904eb086f030d5e75424de6ec
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
73
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 22 [June 15, 1916 - October 12, 1916]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1916
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
55.2MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_022_1916_0615_1916_1012
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from June 15, 1916 through October 12, 1916. Each day Greene wrote about his work on the farm, his friends, his family, the church, and community events. Important events and people include D.E. Benfield, Mabel Farmer’s Union Rally, J.H. Isaacs and many more.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School White Hall
Boone
Colonel Fred Olds
Cone Lakes
Culver's Mill
D.D. Daugherty
Farmer's Union Rally
farming
Hubbard Swift
Literary Society
Mabel
Professor Downum
R.L. Doughton
Reverend Adams
Reverend Waters
summer session
Sunday School
World War I
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/12021b8985203e61e8e8708fd67a051b.pdf
773401ff2835d20a69bcb059e7771b43
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
51
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 25 [March 11, 1917 - May 31, 1917]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1917
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
34.7MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_025_1917_0311_1917_0531
Description
An account of the resource
This Diary contains entries from March 11-May 31, 1917. He shares his perspective as a local, a teacher, and a church member. He frequently includes his thoughts and opinions about church services, the weather, and his work at Appalachian Training School. He often travels between Mabel, Zionville, Vilas and Boone.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church of Boone
Boone
J.W. Farthing
Mabel
Professor Brown
Rustin South
Sherwood
Sunday School Convention
Vilas
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/4677969cec89efc2b40c0d6b2b6aca06.pdf
1147d1eb5868ffc21c2d7e10ac6012f8
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
25
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 27 [September 1, 1917 - November 14, 1917]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1917
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
23.6MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_027_1917_0901_1917_1114
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from September 1-November 14, 1917. Greene wrote each day about his work, the weather, and events within the community, especially church events. People mentioned in this diary include Mr. Walker Tatum, B.B. Daugherty John Morgan, Rev. Mr. Adams, and Rev. Mr. Clark. Places mentioned through this diary include Asheville, Blowing Rock, Boone, Watauga County, Camp Jackson in Columbia SC, and many more.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Asheville
B.B. Daugherty
Blowing Rock
Boone
Camp Jackson
Columbia SC
John Morgan
Mr. Walker Tatum
Rev. Mr. Adams
Rev. Mr. Clark
Watauga County N.C.
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/bff9587ff8f74f183339bdfe98a07224.pdf
13c7af9c53a55cbd7cc97c34cd3ffc2c
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
23
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 28 [November 18, 1917 - February 20, 1918]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1917-1918
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
15.4MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_028_1917_1118_1918_0220
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from November 15, 1917 through February 20, 1918. Each day Greene wrote about his work at Appalachian Training School, the weather, the church, community members, and community events. This diary gives insight on what the typical school day at Appalachian Training School would look like as well as what life in Boone looked like during the years of 1917 and 1918.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
"Ann of Ava"
Anniversary of the Library Societies
Apppalachian Training School
Boone
Community
E.S. Coffey
Hickory High School
Ive
J.J. Spanhour
Mission Study
Mission Study Band
Newland
Newland Hall
Snow
Sunday School
teacher
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/3ab99bfe3feed67c102ef28d853d7eff.pdf
79993e7c5eb4f1fd281509ab595044c9
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
67
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 29 [February 20, 1918 - November 18, 1918]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1918
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
57.1MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_029_1918_0221_1918_1118
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries for each day from February 21-November 18, 1918. Greene wrote each day about the Appalachian Training School and the work he did there. Mentioned in this diary, and still on Campus at Appalachian State University today is White Hall, which is now a female residence hall. He also wrote about his involvement in the Baptist Church in Boone. He frequently mentions Rev. Mr. Adams, as well as many other reverends. He gives insight as to what the life of a local from Boone NC might look like during this time period.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church of Boone
Boone
Howard's Knob
Lilly Reese
Mast Store
Patriotic Rally
Professor D.D. Dougherty
Rev. Mr. Adams
Sunday School Institute
Supt. Smith Hagaman
White Hall
Winkler's Creek
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/c4f94aaf67d37b6db75e727b9ad39190.pdf
754a71d5b0e25595f5f59d25d21328a3
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
65
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 30 [November 19, 1918 - March 17, 1919]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1918-1919
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
67.5MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_030_1918_1119_1919_0317
Description
An account of the resource
This diary has entries for each day from November 1918 through March 1919. He writes his daily activities, his thoughts and opinions on specific events, and important records. This diary gives unique perspective into the life of an Appalachian Training School teacher, and a local of Boone, NC.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Boone
Chappell
superintendent
teacher
Travel
Weather
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/1635986a2a2a25391675deb1073e91b9.pdf
94c4da9f2d299b60f63d90b68256a110
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
71
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 31 [March 18, 1919 - July 19, 1919]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1919
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
76.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_031_1919_0318_1919_0719
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes daily entries from March through July 1919. In this diary Greene wrote about his work at Appalachian Training School, the weather, the church events, and members of the community. At this time, Greene was living and working in Boone, NC. Names mentioned in this diary include Professor D.D. Dougherty, Rev. Mr. Bradshaw, and Mr. Coble of Elk Park.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County--Diaries
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Battery E. 113 Regiment of Field Artillery
Boone
church
Community
Elk Park
Hodge's Gap
Levois Field
Mabel
Mobile School at the Baptist Church
Mr. Coble
Professor D.D. Dougherty
Rev. Ed. Hodges
Rev. Mr. Bradshaw
Rev. R.C. Eggers
Sallie Warren
Sermons
Solomon Younce
Yvonnie Ward
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/be379dcf2326d9eece414acd00a57337.pdf
7f571f9b0be497d61bbf11b36f4a781c
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
27
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 32 [July 20, 1919 - August 31, 1919]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1919
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
21.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_032_1919_0720_1919_0831
Description
An account of the resource
This is a diary with daily entries by Andrew Jackson Greene from July 20 to August 31, 1919. Greene wrote about his daily activities, the weather, the church, and his work at Appalachian Training School during July and August. Places mentioned in this diary include Boone, Mabel, Blowing Rock, Beaver Dam, and Eastern Training School.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
A.J. McBride
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church at Union
Beaver Dam
Blowing Rock
Boone
Bristol
Eastern Training School
Elbert Farthing
Elizabethton
G.R. Sherril
I. G. Greer
J.R. Wilson
Johnnie Eggers
Mabel
Ollie Eggers
Phonograph
W.M. Thomas
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/9f8e962264e320d11e9e8b2f46585f77.pdf
066881c549ec52bcac3037ac0d104713
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
29
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 33 [September 1, 1919 - October 8, 1919]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1919
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
25.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_033_1919_0901_1919_1008
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from September 1 though October 8, 1919. Each Day Andrew Jackson Greene made an entry about his work, the church, or community events. He was a teacher at Appalachian Training School in Boone, NC. Community members and events that are mentioned throughout this diary include, but are not limited to J.H. Farthing, J.J. Eller, and the Fair at Mountain City.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County--Diaries
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
• Appalachian Training School
• J.J. Eller
Boone
C.C. Greer
Ethel Tester
Fair at Mountain City
Ida Proffitt
J.H. Farthing
L:ena Wilson
Mabel
Normal Sunday School Class
Ola Eggers
R.M. Brown
Secondary School Training Class
Stella Hagaman
Timbered Ridge
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/dfd213b9a2e89dae1e1819a7cdeec9a9.pdf
4f93ede722e4bae0bc99df6ae4e1fa37
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
33
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 35 [December 7, 1919 - February 4, 1920]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1919-1920
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
27.1MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_035_1919_1207_1920_0204
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes entries from December 9, 1919 through February 4, 1920. In each entry, he included information about what was happening in the church and in the community. He wrote about his daily work at Appalachian Training School and his students. Many entries include comments about the weather for that day. Familiar places named in this diary include Beaver Dam, Cove Creek, Mabel, and Boone.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Beaver Dam
Boone
Cove Creek
Dan Swift
J.R. Wilson
Kenticky
Mabel
Mae Greene
Mr. Wagner Reese
Normal Class
Spencer Thomas
Students
Sunday School
Training Class
White Hall
wood cutting
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/fb5fad1c487beca364eb23646bab35ed.pdf
8fd91063bebb48dd13223d9140deb3e4
PDF Text
Text
.0^
�~^"$L^l <^-^
fV.
Vr
l&ilMl i^ll^. - '^ilifc*^
��.^^T^ty
-^^^^
L^i-z*-y^ir?2^ AT^O^-
^^^ ^A^^
az~
^f^z£*^s
?-z_^"
^^^C^> ^^£~-T/
�C^2 ^^-z^ .-^^~V~<-^
^
(2L^0—-^r'
�P '
�7
_^^v~-&---^>r&
y. V?
/
<^ri^Ls'r
&4>-1^l-t#
�-7** T^
^•y-T?—^^Z^^O-^
^pT^T^-f^-?^-'
^
•o-nsf
^
_: y
../'
�y
/ .
/
V^-A
^TT-^-
'-&
'
^
/vx? ' /
&-i^^7^^^~>--^-^^y'
t^
' (7 / -f
r^t^l
o
9
^Mf
<?
��_\ •*•-' t-J-
�i 3.*
'^iLf.
��' (Qte/y
^€^FisL~x-
•
/
(3>v—z>—zs-
,/f
/y-jLjfi
-JLZttJL*
.
ri
(Lj~0~<ts,
�-/—--^
or
�"T
A
oALu-C- /
9^^
—P
-^ <% i —. /^-"A7^- _^^A-^^cx^tx-/-
&^L^L^—7£^^
(
V
^--^-
'^--^l^-^f-^^T^-ff^^i-^l/^..
�X
^
/
/-
/
/
9
�'
ST,
6£
2^^-^^
./
C
^j>i&^
CJL-^j^^i^L^^
A~
^*3^L^&-u
#^~
-^^y\j^>
/?'/JJ
^c^-^i.^c^'
^e-^rT_^£^f—
<
^L^J^^^-^
/)
(2^*&—^-z^c^^^cz^
y
~~^
--z^Cs^^
»
r
�s~?--)^12^-),--
*
/
-">-£--—»2--~Z2£--~2<7
.-....-/•
��(
&
XL/
-t^^^fr--ii£__
7-—,£—-z*—;A2_HS>
^^L-
�r
'
—
�CTN,
�Lu.
#r
LJl^i^u^^
J'
/Z^C^ZxtA
a
^^^-"T-lx^
&L(^'Wl<y
��/•"
x-7
W-^-'^<^-'/tO
^it%L o^ ~/-~^---^^t^TL-*
^-z^-<3,
y
^?7^^?^&-*££^' -^^
x
<^2^V—
--S^'^^^
C^ *3^is*-
7&L -
-^^^-^^^^<j
�n
/
~y^^^r^^~
(7.
^L^^-7-LJL^D
ky4^r
- &>7T~~^
^
'^^^L-^ -7LS
/?
�'
^F
(.3 -
�0-?"~*2-~7
�a
�V
7
-~^L^rt^m_^~
�^^
/?&^i4£^ ^CD
-v^-^Z?^^7 <^7^
-r
�>
y^"
-^^-z^-
�-77--><?.
/(/
^^p-9^-^ ^,
~—~£^ y
/
3^-7.
��I
fii
*>
',
•'. A
. - , .
I
I
" -
? T
^^--*2^t -^?
•s-^j
-: /
.
,
^llfeJIf^Pil
•
.
.-; v
,
��
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/dfcab736818867fa4c6e1d60820cb973.pdf
c539ccac324e7a92eec8f641f2db58a3
PDF Text
Text
���������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
37
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 39 [November 25, 1920 - January 27, 1921]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-1921
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
35.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_039_1920_1125_1921_0127
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes daily entries from November 25, 1920 through January 27, 1921. Greene wrote daily about the weather, the work at his school, and the workings of the church. Familiar places mentioned include Willowdale, Oak Grove, Boone, Mabel, Lovill Home Annex and Johnson City, Tennessee.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Archie Warren
Boone
Chappell
church
Henry Greene
Johnson City
Lovill Home Annex
Mabel
Neighbors
Oak Grove
Prayer Meeting
Tennessee
Timbered Rdge
Willowdale
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d47d3f00118356458180d7869cd55996.pdf
a622385fe3ac77894560f3867fc5ad54
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������'
/£
/-F
£*--<2--^^-f^
*z-—-^-?^C^—
>•
v?"i*---*7
������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/77173558c1b57d0e621ea12a600fdd76.pdf
53e83597abd3511c17eaed4dfd89ab80
PDF Text
Text
�����������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
45
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 43 [August 26, 1921 - November 13, 1921]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1921
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
45.9MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_043_1921_0826_1921_1113
Description
An account of the resource
This diary contains daily entries by Andrew Jackson Greene on a range of subjects such as weather, church, school, community events, and travel. The diary contains entries from August 26 through November 13, 1921. Greene travels to a multitude of places throughout this diary some of these places include, Willowdale, Boone, Mabel, Zionville, Deep Gap, Cove Creek, and Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Bethel
Boone
Boone Trail Highway
Bushy Fork
church
Community
Cove Creek
Deep Gap
Elizabethton
Lan Davis
Leonard Hardin
McBride’s Mill
school
sociology
Susan Ledford
Tennessee
Travel
Watauga
Weather
Wilkes
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/cd32a2300f2a2a1173a3c6f79a363a3f.pdf
6453487cad1b6636cc54bdb805d2ae71
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/19a6f9ddc94ae4d5667ffc5dc6ea08fb.pdf
42d3a52291342a3d348aae6e4be99f6a
PDF Text
Text
���������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
51
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 46 [August 8, 1922 - November 10, 1922]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1922
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
47.6MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_046_1922_0808_1922_1110
Description
An account of the resource
This diary includes writings by Andrew Jackson Greene for each day between August 8th and November 10th in the year 1922. Each day Greene wrote about the things he had accomplished, how he was feeling, and the weather that they were experiencing on that particular day. Important towns and specific locations mentioned include but are not limited to Boone, Baptist Church of Boone, Appalachian Training School, Cove Creek, Forest Grove, Howard’s Knob, and Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
Baptist Church of Boone
Boone
Cove Creek
Elizabethton Tennessee
Forest Grove
Howard Barnes
Howard’s Knob
J.H. Brinkley
Mabel
Mountain City High School
Red Letter Day
Riley Horton
School basketball
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/634568a2eb9e8b3207c46c786e386e12.pdf
02504cef8e85f4a1467efd19369ea100
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/765673eb9b9c35a7b52ad13e11991581.pdf
1ece82c4036289860990f400c536a42f
PDF Text
Text
��������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
53
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 47 [November 11, 1922 - February 18, 1923]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1922-1923
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
50.3MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_047_1923_1111_1923_0218
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene kept this diary between the dates of November 11, 1922 through February 18, 1923. He wrote in this diary each day. He chose to record his daily activities including work at the school, preaching sermons, studying the Bible, working on the farm, going into town, traveling, and visiting with friends and neighbors. He also included information about the weather and community events. Community members named in this diary include but are not limited to Jeter Ramsay, Graydon Eggers, and President Dougherty. Dougherty was the president of the Appalachian Training School.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian Training School
B.S. Dugger
Bazaar at the Blackburn Hotel
Boone
Georges Gap
Gordon Hodges
Graydon Eggers
J.B. Elliot
J.W. Fletcher
Jeter Ramsay
Oak Hill
President Dougherty
Principal Dean Swift
Union Baptist Church
Watauga County Public Schools
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/6ac3cf9c91770a317ddab28642d55f25.pdf
be592f0c20b941ccca13238e1f0c0d6d
PDF Text
Text
^y
�LHHIV
�c?4-*^--*-ti-o—-Ay
If £ 3
'
c*~^n^*~^ ~--^?^-~v^i*— -T^-P^~y~zr—-o—>-»r--
�V
'
3
'
C7^ -*•*?• .
c=»*--"?-z—
^S-—*^-^—?-z_X———
<r
^-^>7Z^<-<i-<>-7Z—f*
-^--^—&<—afr^
•^&-p-Lf
_^-f7l
<i^—^t—^^c
���8
9
Gfi-^v-. J2 £>; _
^--^—t-gs^s
—c2_—£>—>-?-i--«-^
--#L-«_g^tx'
^
sV-t-e^tS.
— -fz^v-is-*^
i£Z-^&—,
#—^^X
/
abi<st^Tf~c^t~~a
£7
—7*-<—ms*zz-*^n^
—-^^ttx^O^-«X
f"
/?
J>
^~^t4s—-ff-Tf^r?-
.—"???/y
I/
^~7~f-0--ryi^'
-TT /
^—7?
<*^X*~
�10
^
_^^5^-<?
(s-—"^t-^1-—
—--t>—^~
--^2^L-«'
�13
£?t-^O—
(J^£_^—•?>—t->-7
&—•&--*-*•—-^ <<^S
�-^C-*—x*~ —z^i^—z^-r^-^l
�17
t^-jr'
//
,/2fx^
-£-^t£x
t/
~*£<^.^^iely~-,
/
�19
�if
^
^l.^^r
�9
y^^V-. /^,_
^ ^
^ ^
C^--e^->*-^i^. <r^
^^7
rz&?$L£~s ,
,
_
^
> ^
^
—^L&^f* y-
C^
^^
*^-~y>~-t--~7<l^a
^^^ ^KL^^, _^Z
--«^—25*=^
V0_
4 /< r^C
- ? J^L£-^~ , g-
3&L
7^i-/7-
/ y ^-2^
-
^
X
' X
sr^-rT*-^^-
C& -~isl---e-A—:
„ ^t<—£-£/•—?-t--
y^T^^f
'
y
x /^
~^f"^-—* -e>—;fZ—<L*t.
/' </
—-"
_^ ^
^ ^x^—
-Jf-^t^-f^
I
--^^L-t^TC-O-
2^
_-i-<3
^
,c^j
ss2_--^-^ru£-/«—*«--<—-'
�—/7F
�07
.6 I
-
yn^f. /4_-
- z?—i
y.
y
^e-T-z^-T*-^-*
yC
£^--z2-~v x
,
/? /9
-t^—z^^LJ-y^ ^*3
/
/?
M^
-- ^T^^z^^n^y
Cll^ji^l
fc—•••
'.
(fjl^^J
„ ,
i^P-J^s^W-^--*C~
'.
6U a^
A
--^-z^z^-*-^
<;
^t^
^X-^-^7*
s\
j-,
2
T
^
^-^^^zJ-^^LLy*--
I
^-
^ t^-y—*•
-^c?^-!
d*-
<^i^L^^
e£
"^^
c*-'
^
<i??
f-&^
--25->^^
L:^-
j^
^3t-'- x#2^=a^t-"
-^V-
<^~
^^c^'i<6^
ixV-T^Z^
-^£^d
^
-^^L^-^^i^f^-^fcyi^
-^£er~
^-L-*>>4<i^s.
^
^
-4^
^£ftJL-'
�29
& /-*JM &*?
sj- .^o ^LL^ •
-C& c£^
£~s-. ^
�-V
T8
<9F
^^
��35
.
C£
-^-^t(f—^*-*--
/L^rL&s
-fi'^'J^L^O
j£*.Z&JL
•t^ftf
^»^^>
z>-fe-~~C^'
P/7>
^^
.
/
-~rz^&
ye. ^
tgj£^
<^y — rz^-^-e^
2<^
^Zvi *-..€-<&**£:
T*-*^-^,
>*
'
<&
�37
�39
'
1 ^7
�40
41
�43
�44
45
^--S/-<z^^—z5^-&-
C-2*-
^L~-Z>~4^~-rvs
�o-*-
^ w&~
Yf
_/"•>1 s
^
^r.^~>O
t^y* L
-<z-^/-''" /7^--t2
3^V/j
&Sl*^3&~-T^
~-3^f"ty^2
~£>^~
P^lS^
'
*:^e*^t*>f^~ft*^---e--~F*f~
' ^^—t-^P'TJ-4^l£4^-~
</
-t
/?
-V>
"U~^L/-^d£-«l-TS>
(f ^ <r
/7r-#^—^*7?0
- -^- -?> —Z^-
-t—14
�48
J^X-e- d%&- _-^2^-^—-
�51
9^£f
-^£*rH<0
_/2^0
„- ^
J>
jt^f^z^—y
'^l'//^7
/)
__—-**—~?~t—**-4>
-
-
tr^ ~^£?t^ ^y^-r—?r-fo
v /--
-
^&£^
(L-i^-^^o
^g^^x^--
�53
�55
c*~^*—w-~- QL^^I
~f >/f
Ci^rh*} ^
<?^7^fo ^f-^^fi^',
4- M^v^^^^
^7^^t
<*J$j^JL
VL
'
/&>—
—S~7?-4^t^C^rL-
*^
>^~/7
^
^£7^3 -^p->ri
^
^-L—^t-tJ^t-
r^x
�56
57
/^; ^ c
&L^*^t*z
-^--^-^L^v~--t>~^.
*^v—y*^&7&-
c^
J&^c-
-^^2^
^^J^t^^^
^—^~
~^C^~ts~-iL^
_
c=t
_-£-Z>~/—**r
�59
--
P £
~^l*-*—-r_^-t
1—•£-
w2
^^C^rTJL^'
--^7—e_-^^?t--r--i^.^t-<z-^»
��*->—/-•£.-£
-^r*^ '^-y-7^
"
^^2^^^^r^c^- '
-^^ -ff^>
e9
" 'tff
-
�65
^>-z/
C~^ —-^z-?f--z^
�67
—--&<•-*—7—tf£o
#
^^^£
�68
69
7
7^—*J-z/
za-<!,x
�1\T ,
tf^^T^Cf
<=%/, —
"1st S
/l^ff-
- L -Oc
«
~-&*-v--r^-
a^fc-
�'tt?^* ~^~~z? //
T/
' ^-
Si
�75
M
&JL
^^Z^^^
^"'fl
-**st^ri^&~--
�/C^iX-t?
f
>r-~' f
o^~
II
�79
'
—-^-rL^-sr
dv-
�81
80
/ /Z-ZA-Zy
"
V . —
*• - '
CZ^~
'
^3_-—1>~-
r-y
——2--^--z^—^C
--—-D—-i^f^'
_—-^--7't^l.
�83
82
^ / ^^
�35
_^t-o
/^-v>
�87
S&Mju>
01*™
'
^^~
/
//
C^
�sT4^-rr-0-^ZS^~ -^-7-K^-—<*^7?
//
-X^lr
^
s^?&V^&^?f
i JL
<7
)--^3/Ti?^^--' _^2
68
___
s'ty
"*>^
�91
/)
I/
-
* r -£/
s^Lst-^lk-Jt-O
C>——7--t^
,
Uft
VJ.-^L.^
? ^
< ^
^t^-fl^t_^
�y^rv
^~/7y^c^>3>~ '^9^c^2^£7
_/^~-a4fy) . ~?
fV
—ff
TP>
-?
v
�94
95 ;
^V^-^JW o^tx J&(*~
—-3^2_-<r-Z/~?-'
~
0-~r~
<£?
—-^-54l^—»
CX^-tt-^^-W—?<—TSZ
- --•
~O^_--t^
~^r2~7^2^x^^^
^{/V*-*—
-Z/>
,
/Cf
-^5S::Z-
r v^ ^7 ^~^£-ff- ^-^C^
"/- X
^--^>^Z-2^^--^
z:
_-^u^^^^
^ ^ ~4tJ?J*^t
/t^Lt-'T*-^'
-—^^-^ ^ ^-«
-^pLi?-^-
^c
^L.^-
-/tr^^^- --e^d. ^J^LA*
K? " /
C?">^
^C-t-<?^>e^^£-^*-~
-fi~-v—r-
,
/
^'
�97
C?
—O^--^L--2»—-t-c-^>rX3 ,
-^*-ZE—-7-—z^''
—-r^Z—g)—^<—e--
Ls
�99
&-&L&**
j?'•
iyL^^~-^~-f.
9^'
- £>^2*c7
O*1 O(-^-r~-^i/-^_j>^t^r'
£5-~^£iL-^C-t*3~S~- '-^n^t^-C^i/
d2^^{ ^^^/^il^
W
^^
^7
r-*--7—^
?^t^- -^t^tX-^_^«=^«--^^-t>/^
~
-^f-^-^-Z-'-T-Z/^ •
'"
^
>
^
/£*&-
-^^ ^ '
^
/
/C£-Zf
9U
//Z-7r
^
s»
<?-~~^ig^*-'is-o
j2^_rs
-e--c--«.-</—-ff-^-s •
^^ ^/
-^-Z^^-jU' a
'
-~-<
">^2—^—-y—i —"
�101
y
/y^2
vC^r ^ >
t**^2fs£*s >
//?
-/^
.--*jOC-
<f*^n^tf
/? /
-/ .
-^7-*-£t*,
—-£•-7 _^i—v,^ vx- ,
—i
' rv" -"-7 >TJt-<7
^^O
�SO I
�105
/
^3[^~--p-i^-&<
'j£*^~r~ri-As i
^i^-7-Z
*5<1
_^A^
,^L^i--&t^-^
yL^ x ^££^~
X /)
iJt-^t-^—^(
�107
~4*dl S
.
'
<?
J-6Lcs .
'
>6
/-
< /
v>,
/
^ <-
-7*-/
Z^fefeWL/'
t
-^ f
/1
<^f
-
7^/5
,
'
a * * r/2
(jr-^-
^y;
,,
;l-t^
•~-f"LJt~'
(L*£^ (
fe^
e^v
,
"^
7
�tt'-i-' tft^t - s~i**t~i~i.'&—
tf' 'J ••-^—*&—*£*• -^H-^* /•
*
/
**^?--T
~"~^—^^"
*^*y!^"^2^—^^—y*5^-* '
.-—7->*-*»-^ —^
-^'?
c-^^-<21^7<?'->-&?
Jf~^>
i
j^-^^- e*^(^inr~p^j ^fi*
>-»*-z3-3r-^
'
.^-^^
~r*lsz>ty^~- s~>-JY{ — f ° }
' ^=>^^-K^^i
p**?;," <*?*??? ~j
/ <i?
^-'f^'-f^—"
sTr~ft*-*-~*'*—'2"'i}
-v-K-va^y
/
601
'801
�111
--^U-^L, r*
�i
112
113
/0y-
o ,. .
/ /
-—
' -
J0
/ •' '- r-^^—
g
/«/• - ^
<f*-^U > ,
<T* -*•
<—
9
OL~
•7" >. •**
—-£^4*-^
^L^Ji^
Ks
^/g^ <o-^^
^Z
Y
�]P>
*^^" /^
~>
'^-T-2-^
�r
. „ -^^c^
x-1
z-txXT
^^-^--^>i^
<~^~f^~ —
^x^-^ZX--7t-^'
— -f^
�/^^-
—**-
'
v^*
'
•
—_(-*
*>v
_3
—grtf?^
i>"
6.11
~
-&-*^
U/
I
811
��122
123
^&.4<-4-^n/**t^*.
•—i^—-
^Z-tf-i*-*—.
<^
"7<-<-«£<-^-
^tst/-*— —-r&0--?-4-—-^
�124
125
-*—t~t^
~jL**-e^sC-~?vu-<_.
d? c^j^/, ^/^
j5^»
^L
-^JtLt^tt
<=& -jP*^*
-^^^A ^-H^rtr
^C^i^nsbsC'
^L^tJf^
^^
�127
^L^^~^
JEtr ^C^—v^_
i—f—^^C.^
c%L~&—>tx-^
^
,;
<zM*r^L/"
^
^-^£H^
CL^-**-^o, , .-^L-/-..
^-->Z^,
^-7
^^X£
-&-^—rr<-^' '
•—:&rLe^
-^<le^
�/y&
/
X—<£2—•TK>
cy
�130
13.1
xCtr- &i~e>-j ;
<Q^L^<4—
-^t^u^
"Wjlr
<£?
--^1-sz-^z
IX
^^-
jk/l^
�133
~J£
^2 .-^j^-ss-^ex ]
t,
£-0-4*s-~
��137
<£-^ ^H.
�39
*£—-,:
tf^i
.../
JL _
JL,
^Z—^—y^c-£_--'
^C^tA—
-
#—^-
—-C^si—<^7
�141
�143
ot--—z>—j^^cz^y
�144
145
�>r '
~—7*^
r/
/
•^~x-%^~-**—->-"
~^~i
~
TJ-—*•—^-—
~~y~ty2^~~~
" •'*~!r~is4^i^~—
f^~
"~f—*^—«2—i^f'-
•
/ j
�148
149
^£^X
<^?—TS»
^^rt~—&
**
>t_^-
ZJT
*£
-^-t^^^t^^-f-t,
. , -o
<^-
£-fi^
^-^
-
r r,
(Q^^-
�^^n
vex
-*!*-T£?
T8O
"
"
'
/<2--'
,
T^^r
•1ST
^
/y
�-O ' nrfcf-^1^*-'-^
O-»-K--V^~
-
jr-
^ rv^fD
-/7)
-"-
-- L_«-—^
'^-7-1^^--^.^
-7J ^
�157
- J ~~ c
~-2~^t/~^~
CZ*slS-*-*3
^x-^-e?-^/
(7
Gf£-<<&*-*4^/
Q
<^
�159
^^fc?
-—^X*^?-^
-^£zr </2^~-&—-fa-<^
7*-^2--£<?2^
^
<?i~--i~zj!.--*r<~-
-^-zx-^i^0^7^--
-»-.—
*/
^a-^£5~
—^—
�191
�o2?>
(fU^
•J
/
sr
Jt£*
--
^-^fc^
&
• &*A
£*.
^Q^^^T^ti—*-<.,
^i-y^tf
/^^V /^
i^/ -^2-^~e^-
&
^~~?—*~y^-f—&--*^^'•
^ ^^_^_/
A^f-
^^l^t^tJ^ ^6^"
^>—7--e.
, °
^ -•;,•^^r^fe - ^ / ^
^t%?^ ^£
#^k
<^
<^—->-t-i>*-^.
^tsQ
C^
e^7
c^
^ 1 dt^^j.
2
-^1^-7*—^
XV '
C^P
^-(j^
ST^
/)
-^7.
dk
^A
S*
-JSTL^*-
<^t^y ,
�—'t/l^-t~JU^I/4*~
-
-
--2^z--z*—*~*-*c <z*~^^t<
-^^A—*-^—^€-
.
^^^-^-^^
*
—^^
�167
�' /? 'fj
£/
-~JlL-^0
—y-^—&~-T}
^"tfljt^^
//
_
tx
(7 _
CK^
'
^
^
/?
*-^--#--0^--/--n^#~&
—./ (X
-^V^
^
a
/>-BZ—z.^—
-j^/^'^^2:-^
//
'^_^>^y
^o —^^
/
//
^O ^*—o
'
691
-*-*
t/T^~
�171
�173
172
—/^-z>—v
—3-T^~ _-^^7^^c/
T^lvel i5>
�£•—j,—^^—i^T-jC—75^^*
d/
�176
177
�! : 17B
179
6/C^^=> . / v?, —
--"7Cu_-—^t-x
^<L^C^~-^^.
/
T~-I-~~-
~&-~^£
•£-£*
g
-—•
~~^£&U£~>
*—-^c
.
«
�181
S7
tA^C*Z
•
^^-W^^
L~
?—rr
•
/£;
/
—-^-t-—0—ff—r?*-
��/ -*—/*->^-7
—s
' 'z/ov:-*s>2>—
•~-J"
^ ^f^n/
^-r^j^c^—-tr^s^-
�187
c^~ ^*
^ - x:OP^ —~-?
~^£g>-
o£~-&~~
^^TS—i^~75*-»—*-~
^^A —-t^«—6—
&-#?*?-, i
�89
--1..I •
<Z*-~*<fc-*s£x
- _
£2<—"L---z—>-i—-ji—d^-<5"
C—-"C_-~-f)—tx_—- t3C-<^
�-iriCt^-
'-^Vr
cr,
--a-- ? «...
. 0 0
i^~
^T
-^,
>>**3C|^
tv^~l*-^zZi^L
-^^--^'"7-^7,.,,^^— ^T2^7't/ J/
'
ix /*'".._
r
• s --
^sf>?~-p>--&^-i<S2~--z'f
V-
~\
/
11*^-!' J^-T^
L^'
-"/ • . ~ '
*^—^*^~
,
•^*™>^>^—"~&~2>-'"*%*
-X
^~ -z~^r~£
061
�193
—^1^—-Z3*--^^L-«^ > /• -7 >
7
--CA—ct^C
-^-7^—*-<3±^->S/C^zX-7*-^---
/
^
—""V*1—^Tl^^f)——~)^T*~—*••
7^/
'
x€-^-^^^>z^^,'O .
/
�^
,
^-^2--2PU-"3
^
/
-^-C-^t'Za-^t—t9^<y-— -t-<<7
/
-*/'
^£^i*-~
^C^zj^rZ-jt^-7~j
•
^c^yis
t-^u-^r-,
*=Q?^ *s£-~X^ts£fis
^%£-
�a ' -y " •
-T
161
�199
C^
£3.
-^
V—
'
x
- _JK2d^
�201
JT&*-*
&L~**-a-~£L-^
c^
iJx-^^xy
^£rie^ x^-^L-^A- <^^-?-^> ^i^2*^>
~/~/
/} • ^ /*—
�202
203
^L^&tso
V
>•
^CifajL*
^-^L^O
"
/
-z>—>—^cx
—-^i^^-C—
—>PZ—*^
—^»->-z—^ ^^-rrt-As'
——j^t—^—^*-^
^ic^ri^^-
^^
^^ ^
0L-^-i^&-^
•*>
&~-tr~t^rT^-*7
sr2*^*
/5
X
^^
(l^tlLst^~->*-^f. / -^^-^-
^
c^
,
^
^U-
t^Le—7*__-«L-
�205
- ->t-Z>-^A-€—
~^Jt -T~-L^-~
£--.
£? -^-ri&—y-^
<C&r
*z~4^rt^&s&^& (
�206
201
',
/O -^
c^c
,'
J
cz£+-*-*4L;
/ c. f t • < * -v
�208
209
^bfj;. 1.4
/) (/<
. <^Q---~&z*v-e^
v
�—v—-oe—/-,
y~ —z?—AM.
C^tr•
/o •
. ,-
/?
'—z^c-^**^
^ - - . ^ iK X
^ ^ ^ ^ -j
t
^
�212
213
--£*• P0—^
—-£*</—/Le-^t-
(^
�9 1O
er
i
c&+—£^ ~^LL^£~ &~#i^
,^-£^L«—-?<—<—>
"""
y~~
-t:>-
y
^^^-.
�' i^ •
--^r/_TiC
A~
g*Sk—&.—ns^^*"l^-%7
*r
£V2-—
^
-/r^z>^-
LIZ
91
�218
219
�to
to
10
�222
223
^_P^t£
/T>*
Z?—C^C-^3?
^-C^/
�225
P224
—"7-7-z--^—-?—>T^e^*i~*r
-±4-/?S
.-^W- ,SLz^^
si
/?
~^T^v~~-yT_^*f^<Lsr--
^J^^
�~~j^t^~f^-^L^Zi/^-
—'t^^^-—^^^-^f^rj^-!^f^
—^ <x
ST^?~-
-^~2?
-*
^ J
-jV^x^r-^g^
-x~)
^7
fr^~~~ ^l^^
-^^^l^^-^P
^^7
^ ^
�&
>-i_-^L
�-^—-•
f o /?-~^
_j^^^
U'S
�233
<De^/r£,
^&^.7
-r-0 /
Ji-*^^, & ^^£L^2/v
At—to-^s—
^
j v
-*x^~ c^f^f^y
c - ^ .
^ ^ _
/t
-«g^-
�234
235
(Usfr-*—%£<>^£0^,
7^^_jf^_
-—-Z^^—jgs^-y
^2^>C^~ ^~*r~*^(l,
//
x7
_
£>—^7
—"£^-e——
�-*—Of
yc^t
ex
^^^f^^^^-t^^C^
- /
J>
—~^t^t>-^
�r~2^y^^r -^-^
7^^^ zP
tP-~i^*t~—>^t-—• -» -
(P
:^»->-*^<J-—*z_—-x£— *t^-i*c^—
/ ^ 7?7
.—»-^-y^ -^W7 ^o
.—-y^—-^—>^
6C5
x
, XV
_
i'
�its
OK-
�—--£<--?rZ-—Z7—"&-—Cx£—
��246
247
-^f^I-g>—V —I —1^l~-t9
—<2_-e
«—•7-z«-^
-^-Z-t-^C*-
(-^~&—~)^~n^2.—2*^—Tls^z.— •
—/~ ——^z—o—>-^?^t^c— i
*^\L—*•—tsn^—^f
~
*-—^t^TO^&'J—C.^
-*-^u
*
- -
yj
�249
' ^^i^r^Lf^\
�250
251
^~i^z^#—^^
_-—^C<—
�253
&
�TK^
' >**-^Z—^>-^—— '~7^lst*^
�256
tf
&
Q^V—9—6*-
x*7
.^LJ—tf-c-d^T/-
x
~7*
*
cJbt *
'
V
�Crr^^lst^L/ 'j^f'
'
��r
263
262
^-^—
—f*-—0—f-
—C-^-~>^—^ —^*—
�265
264
-^fsUL,
D
^?^-—z>
ft
z/
/ '
_^5^-?«-«0
--^Z-z*-^.-'
/
JA^CT"—£T_~-^*-<7
CF ^^?-Z4^*^t~~
n
?~J' '
fl
^y f^fa^r*^fc
-;^%k7
/
_^A ^_
�^..,1' 1
9S
�269
268
L^t-'L-
^-—~~7^T-—*—v—>-*—
-rJr -/-r-^-
zJTl
^JjL
/&-*
c^
�271
^1270
V
^CfyGt,
y—
' J
^CJtui^ -^L-£-^x_--?--t—•yT^^t^—ta
_^-TT^^- _1*^-<_W(
fyL^-zT—i*
er—iF
-> A v__
S--O' ——-j^yi^o—f^—*—
^^-^Uu^
0~~~f~f* ^*~
^—e-^xC~ _^
^-^
<—"^"—'T^—S-'
-fL-ff—T—c
�^2sSrj-*~4^' -y—*—*&~T,4~-
*%?zr
"I I '
2LZ
�274
^l^v—•&-
-1-4,
s£sL*^~
<?r
-X^C-*-^ ^
^Q^~
~^f2-4^e—~y^L^3
£2-->^—tx**' ^ri&Tt-t—
�_^r-zJW^ ^O jj*^^
-ffl'
~f'^>
_^~*^7 ^_^^>^ -rL- -2^-^^p/^
/
t-r
V
J?
~-^& f^
-^^7"r^/ *gX
^/^- %^%2^ T^"^^"
_^^ -^*^r-u4^ u&^ ' Vy^~~*~r^
f
7r^?y
/?&
^
\
-#*' '~-*^7rJC_ ^'"J ^
9L£
�279
278
.
^$&--t>-
^j^3^L£----&*^L~'T~£--^0
-^Z-«-<7
^£0~
—•-^-^—t^-^-'
�280
281
yg
c>~lr~
---'V-L-£--ZxC'—
(ZZ-—t^-*ts
tXT/? - > ^ - w ^ ^
/—
<gt^7
�- 282
^&~^LsCU-r'
Cx<-—-~*^*~*r
--*£_
^0-—>-Z__-^-*—1^—*(^r\-s'
C-
^
"
-
"~^£0-
_^—^_-«__-
n
<5<-^7
y~
Ja-<--tx<2_X^
y
^~ /-"
/—
C*^-'
�285
'/-*=
fe^
.
_^ixt
/
&—7-->-L-£—TSL^~ ,
^ •^"i^
^ r-£&r^J^
^TlCx?
_
:
/)
\^ •—^z-^-^^—
2
�-
s-y?^l*^l>6/^
JM^^^<-^~
— '//
is
I8S
'
-
j*
^¥~"
>
�~-~y#—~-*~^K?
--—-T~L^C--~^——r^z-—75^—>
i;
7P'
°^+f
)
_**->—
y^y
—^---^
—^-si^-xc)
<-jr-KT^J-?-^
<7i -
-^>
686
�f±
^-^-rZ-^7
--v^-^-t-tK7
f r - j^^ye -^r
^ J^f
'-j^-^^rT^ ^%^
f i
^
-^
-
2cf
'^^ T^T
tf^
^^^»
I6S
-f-^2g^
.*—in~<.—£2-^-~ey
�293
-•
-">-#'-
�295
294
? <^<z-z^^
>y
t^fa-^-
&L^i^-i^6*-—-
�296
^
^
<^z^.
, J^S
r~^-<^
.
'
-—Z^t^—7—*—^"
�/
/y*^/
-v' v-^-c. C-'
~
�'-5^-"^-r^^z^-
-^%- •/•"* ^-
-*-^- ^Z-TX- ~-&^£~>
£7
^^^^
l^n^C^-K^-T^t^t^
tT-rt^&^T^Lt!?
^
,IOK
K?
^"^nr
oos
�303
^-^t-^e^^
^££^
^£6^,^^-
<=£i^Z-*U-•7*pC**t^
^^n^^^
�304
r^
�m
i,
��
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/dd6804d743640c3a2027b171b45e61d9.pdf
4555a00703c7ad483da9c6d541169099
PDF Text
Text
������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
156
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 48 [February 19, 1923 - December 17, 1923]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1923
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
75.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_048_1923_0219_1923_1217
Description
An account of the resource
This diary was kept by Andrew Jackson Greene between the dates of February 19th and December 17th during the year of 1923. Greene made diary entries every day. He would record his daily accomplishments along with his worries, his hopes, and his inward thoughts. He also gave weather information and information about things that were happening within the community. He made note of all of the visits that he made with friends and family members, and all of the events he attended within the Appalachian Training School.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Beaver Dam
Boone
Cove Creek
David Dugger
Filmore McGlammery
Grace Barnes
Graydon Eggers
Jackson Smith
John Miller
Justice Hall
NC Railroads
Stella Norris
Viola Estep
W.F. Sherwood
Weather
Will Farthing
Willowdale
Zionville
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/8c8718e1a6c4eae121fbaac3c8e56c0c.pdf
5275f6f4b34b6d96ae0d4f39edeacfb3
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/6a1bc876be94cbf645a08ab7b4710579.pdf
ea31f8102f402b5948acb43f4605c6bd
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ff5d03f29073a3bc03addbf8bb9634b5.pdf
9075afda9682547ac55777b34df03cab
PDF Text
Text
���������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
53
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 49 [December 18, 1923 - March 30, 1924]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1923-1924
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
48.7 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_049_1924_1218_1924_0330
Description
An account of the resource
This diary was written each day from December 18, 1923 through March 30, 1924. For each day, there is a brief description of what Andrew Jackson Greene experienced that day. He included information about himself, his friends, and community events from the time period. He also included a list of the day’s accomplishments and detailed information about the weather that they experienced.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Boone
Community
Cove Creek
Dock Mast’s Store
Dr. Fredrick Losey
Ella Williams
J.W. Horton
Jackson Smith
John H. Bingham
Justice Hall
Mabel
measles
Mrs. Greene
Poly McBride
Rev. L.A. Wilson
Snow
Sugar Grove
Volume 50
Willowdale
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/562b108e3d56ae716df8643756ed59a1.pdf
3ce78e344cb545c39303a293d84bd352
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/a92989c61cb8a1891671ebb976f545b3.pdf
1fc37257f0ad5299696b4ea27ff1b50d
PDF Text
Text
�������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/e2953d2395965f45e9ca6463eb56d4d5.pdf
2b793b5ef1cc05560eaa80b5b8f0a605
PDF Text
Text
Mar. 31.-- This is a fine day. Many of our people have the farming fever. To this time the
farmers have done no work. It is a day occasionally that will do to work out of doors. In a short time
the farmers can do much.
About eight o'clock I start for Boone. I get to ride a part of the way. I am in Boone and am
ready to work. This has been a busy season for me. I do not have a minute that I can call my own.
I have some work pushing me all the time. I must be busy.
APRIL
Apr.l.-- This is known as All Fool's Day. Some of our student[s] take advantage ofthe situation
in order to advertize [sic]. A few tried to start something all day, but they do not have any success.
I have always been of the opinion that a man is foolish enough without putting forth any effort.
At night I do some work. I am trying to complete my course in the University before this term
of school ends.
The hardest work that I have to do is paper work. A man can get so tired over old dull papers.
I wish that I could be relieved from this job.
Apr. 2.-- We are at our school work again. Our duties do not decrease. They multiply with the
year. At times they seem more than I can bear.
The weather is rather cool. I am loosing [sic] my courage. It seems that we can have no more
good weather.
The work of the school is getting heavier and heavier upon me. People expect more and more
from a man. I try to be happy in the work. It brings something new to me every day.
Apr. 3.-- This is one of the finest days on record. The groco (?) is in the pines near the school.
They do not have a voice for singing. It always seemed to me that they are like some people--love
to quarrel. It does seem so good that we can get out in the open air. We have been in the house so
long.
In school we do not find things going so easily. We have a crowd that do not care to work. They
want to idle all the time. They do not care to work and do not care whether any one else works or
not.
Apr. 4.-- To our surprise we have snow today. It is the large-flaked kind. The ground is covered
to a depth of three inches. The bushes and trees are covered completely. Late in the day the snow
turns to rain. It is indeed a slushy time.
After school I take a notion to loaf. I go to Cottrell's store and remain for more than one hour.
I love to see the people come and go. I soon return to my room and engage in work. I enjoy writing
in my book. I find so many things to record. I take some pride in writing of events.
902
�A
J Greene Diaries
. AprilS.-- This is a damp cool day. It is very dark and gloomy. In fact it is a dark, inhospitable
time to work. I find that it is surprising how much the weather does affect us.
In the afternoon I start home. I have three rides in a car and two rounds of walking. I find the
road in a bad condition. After all the people keep going. By some means they do not let the bad
section of road stop them for a minute.
I arrive home. I am almost too nervous to rest. I must confess that I have had a hard week of it.
When I arrive home, I find some matters waiting my attention.
Apr. 6.-- The weather is threatening all the day. At times it rains; and at times the sky shows a
little. We are not able to tell what will happen.
I attend Sunday School at Willowdale. We have a good crowd present. There are always a few
who are interested in the work.
In the afternoon I make a collecting tour for the church. I do not have any success. I am pained
to see how little some of our people are. They have the weakest excuses that men can invent. How
horrible it is to see a man wrapped up in selfishness.
April7.-- This is a fine day. It seems that spring has come to stay. The farmers are on the move.
All are working at a crop.
I go to Boone. The town is full of farmers. There is a great meeting to persuade the
Commissioners to keep the County Agent. Much hot talk is indulged in. It seems that all is lost.
We have many people who do not want any progress. They wish to stay in the old ruts. In the
afternoon I come to my room and work. I have much writing to do. I push my affairs as fast as
possible.
April 8.-- The work for the week comes upon us. I find many things to do. The hardest thing
that we have to contend with is the indifference of many students.
This is a fine day. It makes is 120 glad because we do not have fire in our room and we can sit
comfortably on the porch. It has been a long time since we could do that.
After school I work. I find that I have a heavy program for this week. Some one is making
demands on me all the time. I do not get time to rest.
April 9.-- The good weather does not last all day. In the afternoon we have some showers.
When the roads become good, the rain soon puts them out of commission.
The first game of base ball is played on the local diamond. The rain puts an end to it.
After school I go to town on business. I am surprised to see the building program for this town.
A new building is started every few days.
At night I go to the home of Supt. Hagaman on business. I have more than I can look after.
903
�Aprill 0.-- This is a dark day. At times the fog is so dense that we can not see far. There is some
rain.
In school the work is trying. I am too nervous to make any progress. It seems that there is more
trying things than I can stand. We have so many people who do not care if they fail in their work.
After school I take a bath. This revives me a little. I return to my room and write far into the
night. I love to fix facts in my mind.
Aprilll.-- This is an awful day. We have had some snow. It is the big flake kind. It melts as
soon as it hits the ground. The remainder of the time it rain[s] . It seems that good weather is never
corrung.
I have been doing many things. I am telling a few. The last thing for the day is a test for a
Geography class. I find that many of them have been playing on the job. There are not many people
who take their seriously. They want some one to give them a lift without merit.
April12.-- The weather is fine. It seems that spring has come at last. It is so lovely that we want
to be out of doors. It pleases us that we do not need fire in our rooms.
After the work of the day is over I start for home. I do not have to walk far. I ride in a car the
greater part of the way. The car made time going down Brushy. At times I wanted the driver to go
slower.
I am glad to get home. I spend some time in reading. For a short time we visit Uncle John
Smith. It seems that I do not get time to rest much.
April13.-- This is the finest day that we have had in a long time. The mud is going rapidly. I
am rejoicing that we can come out of our winter harness.
At Sunday School we have a large crowd. Som of our people are learning that a Sunday School
is worth something to a community.
In the afternoon I make a trip in a car to Zionville. I have a fine trip. I am so tired that I want
the trip so that I can rest. It is good for a man to have a change of scenes. It is a fine way to rest.
April 14.-- I am out early and ready to work. The first job that I have on hand is sowing
fertilizer. This is no light job. I soon conclude.
In a short time I am on my way to Boone. I do not get to walk very far. I ride the biggest truck
in our end of the county.
After transacting some business I go to my room and start some work. I have many little things
to do. The end of the school is near at hand. I work far into the night. There is not much hope that
I shall ever be even in the work that I am doing.
AprillS.-- This is a fine day. It does seem so good not to have fire and wraps. We have been
looking for a long time for this event.
I have had a fine day in school. There has not been any thing to defeat our progress or our
pleasure. We have found out that a man can get pleasure out of his work.
904
�A
J
Greene Diaries
. Late in the day I go to the store for a rest. There comes a time when a man needs to loaf some.
It takes his mind from his work and gives a rest. A man can not be high all the time.
April16.-- I am happy, because the weather is so fine. It is giving the farmers a fine chance to
do some good work on the farm.
In school we have a number of people who decide that they are in charge. To their surprise they
find that others have charge of them. The worst thing that can happen to a boy is for him to think
that he is too big to be under rules.
I have arrived in a place where I can push my work. All this year it has been the reverse. I have
had more than I can do. Large classes are hard on a man's nerves .
April17.-- The weather is not so fine. There are indications that foul weather is at hand. It
seems that is is a difficult job for good weather to come. It has been bad for almost four months.
The farmers are far behind with their work. The time for planting com is almost at hand.
In school we do not have as much work as we wish. Our people are becoming careless.
The Junior-Senior reception is at hand. It is pulled off at White Hall. The usual hot-air is
consumed. A man must grant people the right to act a fool occasionally.
April18.-- The whole school is dull from last night's revalry [sic]. Those who did not indulge
where 12 1 doing some idle act. The whole school has not made any preparation. Sometimes I think
that a big "blow-out" is not worth what it costs. I manage to come to the close of day in fairly good
..
.
condition.
At night I do a little work. I find that I need to sleep more. A man can not work all the time.
In case that a man neglects his health he will have to pay the penalty. The law was made to be
obeyed.
April19.-- The morning is clear. We find all the students in an uproar. It is Easter and many
are planning to visit. In fact many of them think that they are excused from all duties.
I meet my first class and then I start to Cove Creek. I go to town. The jitney line is in operation
and I am soon at the end of my journey. Before noon there is a class day exercise. It is done in good
style. Dinner is served on the ground. In the afternoon Dr. J.D. Rankin delivers the address. The
diplomas are awarded, medal and certificates are presented. Ralph receives the medal for
scholarship and industry.
April 20.-- This is a fine day. The air is cool. The mud is going rapidly. I go to the school to
hear the sermon. It is preached by Rev. G. C. Teage, of Lenoir. It is on "Heart Culture". The
impression is great. There are many people present.
In the afternoon I attend church at Willowdale. The preacher has it up his sleeve for us. We get
121
Were?
905
�a general tuning up for going to close of schools. There is a general impression that a man is wicked
that takes on any of the amusements of life. A sickly piety is to me contemptible.
April21.-- I have it in mind to go to Boone early. I manage to get there by noon. I see many
people in the town. There is great business activity in this place. Many new buildings are going up.
The people keep coming this way.
In the afternoon I work in my room. I have much work that needs attention. I am anxious to get
all my papers graded. I am so tired that I do not work late. I manage to reture so that I canget even
with my sleep. I am not able to work hard unless I have good rest at night.
April 22.-- This morning I thought that rain was at hand. The clouds were low and dark. In a
short time the sun shines. A stiff breeze blows and makes it a little unpleasant to be out.
I have it rather easy with my classes. I find that no one has made much preparation for class.
After a debauch we are not in shape for close mental work.
The time for going home is at hand. We are beginning to pack our things. We must not wait for
all to be on hand at once.
April23.-- The breeze is a little strong today. In other respects it is a fine day. It has been a long
time since we have had so much pretty weather at one time.
The world has been good to me this day. All my work has gone well. It seems to me that life
is wmth living. If a man is all right physically, he can do his work with pleasure.
We are longing for the close of the school to come. A man certainly does get tired on one year.
It is do the same thing day after day. The grind is hard on one' s nerves. There is no chance to rest.
April24.-- I am on duty at the usual hour. I am not able to sleep the number of hours that many
people can. I must come with the birds.
The hardest time of the year is at hand. There are so many students who wish to loaf on the job.
They do not care whether they do any work or not. In fact some of them are defiant in their attitude.
I get "blue" in regard to the work in school. There are so many that just want to get by. I am sure
that work to-day counts more than it ever has.
April25.-- I am having a hard time. There are more things to do than I am able to comprehend.
It is a difficult matter for me to keep every thing going. Pupils are hard to keep at work. They want
to relax.
In the afternoon I take a final examination on a University course. It takes me more than two
hours to clear up the affair. There are so many talking in the room that I do not get on easily.
By night I am too tired to rest well. Of late I am in such a position that I am not able to rest as
I ought. I am nervous all the time.
April 26.-- This is another fine day. I meet the duties of the day as they come to me. There is
not a moment that I can call my own. Some one is making demands on my time all the time. I have
906
�A J
Greene
Diaries
no time that I can call my own.
In the afternoon I make a start for home. I do not have to walk far before I catch a way home.
I am delighted to see my people. Sometimes I wish that I could be at home all the time. It seems
that I am not able to rest as I ought. I am running on high.
April 27.-- I try to read some on Sunday mornings. Often I have company to break into this
arrangement. My time is not my own. It seems to belong to others.
I attend Sunday School at Willowdale. There is a good crowd. We have some interest in the
work. At times we seem to prosper; at others we seem to be going the other way.
In the afternoon Rev. F. M. Huggins, of Boone, preaches for us. He delivers a fine discourse.
Perhaps this is the last time that preaching service will be held in this building. It is soon to be tom
down.
Apri/28.-- I am up in the first part of the day. I go in a truck to Boone. In fact I get there in time
for breakfast. This is moving too much for a man's good.
This is, indeed, a rough day. It rains almost the entire day. The Freshmen do not get time to take
their trip. This is doubtless disappointing to them.
The day has been a busy one for me. I have been reading papers. Some time has been spent in
the bed. At times I find that I must rest. I can do this better in the bed.
Apri/29.-- We find some better weather. It is some cooler, but the rain has banished. I promise
to go on a trip with the Freshmen. It seems that they are not able to agree. Therefore I am relieved
of a job.
At night I attend the Festival at the Courthouse. It is a musical number. I am sure that it is worth
attending. It is given by four young ladies of Georgia. I think that the entire audience completely
enjoyed every number on the program. It is late when we get in our bed. We are not able to rest as
we ought. It disturbs me to be up late.
Apri/30.-- We have some bad weather. There is some rain. It seems that we can never get rid
of the mud in this town.
In the school room we find many things to do. We are looking forward to the end. The work
of the year will soon be over.
In the evening I take in the second number of the Festival. This program is given by four Welsh
Singers. There are many spicy things on the program. The most attractive thing to me is the singing
of sub bass. This is the first that I have hear[ d] from the person performer.
MAY
May 1.-- Summer is coming soon and there is no farm work done. It is a late spring. There has
907
�been only a few days that the ground was dry enough to plow. I am not surprised that the farmers
are discouraged.
I take in the third number of the Festival. At this time we have a play with music. In many
respects it is fine. It show[s] just what some people will do to get possesion of a title of nobility.
I think that it is difficult for a teacher to take in a program and do their school work. It consumes
all the time that I have.
May 2.-- This is a fine day. We have many things that we can do. Duties come to us on every
hand. I have more than I can do.
After school I send my things home. I am leaving for the summer. It takes much of a man's time
to pack and get ready for a move. A man has more little things to move than he is aware.
The last of the Festival comes to-night. In my opinion I think that it is the poorest of the
programs. I think that many of the items on the program are not true to life.
May 3.-- This is the last day of the week. I have not had any idle moments during the past week.
I am looking forward to some rest soon. I have done much work during the past year.
In the afternoon I start for home. I love to get away from the grind and push of the school room.
A man needs a change. In fact he must have it. At night I am at home. By some means I am too
tired to rest well. There are so many things for me to look after. I do not have time to care for my
family.
May 4.-- Sunday morning greets us. We find it necessary to study our Sunday School lesson a
little. A man can not do good teaching unless he knows something about the lesson. Mr. Ramsey
from Boone is with us. He leads the singing.
In the afternoon I go to Mabel in a car. We stay more than two hours. At this place we find them
singing. They are getting ready for the County singing. This is a fine esercise to hold a community
together. In many respects it gives the young people a job.
May 5.-- During the night we had a death in the community. Aunt Jennie Dugger passed away.
She has been sick for a long time.
Early I catch a way out to Boone. I arrive in time to do a day's work. I have more on hand than
I can do. I work at making out grades and inspecting note-books.
At night I attend a musical recital. In many respects it is fine. It is a little lengthy. Some airs
are put on and displayed. For many this is a great day. The name is the desired prize.
May 6.-- The work of the last week starts. It seems that there are many people who are taking
it lightly. At no time are the teachers worked harder. Many items must be summed up. All the year
the grind has been going on. Many of us are willing for it to end.
After the work of the day the deportment of the students is gone into. We find that the year has
had many failures along this line. In this respect we have good years and bad years. The crops has ·
not been good this year.
908
�A
J
Greene Diaries
May 7.-- The examinations start. I have three. This gives me all that I can do. The hardest work
than any teacher has is reading and marking papers. It has been my lot to do much of this kind of
work. After we have done our best, we are made sad by seeing so many of our students failing.
The weather is fine. I am glad for the time to come so we can be out in the open. We have been
in the house all the winter and spring. There has been no time for tramping and exercising.
May 8.-- The final examinations come to a close. We manage to have the most of ours on record
by night. I am glad that the long grind is over. I feel that I have done the poorest work ever. Some
of the students have been hard to deal with. They have been indifferent to their work.
At night I attend the play given by the Senior Class. I take the tickets at the door. I do not have
the pleasure of giving close attention to all the details in the play.
May 9.-- This is a great day for us. It is our Commencement day. Great events are on the
program.
At eleven o'clock Dr. A. T. Allen, Supt. of Instruction of North Carolina delivers the address.
There are five graduates from the Normal School.
In the afternoon the High School Department gives a program. This is one among the largest
classes that we have had. This brings the school year to a close.
Late in the day I get conveyance and go in home. I am glad that it is all over for the present.
May 10.-- It seems strange that I have no school work on hand. I am not sure that I have any
plans to rest and gather strength. By some means I have lost the art of resting. I permit little things
to get on my nerves and destroy my peace of mind.
The weather is bad. There has been much rain during the day. Truly it seems that warm weather
is never coming. The spring is more than ten days late. Many of the people have no plowing; some
have nothing planted. There is no need to worry about it.
May 11.-- We have a rainy day. At times there is a little snow. Occasionally the sky can be seen.
In all it is a dreary day. I am discouraged as to our progress in farming. The weather is making every
thing so late.
At Willowdale Sunday School we have a small number present. There are so many people who
are easily discouraged. They think that there will be no one there, because the weather is so bad.
In case that all think this we can have no meetings . All will remain at home. We must push.
May 12.-- This morning we have rain. It seems that good weather is never coming. In a few
high places snow is reported. At noon the indications are that we are going to have some fair
weather.
This is one day that has been hard on me. I have been almost too nervous to get on well. A few
aggravating things have come my way. It seems that these things come our way when we are the
least able to stand it. We need rest from all hateful annoyances.
909
�May 13.-- The weather is much better. I decide to make a trip to Tennessee. I catch the jitney
at Vilas for Elk Park. This is a section of country that I have never been over. There are some heavy
grades. At noon I am at Banner Elk. I arrive at Elk Park in time to catch the train for Elizabethton.
At three thirty I am in the city. I see that many improvements have been made in the streets. From
here I go to J. F. Egger's. I find him in the bed. I see many people that I have not seen in a long
time. I hear fox news and other things of interest.
May 14.-- I did not rest well during the night, but I am out early. With J. F. Egtgers I go to James
Blair' s. He is a man eighty years old. At one time he lived in North Carolina. In company with him
we board the train and go to see J. B. Williams in Sullivan County. We have a fine time. Mrs.
Williams serves a good dinner.
The day has been rainy. The clouds have been low all the day. It seems that we can not have
good weather. The spring is very late.
May 15.-- Last night I stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Eller. We have a pleasant time. Of
course the ideas that they have do not agree with mine.
Before noon we go to Grant Laurance's just north of Elizabethton. We find them very well
situated. Our next stop is at John Sherrill's in the lower part of the town. Late in the day we visit
the home of Charles Swift. We find them in a good home in a favored part of the town. At the close
of the day we returned to Mr. Eggers' in a tired and hungry condition.
May 16.-- This is a day full of events. I walk to Abner Egger's in lower Turkey town. In the
afternoon he drives me to Johnson City, Tennessee. This is a fine town. We visit the Normal
School. I see several of the buildings. The Department that interest[ s] me most is Manual Training.
Prof. Wilson shows us all his tricks. I think that this is one among the finest things that I have ever
seen.
At night I take my first fox hunt. It delights the hunting instincts in a man.
May 17.-- I walk from T. A. Eggers' to J. F. Eggers'. The night was a little cool and in many
places there was frost. I remain at Mr. Eggers' until noon and then I make a start for home. I catch
the one thirty train for Elk Park. At three I transfer to the jitney at Elk Park for Vilas. We have a
good long run. On the way we see much scenery. Some of the road is very narrow and crooked.
At five o'clock I am at home.
At night we attend the Bible study at our church. It is the first .day that we have used it.
May 18.-- The new day greets us. We have Sunday School for the first time. We have ninetytwo present. Our collection for the new church is thirty-five dollars.
At eleven o'clock Rev . Urriah Farthing preaches on the Communion. He holds the fort for one
and a half hours. Many of us are tired.
At three and at night we have a Bible study. This is a fine thing, but only a few are able to take
a part in it. We do not have many people who make a study of the Bible.
910
�A
J Greene Diaries
May 19.-- We commence a new week by working. We plant a crop of beets in our garden.
These are are [sic] to feed our cow. There are many things that will help us out in putting a cow
through the window.122
A part of the day is consumed in hoeing potatoes. I find that we must commence in time to keep
the weeds from our crops. We complete our crop before night.
Today we have our first ground for com broken. It has been a terrible time to get plowing done.
The weather has been bad and teams are scarce.
May 20.-- We plant our first com today. In the morning we plant in the garden. We also plant
some more potatoes in our garden. It seems that we can never get all our crop out.
In the afternoon we plant some com in the Oklahoma field. We do not plant just a little more
than one acre.
In the afternoon there is a church wedding at Cove Creek Baptist Church. This is the first one
in the new church. The parties are Miss Goldie Moody and William D. Wilson. This is one of the
great events of our community.
May 21.-- I have a busy day. I am on the go. I walk to Mabel this morning. In that place I find
a new store. I visit my old home. By some means I am not content. The rain keeps me in for sime
times. At three o'clock I start for home. I am so nervous that I walk rapidly. By the time that I get
to Sherwood I am almost too tired to rest. Miss Grace brings me home in her new car. After all the
best of any trip is getting home. I am tired enough to rest, but my trouble is that I become too tired
to rest well.
May 22.-- This is a fine day. It is one in which we can work if we wish. Before noon we plant
some more com. This finishes our crop.
At noon I go to the store. I find that I owe the merchant much. This troubles me much. It seems
that it is hard for me to keep even with the world in finances. There are so many things that we think
that we ought to have. I see no chance for me to have an easy time. My rood looks dark and gloomy.
May 23.-- This is a fine day. The sun shines warm, but the breezes are a little cool. This
morning we have some frost, but as far as I can learn there has not been any damage. It is rare that
frost comes this late in the season.
Before noon I engage in my favorite past time, cutting stove wood. This is one game that I am
very much in love with. I love to see the wood house full of it.
In the afternoon Mrs. Greene and I plant some pumpkins. We put these in the famous Oklahoma
field. We are looking forward to some good eating.
May 24.-- I am off to Boone on a business trip. Mr. James Miller carries me over. I do not have
122
Surely he means winter.
911
�to stay long until I am ready to return. I start for home walking, but Thomas Banner takes me home.
• I am home before the day is half gone.
In the afternoon I go to the store. This is a good place to hear the gossip of the neighborhood.
In truth it is about the only place that we have for the exchange of social fellowship. The country
store has its place in the community life.
May 25.-- This is a fine Sunday. The weather is cool and pleasant _ll the day. My first duty is
a
to prepare the Sunday School lesson. At School we have a good crowd. There is some interest
among the people. We have a few who are pulling in the opposite direction.
In the afternoon I visit Mr. J. B. Elliott. We have such a fine time that I stay until almost night.
It does seem so good that we do not hear the noise of cars. A man loves to have some quietude at
times. We are certainly going at a break-neck-speed. Where shall we stop?
May 26.-- The first thing that we have on our program is hoeing potatoes. We make a finish of
these before noon. Often I think that it is fine to be a farmer.
The weather is fine. It is a growing day. Late in the evening there is an indication of rain. It
seems that we have the most changes.
Just afternoon I sweep the church house. This is no bad job. In doing this well there is much
skill. I find that it is no light job. This work is important, because it must be done before better
things come.
May 27.-- We have some rain. It is too bad to do any work on the farm . The rain is cold.
Vegetation will not grow under this kind of conditions.
In the afternoon I go to Sherwood's store. I have a fine time. It has been a long time since I have
been in such congenial company at the store. In fact the company is so fine that I have not enjoyed
myself so well in a long time.
Upon my return I get in the rain. I am wet a little when I arrive at home. It is a hard job to cross
the hill when it is slick.
May 28.-- To-day I remain in my room and study. I have not done much in my books for a
month. I have not had any place to study. At last I have a den and am able to have a place for study
without so much noise and confusion. It seems that I have more to contend with than any one.
In the afternoon I go to Sherwood' s store again. I need some things in my work. A man cannot
write unless he has some paper. Before night I am at home again.
May 29.-- We have a variety of weather. Late in the day it is the warmest that it has been in a
long time. By night there is a fine breeze. In the early morning we have some thunder.
During the day I work some. I put out some sweet potatoes. It is no time for planting and
cultivating crops. I find it no easy job to keep all the work going.
In the afternoon I go hunting for a short time. The wind blows too much for game. I enjoy
seeing the refreshing woods. Nature is fine.
912
�A
J
Greene Diaries
May 30.-- This is a cool day. It seems that it is hard for the weather to become warm. Nothing
can grow under conditions like this.
I have not been able to work much. I saw some wood and make one trip to the store for some
flour.
I commence a fourth course in the University. This is Educational Sociology. I feel sure that I
shall enjoy it when I get started.
Graydon Eggers leaves our place for Cincinnati, Ohio. He seems to dread the trip. It is a hard
undertaking for him.
May 31.-- This is a fine day. I attend to some business. There is much for us to do. A man
never gets his work complete. The older that he gets, the more that he is expected to do.
Today we have had bean planting on hand. This is the latest that we have ever planted this crop.
It does not take us long to put this crop out of our way. Before breakfast I sow fertilizer. This
give[s] me a good appetite for eating. In just a short time we are at other things. In the afternoon
we help Uncle John Smith hoe com.
JUNE
June 1.-- This is Sunday. It is one among the hardest days that I have. It is going against one
thing after another.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. We have some interest in this kind of work in our
community.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown have dinner with us and spend the afternoon. We have a splendid
time.
Late in the afternoon I go to my old home at Mabel. I go in a car. I am there in a short time. The
people seem glad to see me. We have a splendid time.
June 2.-- During the night there is some rain. The ground is too wet to work for a short time.
I rest and try to content myself. I commence to hoe potatoes. At noon I do not have half of them
worked. I take a long rest. By a little help I finish at five o'clock. I am very tired, but I make a trip
upon the hill to see how the farm is. By the time that I regum to the house I am tired enough to rest.
I have a good supper and soon retire for the night. I have had a good day.
June. 3.-- This morning I am out early. I have a good breakfast. In a short time I am on my way
home. I walk to Mabel. I remain here only a short time. On my way down the highway I am picked
up and carried home in a car. It is surprising how far that a man can go in a day.
Upon getting home I find my mail waiting for me. I spend a part of the day in reading it. After
all the best of a journey is getting home. A man never knows what it means unless he has it broken
up.
913
�June 4.-- I am at home all the day. I have a pleasant time. Some of the time is spent with my
books and papers. This is a great pleasure for me. I try to read some each day. Another job that I
enjoy very much is cutting wood. I have a part of my time for this word. 123 Beside the enjoyment
and the usefulness of this job it contributes to health. Much can be added to our well-being by
physical exercise. In all we are figuring that manual labor is one of our wholesome exercises.
June 5.-- To-day we have several things on our list. The first that comes our way is hoeing Irish
potatoes. By noon we have a complete job. Our crop is fine and we have some encouragement to
work. The sun is warm, the land is rich, and the crop is growing. What more do we need to make
us happy?
In the afternoon we rest some. I visit the home of J. B. Elliott. He is sick. He has not been well
for a long time. It seems that he is not able to regain his health fully. By night I return home. The
day has been real warm.
June 6.-- This is a fine day. In fact we have had no finer in a long time. It is a splendid time for
crops to grow.
Today I hoe com for Mr. Elliott. We have a fine time. I hoe much more and much longer than
I expected. The piece is too large for us to finish in one day.
Upon my return home I find Mr. Speer. He is a painter from South Carolina. He has traveled
much and delights in telling what great things that he has seem. In due time I should tire of his gab.
June 7.-- I am in Boone early. This is the Primary for the state. The candidates for the fall
elections are chosen today. There seems to be a few who want to run the affairs of the party. How
wise many of them are! By nine o'clock I am at home.
In the afternoon Mr. Mast and I put up a scaffold in order that the painter may finish our church.
It seems that we have a tough time in getting a few little things done. What is every body' s business
is nobody' s business is an adage worth remembering.
June 8.-- Sunday is one among our most busy days . We organize a Bible class for the young
people. We know that youth is the time to learn many of the good things of life. In Sunday School
we see this exhibited. A crowd of men do not know much about the book.
We take tinner with Mr. W. H. Brown. We remain until late in the day. The afternoon is
pleasant. This is our best way to rest. I cannot get much rest in a crowd. A noise does not
contribute any thing to our pleasure. We love a quiet comer. We abhor a crowd.
June 9.-- The weather is fine. It is exceedingly warm. In the afternoon we have a light shower.
It seems that summer time has come at last. We have been longing to have hot, sunshiny days.
The first thing that we have on our program is hoeing in the garden. We have some com and
123
Work?
914
�A
J
Greene Diaries
potatoes. At no time have we had finer vegetables in our garden. At noon we go to Oklahoma to
hoe some corn. Uncle John Smith does the plowing. Before the rain runs us out of the field we have
the plowing done and a greater part of the hoeing. This is a fine piece of corn.
June 10.-- Early this morning we go to Oklahoma field and finish hoeing our corn. The rain of
the past evening did not wet the ground very much. From here we go to Uncle John Smith's corn
and finish hoeing it. When we get a number of hands in a field it does not take long to do the work.
At noon the boys go to Mabel to work their potatoes. They seem anxious to make the trip. It
seems that we have many things to look into. During the afternoon I remain at home. I spend some
time on my books. It seems that I have so many things to do that I can not study much.
June 11.-- The weather is not settled. We had some rain during the night and some during the
day. The ground is not in good condition for working. It does not remain in first class condition
very long.
To-day I remain at home. I cut some wood. On my wood yard I put the limbs to be cut in one
pile and those to be sawed in another. By some means I love to work at wood. Using an axe is
attractive to me. We do not find any exercise that is better. I suppose that it is in a man to be
destructive.
June 12.-- The first thing that we have on hand is the fixing of our grinding stone. Father
Walker and son can do things in the shop. They make a hoe for me. The blade is made from a
bandsaw. I have never seen any thing that cuts better.
In the afternoon I go to Sherwood's store. I have a pleasant trip. While I am there, it rains. Mr.
Sherwood is a lively chap. He meets all the drummers and the customers good-naturedly. He has
the qualifications for a successful merchant.
June 13.-- This is a day long to be remembered. The day is fine until late in the day. Before
noon we read a little. At noon we commence to hoe our corn, but we have to stop owing to rain.
We have a storm of rain, hail and wind accompied [sic] by thunder and lightning. There is rarely
a farm that it does not wash. Much damage is done to growing crops. Near Hunter, Tenn. about one
dozen people lost their lives. The railroad was torn up so that the train can not run. This is one
among the worst storms that has come to this section in a long time.
June 14.-- The day is pretty. The effects of yesterday's storm may be seen on every hand. In
a few days the wounds will be healed and we shall not lament our loss.
This morning I go to the store. I return and work until noon. I engage in reading.
In the afternoon I attend service at Willowdale Baptist Church. We have a good crowd present.
Many people come to see our new church. After this is over I go to the Store again. Here we find
many people coming and going. This is a center of travel.
June 15.-- Sunday has come and it is a day full of events. The first thing that I have on the
915
�program is a Bible class. This is composed of children. The Sunday School Lesson is next. We find
it an interesting one. Attorney John Houston Bingham delivers a fine address. Rev. E. C. Hodges
preaches at the eleven o'clock hour. From here we go to a birthday celebration at John H.
Bingham's. About one hundred people take part in the celebration. We have a fine time during the
afternoon. We assemble in groups and have a fine social hour. To all the day passes too soon.
June 16.-- I am at home the greater part of the day. Before noon I read and prepare a lesson.
There are many things that I can do, but I am not in a mood to work.
In the afternoon I go to Boone with Mr. Charles Tester. We remain for some time in the town.
We see many people that we know. Late in the day we start for home. It does not take long to make
the trip. The car has brought us very near each other. The principle items of the trip are Bordeaux
dust and flour. We have two things out of the way for the present.
June 17.-- Before noon we hoe some corn. The late rain has caused the soil to run together, and
this makes it very hard and difficult to hoe. I hoe until noon without water or resting. This is more
than a man ought to do.
The days are exceedingly hot. This makes it very uncomfortable. In fact it is too hot to sleep
well at night.
In the afternoon we hoe corn for Uncle John Smith. We have an interesting time. The greatest
curiosity is the begging of Stacy Grayson for his grandpa to allow him to go swimming.
June 18.-- The first dive that we make is hoeing our corn in the garden. We do not complete it
until Uncle John is on hand to plow our beans. By noon we have them finished. There is one beauty
about this crop, it does not take many working[s]. The beans are looking well. This crop is fine for
the land.
After we eat dinner, we hoe in Uncle John Smith's Corn. Long before night we have it finished.
I must confess that I am tired enough to rest. It has been almost too hot for me to work. I am sure
that it is a growing season.
June 19.-- Our boys take a hunt. I suppose there is no one in all the land that enjoys a hunt as
well as they do. It is not long until they return with some squirrels. In the afternoon Ralph brings
a big groundhog in. It seems that we are well-supplied with meat.
This morning I go to John Bingham's to get some honey. I find him at home and in a congenial
mood. He takes great delight in showing me his lands. By ten o'clock I manage to make my escape.
I must confess that it is a hot time to come home.
June 20.-- We engage in hoeing until noon. The first is some corn, the second is our bean
botton, 124 and finally we finish the corn in the field of clay. All our crops are looking well.
124
Bottom?
916
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Uncle John Smith invites us to a groundhog dinner. To say the least it is by no means bad eating.
In addition to this we had many other good things to eat.
Upon my return I remain at home and studied my books. I went to the church and swept it out.
It is no light task to keep a public building in good shape.
June 21.-- This morning I make a trip to Dock Mast's store. I do not feel like traveling much.
I do some shopping. I have a pleasant stay at the store. I make an effort to get home before noon.
In fact I am too sick to be going. At noon I commence to write, but I leave the job and go to the
store. For some time I remain at the store and see the sights of the town. I return home very sick.
It seems that I have much trouble. It is just one thing after another. I do not feel well any more. I
am sick during the night.
June 22.-- This is a fine [day?]. There are some clouds, but we have no rain. The day is warm
and growing.
The day has been hard on me. I have been sick almost all day. I do not think that I have been
so sick in a long time.
I begin the day by studying. I have to make some preparation before I teach a class. At Sunday
School we have a fine time. The Bible class has many interesting doings.
In the afternoon we remain at home. How good it does seem for us to remain at home with no
one to bother us! It seems that we have little family life.
June 23.-- I have been on the sick list. I find that I need a doctor. I call in Dr. G. D . Bingham.
Je gives me some medicine and I get easy. In the afternoon I feel worse. I suffer some late in the
day and at night.
During the day I manage to read some. In the afternoon I finish writing a lesson. By some means
I am not able to study as I like. As one becomes older, it seems that he has less time for study and
meditation. Our duties, as well as our troubles, multiply. The burdens of life become heavy.
June 24.-- To-day we have had some rain. The gentle showers refresh all the earth. In the
intervals between showers we have some intense sunshine.
I have been in all day. I have not been so sick as I was yesterday. A man can get in bad shape
in a short time. I need some rest very much .
During the day I have read as much as possible. I find many interesting things in the current
magazmes. It seems to be a part of my nature to read good books. There are many fine things for
us to read.
June 25.-- I am not able to do much. I am at home taking some rest and medicine.
In the afternoon I go to Mabel. I go in a car with two men from South Boston, Virginia. They
are very much interested in the mountains.
At Mabel I see the same old crowd. This is a town that does not improve much. By the time that
I get home I am too tired to do any thing. I am not strong enough to exert myself much.
917
�June 26.-- The first job that I have on hand is dusting potatoes. It is wet and disagreeable.
I go to Mabel to see the tour from Winston-Salem. This is get-acquainted-crowd. There are
about fifty cars and one hundred seventy-five people. They seem to be having the time oftheir lives.
At noon I come home with the mail. We have many places to stop. I think that we have more
offices than any county in the state.
In the afternoon I remain at home. I read and try to rest. I do not feel able to work.
June 27.-- The weather has taken a change. We are having some fine days. The ground is dry
enough to work.
·
Before noon I help pick some cherries. I must confess that this is a man's job. I finish the job
at noon. We have all that we wish.
In the afternoon we hoe some com. It is warm and we expect it to rain, but the rain does not
come and we finish long before night. Some of this com is fine. It looks as if we might reap for our
labors.
June 28.-- I am out real early. I go to Boone on a truck. At six o'clock I am at the Old Muster
Field. From here I walk to Meat Camp. I am at my journey's end early. The Fifth Sunday Meeting
is to convene here.
At ten o'clock the meeting comes together. L. C. Wilson is chosen Chairman and the writer
secretary. Rev. G. W. Trivett preaches. The discussions during the afternoon are good.
After the meeting I go to Seymour Jones' for the night. Aunt Betty Greene lives here. She has
been sick for more than a year.
June 29.-- At Meat Camp Church I teach a class in Sunday School. We have an interesting
school. Rev. Uriah Farthing preaches. At the noon hour there is a fine dinner on the ground. There
is a large crowd of people present. The afternoon session is good. Many good speeches are made.
After the close I come to Boone with F. M. Huggins. From here I come a part of the way with
Joseph Hayes and a part with Russell Henson.
Late in the day we have a storm. In some places it is severe.
June 30.-- This morning I dust my potatoes. This is a hard job. The vines are wet and a man
comes out in a mess.
In the afternoon I go to Boone in a car with Dr. Dick Bingham. We have a fine and successful
drive to town. After attending to some business we attend the Democratic Convention. The party
puts a full ticket in the field. It is composed of good men. It seems that thee are not many men who
are intensely interested in politics. We have a faithful few that keep the ball rolling. We return
home before night. This has been a pleasant day.
JULY
918
�A
J Greene Diaries
July 1.-- I am at home. I am not feeling well enough to do much work. I do some little jobs
about the house. We have so much rain that we are not able to do much on the farm. I do some
work about the garden. There is always some little job that a man can do to make it look bettern.
Late in the day the potato inspector comes. He finds ours in good condition. The vines are a
little heavy. This makes a condition that is favorable for blight.
July 2.-- The people are anxious for the Democratic Convention in New York to name a
candidate. This is the whole theme of the papers. It seems that a deadlock is on hand. The life of
the party is at stake.
We do many things at home. We have some work that we are trying to get off. I am not able to
work at it as much as I wish. The bad weather keeps us from working at our crops. By some means
we are not able to get as much done as we once could. We do not have the patience.
July 3.-- The weather is still dark and gloomy. It rains just enough to keep us from working our
crops. It is not good policy to cultivate when the ground is too wet.
In the afternoon I go to Boone for a load of coal. I ride on a wagon. It is not such good sport as
going in a car. Weh ave much fun. The most pleasing sight is the potato crop. The acreage is large
and the growth of the crops has never been better.
July 4.-- I visit Aunt Polly McBride. She has been sick for a long time. By some means she has
always seen the dark side of life. From here I go to the cheese factory. A crew of hands is building
an addition for the manufacture of Swiss cheese.
There has been much passing today. This is a holiday and many people have taken an advantage
of it.
In the afternoon I visit the store at Sugar Grove. There is nothing here to excite us. It does not6
take me long to tire at a store.
July 5.-- The first job that I have is doing some work on the church. Mr. Mast and I tear down
a scaffold and clean up the yard. In our opinion we think that it improves the looks of the situation.
In the afternoon I attend the Masonic Lodge at Sugar Grove. I have been a member seventeen
years, but I have not been in the Hall in fourteen years. There is work in two degrees. We have a
splendid time. It is late in the day when I arrive home.
July 6.-- We have a fine Sunday School at Willowdale. Attorney John E. Brown is with us and
makes a brief talk.
At noon we dine alone. It seems so good for us to have a few minutes to ourselves.
I visit W. W . Campbell. The rain keeps me there for some time.
W. Y. Perry and family come to see us. We have a pleasant afternoon.
Rain commences about one o'clock. It is one downpour until night. We are sure that the ground
919
�is too wet for some time. Crops must wait.
July 7.-- I work at a lesson. There is so much talk that it disturbs me in my work. I love to have
a quiet time for study and meditation.
The papers do not bring us any news of importance from the Convention in New York.
In the afternoon I go to Mabel. This is a long hard trip. It is almost night when I get there. We
have some rain late in the evening. It seems that clear weather is never coming to us.
July 8.-- This morning I have a tough time. I dust some potatoes. It is the wettest time that I
have ever been out. It is as difficult as wading a stream of water.
Upon the completion of my job I start for home. I walk about three miles. I catch a car and come
home. I am satisfied that I have a good place to live.
In the afternoon I read and do some work about the house. We visit the neighbors. There are
many things for us to do. It seems that we are not able to keep even.
July 9.-- This is one day that I do not do much. We are at home. I am at a loss to know how to
rest. There are so many sorry little things to provoke a man. I long for the time to come when I can
rest from all my cares. It seems that the older a man becomes, the more that the cares of life pile
upon him. I can see no end to my cares.
For many days we have had much rain. The ground has been too wet to work our crops. The
weeds are doing well.
July 10.-- Before noon we do not do much work. We are waiting for the ground to dry. It seems
that our crops have had to wait a long time.
In the afternoon we plow our com and beans. Doughton is plowboy. It is not long until he is at
the top of the hill. Before night we have the com hoed. From the field of labor the boys go to the
cherry trees. A boy can rest so quickly. He relaxes his muscles a few minutes and he is ready to go.
This is not true with a man. He has long ago lost the art of resting.
July 11.-- The first job that I have on my program is picking cherries. Doughton and I pick and
bring in nine gallons before noon. They are nice ones. These are the kind that keep well, and the
kind that I love to eat.
In the afternoon Doughton and I work in our beans and com. We finish the garden.
Mr. De Vane, from Red Springs come[s] to see us. We visit the Yates' place. Upon our return
we eat at W. J. Mast's our first mud turtle meat. Just at night Roe Warren, Homer Eggers, and J. F.
Eggers from Elizabethton come to see us.
July 12.-- I mow a little clover this morning. It is heavy cutting. The heat almost gets the best
of me.
At crowd from Elk comes along and I go with them to see a ball game at Mabel. Just as we
arrive there there is a hard rain. It looks as if there will be no game. In the afternoon the rain ceases
920
�A
J
Greene Diaries
long enough to play. The game is exciting and full of humor.
The run in the truck is exciting. We come down Cove Creek at an [sic] rapid rate. I am glad
when it is time to stop at my home.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
55
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 50 [March 31 - July 12, 1924]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1924
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
51.3 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_050_1924_0331_1924_0712
Description
An account of the resource
This diary was kept by Andrew Jackson Greene from March 31st through July 12th in the year of 1924. In the daily entries, Greene includes information about what he has accomplished that day, his opinions about certain events of the day, and who he has visited with recently. He also gives insight into what is happening in the school, the church, and throughout the community.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Boone
Cottrell’s Store
Cove Creek Baptist Church
Dock Mast’s Store
Elk Park
Festival at the Courthouse
Graydon Eggers
J.B. Elliot
J.B. Williams
J.F. Eggers
James Miller
Jennie Dugger
Junior-Senior Reception
Masonic Lodge at Sugar Gove
Meat Camp
Normal School
Rev. J.C. Teague
teacher
Uncle John Smith
Vilas
Weather
Willowdale
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d7efc8489ec64551933f55cbceed8414.pdf
dc4333b1aaaf32036c5f2aaf3843b9c0
PDF Text
Text
����������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/974197a5e3cac7ee7a662cd864f0bb88.pdf
35d1d9029bbaec653f5d7847de2c0063
PDF Text
Text
����������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/7becf7cf4d732b2a973807fd69d79ea5.pdf
75c39d28ba0bd31c6bae1ddb77466619
PDF Text
Text
July 13.-- Sunday is my hardest day. I have many duties to perform. The rain hinders us at
Sunday School. Our crowd is not so large as usual owing to rain.
Elder G. W. Trivett preaches at the eleven o'clock hour. As usual he pours the doctrine to us.
After the sermon we take dinner with him. We spend a portion of the afternoon with him. We enjoy
his conversation real well. The day closes well.
July 14.-- The day is fine. It is an excellent day until late in the evening we have some rain.
Many of our people have made good use of the day.
This morning I finish cutting my clover patch. I must confess that I became warm at the job.
The wind has blown it in every direction. Late in the day we put the hay into small shocks. This is
better than leaving it to get wet on the ground.
July 15.-- Before noon we are at home. We have many little jobs that need our attention.
At noon we go to Uncle John Smith's for a short time. We assist him in digging the weeds out
of his com.
In the evening we bring some hay into our bam. It is so steep that it is a difficult job for us to
carry it in. In fact it is one of the hardest jobs that I have had in a long time. The ground is so steep.
July 16.-- Today it is eighteen years since I started my diary. I have something for each day. I
get some pleasure out of it.
Mrs. Greene goes to Mabel on a visit. She does not go often. This is the first trip since
Christmas.
In the afternoon we hoe some com. It is almost too hot to work. There never has been a better
day for those who wish to make hay. Some farmers are using it.
July 17.-- Before noon we are at home. We do not have any thing on hand. I am trying to rest
a little.
At noon we go to plow our com. It is so high that a horse cannot be seen in it. When we are
almost done [with?] the piece in the Oklahome field a rain comes. Before we can get into the shelter,
we are wet. This is a bad condition. Wet clothes feel hateful on me.
July 18.-- Mrs. Greene returns home. She reports a fine time. All seem pleased that she has
returned. We have managed to get on well.
In the afternoon Uncle John Smith and I visit J. B. Elliott, a sick man. Mr. Elliott has been sick
a long time. At times he is serious. We remain some hours with him. I enjoy being in his home,
but I hate to see him suffer.
921
�July 19.-- Early this morning we have rain. Soon it is too wet to work our com.
At Cove Creek I attend the burial of Dr. Peter Hayes. He was visiting his relatives and took
violently ill and died in a short time. Rev. L. C. Wilson conducted the service. The following made
talks: W. S. Farthing, B. B. Dougherty, the writer. Dr. Hayes was an excellent man.
In the afternoon I attend service at Willowdale Baptist Church.
July 20.-- At Sunday School we have a great lesson. There is a large number present. Elder E.
C. Hodges becomes disturbed and does not preach. He tries to arouse the emotions by one of his
famous hand-shaking episodes.
Afternoon we visit the home of W. J. Mast's. There are several visitors. We have a splendid
time. This is one of my ways to rest. With two or three congenial companions we seclude ourselves
and talk.
July 21.-- This morning I visit Mr. J. B. Elliott, who is very sick. In fact he is not expected to
live. I remain with him until almost noon.
This is a fine day. The weather is all that could be desired. At one time rain was threatened.
Afternoon we finish hoeing com in Oklahoma. The com is large. It is hot to work in. I am
delighted that the hoeing season is almost over.
July 22.-- This is a day of work. I write one of my lessons and do other book work. It seems that
I have no time to idle. I must be busy all the time.
I have been to see the sick man twice. It seems that I am on the go all the time.
Today I have a class in Geometry. Thelma Perry must be tutored. I fear that she does not know
the fundamental principles of mathematics.
July 23.-- I have many experiences. There are many things that come our way. It seems that I
am not able to meet so many things that I did once. Before I am aware, the time is up and very little
done.
During the day I visit Mr. Elliott, the sick man. It seems that he holds his own well. I am
sensitive to the suffering of others. I hate to see any one with pain. I had rather not be present, but
some one must see it.
July 24.-- This is a fine day. It seems that good weather has come at last. Many of our farmers
are longing for some days of sunshine.
Again I visit our sick man . I find a large number of women present. I observe that women are
much better to visit the sick than men. The chief observation that I make is that all the women must
talk. Why is it that more than one can talk at once?
July 25.-- The usual routine comes to us. It seems that the day comes and goes and we do not
get any where. I have some work on my course, but it seems that I do not get much done. There is
always some interruption coming my way. Many people come to talk with me.
922
�A
J Greene Diaries
Today I do not visit the sick. I find that there is company, so I do some small jobs at my home.
July 26.-- The weather is cool. The fire is pleasant. A man needs more clothing on.
This morning I go to George's Gap to see Asa Greene, a sick man. I find him in a serious
condition. I spend the greater part of the morning with him.
By noon I am at home. Then I go to see Mr. Elliott, another sick man. I have spent the entire
day on the go. I do not think that it is in vain.
July 27.-- Sunday comes to us again. This is our busy day. At church we have a conference.
Elder G. W. Trivett is elected Pastor. There is a marked division. It seems that we are having much
trouble that we do not need.
Floyd Ward and family come to see us. We have a fine time. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Sherrill, Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Swift and Master Blan Sherrill come to see us. Many splendid guests.
July 28.-- This is a fine day. There is no rain until late in the day. Then the rain is light.
Before noon I help some in the meadow. I cut some hay along the road. It does not take a man
long to dull his scythe.
In the afternoon I see one of the school boys from Boone in trouble with his car. I study some
and make a trip to the office for some mail.
July 29.-- This is a great day at J. C. Smith's. It is the time to put up his hay. In the afternoon
we put up six stacks. It is a fine grade of hay. A part of our crowd is colored. They make good
hand[s] . Along with the work we have some fun . The colored boys are afraid of bees. One bee had
a combad with Uncle "Pre" Matheson. This was a terrific battle. To him it was reality, but to us it
was real fun. A little would have put him out of the field.
July 30.-- This is one among the finest days for making hay that I have ever seen. The ground
is dry, the sun is hot and the breezes stir. Much hay goes up without any rain. The haystacking is
at W. J. Mast's and G. W. Trivett's. It is conceded that I am the champion stacker. Before night all
is in the stack. It does not take long for many hand[s] to put one crop in. I think that this is good
business for a community.
July 31.-- This morning I go to see Asa Greene, who is recovering from a long period of illness.
He has improved fast.
Upon my return home I find Hazel Cook and Margareet Hahn, of Boone, and Una Corpening,
of Lenoir. They are dressed in walking pants and have hiked all the way from Boone. They stay the
greater part of the day and then return to Boone. We have a good time.
AUGUST
923
�Aug. 1.-- A new month comes our way. I have many things on hand. I have much writing and
reading that must be done soon.
The news comes to me that I am to have atrip to Elizabethton, Tenn. By noon I am ready to go.
I go to Boone with Brother Uriah Farthing. He is a new driver and a little dangerous. I spend my
time in town. I see many old friends. I spend the night at A. I. Greene's. I do not rest well.
Aug. 2.-- I am out early. After a light breakfast I am on the train for Tennessee. On the way I
converse with a Unitarian minister. In many respects he is a great fellow.
At noon I am at Calvin Eller's for dinner. I have a good rest. I go to Harmony Baptist Church.
I talk to the people from the theme "Comfort". At night I stay with Mr. Cuhn. During the night
there is much rain. I rest well.
Aug. 3.-- This is a day full of activity. I have a job all day. I attend Sunday School. This is
something that I do not care to miss. At eleven o'clock I talk to the people from the theme, "The
Captivity of Thought". The people gave me fine attention. I take dinner with Uncle James Blair,
a former North Carolinian. In the afternoon I talk to the people from the theme, "The Name of
Jesus". I spend the night with J. F. Eggers.
Aug. 4.-- The morning is cool, but the day is very warm. In fact I have never suffered more from
heat. J. F. Eggers takes me to his peach orchard. This is one of the finest sights that I have ever
seen. Just before noon I go to town. I spend some time seeing the place. After a long trip on the
train I reach Boone. It is late when I get a way home. I am tired enough to rest from my travels.
Aug. 5.-- I have many things on my list. I try to rest from all my travels. I am pleased when the
mail comes. I receive some needed money.
In the afternoon I go to Sherwood's store and settle my account. To my surprise it is much larger
than I expected it to be. A debt at the store is the hardest for a man to pay. I wish that I could pay
as I go. It would be much easier. A man is a slave to custom.
Aug. 6.-- Today I settle with another merchant. One of these days I hope to get even with all my
creditors.
In the afternoon I go and help Brother Trivett in his hay. We put up a good stack. It seems that
I am wanted for stacker.
I visit J. B. Elliott, the sick man. It seems that he is not able to improve fast. I remain some time
with him. I enjoy his conversation.
Aug. 7.-- This morning I am nervous. In fact I am sick. The least little thing disturbs me. At
noon I decide to go to my old home at Mabel. I go in a car to Mast. From there I walk. At Mabel
there is a shower of rain. It is late when I get there. I had planned to look over the place, but the
924
�A
J Greene Diaries
weeds are too wet. The place is so quiet and lonesome. I am not sure whether I care to live here
again or not.
Aug. 8.-- I am out early and anxious to go home. I visit my father a few minutes and then I am
ready to come. I get a car at Mabel. In a short time I am at home. It is a much better place than I
had thought. I am content to stay.
In the afternoon I go to the cheese factory. I want something to eat. I think that cheese will be
good for me. A man is never satisfied.
Aug. 9.-- It seems that I have too many things on my program at once. I have a class in
Geometry. 1 try to write out a lesson. I do not get much of it done until I have a call to measure
some com at J. B. Elliott's. I have no time to spare.
Miss Norma Brown, of Boone, visits us. Indeed she is a pleasant lady.
In the afternoon I attend a ball game at Mabel. This is a good place to go to find out how many
fools there are.
Aug. 10.-- This is a day of labor. I am at religious work or entertaining strangers. We have
several people from a distance, Mr. and Mrs. Arrowood and Miss Bailey from Boone. We have a
fine time.
The travel on the highway is immense. Many people are joy riding. All that have cars are on the
go. Many people from a distance pass by our place. Cars from many states may be seen every day.
Aug. 11.-- To-day I have had a hard lesson to write. A man must go through many hard things .
There is no soft way for a man to succeed in life.
A part of the day is spent in writing a diary. This is one of the ways that I have in amusing
myself.
At night I attend a concert given by the colored folks . In many respects it is interesting. They
did some fine singing. It is late when we return home.
Aug. 12.-- This morning I go to Silverstone to attend the Three Forks Association. Rev. Roy
Dotson preaches the sermon. Smith Hagaman is Moderator and W. Y. Perry is clerk. The chief
affair is an address by Dr. Charles E. Maddry. There is a large crowd present. The behavior is all
that could be desired.
I return home for the night. Miss Iva Lee Tester and Miss Dare Farthing come with me. They
are excellent girls and it is a pleasure to have them in our home.
Aug. 13.-- I walk to the Association. It is a fine trip. It is a little warm.
The session today has many thrills. There are no great event[s]. Some freshness is exhibited.
A few reactionaries want to exert themselves, but they do not get far.
During the day there is much rain. In some places the waters are out of the banks.
After the session I have to walk home. The mud is a little bad, but I get in on good time.
925
�Aug. 14.-- The first job that I have is milling. I do not have this job often. This work must be
done before we can have bread.
In the second place I do some work on my books. It seems that I have not done much reading.
I had planned much for the seasson [sic].
During the afternoon I cut the weeds from my potatoes. There are signs of a good crop. They
are in good shape.
Aug. 15.-- I go to see Mr. Elliott, a sick man. It seems that he is losing ground. He has been sick
a long time.
Today we have some sand hauled. We are fixing to build a chimney. We think that it will add
much 'comfort to the home.
I put in some time fixing for a trip. There are many things that we must do in order to get ready.
It is just one thing after another when we are fixing to go.
Aug. 16.-- I leave home and go to Vilas. I remain here for a long time waiting for the jitney.
From here I go to Elk Valley. I find only a few at the church. I talk to the people from the theme,
"Obedience". I go to the home of David Bailiff's. I have a pleasant time. Their home is on the bas
of Beech. There is so much rain that I do not get to look at the country. I become tired sitting.
Aug. 17.-- This morning there is much rain. In fact it rains until almost time for Sunday School.
At Sunday School the crowd is small. We have a splendid time discussing the lesson. At eleven
o'clock we talk to the people from the theme, "No Room". The crowd is much larger. I have dinner
with Will Blair. It is one among the best that I have had in a long time. In the afternoon I attend
singing and then return home.
Aug. 18.-- This is a fine day. The weather is ideal. The climate is fine for the crops.
Before noon I am at home. I try to read and gather some information.
At noon I go to the Yates' place and look it over. It seems a desirable place to live.
Upon my return home I find all absent. I remain alone for a long time. I endeavor to do some
reading and writing.
Aug. 19.-- This is a great day in this community. Rosedna Dugger becomes the bride of W. S.
Frantz, of Florida. Many of our people comment on it. I do not think that we need to worry about
the business of other people.
I spend some time with Mr. Elliott, the sick man. It seems that he is not able to gain any in
strength.
In the afternoon I do some reading and writing. I am trying to catch up.
Aug. 20.-- Today I attend service at Cove Creek Baptist Church. Rev. Mr. Benfield, of Caldwell
County, is the preacher. His subject is "Abraham, the Friend of God". His sermon is simple and to
the point.
926
�A
J
Greene Diaries
From church I go home with W. Y. Perry for dinner. I have a pleasant time. There is plenty to
eat and good fellowship. The later part of the afternoon has been spent at home. I am trying to get
ready for school work.
Aug. 21.-- This morning I start to Boone on business. I make several stops on business. I ride
in four different automobile[s]. I find the town on a boom. Several new buildings are going up. I
visit the Training School. It does not seem like the same place. The new building seems so roomy.
I make a short visit to Justice Hall. I return to town. and remain until the jitney runs. I have the
pleasure of riding with Miss Jennie Todd. I arrive home in time to read some.
Aug. 22.-- This is a real hot day. The dust is becoming real bad. The heat is oppressive.
I make one trip to the store. I have not spent much time at the store this season.
Late in the day I visit Mr. Elliott, the sick man. I remain with him into the night. I do hate to see
a man suffer. It touches my sympathy very much. I feel distressed to see it.
Aug. 23.-- This closes one year at this place. The time has seemed short. One year of live [sic]
has gone and cannot be recalled. I have had much joy and some sorrow.
I do some work for the sick man and make two trips to the store. I am sure that I love to do
things for the people.
In the afternoon we have a heavy rain. There is some heavy thunder and vivid lightning. This
has been a season of few storms.
Aug. 24.-- This is a day full of good things. I attend Bible study and Sunday School. We have
a good session. We are sure that many good people value the best things of life.
From church we go to the home of Floyd Ward for dinner. We have a fine afternoon. This is
a fine home.
During the afternoon we have a storm of rain. We have a storm almost every day. There has
been much rain this summer, but we have had few storms.
Aug. 25.-- This morning I am out early. I fix to get off to Boone to commence school work. I
am happy to catch a way. I go to the school building and report for duty. The new building makes
it seem like a new place. There is so much room. By noon I am located in my room at Justice Hall.
In the afternoon I set my room in order and get my books in readiness. I am pleased with the work
that I have given me. It is in the field of language. I am delighted with the field.
Aug. 26.-- The Training School opens today with a large attendance. The increase is in the
college. The school is in the new building. There are many conveniences. The truth of the matter
is that it is large enough for a man to get lost. We have several new teachers. I am sure that they are
congenial.
My part in starting is to assist in fixing the course of the first and second year students. We have
a large number to enter first time.
927
�Aug. 27.-- Class work starts today. I meet my classes for the first time. The courses that I have
pleases me much. I have two courses in Latin and two in English. It gives all my time to language.
I have a fine room. It is on the warm side of the house and is free from noise and disturbance.
Today I have read of air flights from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is a most thrilling story. It is
very picturesque.
Aug. 28.-- Today has been very warm. It is fine autumn weather. Summer is passing. The
nights are cool. The insects are making minor music. The sad time of the year is upon us.
In school we have a good day. Our classes are starting well. It does seems so strange for us to
have so much room. We have more room than we need, but in the near future we may need it.
Aug. 29.-- This has been a very warm day. I have suffered much from the heat. In fact I have
stuck very closely to my business.
There is a large crowd in school. Some new ones are coming every day. It seems that more
students come than we are able to care for.
After school I make a trip to town. I find many people from a distance in our midst. There are
cars from many places.
Aug. 30.-- The weather continues oppressive. At no time during the year has the sun been more
severe.
In school we have had much work. There is no limit to it. I am tired enough to rest.
In the afternoon I go home. I walk almost all the way. I get two short rides. I am tired enough
to rest. Just before I arrive home, I hear the news that Mr. Bennett Elliott is dead. He has been sick
a long time.
Aug. 31.-- This is a busy day. There has been something to call my attention all day. I visit the
home of Mrs. Elliott. From here I go to Sunday School. We do not have a large crowd. Many of
our members are helping to get ready for the burial. I prepare a short obituary to read at the funeral.
At four o'clock services are held in Willow dale Church for Brother Elliott. The Pastor, Elder G. W.
Trivett, conducted the services. Elder Britain, the Methodist Pastor, talked. He is buried in Howell
graveyard.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1.-- This morning I come to Boone in a truck. I am on the ground early. I see many
friends. Judge Long is the presiding judge and A. G. Wilson is foreman of the grand jury. At noon
Hon. R. L. Daughton, a Member of Congress, makes an address.
Just after the noon hour I come to my room and do some work. The inhabitants of Boone have
the pleasure of seeing an air plane flying about the town. This is something new in our midst.
928
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Sept. 2.-- Today we have some rain. It is a welcome guest, because the dust was becoming
almost unbearable. Beside this it cools the air and relieves us from heat.
The second week of school starts. There is an increase in attendance. New students come almost
every day.
After school I make a trip to town. The town is full of people. Court is in session. There are
many cases to be tried. The criminal docket is heavy.
Sept 3.-- This morning I am out early. I take my usual bath. In order to get ready for the day I
exercise by walking.
There is some interest in classes. I do not have to meet so many classes; I am going to get some
time to rest.
In the evening I go to court. I hear Hon. T. C. Bowie make a speech before a jury. He is an
earnest pleader. To say the least he is one of the strong men at the bar.
Sept. 4.-- This morning I am out early. Really I am out too early. I do almost a day's work
before breakfast. By some means I am not able to sleep late as some people.
In school we have a hard day of it. There is something for us to do all the time. There is not a
minute that we can call our own.
After school I go to court for a short time. I soon get enough of this. Things of this kind do not
interest me.
Sept. 5.-- The night is cool. Cover feels comfortable. Many of us enjoy a good fire. In a short
time winter will be upon us. How swiftly the time does pass! The busy man does not think of time.
Yesterday and today the old soldiers meet with the school. There are only a few of the number
left. In the afternoon memorial service is held in the auditorium of the school. Many speeches are
made in memory of departed ones.
Sept. 6.-- There is some frost this morning. There is not enough in Boone to hurt vegetation
much, but in still places, doubtless, things are hurt.
Prof. Bane, the athletic director, arrives. This is the first time that we have had this kind of man.
In the afternoon we go home. I catch the jitney and we are soon at home. This is an easy way
to get in.
During the day I have been sick. I have had an attack of the stomach. I have suffered much.
Sept. 7.-- This morning we have the second frost. The damage is slight.
We have a good crowd at Sunday School. There is some interest in the work.
In the afternoon we have our Sunday School outing. We go to Zionville near the State Line. We
have a fine time. We have games, talks and refreshments. The old people enjoy it as much as the
young ones. All returned pleased.
Sept. 8.-- This is a day with few events for me. The morning is cool. We need some fire. Mr.
929
�De Vane and I come in the jitney to Boone. I attend to some business in town. I do not do much
work during the day. I am not in shape for hard study. In the afternoon I go to town and have some
dental work done. I spend some time loafing. On my way to supper I meet the train. We see more
cars than passengers. Some come in vain.
Sept. 9.-- This is a cool day. The air is a little biting. Many are expecting a heavy frost. In man
parts of the county frost has killed many things.
At school we have about the usual routine. Some of our people are showing a spirit of rowdyism.
About half of the day has been spent at the Hospital. Dr. English, of Johnson City, has fitting
glasses and cutting out tonsils. It is surprising to know how many people need work. In reality it
is one of the most tiresome days that I have had lately.
Sept. 10.-- This is a very cold day. In fact we have suffered from cold all day. The wind kept
us from having a killing frost. It is pretty tough to remain in a room without any fire.
At chapel we have Bynum Wilson, a former student. He is making good in his work.
After school I go to town on business. There is always something doing in this town . People
from distant places may be seen on the street. Soon the distant people will go.
Sept. 11.-- A curtain of fog and clouds kept off the killing frost. The past day has been cold. In
fact we have suffered from cold.
At chapel Rev. Mr. Wooseley made a fine talk. We had also Dr. Jeffcout, the Lutheran minister,
and Rev. Mr. Cobb from Salisbury.
In the afternoon I do much work. I take a final examination in a University course. By the time
that I am through I am very tired. In order to rest I make a trip to town. I remain a few minutes.
Sept. 12.-- The day is some warmer. The crops have escaped serious damage. In a few places
there has been some loss. The sun is real warm and we are looking forward to some hot weather.
At chapel the Rev. Mr. Cobb sang and conducted chapel. He told a fine story in order to
illustrate the scripture lesson.
After school I make a trip to town. I lose some valuable time. It seems that I am not able to read
all the time.
Sept. 13.-- This is a tough day for me. I have not hardly been able to work. I have had an attack
of indigestion. This has made it hard for me to do my work.
Today I make a short talk before the teachers of Watauga County. I talk about the observations
that I have made from reading Seventh Grade examination papers.
In the afternoon I go home on the jitney line. I am tired enough to rest.
Sept. 14.-- This is a day full of activity. It seems that Sunday is my hardest day. There are so
many things that confront me. We have Sunday School and preaching. At least we try to have. A
show is passing. Almost all the people are curious to see the elephant pass. Beside this there is
930
�A
J Greene Diaries
much reckless driving on the highway. It seems that almost all have gone speed crazy. We are not
content to take things quietly. The fast car suits us the best.
Sept. 15.-- The day is dark and gloomy. A dense fog hangs around the mountain. The air is full
of chilly moisture. It pinches and seems colder than it is.
Before noon I come to Boone. I remain in town a few minutes and then come to my room. I put
in the day working. I must confess that I have put in close time. It seems that I am unable to keep
up with all the work that I have on hand. I do not keep even.
Sept. 16.-- This has been one of the gloomy days in Boone. There has been a mist the whole day.
It is disagreeable to go from one place to another.
In school we have had a good day. Our work has moved on well. In fact we have enjoyed it
much. After school we make a trip to town for my mail. I do no[t] remain long. I soon return and
work in my lessons. I spend much time in reading in the magazines.
Sept. 17.-- The weather is some better today. The sun shines. The air is cool. The dust has been
put down.
At chapel we have Senator Giles, of Marion. He is a member of the Budget Commission of
North Carolina. He makes a fine address.
In the afternoon I go to town. I travel from one place to another until I am tired enough to rest.
It seems that I am not able to keep in line with every thing that is moving.
Sept. 18.-- The day has gone well with me. I have felt like working. There has been nothing to
mar my pleasure, or to disturb my peace.
In regard to the weather it is uncertain. First it is densely foggy; second the sun shines; third
there is some rain.
After school I go to town for my mail. From there I hasten across the hill to the west of Boone
to Mr. Hayes' for some apples. I procure some that will do to eat.
Sept. 19.-- Today has been much harder on me than any other day this week. By some means
we are not able to endure after a week of hard toil. I have not lost any time. It has been one
continuous pull.
In the afternoon we go to town for our mail. The people in town do not realize how the place
has changed. Buildings are going up on every hand. The old Councill property is being tom down.
It was one of the oldest places in Boone.
Sept. 20.-- This is a real bad day. It has not ceased from raining during the day. In every
direction the mud is bad.
This is the hardest day that we have had this week. We have a few pupils who do not care much
if they fail.
At three o' clock I start home. I catch the jitney and soon I am at home. I find that the rain is
931
�putting our house in a bad condition. It is bad to have a leaky roof.
Sept. 21.-- The weather is some better. The rain ceases and we have some sunshine. During the
morning the cars do not run, but in the afternoon we have them in abundance.
I attend Sunday School. We have a few people that do not know how to behave. The children
do not know how to conduct themselves. A little use of the rod might save some of them from
making criminals.
Sept. 22.-- The weather is inclement. There is a saying that when it begins to rain it does not
know when to stop. In this respect the day keeps alive the proverb.
I remain at home until noon. I read some. In my home I am disturbed. It seems that we are too
loose with our care for things.
In the afternoon I come to Boone. I arrive in time to do some reading. I do not feel as well as
I wish.
Sept. 23.-- The day is fine. The sun shines. The air is much cooler. It looks as if we may have
some fine days.
In school we go well with our work. There are a few new students. By some means they keep
coming. The enrollment is the largest in the history of the school at this time of year.
At night I spend much time at work. I have much paper work to do. This is the kind of work that
is trying on a man.
Sept. 24.-- This morning it is cold enough for frost. A light fog kept it away. The entire day is
cool. The sun is a welcome visitor.
At chapel we have R. M. Brown, of the Welfare Department at Raleigh. He talks to the student
body in relation to his work.
In the afternoon I work on my books. There is much for me to do. I am not able to keep even
with my work. At times I do it in a poor manner. However I try to keep in touch with things.
Sept. 25.-- This is a bad day. There has been much rain. Beside this it has been cool. The mud
is becoming bad.
At noon I make a trip to town. It seems that we have many strangers in our midst. A few years
ago I knew all in town, but now I know only a few.
Late in the day I go to Supt. Hagaman's. The weather is so bad that the Welfare Board does not
meet. I return to my room and make good time studying.
Sept. 26.-- This is one of our dark days. It has rained almost all day. The fog has been heavy and
low. In every respect the day has been depressing.
Today at chapel we have Hon. Shepherd M. Dugger. He is an author. At times he lectures. He
is eccentric along many lines. His address has many good suggestions.
After school I remain at the building and work. To say the least I make good progress in it.
932
�A
J Greene Diaries
There is nothing so healthy as keeping up with your work.
Sept. 27.-- This is one of our bad days. The rain has fallen almost all day. The fog has been
dense, and has hovered closely to the earth. The mud is almost impassable.
In the afternoon I start for home. When I come to town, I learn that the jitney has left me. In a
short time I get conveyance with Thomas Duncan. We have a pleasant time. Upon my arrival at
home the rain commences to fall and continues all night.
Sept. 28.-- This is one of the rainiest days that I have seen in a long time. It occurs to me that
it has not ceased during the entire day. The water is coming out of the banks. In fact it reminds me
of July 1916.
At Sunday School we have only a small crowd. We have many people who are so easily bluffed
when there is a little bad weather. Our people do not push much when it is religious matters on
hand.
Sept. 29.-- The rain abates for a short time, but much falls during the day. It seems that we have
had rain for an exceedingly long time.
At noon I return to Boone. I visit many places in town on business. By night I am tired enough
to rest.
After I eat supper, I come to my room and try to study. I am too sleepy to make great progress.
At an early hour I am in the bed.
Sept. 30.-- The weather continues inclement. It is some cooler and there is a stiff breeze from
the northwest. I call this a bad day.
In school we have all kinds of confusion. There is a new schedule. The clock gets wrong. We
are in such a condition that we do not get any where.
I am enjoying the many good things that I have to read. There is something that is worth while
for us all the time. We do not need to read trash.
OCTOBER
Oct. 1.-- This is a fine day. The sun shines. The wind blows. It is much cooler. How good it
is for the rain and mud to be gone! This is the first fair weather in a week.
In school we have many things to do. We are busy all the day. Some do not care for work.
After school we make a trip across the mountain for some apples. It gives us some good
recreation. We rest well at night.
Oct. 2.-- There is a heavy frost this morning. In the east there is a curtain of fog. This protects
the vegetation. Without this almost every thing would have been killed.
933
�This is a day of work. I have been busy all the day. I do not have a minute that I call my own.
I suppose that the busy man is the one that is truly happy. By some means we are not able to do all
we wish in general reading.
Oct. 3.-- There is some frost. A heavy fog covers the valley and it does not do much damage.
However the day is fine. The mud has gone. The air is breezy.
In the afternoon I remain at the school and work until night. If a man only tries, there is no
telling how much that he can do. At night I continue my work. I manage to prepare a lesson and
write it out. It is late when when I am ready for bed.
Oct. 4.-- We do much work. In fact we do not take time for dinner. I work hard until it is time
for me to start home.
I arrive home about the middle of the afternoon. I remain a short time, and then I start for Mabel
to see Mr. Warren. I arrive there about dark. I find him dangerously ill. In fact he is almost gone.
I remain here during the night. I do not sleep much. I have been on the go all day.
Oct. 5.-- I am out early and on my way home. I walk all the way. By the time that I arrive home
I am tired.
I attend the county singing at Willowdale. We have a good start--when our house wrecks. 125 We
have to move to the grove. I serve as Chairman until the boss arrives.
In the afternoon I remain at home. I love to escape from the crowd. A man can get relief by
leaving the crowd.
Oct. 6.-- I am at home all day. I put on my work clothes and do some jobs. I am so nervous and
tired that I do not get much done. At noon I go to Mr. Brinkley's and have dinner. In the afternoon
I hear the news over the wire that Grandpa Warren is dead. Soon I am making plans to attend the
burial. At night the children study. I read some. We go to bed early so we can get up soon
tomorrow.
Oct. 7.-- I remain at home until almost noon. I visit the High School at Cove Creek. I meet
many of the teachers. The school seems to be in good shape.
In the afternoon we attend the burial of Mr. Warren at Mabel. He was eighty-five years old.
Rev. R. C. Eggers and L.A. Wilson conducted the services. There was a large crowd present. The
decision of all is that a good man is gone. It is night when we return home.
Oct. 8.-- I wait and come to Boone on the jitney. I arrive in time for the second period. I am not
in condition to do the best work. I am tired and unfit for the best work.
In the afternoon I go to town and transact some business. In this town there are many people
125
The church house.
934
�A
J
Greene Diaries
from a distance.
At night I put in much time studying. I am behind a few hours with my work. I must manage
some way to catch up.
Oct. 9.-- This is a fine autumn day. The forest has a fine show for our eyes. Every color is
shown in all its richness . Although there is beauty on every hand, yet a minor key is in the air. Soon
the shadow of winter will come over the land. All nature falls asleep. The garments of winter are
put on.
In the afternoon and at night I work. I have many things that need my attention. A man is
limited in his power to do.
Oct. 10.-- This morning we have a light frost. Following this we have a fine day. It is the kind
of weather that makes a man feel well.
The greatest event in the school is a basket ball game with Minneapolis. The game is won by
the Training School. In fact it is a light game. Neither team is in good training. This furnishes some
recreation for the young blood. Noise will out in some way.
Oct. 11.-- This is a fine day. The weather is the best that there is for the time of year. The nights
are cool, the morning frosty, and the day hot. It is a time for maturing.
At chapel the Public School gives an historic play. It is very interesting.
In the afternoon I start for home. The jitney man left me. After a long search I find a way to go
home. I arrive home in good condition and pleased with the work for the week.
Oct. 12.-- I am at home until it is time for Sunday School. I teach my class. We have a few who
are shirking in their duties. I suppose that no enterprise was ever undertaken withoug some one
falling down on the job.
We have Fred Blair and family with us for dinner. We have a pleasant time. In the afternoon
we visit Dr. G. D. Bingham's. I have come through the day in good condition.
Oct. 13.-- I remain at home until noon. I try to do many little things, but do not get much done.
I read a few good articles in a magazine.
In the afternoon I come out to Boone. I work for two hours and then I go to the Ball Game. To
say the least I think that it is a light game. The interest is at a low ebb. If this is athletics, I am not
in for it. There ought to be a higher standard required.
Oct.14.-- This is one of our fine autumnal day[s]. The mornings are cool; the days are intensely
hot. The maturing days are doing their work.
At chapel we have Rev. Mr. Griggs, of North Wilkesboro. His subject is "Life". Here is an
outline of his remarks: 1. Home. 2. Society. 3. Christ. He is a most excellent speaker.
Our work in school has been a little hard. We have many students who do not care for work.
They are bent on a good time.
935
�In the afternoon I attend preaching services at the Baptist Church. Rev. Mr. Griggs has for a
theme, "The Need of a Revival". He is fine on illustration.
Oct. 15.-- Our work in school has been some better. We have a few who are willing to work.
At chapel we have Mrs. Cunningham, of the Insurance Department at Raleigh. She talks to the
student body on safety. By some means we are blessed with visitors from the various departments.
I attend service at the Baptist Church. Rev. Mr. Gritts talks about "Going After the folks". There
is much feeling in his remarks. Many people seem to be touched by his remarks.
I am trying to do much work. I have my school work on hand and also some training. It seems
that I am busy all the day. I want to be faithful in all things that I have on hand. I am very much
dissatisfied with my religious work. I am doing so little.
Oct. 16.-- This is a great day in Boone for the Republicans. Col. Isaac M. Meekins, of Elizabeth
City, speaks. He is a candidate for Governor. The faithful of the party come to do homage to the
leader.
At chapel in the Training School Col. Meekins delivers an address. It is full of beauty. He is a
speaker of the old style.
In the afternoon I attend services at the Baptist Church. Rev. Mr. Griggs talks on "First Things".
He is a fine talker. His remarks are well-illustrated.
The day closes with a cheerful outlook. Mr. Fox makes some fine music on the violin. There
is no finer music in the world. It cheers a man on the way.
Oct. 17.-- The weather continues good. The fine days are to be remembered. In a short time we
shall have mud, snow and wind.
In school I have all that I can do. I work six hours. It seems that I manage to get more work than
I need to do. There are more to do than I am able to accomplish.
Rev. Mr. Griggs comes to chapel and makes an wonderful appeal to the student body. He talks
about first things first. In the afternoon I hear him at the Baptist Church. His subject is "Treasures".
This is a fine sermon. It is well-developed in logic and arrangement. In feeling it is not wanting.
It arouses the emotions. A man is led to think of better things.
Oct. 18.-- This is a fine day. The excellent weather continues. Of course the deep shadows are
coming on, but the bright nights and balmy days make it a delightful time in which to life.
The duties of the day are met in the best manner possible. It seems that I have more than I can
do. On every hand something is calling for me to work.
At home in the afternoon I have a good long rest. I have no one to disturb me.
Oct. 19.-- Sunday comes. For many this is a day of rest. For me it is a day of intense activity.
I usually go to church. I teach a class in Sunday School. At times I find delight in this; at other
times it is a burden.
In the afternoon I visit Newton Banner. This is one among the most hospitable homes that I ever
936
�A
J
Greene Diaries
have been in. To say the least I had a real fine time. It is some rest to me. I love to be out with a
small number of people.
Oct. 20.-- This morning I am surprised to see Arthur Rupe and Graydon Eggers. They spend a
part of the day with me. We drive in the car to the StateLine. We have a good trip. Upon our return
we have a good dinner. In fact it is too good for me, because I eat too much .
In the afternoon I go to Boone. I do some business in town and then go to my room for work.
I am not in condition to do the best work. I tire too soon.
Oct. 21.-- We start a new week. There are many things to call out our utmost. I do all that I can
during the day.
At chapel President Dougherty talks on water power. He has been away for some time and has
been interested in other things.
In the afternoon I attend church at the Baptist Church. There seems to be much interest in the
Revival meeting. I do not go very much.
Oct. 22.-- One of the biggest frosts of the season is on this morning. In fact there is some ice.
It is a time that many do not care to come from the cover.
Today has been hard on me. I have had a hard time to keep my end of the line going. We have
a few idlers. They do not care to do any good.
In the afternoon I work in preparation. I do not get even with my work.
Oct. 23.-- This is a very cold day. With this exception it has been ideal. It is a fine time to study
and work.
After the work of the day is over Prof. Howell and I drive to my home for supper. We had a fine
drive. We stay about three hours and have supper. It is a good rest for us to leave our work and
enjoy other things. It is a little after dark when we return to Boone. We are ready for work.
Oct. 24.-- This is a day of much work. I am busy all the day. I do not have a minute in which
to idle. I work all the time. I try to meet several of my students in order to give them private
instruction in Composition. I find this an excellent way to help the earnest student.
At night we have two games of basketball with Tryon. Our teams won both games. The team
of young ladies is light, but the young men have a strong team. In fact it is one of the best games I
ever saw.
Oct. 25.-- I meet every duty that comes my way. By noon I have all that I wish in one day. I long
to have a good rest.
In the afternoon I go home on the jitney. When I get out of the car, Mrs. Greene gets in on her
way to see her sister at Shouns. This leaves me with two children to keep house.
At night I read a long time. It is late when I go to bed. It is fine to have a good fire to sit by and
enjoy to the extreme.
937
�Oct. 26.-- I have a bad case of the "blues". It seems that the whole world is against us. Even we
despaire of the future.
At Sunday School we do not [get?] any comfort. Many of our people seem to be cold. Our
crowd is a little short.
In the afternoon we have rain. This is the first that we have had in a long time. The dust is laid.
It will be comfortable to travel. There has been no rain for almost four weeks. The dust was
frightful.
Oct. 27.-- This is a day of rain and dense fog. Really it is one of the most gloomy that we have
had in a long time. I remain at home until the middle afternoon. At this hour I come out on the
jitney line. I come to my room and work. I have enough on hand for several days. It seems that I
cannot keep up with my work. Reading papers is slow work. At night I push my work as fast as I
can. I do all that I can.
Oct. 28.-- This is a bad day. The air has been piercing. It is the first damp cold that we have had.
By some means it is oppressive.
My work has come on well. It has been a pleasure for me to work. I have managed to enjoy all
that I have done. If a man could always feel at his best, he could do much more.
At chapel we have a Mr. Presson, a leader among the B. Y. P. U. 126 of the state. He is a jolly
talking 127 and makes himself interesting to young people.
Oct. 29.-- This is a fine day. The breezes and sun are drying out the mud. It is fine autumn
weather.
I manage to get even with my paper work. I have been behind for many days. I remain at the
school building and work until late.
At night I attend a program at the Courthouse. It is the Kellam Duo. Mr. Kellam played a violin
made in Germany more than two hundred years old. The Festival is real good.
Oct. 30.-- At school we have our usual routine. I meet all the duties assigned me. It is all that
I can do to keep my work going. I remain at the school building and work until a late hour.
At night I work on my lessons. I shall soon have my course complete. It seems that I do not
have much time for general reading. I think that no one has as much to do as I have. It is something
all the time. I do not have much time to rest.
Oct. 31.-- This has been a hard day for me. My hearing has been defective. It is a little
embarrassing.
126
Baptist Young Peoples' Union.
127
Talker?
938
�A
J
Greene Diaries
The weather is fine. I have never seen it better for the time of year. The roads are good. It is
a time to enjoy.
After school I visit Mrs. Cook. I have a pleasant hour with them. This is the first time that I
have taken this year for a visit.
At night I work. I have much reading that I must do. The time never comes when I have nothing
to do.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1.-- This is a fine day. The weather is all that could be desired. The nights are cool,but the
days are very hot.
In the afternoon I go to town. I find many of the faithful on the ground. We have a few men who
think that there would be no party without them. I catch the jitney and go in home. I am delighted
to find every thing in splendid order. I see so much improvement in my home. This is
encouragement for a working man.
Nov. 2.-- I attend church at Willowdale. We have a small Sunday School. There are many
people who do not care whether they get to church on time or not.
In the afternoon I remain at home. We have several visitors. It seems that I do not get any rest
from a crowd. It is one contineous [sic] pull.
At night we visit Uncle John Smith. It is a rest for me to get out with a small number and talk
in a pleasant way. Deliver me from the crowd.
Nov. 3.-- This is a day full of events. Many good things have come my way. I visit Cove Creek
High School. I spend some time in the class rooms. I observed that the finest order prevails. In the
class rooms good work is done. At the chapel I make a brief talk.
In the afternoon I go out to Boone. I find many anxious candidates in the town . Tomorrow the
fate of many people is to be tested. I do some business in town before I come to my place of
business.
Nov. 4.-- This is election day. The weather has been ideal in this part of the country. I am
expecting a report that the vote is large.
Before noon I do my school work. I have some pleasant times with my classes. We are having
a tough time in making some of my classes go.
In the afternoon I go to the election. The affair seems to be quiet. The people seem to come and
go rapidly. I vote the straight ticket. In addition to this I vote all the amendments and referendums.
At night I am in my room at work. I do not have much to do. I spend some time in gossiping.
By some means we do not get much election news.
939
�Nov. 5.-- There is some cheering election news this morning. The country seems to have gone
Republican. The Democrats were divided too much. The state is Democratic. In the county we
elect one Commissioner and a Sheriff.
At chapel we have the masonic lecturer with us. The chief thought that he present[s] is "We
must learn to think["].
Our school goes on well. We have many people who do not study much. A man has to go along
with them the best that he can.
Late in the day I visit Mr. and Mrs. Arrowood. I have a pleasant time with them.
Nov. 6.-- This is the kind of weather known as Indian Summer. This comes in the late autumn.
The smoke seems to hang low. It is a sad time for me. It says that winter is near at hand. The
delightful days are almost over.
At chapel The Blandolph Literary Society gives a debate. The question is Ports and Terminals.
The four young ladies did well. Some of the speeches are well-prepared.
In the afternoon I read a book on Evolution. This is the most reasonable thing that I have ever
read. It is not a destructive thing.
At night I work on my course in Sociology. I have been writing a review of several book[s] .
This subject has a rich and growing literature. Many people are thinking along this line.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
64
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 51 [July 13, 1924 - November 6, 1924]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1924
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
48.5 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_051_1924_0713_1924_1106
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene kept this diary from July 13th through November 6th during the year of 1924. He recorded all of his daily duties from study, preaching, and grading student work. He also wrote weather information and community events. In addition, he made note of all of the family and friends that he visited each day. People named throughout the diary include but are not limited to G.W. Trivett, Dr. Peter Hayes, J.B. Elliot, and Thelma Perry.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Baptist Young People’s Union
Blandolph Literacy Society
Boone
Dr. Peter Hayes
Elizabeth City
G.W. Trivett
Harmony Baptist Church
Howell Graveyard
J.B. Elliot
J.C. Smith
Mast
Newton Banner
Preacher
Sherwood’s Store
teacher
Thelma Perry
Three Forks Association
Training School Basketball
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/bc2f2a91ab8fbb45d2640c7ec17719b9.pdf
906b4b9b8ef6d92573287a2177a0ebad
PDF Text
Text
�����������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/4e4eb30211d110190127ed308dc86a7b.pdf
8918c4ec90864342feb929c1d861ff99
PDF Text
Text
Nov. 7.-- This is a great day. It brings me much work. In fact every day brings this to me. I
think that it is great to have a job--a real hard one. The idle man deserves no envy.
The great event in school history today is basket ball. AT night we have a double-header. This
game is with Newland High School. The boys have the first round and are victors. Our girls also
win. It will be good for our teams to get a licking. Victories are not best.
Nov. 8.-- At chapel we have Dr. Johnson, ofElon College. He talks a few minutes for us. He
makes himself agreeable. Often we have visitors who drop some good thoughts for us.
In the afternoon I go home on the Jitney. Almost all the passengers are light girls. They delight
in going with the jitney-man.
In my home I find Mrs. Greene a very sick woman . It is not often that she finds it necessary to
take her bed. All the others are in good condition.
Nov. 9.-- This is one day that we have remain[ed] at home. I have the doctor to come and see
Mrs. Greene. I find it necessary for her to have some treatment. It is a rare thing that we miss church
service. In the morning we have some time to read and rest. In the afternoon we have too many
visitors for rest and reading. Sometimes I think it would be a good thing for us if people would stay
away. We have a certain old crowd all the time.
Nov. 10.-- The good weather is a thing of the past. Signs tell us that winter is near at hand. The
heavy overcast, the chilly wind, and the pierceing [sic] mist tell us that bad weather is on the border.
I remain at home until noon. I read some, work a little and enjoy a quiet hour. I love to remain
940
�A
J
Greene Diaries
at home until noon. I long to have a good hour at home.
At noon I start to Boone. I have four rides and five walks. I am not long in going. I do not
remain long in the town. I soon go to my room for study. I love t get even in my work. I have so
many papers to read. I am not able to give them all the attention that they ought to have.
Nov. 11.-- This morning the fog is dense and it appears that bad weather is at hand. By noon it
is one of the finest days that we have had in a long time. The weather may be good for a long time.
Today I have been busy. There has not been an idle moment. I finished reading the New
Testament the fourth time since July. I try to read some every day. I get even with my paper work.
At chapel we have a program. Prof. Wilson makes a talk. At times he is a little spicy. We have
some music. The male quartette [sic] delights us much. All will listen to music.
Nov. 12.-- At chapel today a man from Winston-Salem gave a reading. He declaims as it was
done in the old school. We are sure that it is an effective way of teaching English.
The weather has never been finer. We think that each day will be the last. Grim winter will be
upon us one of these days.
I am in the Library one period. I am sure that I should like this work. It is an interesting place
for a lover of books.
In the afternoon Mr. Rupe and I drive to my home. We find that Mrs. Greene is much better.
We have a pleasant hour. Just after dark we return to Boone and do some work.
Nov.13.-- Examinations are on hand. This is a hard time for a teacher. We read papers until we
are almost exhausted. We believe in short papers. The best thing that I can see in this part of school
work is that it gives an opportunity for a good review.
One serious thought comes to me. Our home life is loose. Small boys and girls wish to have
their way. Some parents are so weak and careless that they do not offer restraint. What is to be the
result? I fear to think about the consequences. Modem conditions are such that it is difficult to hold
the home together. Perhaps we can stem the tide.
Nov. 14.-- The day is gloomy. This morning there is a dense fog. At times during the day mist
has fallen . In the west dark wintery clouds hang low. Winter is likely to be upon us at any hour.
The heavy air has been depressing. A time like this is hard on a man who has to work with a crowd
of young people. Conditions make life miserable.
The examinations are concluded. It has been a long hard pull for us. In the main I have come
through it as easily as any. There is no class of work that is so trying on a teacher as reading
examination papers.
Nov.15.-- This is a gloomy day. The fog is dense. There is some rain. A stiff breeze is blowing.
From all appearances we may expect winter at any time.
This is a hard day in the school room. These damp days have a bad affect [sic]. The denseness
of the atmosphere has a depressing affect upon teachers and pupils. It does not take much to disturb
941
�a man.
In the afternoon I start for home. I do not find any way to ride, so I start home walking. It looks
as if I am in for a long hard tramp. Just after I leave town Carl Henson picks me up and carries me
to Adams. Here I get with Ralph Bingham and go in home. This is the best part of any journey. A
good fire and a cozy comer greets me.
Nov. 16.-- Today is cool. On the mountain there is frost on the timber. The wind howls. This
reminds us that winter is corning.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. I am somewhat encouraged with our people. There
may be a better day for us.
In the afternoon I go to Mabel. First I visit my father. I spend some time with him. He seems
to have many visitors. From here I go to my old home. I spend the night here. It seems a little like
home. There are many associations connected with the place.
Nov. 17.-- This morning I am out early. In fact we are out much earlier that [sic] we figured on.
I go to Mabel and catch the mail for home. I must confess that I love my home better than I thought.
I remain at home until noon. I start to Boone walking, but Carter Farthing takes me in his truck
and carries me to Boone.
Court is in session. Judge Harding, of Charlotte, is presiding. This is for the trial of civil actions.
It has been a long time since we have had a court of this kind.
My next stop is at the Baptist Church. Rev . W . R. Bradshaw, of Hickory, makes an address. He
talks on the 1925 program of the Baptist[s].
After corning to the Hall I move from room 31 to room 25 . I am delighted with my new quarters.
A man usually likes a new change.
Nov. 18.-- The first snow of the season greets us this morning. It is a light skiff. This is a
reminder that more is corning.
I must confess that I have felt well today. For a long time I have not enjoyed life so much.
During the night I rested well. Sleep puts us in a conditio for work.
At chapel we have Dr. A. W. Dula, of Lenoir. He lectures on the eye. I suppose that this is one
of his ways of advertising. In fact he says some interesting things .
In the afternoon I hand in my report for the quarter. This is a hard job. It is the hardest thing that
I have to do.
Nov. 19.-- The weather is ideal for winter. It is cool, but the sun shines. In many respects we
have never had more delightful days.
In school it has been a little hard on me. Things have not gone so smoothly as I wish. We have
a few students who do not have any ambition to work.
I work all the afternoon. I take a part of the time to read papers. A man must keep on the heels
of many student[ s] , or there will be no work done. The most of people work under compulsion. We
do not work from the love of it.
942
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Nov. 20.-- This is one of the finest days that we have had this autumn . It is the opinion of many
that it has been a long time since we have had such fine weather in the autumn. To-day has been
warn [sic]. The sun has shone all day. In reality it is a glorious time to live.
We have had a fine day in school. There are many students who are trying to do some fine work.
This makes school work worth while. Among the many good ones we find a few who are sorry and
useless.
The greatest thing for me is the study of Social Problems. The origin and development of the
family captivates my attention. There is no doubt but what the family life holds the key to the
situation in all modem problems. Laxness here is felt all along the line.
Nov. 21.-- The bout of good weather is a thing of the past. The rain pours in abundance. The
dry weather is over. For the next six months it will be cling to overshoes and wraps.
Today has been a busy one for me. I work from early dawn until a late hour at night. It seems
that I have never had so much to do.
The social problems in our county is something that concerns us much. One of the most serious
is the laxness in our homes. Children of tender age are allowed to go when they please and where
they please. Another problem is the sale and drinking of intoxicants. The drink evil has too many
friends . Still another serious question is the limitation of amusements. It seems that many of our
people are mad over trivial amusements. All these and others are a menance 128 to our social welfare
and religious culture.
Nov. 22.-- The second snow of the season came today. There was not enough to cover the
ground. Also, there was some sleet and some rain . The wind is rather strong.
.
In school we have much to do. At the end of a week both the teachers and the students are tired.
We have so many students who do not take their work seriously.
In the afternoon I start for home. I do not get farther than town until I catch a way to ride. At
three o'clock I am at home.
After a rest I go to see Paul Bingham, who is suffering from a shock in a car wreck.
Nov. 23.-- I have many things on hand. In fact Sunday is my busy day. First I visit a neighbor.
Upon my return I prepare for Sunday School. We have a good number present. From here I go
home. I work until it is time to return to the church. I practice some of the children for a program
that we are to render on the Fifth Sunday. By night I am tired enough to rest. I am giving all my
time for others. I do not get time to visit the neighbors.
Nov. 24.-- Today we have had many kinds of weather. There is a dark overcast during the
morning; in the afternoon it is clear and cool.
I arrive in Boone early. I spend some time in town. I see many things that amuse and interest
128
Menace?
943
�me. I come to my room and commence work. I have many things that need my attention.
In the afternoon I visit Mr. Ward's and Mrs. Cook's. I have a pleasant time. I return to my
boarding place for supper., and then I am in my room for study.
Nov. 25.-- This is real winter. It is the coldest day that we have had this season. The truth of the
matter is that we enjoy our winter wraps. In some of our rooms we do not have any too much heat.
I have been a very busy man. The classes have done some very good work. The most annoying
thing that we have to contend with is students coming in late.
At night I make out the county examinations. This is a job that ought to be done with the greatest
care. It seems that I have more than I can do.
Nov. 26.-- The day is cool. We do not look for much more good weather. Winter is likely to
close in any time.
I do my work in school. It goes on well. I find so many things to do. There is no time for me
to rest.
In the afternoon I go home for Thanksgiving. We have just one day off. I start home walking.
Thos. Hopkins, of Newland, gives me a ride in his car.
At night Mrs. Greene and I visit Mrs. John Dugger, a sick lady. We remain with her for more
than one hour.
Nov. 27.-- This is a day full of activity. The first job that I have is drilling the children on some
pieces for next Sunday.
We have a fine time at home. Mrs. Alice Cook, Annie Cook, and Arthur Rupe come from Boone
and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn , of Sugar Grove. We have a fine time. Mrs. Greene has a good dinner.
Late in the day I start for Boone. I walk a part of the way. I arrive at my room just a little after
dark. Mr. Howell ande I have a pleasant hour. In due time I am in the bed for rest.
Nov. 28.-- This is a fine day. I long for it to remain this way. We think every day that winter will
soon be on hand.
Our work in our classes has been all right. We have enjoyed it real well.
In the afternoon I grad[ e] papers for more than two hours. This is the hardest job that a teacher
has.
At night I work. A job is always waiting for me. In enjoy reading some in good papers and
books.
Nov. 29.-- The weather is cold today. The wind is stiff. The howling winds of winter are upon
us.
After the work of the day I start for home. I stop in town. I start home walking. I do not go far
until I catch a truck and it is not long before I am at home.
At night the children come and we practice for our program at the church on Sunday. This is the
kind of work that we love to do. Really it is the most encouraging. The young folks are the ones to
944
�A
J
Greene Diaries
train.
Note: Dec. 1 and Nov. 30 are reversed in Greene's journal.
Nov. 30.-- This is a day long to be remembered. The air is cutting. The dust flies. It is real
winter.
At Willowdale Baptist Church we have a Thanksgiving program. The program is rendered by
the children. They did well. M. J. Willians [sic] delivers a short address. On every hand we hear
the remark that the children did well.
In the afternoon we visit some. Uncle John Smith has a little cold. He still knows how to
become blue. Late in the day we visit J. H. Brinkley. He is enjoying a new house. In the whole this
has been a fine day. Much pleasure has come my way. I can see that there is much good in life.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1.-- The sun shines today, but there is a heavy breeze. In fact it has been too cold for a man
to travel much.
I come to Boone. I take the oath as Justice of the Peace. The new county officers are sworn in.
It is a big day for some. L. M. Farthing is the new sheriff. He is the second Democrat that has been ·
elected in thirty years.
In the afternoon I come to my room and try to work some. The heat is not heavy enough. I soon
have to go for my supper. At night we put in much time in studying.
Dec. 2.-- This is a real cold day. The wind has been something fierce. In school many of the
rooms have been cold. We have so many folks who are always wanting to complain or shirk.
At night I attend a musical at the new theater. It is given by a trio from Chicago. The program
has great variety. A program of this kind is restful to a man who has to work all the time. A man
can not do his best without some rest.
Dec. 3.-- When I awake, the train is going out. This is the latest that I have slept for many years.
I wish that I could sleep more.
The weather is fierce, although it is much calmer than it was yesterday. It seems that winter is
upon us.
At chapel we have the Rev. Mr. Wooseley, of the Methodist Church. He makes some timely
remarks.
At night I prepare a lesson on Social Problems. This a subject that I am much interested in.
Dec. 4.-- The weather is much warmer. We may look for some rain soon.
In school we have made a good honest effort. We have so many people who do not care a snap
945
�whether they learn any thing or not.
The school has three distinguish[ ed] visitors--Dr. Hillman, Dr. Alexander and Dr. Hunter. They
come to see our school.
I put in some time in studying conditins. There is no field in which I am more enthused about.
Dec. 5.-- This morning we had rain, and it continued to pour until afternoon. The sky is seen and
it looks as if we might have some fair weather.
At chapel we have Dr. Hunter, President of Cullowhee Normal. 129 He addresses the student
body.
In the afternoon Dr. Alexander, of Columbia University, delivers an address. He talks to the
student body about our bad teaching. It is one of the most thoughtful addresses that we have heard
in a long time.
At night we have a basketball game with Crossnore. It is one of the most interesting games that
we have had in· a long time. The game goes to the visitors 28 and 26. The spirit of the game is good.
Dec. 6.-- The day gives us a great variety of weather. This morning it is clear, just afternoon it
is cloudy, and at night there is much rain.
After doing my work in the schoolroom, I try a law suit in town. The case is continued until
Monday. I catch a car and am soon at home.
At night we have a box supper at Cove Creek High School. The weather is so bad that the crowd
is small, but the crowd is lively and the supper is a great success. The fun continues until late at
night.
Dec. 7.-- I attend Sunday School at Willowdale. We have a good crowd present. We have some
interest in this kind of work.
Just afternoon I walk to Dr. W. 0 . Bingham's. I spend several hours with him. It is interesting
to see the shop of a doctor. It is a great science.
Upon my return I stop at Attorney John H. Bingham's. We have a pleasant hour with him. It
is late when I arrive home. It seems that I have had no time to study and rest on this trip.
Dec. 8.-- This is one of the worst days that we have had in a long time. The rain has fallen all
day. At times it comes in torrents. Several times during the day there was electric storms. The old
people say that this is the sign of cold weather.
I have been engaged in the law. I have had the honor of having two cases.
Just afternoon I have my eyes examined by Dr. English, of Johnson City. He gives me every test
that a man needs. When he finishes with me, I am almost blind.
During the afternoon I visit Mrs. Cook's. I have a pleasant hour with her. It seems that I have
returned home. I stayed here for more than two years. I certainly feel that I am among those that I
129
Now Western Carolina University.
946
�A
J Greene Diaries
know.
Dec. 9.-- The weather is much cooler. A man feels best in his winter clothes. Thus far I have
been wearing summer clothes.
Today I have not done much book work. My eyes have not been in shape for reading. I have put
in much time in talking and lecturing to my classes.
At night I rest a short time and then I go to bed. At a close distance I am not able to do work.
I can read a few lines at once.
Dec. 10.-- The weather remains cool. It is the kind of weather for vigorous thinking. At this
time of year we do the best work when it is cool.
In school we get on well. We are able to read and we do several things. We read the paper,
continue our Bible reading and write some letters.
At night we follow our work as usual. We have a fine supper of fried parsnips, but that has no
ill effect on us. After all it is a fine day.
Dec. 11.-- This is one of the finest days that I have had in a long time. During the night I rest
well. I have felt my best all day. The world is a good place in which to live. The people are good.
In fact I do no[t] see much wrong.
The biggest job that we have is putting deportment on the report. This is a matter of form.
Perhaps it is worth something for a student to be checked occasionally. Doubtless we grade in a
careless way.
Dec. 12.-- This is a day full of work. It seems that every minute is full. I have no time to rest.
Some one or some duty calls for each moment.
In the Gymnasium at night there is a game of basket ball between A. T. S. And Cove Creek. It
is one of the most exciting as well as the fastest that we have seen this season. The score stood 22
to 15 in favor of the home team. The game gave room for much laughter.
Dec. 13.-- This is a day of high wind. It is cutting. The chill goes through and through. In many
[places?] the dust is fierce.
Our work in school goes well. It is pleasant all the time. Some of the students do not work, but
it is a congenial crowd to deal with.
In the afternoon I start for home. I do not leave town before I catch a ride. It is not long until
I am at home. By some means I do not feel as well as a man ought.
Dec. 14.-- This is another cold day. The sun shines, but the frost flies. The wind is something
dreadful. It is a very disagreeable time to be out.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. Not all of our people have lost interest in the best
things of life. After Sunday School Elder G. W . Trivett preaches.
After dinner I rest a short time and then I start for Boone. I arrive in a short time. I indulge in
947
�reading and preparing for tomorrow. ·
Dec. 15.-- We are having school today in order that we may close Friday for the holidays. The
first event of the day is the janitor does not know about the great event and we do not have any heat.
We find, in the second place, that the student body ~sin good shape for a pleasant day.
The day is much warmer. In fact the weather has not been finer in a long time. I enjoy the gentle
rays and the cool, healthful breezes.
Dec. 16.-- The weather is a little bad. There has been a little rain. The air is cutting. A damp
time is oppressive.
This is a hard day on me. I have not felt well. A man cannot do good work unless he is felling
[sic] his best.
Today I have been reading an oration by Burke. He is one of the best that I have ever read. His
argument is a fine specimen of eloquence. His great endeavor is to convince his associates that he
is right.
Dec. 17.-- The weather continues cold. It is ideal weather for health and enjoyment of life. It
is a fact that no one has any complaint to make about the weather this autumn.
In the school room we have had some hard work. It is difficult to get students to work this near
Christmas. By some means we fill up on enthusiasm and we let our work hang lightly on our
shoulders. In fact very few have appetites for work.
Dec. 18.-- Great and stirring events come our way. Some of our boys have the spirit of the
season and enjoy noise very much. We have enough today to last the remainder of the year.
The event of the day is a game of basketball between our girls and the girls from the Crossnore
School. The game is well-contested, but the visitors are a little strong for our team. During the game
we have enough noise to last a whole year.
Dec. 19.-- This is a hard day for all of us. We close with examinations. I conduct five. It is
difficult to hold students in line at this season. So many of the students want to go horne. There are
all kinds of demands made on a man.
In the afternoon I start for horne. I walk almost three miles, before I catch a car for horne. I must
confess that I was a little tired. How good it does seem that I am to have a rest. I have so many
things planned that I may not rest much after all.
Dec. 20.-- Our work today is light. We do not plan any thing elaborate. During the day we make
two trips to the store. It has been a long time since we spent much time at the store. I like to make
this trip occasionally in order to hear the community gossip. It is a wonderful place to hear all the
trash of the countryside.
The weather has been fierce. It has been almost too cold for any one to be out. The wind has
been terrible.
948
�A
J Greene Diaries
Dec. 21.-- The first job that I have on hand is building fires in the church so that we may have
Sunday School. This is no easy job. I must state that we have comfortable room when it is time for
school. How much our people do enjoy a good comfortable place to hold our school!
In the afternoon I am at home. By some means I am not able to rest as I ought. There are so
many things to disturb a man from real rest and work.
Dec. 22.-- This ought to be called cold Monday. It has been close to zero all day. I go out to
Boone on business. It is so cold that I do not remain long. The wind is sweeping the streets. I attend
to affairs and return with the mail. I am glad to return home.
In the afternoon I look at some land. I love to travel over the hills and look at real estate. There
is a joy in being alone.
Dec. 23.-- There is great variation in the weather. It is cold enough to snow, there is some sleet,
a little rain and some sunshine.
With the boys we have some wood hauled. It does not take long for me to work all that I can
stand. I regret that I am not able to stand work. I do not have wind enough to endure for only a short
time. In the afternoon I remain in. I put some wood in the house.
Dec. 24.-- We have stirring times today. Many are preparing for Christmas. We think that we
must do great things at this season of the year. All our spending must be compassed within a few
days.
Late in the day I go to Sherwood's store. It is a good trip. I am tired enough to rest when I
return.
At night we have a large crowd in our home. We have a jolly time. Santa Claus and his wife
comes to see us.
Dec. 25.-- This is Christmas Day. It is a great time for the young folks . In fact many of the older
ones enjoy it.
Mrs. Greene and I are invited to the home of J. J. Glenn's for dinner. We go early and return
about the middle of the afternoon. We have a splendid time and a good dinner.
At home we have several young people. I am too tired to enjoy much. I have had too many
things to eat.
Dec. 26.-- I remain at home until almost noon. I ride in a car to Mabel with Mrs. Jenkins, of
Bristol. From here I go to Walter Fletcher's for dinner. I do not stay long. I go to my place on the
North Fork. I do some business. There is a sad feeling about the old ground. I wish that that I could
get away from it never to return. There are so many sad things in our lives. Old memories come
trooping back.
Dec. 27.-- This morning I make an early start for home. I leave with the ideal of not returning
for a long time. I catch the mail at Mabel, and in a short time I am at my home. After all the best
949
�of any trip is getting home.
Mr. and Mrs W. M. Thomas and little daughter take dinner with us. We have a splendid time.
Noah Church comes to see us on business. I do not get much time for study. I must talk wisely.
Dec. 28.-- The first job that I have is making fires at the Church. We have every thing in good
shape for Sunday School. We have a fine session. The number is good and the interest is intense.
After Sunday School we go to John Dugger's for dinner. We have a great spread. A part of the
afternoon is spent here. Upon our return home we try to read some, but we are in no condition for
this. We just while away the time in an idle manner.
Dec. 29.-- Today is full of activity. I go to Vilas early. I have a long wait for the Elk Park jitney.
At a late hour it comes and I am on my journey. At noon we arrive at Grace Hospital at Banner Elk.
We remain here for two hours. This is a desirable place for a sick person. I look over the buildings,
grounds and town. I love to come in contact with new places and people. It is almost night when
I start for home. It is after night when I arrive home. I am tired enough to rest.
Dec. 30.-- This is a real bad day. It has rained the most of the time. We have every kind of
weather at this season in this part of the country.
A part of the day is spent in the bed. I am unable to sleep much. I am too nervous. I have been
eating too many rich things.
At night we have some fine music. All of us are musicians in the making. Some day we hope
to do things on a grand and noble scale . .
Dec. 31.-- Today I am at home until almost noon. It rains so hard that I am not able to do much
on the outside. It seems that I am not able to get much rest.
At noon I start to Mabel. I go to my old home on business. I do not remain long. I start home
walking. I walk almost all the way. The rain pours. I am in much of it. Mr. Will Payne picks me
up and gives me a short life. It is late when I return home.
950
�CHAPTER 20: 1925
JANUARY
This year has been good to me. I have had many good things. The greatest regret that I have is
that I have allowed little things to rob me of much in life.
Qan.l.-- The New Year finds me at home. !remain here all the day. Misses Julie Parker and
lstJ Velma Hodges visit us.
I am delighted to see them. They are visiting in the community.
At night we have a prayer meeting. Asa Greene is leader. A number of our people come out.
This is the season of the near for forming New resolutions. By some means I am afraid to make
one fear that I shall not be able to carry it to a conclusion. I am resolved that I am going to read more
in the Bible than has been my custom.
Jan. 2.-- I have a hard day before me. -1 read the examination papers for the county. I do this
nearly all day. This is a job that I do not like. It is a hard matter to be just in every respect. There
are so many angles from which to look at things.
At night we have some company. In order to please them we make some music. We have two
violins and a banjo. Perhaps there is no better music than that made on stringed instruments.
Jan. 3.-- The weather is much better, It seems to me that the winter is going to be light. This has
not been much snow. The cold has been dry.
I make some trips. I go to the store with Mrs. Greene. It is almost noon when I return.
In the afternoon I plant some trees. We are planning to have some shade at our home. Of course
it will take some years to do it.
At night I go to Mr. E . F. Sherwood's and hear the radio. This is the most wonderful thing that
I have ever come in contact. Without wire we hear for more than a thousand miles. This invention
will give us the latest in amusement.
Jan. 4.-- This is a fine day. Perhaps we never have a finer one at this season of the year.
At Sunday School we have a fine session. It seems that we have some interest in the better things
of life.
951
�Mrs. Greene and I take dinner at Mr. Mast's. We have a splendid time. I have had too much to
eat during the holidays.
Some of our people go to the revival at Henson's Chapel. It has been running for two weeks.
The interest is wide and intense. There are about one hundred seventy-five convertions [sic] and
reclamations. Rev. R. A. Taylor is doing the preaching.
]an. 5.-- This morning is the time for me to leave my home and return to my work. I have not
been able to rest much. There has been something for me to look after all the time.
I come to Boone before noon. I have many things to do. I have my glasses fitted in the Hospital.
People come freom all sides to be treated. I have many things to do in the town.
In the afternoon I go to the school buildings and assist in the work. I soon come to my room and
do some work. It seems that we are getting ready for business. Many of us are anxious to start and
complete the year's work.
]an. 6.-- Today finds us at our old job. There are many new students. Almost all are on the job.
There are a few who must drag along. After all I believe that we have more pleasure when we have
much to do. An idle person never tastes the real good things of life. The busy folks do the work of
the world. The more that I see of life, the more that I am convinced that there is merit in work.
]an. 7.-- This is a real fine winter day. The sun shines and the wind is stirring.
After school I cross the ridge and buy some apples from Mr. Hayes. This trip gives me some
good exercise. By night I am tired enough to rest well.
After supper I go to Supt. Hagaman's on business. I find out some new things about the school
business. Upon my return I do some work in my books. I have all that I can do.
]an. 8.-- This is a dark, damp day. There is some rain. The mud is something frightful.
At chapel Prof. Williams makes a talk on his trip to Florida. Many items have an interest for us.
At night I attend the Lyceum course. The program consists mostly of impersinations [sic]. By
some means I do not think highly of this kind of entertainment. It seems to be exaggerated.
]an. 9.-- Today we have had some real winter. Early there is some sleet, but soon it turns to a
snow. By noon the earth is wrapped in white. This is much more pleasant than so much mud.
In the afternoon I go to town on business. I see that the small boys are having some fun riding
on sleds. It seems that a boy can see no danger in his doings.
]an. 10.-- This is a gloomy day. This morning is difficult to go from place to place. There is
a fog that hangs closely to the earth.
The day is a little hard on me. By some means I become very tired at the close of a week. It is
one steady grind.
In the afternoon I go home. I arrive long before night. I read some before supper. At night we
have a teachers ' meeting at John Dubbers. Rev. Dan Wheeler is with us.
952
�A
J Greene Diaries
Jan. 11.-- This is a day filled with activities. In fact it is one of the hardest days that I have had
in a long time. The first thing that we have is Sunday School. At eleven o'clock I preach from the
theme, "No Room". This is the first time that I have ever spoken in the new church. At three
o'clock I lead in a prayer meeting. We make a brief study of the Eight great Covenants in the Bible.
This is enjoyable work.
Jan. 12.-- This is another day of activity. I have some business to transact. It seems that there
is no rest for me.
Roy Eggers, of Cincinnati, took dinner with me. There are many things for us to talk about. In
the afternoon we go to Boone on business. We manage to see several parties.
At night I do much work. It seems that I have more school work than I can do. I am pressed to
the limit all the time.
]an. 13.-- There is a change in the weather today. The temperature falls rapidly. There is a brisk
wind. The heat is at a low ebb and we suffer from cold.
Sometimes we are inclined to boast. I have done much work. In truth I have not lost any time.
All my waking hours have been in toil. I suppose that this is about the time that we can have. There
is joy in work.
Jan. 14.-- The day is a little cool. In fact it is one of the coldest days that we have had in a long
time. The ground does not thaw much during the day.
The news comes today that Dr. J. W . Jones, of this town is dead in Knoxville, Tennessee. He
has practiced medicine in this town for more than twenty years. In many respects he was a very
brilliant man.
Jan. 15.-- In school this has been an easy day. I have been in good shape for work. More
depends upon a man's physical condition how he gets along than any other one thing.
In the afternoon I put in some time at the law business. I think that I am full to the brim. A man
cannot afford to fool with the job for what there is in it. My time is worth more at something more
valuable.
Jan. 16.-- This is a real bad day. There has been some rain. The ground is real slick. It is
difficult to go from one place to another. The weather is much warmer.
In the afternoon I go to town for a lawsuit. We do not have any trial. This law business is
getting on my nerves. It takes too much of my time. There is some one who always want to have
some kind of a suit.
]an. 17.-- This is a damp and gloomy day. There has been some sleet on the ground. The fog
has been low and heavy.
In the afternoon I go to town and attend to some business. At a late hour I start for home. It is
almost night when I arrive.
953
�The work of the day is concluded by having a meeting of the Sunday School teachers. We have
a fine discussion of the lesson. There are a few who wish to succeed in our work.
]an. 18.-- This is another dreary day. The air has been oppressive. It seems that we have never
had a more gloomy period of weather.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. It seems that only a few of us have the burden of day
to bear.
In the afternoon I climb the mountain. I do this in order to rest. I have a nervous spell. I long
to be away from a crowd. In fact I cannot rest unless I am.
]an. 19.-- This is one of our worst days. There is a heavy sleet on hand. The fog is close to the
earth and is freezing to the timber.
I come from home to Boone. There is much difference in the temperature. I come to my room
and work. I grade papers almost all day.
At night we have a game of ball with the East Tennessee Normal. The visitors are too strong for
our boys. The visitors have had superior training.
]an. 20.-- A heavy sleet covers the earth. It is a real dangerous time for a person to travel from
one place to another.
In school we have a good day. Our work goes on well. I do much hard work reading papers.
I work at the job until almost night.
In the evening the Literary Societies have their annual reception. This is a great day for some
of them. The social hour delights all. It gives the keenest pleasures.
]an. 21.-- The sun is shining. What a beautiful sight when it shines upon the sleet that covers
all the trees! Its description is left to the poet. By Noon the ice has melted and there is mud in
abundance.
In school we move along well. There are days that move smoothly. This is one of them.
In the afternoon I go to town on business. I do not spend much time in the town. I have too
many things to do. On every hand I find work to do.
Jan. 22.-- The weather continues fine. The sun dries some of the mud. It is a tough time to go
from one place to another.
I have many papers to read. In order to do the best work I find that a man must keep on the track
of student. It seems to be our nature to do only what we are compelled to do. On every hand duties
are calling us. There is no time for rest. I have no time for idleness. It is push forward.
]an. 23.-- This is a fine day. During the night we had a terrific wind storm. Perhaps it has not
blow[n] so hard in Boone in a long time. It ceases sometime during the day.
I am having a hard time to keep my classes at work. Some of the individuals are very indolent.
All they want is a good time.
954
�A
J
Greene Diaries
At night the Klu Klux Klan [sic] bum a cross near the town. It is pretty. To many people it ts
a mystery.
]an. 24.-- This is a great day. One of our greatest events is recorder [sic] today. The sun is in
eclipse. It is total in the northern part of the United States. At Boone It is about four-fifths. All the
students tried to get a good look at the great event.
In the afternoon I go to my home. I find that all are coming on in good style. By some means
I am not able to rest as I ought. There are so many things that claim my attention.
]an. 25.-- This is a fine winter day. In truth it is extra fine for this season. By some means we
do not have much snow. There is no season for driving.
At Sunday School we have a fine session. There seems a growing interest in our work. Our
people love the best things. I do not think that we have gone to the bad and that there are no good
people in the world. The best people do not go through a great wave of emotionalism.
Jan. 26.-- This is the great day. The following gentlemen come from Boone in order to hunt
rabbits: J. T. C. Wright, A. R. Smith, A. K. Moore, Worth Speas and Guss Peterson. We go below
Sugar Grove. The result is ten races and four rabbits. In the afternoon the result is three rabbits and
seven races. This has been a great day for some. Hunting is a cruel sport, but we have enough
savage in us to enjoy.
Late in the afternoon we start for Boone. I am tired enough to rest. By the time that I get to my
room I am almost too tired to read. I realize that I must do just a little work. I manage to keep awake
until nine o'clock.
]an. 27.-- This morning we have splendid weather. It looks as if we might have a few fine days.
To our sorrow it is raining and threatens to get cold. At this season of the year we can never tell
what a day will bring us.
In school we have so many people that do have no ambition for progress in their work.
In the afternoon I join a class in physical education. I soon realize how much that I need it. Just
a little work makes me very tired.
At night I spend some time in studying family problems. In many respects it is a gloomy time.
Family life is not as intact as it ought to be. We need checking.
]an. 28.-- This is a great day at the chapel. Dr. McNairy, of the Caswell Training School, spoke
on Heredity. This is one of the most thoughtful addresses that I have ever heard. He is trying to
correct one of the weakest spots in our civilization. We hardly know how weak that we are.
On every hand I see things for me to do. I see much that I must leave for the present. It is
wonderful how things do multiply as age comes on us.
]an. 29.-- Today we have a variety of weather. This morning there is a light sleet. Soon it
becomes heavier. On the timber it presents a wonderful spectacle. By night we have high winds and
955
�__________________........
a little snow.
At chapel we have a Mr. Shaw. He represents the F. A. Owen Publishing Company. He presents
his claims in a modest way.
Today I take a lesson in physical education. A man feels good after taking it.
Jan.
30.-- This is a cold day. There is not much thawing even in the sunshine. The air is raw
and piercing.
The most depressing work that I have to do is grading papers. I read almost one hundred in the
afternoon. I must confess that it is the hardest work that I have to do.
At night I study social problems. This is one among my delightful tasks. I think that we ought
to know conditions as they are about us. We are blind to many things.
Jan. 31.-- The day is fine. It seems that we are going to have some weather for farming.
In school we have much to do. Duty is calling us on every hand. We have many interesting
things. After all school work is more or less of a grind.
In the afternoon I go home. I must confess that I am tir~d. A week of labor about does a man.
At night we have a teachers' meeting. We discuss the prospects for the future. Our people look
upon it lightly.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1.-- This is a fine day. It seems that the spring of year is here. We are able to sit on the
front porch and enjoy the sunshine.
At Sunday School we have a fine time. There seems to be much interest in our work. I see no
reason why we should not succeed.
At night we hear Rev. G. W. Sebastian preach at our church. He is a great talker. In fact he is
a great preacher. His subject is handled with skill. He is commencing a revival.
Feb. 2.-- This is Groundhog day. He sees his shadow, therefore we are doomed for another
period of bad weather. At least this is what the prophets of evil tell us.
Before noon I come to Boone on the mail. We came very near having a serious wreck. I help
get some electric fixtures for our Church. It seems that we need so many things.
In the afternoon and at night I work on my books and lessons. I am busy all the day. I do not
find time to rest.
Feb. 3.-- This is a close day. The fog is dense. This is one of our real damp day[s]. On every
hand it is depressing.
The school adjourns to attend the funeral of little Kathl yn Hartzog. It is one of the most touching
that I have attended in a long time.
956
�A
J
Greene Diaries
In the afternoon I find many things waiting for me. I use all my time for study, except a short
period for exercise. I find that I can do more when I engage in exercise.
Feb. 4.-- This is a fine day for winter. It seems that spring of the year has come. In fact it is too
good to remain so very long.
We have done much work today. We took a little time for exercise. This enables me to do more
and better work. The hardest task that I have is reading papers. It takes about two hours of my time.
At night I work until a late hour. There is something for me to do all the time.
Feb. 5.-- The weather continues almost ideal. In a few days the mud will be gone. How pleasant
it is for the mud to be gone!
Today has been one of pleasure for me. My classes have been a delight. On every hand pleasure
has come my way.
After supper I visit the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hartzog. Just recently they lost their only
child. They are immersed in grief. Our hearts go out to them in their distress. It is hard to comfort
them.
Feb. 6.-- We must record another fine day. It seems that summer is near at hand. In a short time
the buds will begin to swell.
Our work has been interesting. We drive on the best that we can. My most delightful hour is
reading in a Latin Testament. It makes a book vivid to read it in another language.
At night I attend a basket ball game between the Freshmen and the Sophmores [sic]. To say the
least it is a battle between giants. Many great deeds are done on both sides. The final outcome is
12 to 6 in favor of the Freshmen. Edwin Dougherty brought a hom. He did not fail to use it. A boy
loves a noise beyond measure.
Feb. 7.-- This is a fine day. In fact it is too good to last long. It is fine for this season of the year.
We do not need to wear our wraps.
In our school work we do well. Our classes seem to do good work. At times we find them a
little weak.
In the afternoon we go home. It does not take me long to make the trip. I am glad to get home.
It is a long time until night. I have several things to do.
At night I attend service at the Church. Rev. Mr. Sebastian is conducting a revival. There is a
large crowd present. By the time that this is over, I am tired enough to rest.
Uncle W. S. Farthing is with us. He is a welcome visitor with us. There is no better company
to have in a home.
Feb. 8.-- This is an active day for me. There is no time for rest. I am in Sunday School. We
have a large number. There is much interest. From this we have the preaching service. By the time
this is through I am tired enough to rest. I must look after company until it is time to return for night
service. The crowd is immense. There are more than can be seated. I am glad when it closes. I am
957
�too tired to rest well. I wish that I could get away from the crowd.
Feb. 9.-- This is a bad day. On every hand the bad weather greets us. It is rain, wind and fog.
It seems that we are in for a bad time. I wonder what is in store for us.
I come to Boone. I do some business and then I come to my room. I remain here all day. I try
to do much work, but I am too nervous to do the best. By some means I pull through the day and
work some at night. On every hand there is a job waiting for me.
Feb.10.-- The weather is much better than I expected. It has been a warm day. This temperature
will soon bring the fruit into danger.
In the schoolroom we have come on well. Our classes have done some work. I love to meet my
classes. I am hungry to help them. On every hand I find something to do. I do not have a minute
to idle.
At night I visit some of the boys in their rooms . I find many of them engaged in work. After all
the boys are excellent. There are not many rough necks. Of course boys are full of mischief, but
they are full of the best things of life. We must not forget that we were boys once.
Feb. 11.-- There are many things for us to record. The first is the rain that was falling when I
awoke. Just before no[o]n we have a severe hailstorm. The ground is covered. During the storm
there is thunder and lightning. The clouds break away and it seems that we are going to have some
pretty weather. By night another storm is on and soon we are having some snow. The wind is going
at a terrific speed.
The work of the day is over. On every hand there is work to do. We never get even. Something
is calling to us all the time. Mr. Rupe and I go to my home. At night we attend service at
Willowdale Baptist Church. This is the concluding service of the revival. Rev. Mr. Sebastian has
"The Last 130 Day for a theme. Seventeen people united with the church. After the service we return
to Boone. The wind is driving the snow at a terrific rate. We go to Mrs. Alice Cook's and spend
the night. We are glad that the return trip has been made.
Feb. 12.-- This is the roughest day of the season. There has been a terrible storm of wind with
some snow. Because the weather has been so warm, it is a little pinching. The sun shines. This is
a severe type of cold. It is a bad time to go from place to place.
I am out early. I dress and come to my boarding place. After a good breakfast I go to my room
to work. We have a very pleasant time. It is desirable to remain indoors. A man can take on more
work than he can do. It seems that I can get no relief in any way. Tonight I am in my room striving
to get even with my work.
Feb. 13.-- The weather is so much better today. The wind has ceased; the sun shines; the day
958
�A
J
Greene Diaries
is fine. There is one thing that we can look for; and, that is, bad weather.
Examinations commence today. This is a trying time for us . There are many thing[s] to be
looked into.
On every ha[n]d I find some things that call for my attention. I do not get time to do much
general reading.
In the afternoon the cooking class gives the faculty a dinner. This is a very happy occasion. I
believe that they call it a Valentine Party. We had much fun. In fact all who are present have a gay
time. By some means we desire more occasions like this one.
Feb. 14.-- The weather is much better today. The worst thing that we have is mud. On every
hand we have plenty of that.
The examinations are completed. This has been a long hard grind. I dread to have so many
papers on hand at once. This is the toughest part of a student's as well as the teacher's life.
In the afternoon I go home. I stop on the way and fix some legal papers. I certainly do enjoy
coming home once in a while.
Feb. 15.-- This is a bad day. The rain pours the greater part of the day. In fact it is too bad for
many to travel.
We have a good crowd at Sunday School. By some means our people are coming to the front.
We are having some interesting work in our community.
In the afternoon I visit some and read some. In fact it is one among the best Sundays that I have
had in a long time. I have managed to rest some.
Feb. 16.-- This is a busy day. I catch the mail and arrive in Boone before noon. I transact some
business. I come to my room and work the entire afternoon. I have many papers on my hands. It
is a difficult job to do all this paper work.
There is at night a game of basket ball between First Year High School and First Year College.
There seems to be much applause. It seems that we are giving too much attention to athletics and
not enough to real work.
Feb. 17.-- We have had several kinds of weather during the day. In the morning it is damp and
foggy. Next we have some rain. By night it is clear and cooler.
We start a new term of school. The interest is good. There are so many things for us to do.
Some new things are coming up all the time.
0. V. Wooseley, a Sunday School man, of the Methodist Church, makes a fine address at chapel.
In the afternoon I attend a meeting of the faculty. This is the first one that I have attended this
year. By some means these meetings bring us into closer touch with things.
At night we attend a Sunday school lecture at the Methodist Church. It was full of good common
sense. To say the least it was a fine presentation of the subject of Sunday School. The best thing
is the period of worship. We can make a botch of it, or we can use it for the highest good.
959
�Feb. 18.-- The weather is very fine. The sun shines. The air is cool enough to be pleasant. In
fact it is an ideal winter day.
There have been many things on hand. The most urgent matter is the reports. It seems that all
have an incentive to finish the job at the earliest possible moment. We have been very careless in
regard to being prompt in making reports.
The most interesting thing that I have observed recently is the variations in a person' s moods in
a single day. On every angle something new comes to us. During the first part of the day I am at
peace with all the world. In the afternoon I am nervous and am not able to stand the jar. There is
such a thing as a man working to the limit. A man's physical condition has much to do with his
disposition. The sick man is not able to advance the world.
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
65
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 52 [November 7, 1924 - February 18, 1925]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1924-1925
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
47.8 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_052_1924_1107_1925_0218
Description
An account of the resource
This is a diary kept by Andrew Jackson Greene from November 7, 1924 through February 18, 1925. He includes information about special visitors for chapel, such as Dr. Johnson from Elon College, as well as information about his daily activities. For example, Greene frequently recorded visits with Ralph Bingham, John Dugger, and many more. He also writes about his work at Appalachian Training School. He teaches sociology, and Latin. In addition to writing about his classes, he frequently writes about the school’s basketball games.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Alice Cook
Annie Cook
Appalachian Training School
Banner Elk
basketball
Boone
Carter Farthing
Cove Creek
Dr. Hunter President of Cullowhee Normal
Dr. J.W. Jones
Dr. McNairy of the Caswell Training School
Dr. W.O. Bingham
Edwin Dougherty
Elon College
G.W. Trivett
J.J. Glenn
J.W. Brinkley
John Bingham
L.M. Farthing
Latin
Mabel
Newland high school
Paul Bingham
R. Bradshaw
Reverend W
sociology
Willowdale Baptist Church
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/6d6416be0c4961f04feb6efeae68bfb3.pdf
28498ca1004634c431816e2e7f171ee1
PDF Text
Text
����������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/fbb4a62637684f962f9cd3b3c9986bed.pdf
38a11ab66227a03fa28e262906b33e15
PDF Text
Text
Feb. 18.-- The weather is very fine. The sun shines. The air is cool enough to be pleasant. In
fact it is an ideal winter day.
There have been many things on hand. The most urgent matter is the reports. It seems that all
have an incentive to finish the job at the earliest possible moment. We have been very careless in
regard to being prompt in making reports.
The most interesting thing that I have observed recently is the variations in a person' s moods in
a single day. On every angle something new comes to us. During the first part of the day I am at
peace with all the world. In the afternoon I am nervous and am not able to stand the jar. There is
such a thing as a man working to the limit. A man's physical condition has much to do with his
disposition. The sick man is not able to advance the world.
Feb. 19.-- The day is fine. It is spring weather in the winter. The mud is going rapidly. On
every hand glad surprises meets. The thought that winter is coming to an end pleases us.
In the afternoon I make a study of unemployment. It is appalling how expensive it is. It is not
only costly in dollars and cents, but it is very expensive as to morals. From every viewpoint it is
destructive to the country.
There is one thing that I am bent upon, and, that is, to become a great scholar. Each day I am
sriving to get something that is good for me. I am trying to learn the things that will be good for my
spiritual nature as well as my intellectual.
Feb. 20.-- This is one of the best days that I have had in a long time. In body I have not had a
pain. I have not felt so well in a long time. This is due to food and exercise.
The thing that I have given thought today is the Negro Problem. It is one that we are not apt to
approach with a free mind. We must not censured [sic] the man of color with too much severity.
Do we know just why he can't avoid many of the things that he does? He come[s] from an ancestry
that has been in drakness [sic] for ages. He does not have the background for the highest
development. It will take time for him to develop.
Feb. 21.-- Many things come our way. It is a day full of history for our school. We have a
committee from the Legislature to visit us. There are four senators and two representi ves [sic] . They
come at noon and have dinner with us . At two o'clock they address the student body in the
Auditorium. They show their good sense by making their remarks brief. The student body gives
them a hearty response.
At night the Junior reception for the Seniors comes off. This is one among the most swelled
affairs of the year. There is not any occasion that affords more excitement or give[s] a better
oppportunity for display of dignity. Much work is put forth on these occasions. I question whether
they are worth all the effort put forth.
I escape all the above thrill and go to my home at Vilas. After a rest and a good supper I go to
a play at the Cove Creek High School. The play is fine . I enjoy it immensely. The crowd is lively
and full of good life. Such occasions as this are good for the community.
960
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Feb. 22.-- This is a fine day. We never see any better weather than we are having. It is as good
as we ever have in the spring and early summer.
At Sunday School we have a fine crowd. Without doubt we have a very fine spirit. I see nothing
to keep us from going onward and upward.
We have an invitation to Uncle John Smith's for dinner. I must confess that I want another real
soon. We had a real fine time. Uncle John is a little stubborn at times, but he has many fine
qualities.
Late in the day I engage in letter writing. At one time in life I enjoyed this real well, but I have
allowed the press of duties to rob me of this pleasure.
Feb. 23.-- At an early hour the rain commences to fall. Much of it falls during the day. Just at
dark we have a thunder shower.
Before noon I go to Clyde Mast's store and conduct a law suit. A young man is in court for
dealing in liquor. It seems that it is hard for some people to refrain from committing crime.
At noon I start to Boone walking. I do not go far until I catch a truck. It is not long before I am
in Boone. I remain in town a short time. I come to my room. I have some work that needs doing.
I never am even. The older that I get, the more I have on me. I suppose that a man would be in
misery if he had nothing to demand his attention. The busy man is the happy man.
Feb. 24.-- There has been a variety of weather. There has been some rain, some wind, and much
fog. This is a kind that keeps us guessing what is going to come next.
In school we have had many interesting things. In our history class we use much time in talking
Geography. This is a fine basis for history. All of it has a beautiful geographical background.
We have a fine faculty meeting. All are not present. Some forget and come late. I am sure that
meetings of this kind are good for the teaching force. We can understand each other much better.
Mr. Downum is real happy.
Feb. 25.-- The weather is so fine that we can afford to write about it. Just a few day[s] like thgis
one will bring forth the buds. The frogs are already making spring melody. One of these days they
will look through ice windows.
At chapel today Mr. Rankin talks on using time. The trouble with so many students is that they
do not use their time to a good advantage. Many students do not make any serious effort to prepare
their lessons.
In the afternoon I take an examination on Education Sociology. This is one among the hardest
subjects that I have ever tried. The reason for this is that I have had only a little preparation for this
course. It is a new field, but it is exceedingly interesting.
On every hand I meet with things to do. A teacher must develop some culture on the side. Some
good book must be near for use. I want to use all my time for improvement. A man has no time to
waste. I want to be in the harness all the time.
Feb. 26.-- The day is rough. There is a high wind. The temperature falls. The frogs that have
961
�been singing are in winter quarters again. The weather has been so warm that a little cold wind
almost pierces us through. This is a winter that has had very little snow.
Last night and today I have been sick. I did not sleep much. I have been in a very nervous state.
A man can get in a bad condition in a very short time. At this season of the year I am prone to have
some sickness.
This is one day in which I have not done much book work. I have done what I think is essential
and let the remainder alone. Our work does not amount to much unless our bodies are in good
condition.
Feb. 27.-- The greatest event in school is a game of basketball and Davenport College. The
visitrs won easily. The cause may be assigned to superior training. There is much psychology in
playing ball. Success arouses our spirits, but defeat puts a gloom over us. On the sight of defeat we
are depressed. I have come to the conclusion that games during study hours are too expensive. We
have an element that does not want to work. Players expect to be put through whether they do any
work or not.
At noon I go to town. There is something new here all the time. New people are coming and
going. New business is going up. In all Boone is a moving little town. Her streets are in a bad
condition. Cars stall in the public square. There [is?] mud on every hand.
Feb. 28.-- The day is fine. The air is some cooler. It seems that we are to have some winter late
in the season.
This has been one of our tough day[s]. I have hardly been able to do my work. It seems that I
must be troubled on every hand. All the day I am in distress.
In the afternoon I go home. I am not long on the way. I love to catch a car on the way. Mrs.
Greene and I go to the store. We do not do much trading. We want the trip more than any thing else.
By night I am tired enough to rest. I am too restless to get much done. I try to rest the best that I can.
By some means I am in bad condition.
MARCH
Mar. 1.-- Today we have several kinds of weather. A man can never tell about March. There
is likely to be several changes in one day.
After studying the lesson I go to Sunday School. We have a good crowd present. It is a pleasure
for us to work when we realize how well we are getting on. I think that we are moving on in good
style.
In the afternoon I go to J. J. Mast's and spend a part ofthe afternoon. We have much fun. There
are a number of subjects up for discussion. Some are serious; others are light. On every hand
pleasure comes to us.
962
�A ] Greene Diaries
Mar. 2.-- This is a great event for me. I pass my forty-second year. I am not able to say how fast
the time does go. In just a few days and another year has passed. Time does fly with the busy man.
The Lord has been good to me. All the year His blessings have been upon me. For all this I have
not showed the gratitude that I am due. For the next year I have one resolution that I want to carry
out. Here it is: I want to be more spiritual rnind[ed]. Unto this I may add that I want to read more
good books and to study the Word.
Today we have had some snow. It has been light. The wind sifted it in the air and drove it from
place to place. I think that it has been one of the roughest days that we have had this winter.
I come to Boone on the mail. I visit an educational meeting at the court house. There seemed
to be many people interested in the consolidation movement, but the most of them are against a
forward step.
In the afternoon I come to my room and work. I have several jobs on hand. I drive away until
a late hour at night. I find much pleasure in searching for new things to think about.
Mar. 3.-- I have had a splendid day in school. There seems to be a spirit of work among some
of the students. We live in hope of getting rid of some of the rubbish, but I suppose that we shall
always have it with us.
The finest thing that I have read today is extracts from the writings of Benjamin Franklin. By
some means I believe that he is the most practical of the writers. He endeavors to be practical on all
subjects.
The one thing that I have studied is the causes of poverty. Why is it that some men have too
much and others not enough? By nature some men are not able to cope with the situation. On the
one hand it is poverty; on the other it is luxury. Some men have the ability to bring things together.
Mar. 4.-- It seems that we have had unusual March weather. This morning the sun shines. It
appears that good weather has come to stay. By night we have the deepest snow of the season. It
is one of these warm snows. The trees and buildings are wrapped in it. The earth has a splendid
blanket.
Today I have been in the best fix for work that I have in a: long time. I can move along smoothly
and without any friction. I feel like working.
There are many fine things that occur in a school. At chapel we have some singing by six young
ladies. All of us love for a program of this kind to be given. We have to hear so many dry speeches.
It is awful to be dignified on all occasions. A man needs to relax at times.
Every day at noon I make a trip to town for my mail. All of us are fools about our mail. We are
not satisfied unless the postmaster chums the bottom of the box for us. If I wanted to have trouble,
I should interfear [sic] with the mail of some one.
Mar. 5.-- This is one of the whitest days of the season. Some of the snow has melted. It is too
late in the season for it to be on the ground long.
By some means the lessons are poor. Some of our folks attend a game and do not make any
preparation on the assignments. This is the hardest work that any man ever engaged in.
963
�After school there is a meeting of the faculty. Meetings of this kind are good from several
viewpoints. The teachers know the general policy of the administration. The general policy of the
school must be known before the teachers can act.
Mar. 6.-- The weather is much better. The snow is all gone. The wind is chasing the mud. In
reality it is real March. It will be so pleasant for the mud to go.
In the school there is being installed a radio. This is a wonderful age in which to life. There is
something new all the time. A man must be amaze[ d] it makes no difference what may happen.
In the evening Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hahn, of the town, give a dinner to the teachers of their
children. This is one among the best dinners that I have had in a long time. The dinner is one of the
best that can be cooked; the social hour is great. This is one of the pleasant spots in life. It delights
me to know that there are so many good people in the world. Often I fear that our good people will
not reproduce themselves. Doubtless I am too prone to look upon the gloomy side of life. We do
not possess all the virtues.
Mar. 7.-- The day is fine. Better weather could not be desired. It is so pleasant that we do not
need fire.
In school we meet all our classes. I do my best to meet all duties that are imposed upon me. I
love to pull my part of the load.
In the afternoon I go to the courthouse for a law suit. The parties are not ready and it has to be
set for another day.
I go home. It takes only a few minutes to make the trip. I rest a short time, and then I go to the
store. I have a pleasant hour at this pace. At night Mrs. Greene and I visit Uncle John Smith. We
have a splendid time.
Mar. 8.-- I do some reading. I review the Sunday School lesson on Sunday morning. A man
loves to be in good condition for the class. We have a fine school. Many people are coming to it.
In the afternoon I visit in the home of Mr. Mast's. We have a fine time. The best way for me
to rest is to talk with a few friends. I am not able to relax in a large crowd. The noise and the jar are
too great for me. This is one day that I have not read very much. A man needs to refrain from
reading at times.
Mar. 9.-- At an early hour I am on my way to Boone. I am anxious to get to my work. I stop in
town long enough to attend to some business.
From town I come to my room. I soon dive into paper work. I use the greater part of the day at
this work. It takes all the nerve that I have to keep at this work.
At night I attend a reception given in the Gymnasium by the Societies. The program is fine, but
the eats are better. This is one of the best things that I have attended in a long time.
From this I go to the Auditorium in order to hear a radio concert. I must confess that I am
disappointed. At a late hour we are in the bed. I must confess that I do not enjoy late hours.
964
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Mar.10.-- It seems that summer is at hand. The frogs and the birds ard singing. On every hand
the signs point to spring. Even the boys and the girls have joy in their bones. After the shut-in of
winter, we enjoy the balmy air.
In our classes we have much pleasure. We enjoy working with a crowd that tries to do things.
After school we work at making out some grades. This is a job that is unpleasant. On every
hand we do not meet with pleasant jobs. A man may do the best that we can, and then some one will
say unkind things about him.
Mar. 11.-- The usual round of school work comes our way. We always have more than we can
do. I suppose that the busy man is the happy man.
At noon I go to town for my mail. I make this trip each day. I need the exercise, and it is a time
that I do not loose [sic] any from my work.
In the afternoon Prof. Smith and I go to my home. This is a good trip to rest. We remain until
after supper. I certainly do enjoy greens. This is the first of the season. It seems that I do not have
the pleasure of staying at home all the time. I must remain away from my family. By the time that
we return to Boone it is almost night. I plunge into my work. Before I am aware of it, it is time to
retire for the night.
Mar. 12.-- This is not an exciting day with me. It comes on smoothly. A man loves to have
something to arouse him, but the usual routine comes to us.
I am trying to do something that will improve my usefulness in the world. I am doing a course
of reading in Literature. It is a course for every day of the year. In addition to this I am trying to
carry a University course in Social Affairs. I am busy all the day and far into the night. I get much
joy out of my study.
Mar. 13.-- Many of our teachers are out sick. There has been some one sick for a long time. The
most of them have some form of cold.
In the afternoon we get the reports ready to send out. The 131 is one of the hardest jobs that a
teacher has to contend with. It consumes all of his time and he seems to be doing but little.
The finest days that any one ever sees in the month of March. It seems that summer has come
to stay. We fear that all the fruit will be killed. We must expect some cold waves in the near future.
We shall be disappointed if they do not come.
Mar.14.-- There is some new history in the school today. We run with almost half of the faculty
absent. A part of the members go away for the week-end, the others are on the sick list. Sometime
we think that certain men must be present, but we can go with any one away.
Just after noon I go to town. I soon find a way home. It does not take long to get home in a car.
I find that Ralph has a well-developed case of the mumps. This is a disease that I fear much. About
131
This?
965
�fifteen years ago I had a severe attack. I have not been so well since. It is a disease that requres
careful attention.
Mar. 15.-- The weather is much cooler. The fire feels good. For the past few days it has been
too warm for the time of year.
At Sunday School the Juniors give a program. We are having a good lively time. Many of our
people are interested in the better things of life.
I take dinner with Hill Trivett. We have a pleasant time. It is fine for neighbors to visit each
other.
In the afternoon I visit the home of W. H. Brown. We exchange wisdom. It is to be regretted
that the whole community could not hear the choice sayings of the sages. Alas, it is the common fate
of the race. Many good things go to waste.
Mar. 16.-- I read for some time and then I start for Boone. I do not go far until I catch a truck.
It is a cold ride into Boone.
I manage to rid myself of one burden. I resign as Justice of the Peace. There are so many little
sorry cases to be hear[ d]. I do not have the time to give the office.
In the afternoon I remain in my room and work. It seems that I am not able to get even with the
things that I have on hand. My work is pressing me.
Late in the day we have some rain. This will put down the dust. We may look for a cold wave.
Mar. 17.-- During the morning there is the appearance of rain, but in the afternoon there is fine
weather.
In school there is a scacity [sic] ofteachers. Some of the teaches are sick and others are absent.
There are not enough to meet all the classes.
At the chapel Rev. Mr. Smith of Arkansas leads in the devotional. He is a Baptist of the
Landmark variety. His conduct on the platform is admirable.
At night I work on a lesson on crime. This is one of the big subjects of the day. The progress
of our civilization is measured to a great extent by how we treat our criminal class.
Mar. 18.-- There is much weather today. We have summer, spring, autumn and threatened
winter. It appears that we are having an early spring. Vegetation is coming rapidly.
By some means I have been in distress. There are many things to cause the human heart to ache.
It is the common lot of the race to see much trouble. At times there is a mixture of joy in it. On
every hand we see the race going to ruin. Evidences of misery are near us. Perhaps we bring all our
troubles upon ourselves. We are too easy to show the white feather.
Mar. 19.-- During the past night we had a thunder storm. There is some rain. This tells us that
summer is coming. In a few more days the flowers will be blooming.
Today we have done much reading. In fact we commence before day. I try to read some in my
Bible each day. This year I am reading it from cover to cover. A man must make it a part of himself.
966
�A
J
Greene Diaries
I, also, am giving a little time each day to some good Literature. If a man does well in life, he must
study his job. A person must be a student alllthe time. The idle fellow never gets any where.
Mar. 20.-- At breakfast the lady had failed to put any soda in her bread. Thhe truth of the matter
is that the biscuits have a sad look. The good woman takes her ill-luck seriously, and this gives us
this gives us the comic side of it. As all good women are prone to do, she soon has some better
bread on the table for us.
In school the day has been a little hard on me. There have been several things to vex me. We
have a number of boys who never look at their lessons. They expect to go on with their lessons and
make the course. Doubtless they will be disappointed.
Mar. 21.-- This is a fine day. The good weather continues to march on. In all time we have
never seen so much good weather in March. I do my school work and then I start for home. I do not
get far from town until I get a ride. Long before night I am home. I am almost too tired to rest. A
week in the schoolroom almost puts me out of business. I have some papers to read, but I am not
in a condition to do that. I want to ramble. I am not content to work quietly. I want to be on the go.
In the run of a day we are into many things. We can hardlky tell what an hour may bring forth.
Mar. 22.-- I have had a great time tiday. This morning I go to Mabel. I visit my father a short
time. I attend Sunday School at Union. The school is not large. It does not seem like the Union of
old. I spent some of my happiest days at this place.
I have a fine dinner at W. M. Thomas'. We have some good company. A part of the afternoon
is spent in lively conversation.
Upon my return home I find the folks looking for me. I put in my time reading and having the
best time of my life. On every hand I have no scorn for life.
Mar. 23.-- I am on my way to court at an early hour. I am there long before the hour for court
to commence. I put in some time doing business over the town. The crowd is immense. It seems
that almost the whole county has turned out. The folks sure have a good time.
Judge Harding, of Charlotte, is presiding. He delivers a fine charge to the jury. In many respects
we think that he is a very fine judge.
By the late afternoon I am very tired. I do not think I want much court during the coming week.
I have other things that I must do. At night I am too tired to ret. Deliver me from the crowd.
Mar. 24.-- At an early hour I am in my room at the school building. I soon have things in
readiness for the business of the day.
At chapel we have Mr. J. K. Perry, of Beaver Dam, with us. He makes a short address at the
conclusion of chapel.
Prof. Wilson reports for duty. He has been at Peabody College for Teachers. We certainly do
need his help.
Today I went to court for a short time. The room is crowded too much for comfort. In a short
967
�time I return to my room and put the rest of the day in working.
Mar. 25.-- The work goes on as usual. There are many things for a teacher to do. Something
is demanding his attention all the time. He has not a moment that he can call his own.
Just after school we have a meeting of the faculty. The greatest item for the calendar is "The
Annual". It takes much work to get it out.
At night I attend prayer service at the Methodist Church. The leading feature is an address by
Judge Harding, of Charlotte. This is one of the finest things that I have heard in a long time. His
conception of the duties of citizens is most excellent. He shows how we grow by being obedient to
organized government.
Mar. 26.-- We are into the picture business. The groups are being made for "The Annual". We
have the least noise and friction that we have ever had. This is the day that I have been dreading.
It may be that we shall get by easily this time.
Today I have worked all the time. I have tried to do all my school work and prepare a lesson in
my course. This keeps me going until a late hour at night.
Late in the day we have a light shower. The thunder sounds like summer time. The shower puts
the grass to growing. Spring is here.
Mar. 27.-- Today we have had many kinds of weather. There has been at least two snow storms,
much rain, and the most violent wend. This is real march weather. We are forced into winter
harness again. Overcoat and overshoes are good companions. It may be that we shall need them
often for the next few weeks.
At chapel today Prof. Wilson talks about being in Mammoth Cave. He seems to have developed
a sense of humor. Every few minutes he makes a break.
In the afternoon and at night I work. I am trying to get ready for a trip tomorrow. A man must
do extra work when he goes off.
Mar. 28.-- The weather is much cooler. At times there is a little snow. It seems that we are to
have some real winter yet.
I remain at school until noon. I go home for a meeting. I wait in town for some time in order
to go out to Willowdale with Brother F. M. Huggins.
Our Fifth Sunday Meeting is organized with L. C. Wilson, Chairman and A. J. Greene, Secretary.
We have a fine session in the afternoon and at night. The discussions are animated, but the best of
feeling prevails. Uriah Farthing almost runs over in his zeal to start something. He does not make
much headway.
Mar. 29.-- Today is a big one for Willowdale. We have a big gathering. In Sunday School we
have intense interest. All the classes are full. On every hand we have something of interest to us.
At eleven o'clockRev. J. E. Brendle, ofTodd, preaches from the theme, "The Need of a National
Revival". It is a powerful presentation of the subject.
968
�A
J
Greene Diaries
One of the attractive things of the day is the singing of the Boone Quartett [sic] and the class
from Middle Fork. All people love good music. They will go for miles in order to hear it.
The meeting goes on until night. Notwithstanding the cold the interest is good until the close.
This is one of the best meetings I have attended.
Mar. 30.-- After attending to some business I start to Boone. It does not take long for us to arrive
in town. I attend court for a short time. I do not care to remain for a long spell. I attend to some
business and then I go to my room. I take a bath and retire for a rest. I do not sleep much, but I
manage to rest.
At night I attend a musical program in the Auditorium. There is much variety. As a whole I
think well of the program. Music is one of the things that helps us on in the world. It has a tendency
to lift us out of ourselves. It arouses the best in us.
Mar. 31.-- Two great events come our way today. The first is an address in the Auditorium by
Judge Harding. He talks to us for one hour. I have not listened to such a fine address in a long time.
It is full of practical wisdom. Such men as he is are able to do much good in the world.
The second event is memorial exercises in honor of Capt. E . F. Lovill. The following men
spoke: W. C. Newland, F. A. Linney, J. H. Bingham, Johnson Hayes, E. S. Coffey, Ed Bingham,
John E. Brown, Judge Harding and Prof. B. B. Dougherty. I have never heard finer tributes paid to
any. I feel that he deserved all that is said in his memory.
APRIL
Aprill.-- The weather is some warmer, however there is some wind yet. It seems that is is harde
for the air to become warm again.
This is Fool's Day at the school. Some of the scholars decorate themselves and make a show at
chapel. It surprises a man how little sense he has on certain occasions. As a whole the day has
passed off well. The students have not done many fool acts.
In the afternoon and at night we try to do some work. It seems that we are not able to do all that
we desire. We are pressed for time every day.
April2.-- This is a day full of events. Many things come our way for discussion. Sometimes we
decide wisely and sometimes it is otherwise.
It seems that we are not able to get much work done. I do not find much time to read and
meditate. There is some job just ahead of me.
In the evening I am invited to dinner by Prof. J. A. Kent. This is one of the finest dinners that
I have had in a long time. It is well-prepared and served in style. After the dinner is over, I spend
a social hour in this good home. After all it is worth all that it costs to have a social hour. It relieves
us from strain of work.
969
�April 3.-- There are two events of first magnitude in our school. The President makes it plain
to the boys at chapel that all rough conduct that is of an unruly nature must be eliminated. This is
a place for study and progress. All that come to this school must deport themselves in the most
desirable way. At a meeting of the faculty he gives in detail the mission of school. One of the great
things for the school to advocate is economy. We have a tendency to waste and to get things that we
can do without. We are prone to live beyond our income. This is what we are apt to do.
April 4.-- The weather changes a little. There is an overcast and late in the day there is some
rain. It will seem delightful for the dust not to be flying.
The work in school goes on well. It seems that the week goes rapidly. The time is never long
enough for us to do all that we wish to do.
In the afternoon I go home. I find that potato planting is the order of the day. A man has a hard
time to get his crop out. It is such a job to get help. On every side there is a demand for help. The
farmer is hard rut in order to make ends meet. The outgo is high; the income is low.
AprilS.-- The day has given me a varied experience. I try to study the Sunday School lesson and
entertain visitors at the same time. I do not make good at either. At the propler hour we attend
Sunday School. We have a splendid crowd. The adult ladies give us a splendid program.]
In the afternoon I try to rest. I manage to sleep just a little. This is no place for a man to rest.
There are too many people stirring. In fact I must record that tills has been a tough day for me. I
have scarcely [been?] able to go. How I do long for a place to rest!
April6.-- At an early hour I rise in order to arrive in Boone early. When I come to town, I do
find that many people have not had breakfast. Soon I go to my room ready for the work of the day.
We have the honor of teaching the April Fool girls. This is hard on a man who works all day.
In the afternoon I go to town and attend to some business. It seems that I do not have aminute
that I can call my own. I am giving all my time for the benefit of others. I suppose that this is the
only life that is valuable. At night I do some writing. By the time that it is done I am ready to sleep.
April 7.-- The day is full of events. Rev. Mr. Allen, of North Wilkesboro, came to chapel and
entertains us. He giv[s] a reading, an essay on "The Hen". In many respect[s] it has much humor.
Doubtless this is a good way to become acquainted with a student body. In the afternoon I hear Rev.
Mr. Allen preach at the Methodist Church. He is a thoughtful and plolished [sic] speaker. He
give[s] a man something to think about. From this I go to my work. I am too sick to do many great
things. I do the pushing work and then I retire for the night. I do not rest well.
AprilS.-- I am out at an early hour. I try to finish up what I left undone last night. I go through
the usual routine. There are two thlngs that come our way. The first is the reading of one of Henry
Van dyke's poems by Rev. Mr. Allen. He teaches it to the entire student body. The next event is
a game of ball between our school and Mountain View College. The visitors carried off the day.
It seems that our boys do not have any pep in them. I think that they do not practice enough. A man
970
�A
J
Greene Diaries
must have endurance in order to win on the athletic field. The soft man never gets any where.
April9.-- I am out early. I do much work before breakfast. This is the best part of the day for
work.
Rev. Mr. Allen tells of his experiences in obtaining an education. This is an encouraging
message for the young man that has to work his way through school.
At the close of the school day there is a meeting of the faculty. Plans for the commencement are
discussed. The work of the school is gradually changing.
Supt. Franklin, of Avery County, is at the school. He is a pleasant and likeable gentleman. He
is with us in our faculty meeting. He does not talk.
Aprill 0.-- The weather has changed just a little. We have had some rain. It does seem good for
the dust to be laid.
At chapel President Dougher5ty talks to the school on the old town of Bath. He tells many
interesting things about it.
In the afternoon I attend church at the Methodist Church. This is a program for the children. By
some mean many of them are taken into the church. This way of doing things does not appeal to me.
On the athletic field there is a game of ball between our boys and Cove Creek High School. Our
boys win. The interest is not high.
Aprilll.-- This is a day long to be remembered. Many events come along that stir us. At the
school we follow our duties until the work is over for the day. One of the imposing things is having
a picture made. At 2:10 Mrs. Greene and Mrs. Jenkins come for me. In a short time we are at home.
The great event of the day is an egg hunt at Uncle John Smith' s for the children. There are about
seventy-five present. Many of the older people come to see the fun. We feel sure that the children
had a real fine time. It is almost night when the fun subsides. This is a day for the children to long
remember.
April12.-- This is a day in which I have had a varied experience. I read some in order to be
ready for Sunday School. At the usual hour we have our School. There are one hundred ten present.
Rev. Mr. Trivett preaches. He gives us the usual doctrinal sermon. At the close of service we go
toW. Y. Perry's for dinner. We have a splendid time, although I am too sick to appreciate the good
things that are in store for me. As we are coming home, there is a shower of rain. I go to bed
immediately and try to rest. I feel some better after I doze a little. I must confess that this is one of
the toughest days that I have had in a long time.
April 13.-- My cold is using me tough, but I have been busy all the day. I go to Mabel on
business. I do not remain long. I return home and remain until the afternoon . I have trading in land
too much to rest well. We make up our mind that we are going to purchase a farm. In the afternoon
Miss Florence Bumbamer, who took Easter with us, go to Boone with Mr. J. H. Mast. After I arrive
in town I complete my land deal. This may be the wrong thing to do, but I feel that I am acting
971
�wisely. I come to my recitation room and spend a part of the afternoon at work. I have many things
just before me.
April14.-- Today I am not able to talk much. I have to take it quietly, and then I do not move
along well. This is one of the hardest days that I have had this year.
Rev. Mr. Allen comes to chapel. He makes some fine remarks on how to get the most out of life.
The religious life is the only life that is worth while.
In the afternoon I come to my room to rest. This is the hardest day that I have had this year. I
sleep and rest just a little. My voice is in a condition that I cannot talk much. Never before have I
been in this condition. Otherwise I am not suffering. A man can hardly function without talking.
AprillS.-- I go through the day without talking much. I do my class work on the board. I do it
much better than I expected. I can not talk so I can be heard. In the afternoon I take my bed for a
rest. I feel that I need it.
To-day at chapel we have Supt. F. C. Dougherty, of Johnson County, Tennessee; and Supt. Smith
Hagaman, of Watauga County, North Carolina. Both of these gentlemen make remarks from the
platform. There is hardly a day but what some man of note is in our midst. Many of them talk.
April16.-- There is an overcast as to the weather. It has threatened to rain for several days. One
of these day[s] it will come, and we shall be glad to see it stop.
My voice is some better, but I am not able to do much talking on class. This is the hardest lick
that I have had in a long time.
At chapel we have Dr. J. H. Highsmith, State High School Inspector; and Dr. James H. Hillman,
DirectorofTeacherTraining and Certification. Both make addresses of some length. Dr. Highsmith
grew somewhat eloquent in his remarks on the wealth of the state.
April17.-- Today we have some rain. The ground has not been wet in a long time. The weather
has been unusually dry for this season of the year.
My ability to talk has been limited this week. I expect that I ought to be in the bed. I have
managed to keep going.
At chapel we have some singing. This is a period that all enjoy. It gives us a rest from the
tedious grind of the class room.
I am a little melancholy today. It seems that something is going to happen to me. I am unwell.
My spirit is cast down. A man must not expect to be in high all the time. Some days are sad.
April18.-- This is a fine day. It seems that summer has come to stay. It has been a long time
since we have had so much pretty weather at this season.
In school we have some good work. There are many things for us to adjust. On every hand some
new fact is coming up.
Just afternoon I start for home. I spend a short time in town. Soon I catch a car and go home.
I do not remain here very long. Mrs. Greene and I go to Gordon Hodges to have a deed probated.
972
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Mrs. Hodges is a very sick woman. We remain with her a little while. By the time that we return
home it is night. I think that I have had enough activity for one day.
April19.-- This is an unusually hot day. The heat has been as severe as midsummer. I have
never felt so warm a time in April.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. It seems that our interest in the work is good. After
school I go to Mrs. J. B. Elliott's for dinner. We have one of the best dinners that I have eaten in a
long time. At the middle of the afternoon I return home. I am too sick to rest. I do the best that I
can, but I am not able to rest. Late in the evening Mrs. Greene and I visit in the home of W. J.
Mast's. By the time that we return home and get ready to rest we have a thunder storm.
April20.-- The shower during the night refreshes everything. The dust is put down. This gives
us much relief.
I come to Boone in order to finish my land deals. Trading is a hard thing for me to do. The least
little thing throws me in a bad mood. I do not care to do much in the dealing line.
Today Mr. William Hardin is buried in Boone. He is an aged man who was born and raised in
Boone. The most of his life was spent near this place.
On yesterday Mrs. Margaret Sherrill-Hagaman was buried. I am sure that no better woman lived
in our town and county. Her life has alwways been very consistant. She has gone to her reward.
April21.-- The weather is much cooler. It is the first morning that the fire has been pleasant in
a long time. It has been unusually warm.
Miss Hall from Banner's Elk is at the school. She makes a talk at chapel on "Truth". This is one
of the finest talks that we have had in a long time.
In the afternoon I do much work. I have more than I can do. A man never knows when to stop.
Graydon Eggers came in from Gaston county where he has been teaching for the past six months.
April22.-- This is a day long to be remembered in my family. We move from the Brinkley place
to the Yate's place near Vilas. At this place we have a small farm. We think that we are going to
be pleased with our new home.
In school we have had a hard day's work. There is not a moment that I can call my own. I am
pushing my work all the time.
Just after school I take an examination on a University course. I must confess that it is no light
job to do an examination in good style.
At night I have Graydon Eggers with me. He has been teaching in Gaston county and is on his
way home in Tennessee.
April23.-- Today at chapel we have Miss Watters of the Lyceum Festival that is coming to town.
She recites two pieces for. In the midst of one Prof. J. M. Downum claps her. It is one loud clap out
of a clear sky. It has been a long time since I have been amused so well.
At noon I eat with the Cooking Class. It is a three course dinner. The guests are Mr. Rankin,
973
�Mr. Greer, Miss Todd and the writer. We have a lively time.
This is one of the warmest days that I have felt in a long time. It is warm enough for the middle
of the summer. The sun is beaming down in our midst.
Apri/24.-- This is one of the hot days of the season. It is very dry. It seems to me that it is a
dangerous time about fire. On the Rich Mountain just north of Boone a forest fire is raging.
At chapel today we have Prof. Treemain, of Winston-Salem, Prof. Loy, of Tryon, and Prof.
Reese, of lllinois. Prof Reese makes a thoughtful address before the student body.
Today I make two trips to town on business. I soon expect to have all my deeds on record. The
making of deals in land is a very trying affair. It takes a long time for a man to become use to a new
place. I think that I have a home that I can enjoy well.
Apri/25.-- At chapel we have Miss Watters, who is director of the Festival that is soon to come
to our town. She reads two selections to the delight of the student body.
We have a hard day in school. We have so many thing[s] to look into. I am tired enough to rest
by the time that the day is over.
I go to town in a hurry in order that I may get a way home. It is not long until I get a car and am
on my way. I have the pleasure of going to my new home. I think that we are to have a gay time in
our new place of residence.
April 26.-- The shower during the night has left all vegetation in a prosperous condition. It is
a fact that spring has never been so early in this part of the world.
I go to the Cove Creek High School building. The whole community has Sunday School. There
are three Sunday Schools; Henson's Chapel, Cove Creek and Willowdale. There is a fine interest.
Rev. Arthur Sherwood, of Erwin, Tennessee, preaches the Annual sermon before the graduating
class. It is a fine discourse.
In the afternoon I remain at home. I do my best to rest. We have some rain. It is not enough to
wet the ground. The ground is very dry.
Apri/27.-- This is a day full of action. I come to Boone early. It is the day for the great outing.
All the classes in the High School have a trip to some point. I go with the Freshmen to a point on
New River just below the old power plant. We have much good sport. Some wade in the river;
others ride in a boat. We have a fine lunch. On every hand we are delighted with the trip.
Just before the appointed hour we are at our homes. The youngsters pronounce it a great day.
I think that we have had enough travel for one day. Some cannot stand more.
Apri/28.-- This is one wet day for April. It has rain[ed] almost all the time. The farmes will
admit that the ground is wet. Many of them can plow. This will be fine for the grass and meadows.
Miss Watters came to the chapel and recited for us again. She knows how to put things over in
good style.
At noon I make a trip to town in the rain. This is the first rain that I have been in for a long time.
974
�A
J
Greene Diaries
By some means it is a little cold.
I must confess that I have been a little blue for a long time. I have many things to disturb me.
My work is too heavy for me.
April29.-- We have another day that is not very favorable. Besides some rain a little snow is
reported by some. The extra rain is good for the grass and crops that have been planted.
Rev. F. M. Huggins comes to our chapel. He makes a talk on "Going the Second Mile". The
idea set forth is that we must do more than it is necessary for us to do.
Today we have a meeting of the Faculty. There is a resolution passed that none but honor
students can hold offices in Socities [sic] and class. We feel sure that this is a step in the right
direction. We have had too many loose things. We need closer supervision.
April30.-- There has been some snow today. The weather is a contrast to what we had a few
days ago. The air certainly does pinch after so much summer weather.
This is a day that we have many things on hand. It seems that it is necessary to bring great
pressure to get work out of some students. There are not many students who work to the limit.
There are many requests that are made of a teacher just at the close of a school. Many fail to do
their work and expect to be put over at the last moment. The best thing that a student can learn is
that he must do his work on time. The dragging way of doing things must be left out.
MAY
May 1.-- At an early hour the highest points of the mountains are covered with snow. This seems
odd at this season of the year. Just after daylight there is a snowstorm. Almost every year we have
some snow at a late hour. The air has been chilly. It has been so warm of late that it pinches a man.
To-day has been busy. I do not have a minute that I can call my own. There is something to do
each minute. The end of the term is near and we must get every thing in readiness to leave this place.
The last week is the one that is hard on the teacher.
May 2.-- This is a day that is to be remembered. The end of the week is upon us. It seems that
I have more than I can do. I hope that I am not able to do less work than formerly.
In the afternoon I go to town in order to make a way home. I start on my way walking. I go
almost two miles before I get a way to ride. I arrive home long before night. It does seem so good
to come home in such a quiet place. I believe that I have the ideal place to make a good home. I
long to fix the place the way that I wish it. It takes time to make a desirable place to live.
May 3.-- I attend Sunday School at Willow dale. We have a large number present. Many people
in the community do not come to this or go to any Sunday School.
975
�I travel over the fann a little in order to see what we have. The more that we see of it the better
we like. I think that we have an ideal place to live. It delights us to see our friends come. It pleases
us for our neighbors to come.
In the evening I put in some time reading some literature. On every hand I find something that
is interesting and lively.
May 4.-- We have had weather that is almost like March. It has been varied. There has been
some sunshine, some rain, and some cold wind.
I remain at home until noon. I put in a part of the morning reading examination papers. I do not
feel well enough to do much work.
At noon I start for home in Boone. I am caught in a storm. Smith Hannon picks me up and
brings me to Boone in a car. I remain in town for a short time and then I go to the school building
and do some work. I have several jobs on hand.
May 5.-- We start on the final week of school. This is always a strenuous time. One person
about does the work of two. The final examinations and the commencement season come upon us
at the same time.
Today I give one final examination. I wish to get History out of the way. The class has been
small and we have done some good work.
At night I use my time in reading. I have a course in reading that I enjoy very much. There are
new things that come my way each day. I regret that I have such a short time to enjoy the good
things of life.
May 6.-- The end is on the way. We have some more finals . The reading of papers there will
be no end. I hate to have so many on me at once.
After school Mr. Ruppe and I come to my home at Vilas. I need my Sunday clothes for the
Commencement. We remain until after night. We have a fine drive to Boone. I find many papers
waiting for me. This trip is going to delay me in making my final report. I have much reading to do
before it is time to go home.
May 7.-- The last examination comes today. I read papers and make out grades until I am hardly
fit to do real good work. At night I continue my work in order to get my final reports in on time.
Late in the day I am delighted to get a box of strawberries from Elizabethton, Tenn. I am so
selfish that I ate them by myself.
At night the Senior Class of the High School Department give a play in the Auditorium. There
is a large crowd in attendance. I find that I am not able to get my report ready and go.
May 8.-- This is the final day at school. This morning I send my things home. I transact some
business in town before the hour for commencement comes on.
At ten o'clock the graduating exercises for the college are held. The address is delivered by Dr.
W. R. Harper, of Elon College. His theme is "The Christian Philosophy of Life". It is a fine
976
�A
J
Greene Diaries
presentation of the finest ideals of life. In the class there are fifteen to finish at the close of the spring
term.
In the afternoon the High School has its graduating exercises. There are seventy to finish this
spring. It is the largest class in the history of the school.
In the afternoon I collect my things and make for home. I am longing for some rest from breaks
and school. There are many things that demand my attention. I see no way for me to get a rest.
May 9.-- My store clothes are put away and my work clothes are put on. I try some ditching for
the first round. It does not take me long to put the water out of the road.
In the afternoon I go to Mast's store at Sugar Grove. I do not remain there long before I return
to the church house. There are only a few people. It seems that preaching on Saturday has lost its
charms for the most of people. It takes a fight to bring some of them out.
The last job of the day is doing some hauling. It is a hard job to pack a bunch of plunder in a
wagon and get any load. By night I have enough of work to do me for a long time.
May 10.-- The day comes to us with all its charms. Life seems to be worth living. The lesson
is prepared and we are off to Sunday School. The lesson is the story of Phillip and the Eunuch. This
is one among the finest that we have had in a long time.
After all the chewers of the weed had satisfied their appetites, the people reassembled to have
preaching. This is known among church people as Communion Day. It is usually in May and
September. The first is the time when we come from winter quarters; the latter date is just before
many people hibernate for the dormant season of the year.
The afternoon is spent at home many of the neighbors come to see us . We have a pleasant time
with all who come.
May 11.-- I make a trip to the cheese factory. We are selling some milk. Doubtless it is a paying
proposition. We hope to increase our herd. The finest business in the world is one that brings an
income each day in the year.
I commence to hoe my potato crop today. I must confess that they are looking well. By some
means I am sure that I enjoy working and seeing this crop grow. In our county this is becoming a
great industry. Some are raising for seed while others are raising for the market. The seed potatoes
industry is in its fourth year in our county. It is going to succeed.
May 12.-- This is a dark and gloomy day. During this entire month we have not had much
sunshine. It is cloudy and foggy. Such weather depresses a man ' s spirits and he is not capable of
doing things and corning on in the world.
Today I have been reading examination papers. This is one of the hardest jobs that I have ever
tried. In every respect it is a hard job to do justice to all parties concerned. There is one thing that
is evident and that is so many students are doing no work and are trying to get by without real study.
May 13.-- I suppose that a man will never be truly happy this side of the Great Divide. It is one
977
�thing just after another that comes along to mar the enjoyment of life. Sometimes I think that a man
needs to own nothing. A little of this world's goods has a tendency to annoy a person.
Today we plant some com, but the rain soon stops us. This kind of work brings old memories
to us. In my mind there is no doubt but farming is one of the finest things that a man can do. It is
an occupation that is not crowded.
May 14.-- Rain prevents us from planting more com. We work at the examination papers. This
is a trying job. There are so many who are on the border Fne. A man does not know what is right
in each individual case.
In spirit I am much depressed. It seems that so many troubles hover about me. Perhaps some
time I shall be able to surmount and overcome all the trials of this life. A man must have some
bitter, so that he will be able to enjoy the sweet. Ah, we must be a hero in the struggle of life.
May 15.-- The sun comes forth in all his glory. It has bee some days since we have enjoyed the
sunshine. The vapor goes before his strength.
Just as soon as the ground will do we begin planting com. We do not stop until our crop is put
in the ground.
The more that we see of our place, the better pleased we are with it. There are some fine things
to commend us.
In the afternoon we retire to our potato field and do a little hoeing. The ground is getting right.
We are not able to work all day.
May 16.-- This is a fine day. The ground has been in fine condition for working. We have used
the day in cutting some of the weeds out of our potatoes. We do not have much help, hence we do
not hoe a large patch.
Late in the day I go to Uncle Thos. Yates' to buy a pig. I find that he has a large number. In fact
he has almost any kind that a man wants. I find that he is a pleasant man to deal with. I return across
the hill and find that I am not very far from home. I must confess that I am tired.
May 17.-- The day is fine . It is one among the best that we have had in a long time. It does seem
so good for the sun to shine.
At Sunday School our crowd is a little small. Some of our people have gone to the singing;
others have gone to other places for preaching. It seems that it is hard for our people to be loyal in
every respect to their own community.
In the afternoon W. J. Mast and I sat on W. H. Brown's porch and told our troubles. We think
that we have many, but the most of them are purely of the imagitation [sic], and very few are real.
May 18.-- This is a damp, cloudy day. The sun does not make his appearance. This kind of
weather is depressing. A man is always looking upon the dark side of life.
Today I labor in my potatoes alone. It seems that I do not get help when I stand in need of it.
There is always something for me to do withoug help.
978
�A
J
Greene Diaries
The sorrows and the troubles of life come upon me. It seems that I have to suffer for others.
Some people will not allow a man to be good to them. The more that is done for them, the more that
they expect.
May 19.-- This morning we lie in the bed to a late hour. It does seem strange for us to be late
in eating breakfast. When a boy I became use to arising early, and I have not gotten over it.
I finish hoeing my crop of potatoes at Glenn's. The comment of the people is that it is a fine
field of spuds.
In the afternoon I go to Uncle John Smith's and hoe some in my crop at that place. I find the
potatoes large and healthy. It seems that it is a growing season for all vegetation. Late in the day
I have to quit because we have a shower of rain. The ground is in good condition to work.
May 20.-- This morning we have one among the densest fogs that I have ever experienced. It
is several hours before we can work. This appears to be the beginning of some pretty weather. It
will be pleasant for the sun to shine.
Today we have dinner served in the field. I must confess that I enjoy it very much. There is
nothing so delightful as being out in the open.
Before the middle of the afternoon comes upon us the second crop of potatoes is hoed out. I
must confess that I can see no time when I can have a few days that I can call my own. It is move
all the time.
May 21.-- Today has been hard on me. During the night I did not sleep well. I have taken cold
in my chest. I am so hoarse that I can hardly talk.
I spend the greater part of the day at home. I read some and try to get something that will help
my cold. I find that I am not able to do much.
I have been thinking some about Literature. I try to rest some each day. There is much rich
thought in the mass of the world's literature. We have the experiences of the race to guide us during
life. Many rich things are for us.
May 22.-- I have not been well. My cold is still clinging to me. It seems that it is difficult for
me to be free from one.
A part of the day has been spent in reading. I have a course in reading in literature. I am
enjoying it very much.
In the afternoon I go to a lumber yard with Mr. W. L. Henson to purchase some lumber. I must
confess that I have never felt it so warm in May. The papers report it one among the warmest days
on record. Before the lunber is at home, I am very, very warm. My lungs seem to be conjested [sic]
in such a way that breathing is difficult.
May 23.-- This is another hot day on record. It is almost too warm for working. The shade is
the most comfortable place that I can find.
My cold is still with me. It seems that I cannot rid myself of it. I feel so tough that I am not able
979
�to work will.
With Wiley Walker, as a helper, we build a toilet. At noon it is almost complete. We think that
we have done a good job.
In the afternoon I go to Gordon Hodges' for my saw. I remain some time at the store. It is
almost too warm to travel.
May 24.-- Sunday morning comes again. We spend two hours in reading. A man has a long time
for study before it is time for Sunday School.
At school we have a good crowd. The most of the school is composed of children. It seems that
the old folks have fled. Mr. John E. Brown, of Boone, comes to our school and makes an address.
It has many happy thoughts in it.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Moody take dinner with us. We also have Mrs. J. B. Elliott and her
famous granddaughter, The entire afternoon is spent at home. I read and rest.
May 25.-- This is a cold day. It is almost cold enough to snow. We hoe just a little corn in the
garden. In fact a good fire is the most enjoyable thing that I can imagine. Truly this may be called
"blue" Monday. Some of the day is spent in preparing some wood.
My cold still clings to me. It seems that I am somewhat inclined to take violent fits of coughing.
On every had I find that I am easily irritated. A man that is not well is not capable of doing the work
of the world.
May 26.-- This is a morning of history. We have a very heavy frost. The whole country seems
to be in distress. The potato crop is damaged. The com and the beans are biten [sic] down. Really
all vegetation is more or less damaged. Many of the people say that they have never seen any thing
that is equal to this, but we must remember that our memories are short. We forget so easily. Of
course it looks as if we are ruined, but I am going to tum prophet and say that we shall make good
crops this year. We are usually scared before we are hurt. We are always blessed with abundance.
May 27.-- Another great event to record. There is another heavy frost. It does seem that we are
in for heavy losses. As it is usually the case, we are scared much worse than we are hurt. Many
people are trying to recall when they saw more destruction wrought than at this time. Many leaves
on the trees are killed. The frosts seem to have covered a large area.
We hoe some corn, or in other words we hoe where it ought to be. It is killed to the ground. The
very nature of corn makes it an easy plant to survive a frost like the one that we have just nad. It
comes from within.
May 28.-- This morning I start to Boone on business. I notice there there [sic] is scarcely any
frost. Doubtless it is all over for the present. I am picked up and carried into Boone by a car. Really
I am in town before many people have breakfast. I make several trips to various places in order to
get some business transacted. Finally I get all things arranged and I am ready to come home. I come
out with Wiley Stanberry. I am home before the noon hour. I remain at home the remainder of the
980
�A
J Greene Diaries
day. I always have much to do.
May 29.-- The weather continues warm and dry. We do not have rain often. The land is
becoming very dry. Many of us think that rain would help vegetation that has been biten [sic] by the
frost. Some of the people think that we are not going to make any thing, but we expect to see much
made this year.
In the afternoon Dough ton and I dig some weeds out of our potatoes. The ground is rich and we
do not want the weeds to have an advantage of us. It seems that it is hard for me to get even with
my work. Something is opressing me all the time.
May 30.-- I am out early and off to the Fifth Sunday Meeting at Beaver Dam Church. I walk the
most of the way. I stop at Uncle George Sherrill for dinner. At the proper hour the meeting is
organized. L. C. Wilsn is elected Chairman and A. J. Greene Secretary. In a short time we
commence the program. The discussions are good. Many brethern [sic] are interested in the success
of this program. After the session I go to J. R. Wilson's for supper. The session at night is good.
Perhaps it is the best that we had at all. At the conclusion I go to J. R. Eggers' for the night.
May 31.-- This is the concluding day of our meeting. The first thing that we have is Sunday
School. The writer teaches a class of ladies. We have an interesting discussion. Rev. Wagner A.
Reese, of Kentucky, addresses the school.
Rev . Walter E. Wilson, the Pastor at Cove Creek, preaches a sermon from the theme, "The
Atonement". In many respects it is a very able sermon. It is in the field of controversy. Some of
the precise brethern take violent exceptions to the remarks.
After dinner is served on the ground, we have the concluding session. We do not have much
enthusiasm. As a whole it is a good meeting. I return home by night.
JUNE
June 1.-- This is a fine day. The weather continues warm and dry. It has been a long time since
we have had so much fine weather at one time. Today I remain at home and do odd chores. I am
waiting for rain before I commence working my crops. There are many things to repress a man. A
man has a fight on his hands all the time. At every angle some annoying being is coming at you.
Life is one terrible struggle for existence. The older that I get the more I have to contend with.
June 2.-- Still I wait for rain before I commence my crop. I wait at my home. I try to content
myself with the little thngs that I can do about my home. A man can do many little things and yet
not make any show. In the afternoon I try to take a nap of sleep, but I do not succeed well. A fellow,
I suppose, will never reach a perfect stage of contentment in this life. There will be something to
disturb his peace and repose. Often I think that it would be well if we could depart this life and cease
981
�to know its troubles. On the other hand it is a good world to abide in.
June 3.-- I have decided that rain may be many days off, therefore I enter the working of my
crop. The ground is dry, but it works easily. I work the most of the day. The potatoes are a
discouraging proposition. The frost and the dry weather give us much anxiety about the success of
the crop. A man must try to overcome these things that come in his way. The best lessons that a
man can get are those that disappoint him. We are prone to lay our plans and then we are hurt if they
are not fully carried out.
June 4.-- Today we are in our potatoes again. The ground is dry and the dust is stiffling [sic] .
There is very little to encourage us. Perhaps it is best for us to carry out our part of the work. I am
free to confess that I have done all the work that I am able. My strength is almost gone long before
night. A fellow who does not do manual labor for years is not able to be on the job for a full day
until his muscles are strong enough to endure. I find that a man can not rest so easily as a boy. We
have lost the fine art of relaxing.
June 5.-- The crop of potatoes at Glenn is finished this morning. They are in good shape for
growing if we could have some rain. The sun is corning down with much power. A person will
enjoy the shade today.
Our tenant who has given us so much trouble made his departure today. This has been a great
source of anxiety and remorse. There are so many angles to it. It is difficult to believe that a human
being will come so low that he will not provide for his companion and his offspring, but such is the
case that we have before us.
June 6.-- Today I have more on my hands than I can do. I have to do some fencing. At this
season of the year it is hard work. I wish that I had nothing, except farm work on my hands. Beside
this we have the building of a flue on hand. It takes some of us to help with this.
At noon we have a sprinkle of rain. We are made to rejoice, but in a short time we meet with
disappointment. The clouds break away and there is not enough rain to do us much good. How we
do long to see the ground wet, so that vegetation will revive and take on new life.
June 7.-- At Sunday School our crowd is rather small. It seems that many of our people are
careless in regard to their attendance. The least little thing in the world keeps them away from
School.
At noon we have a little rain, but it is not enough to wet the ground. Our hopes soon fall to the
utmost and we must still look for relief from the drought.
In the afternoon I visit the home of Will Ward. We have a splendid time. When I return home,
it is almost night. There seems to be a moral gloom over me.
June 8.-- This is a day in which I do but little work. I still wait for rain in order [to?] work my
crops, but it is so dry that I am not able to do much. On every hand I meet with disappointment. It
982
�A
J Greene Diaries
seems that gloom has come over me. I am not content. I need to work, and I have a longing in my
bosom to do other things.
In the afternoon I get some sweet potato plants and put them out. Of course it is no season for
plants, but by some means we have good success when it is dry. We put out about three hundred
plants.
June 9.-- It is densely cloudy until noon. It looks as if it would rain any minute. Just afternoon
the clouds break away and our hopes for rain is gone. In the distant [sic] there is a thunder shower,
but this fails us also. The drought will soon become fearful.
I hoe potatoes until two o' clock. I finish my crop. In case that we have rain soon. I am looking
for some fruit. A potato is a plant that needs much moisture. The nature of this soil will stand
several more days of dry weather. It is black and damp.
June 10.-- I have been at home all day. I have put in the most of the day reading. I have a course
in Literature that I am trying to finish this year. The most of the time I enjoy it much. I find many
new and interesting things in it. There are many fine piece[s] of humor.
Late in the afternoon Prof. A. R. Smith, wife and two babies come down from Boone to see us.
They do not stay only a few minutes. What a pleasure it is to have our friends to visit us! It is an
oasis in a desert. It is meat in a famine. It is light in the darkest of gloom.
June 11.-- We do not feel well today. In fact we are too sick to do much work. I do not engage
in much work during the whole day.
To-day we have Mr. Brinkley, the brick layer, with us. He is a real jolly fellow when every thing
is going well with him, but he can get the lowest when disaster comes upon him.
The Klu Kluck Klan [sic] has a blow-out in Johnson City, Tenn. Some of our people go. It
never gets too hot nor too cold for some people to make trips. In fact all of us are wanting to be on
the go too much.
June 12.-- The weather is still dry. There does not appear any sign of rain. In case it is dry much
longer it is going to be alarming. Pastures and some vegetable crops are suffering for rain. As a rule
dry weather scares us worse than it hurts. Our trouble is that we do not prepare for it. As a usual
thing we do not have long dry spells.
Today we have spent much time in reading. We have a course in literature that we are enjoying
this year. We have put much time on it today. In many respects it has many rich thing[s] for the
mind to feed upon.
June 13.-- This morning it is densely cloudy. It looks as if the rain is going to fall every minute.
The expected shower makes our hearts glad, but our joy is soon returned to sorrow. The clouds
begin to break and the sun comes out in all his glory. It seems now that it never will rain. It is a time
of gloom.
This morning we hoe the corn in the garden. We rush in order to escape the rain , but the weeds
983
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
64
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 53 [February 19, 1925 - June 12, 1925]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1925
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
48.8 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_053_1925_0219_1925_0612
Description
An account of the resource
This is an Andrew Jackson Greene diary recorded from February 19 through June 12, 1925. In this diary Greene wrote his daily activities such as cutting wood, visiting with neighbors, or spending a day studying. He also included information about his work at Appalachian Training School. He wrote about the students, the weather, and current events in education.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Avery County
basketball
Beaver Dam
Boone
Brinkley Place
Clyde Mast
Commencement
Communion day
Cove Creek High School
Davenport College
Fifth Sunday Meeting
Justice of the Peace
Lyceum Festival
Mabel
Mast’s Store at Sugar Grove
New River
Peabody College for Teachers
Smith Harmon
Sunday School
Vilas
W.H. Brown
Watauga County N.C.
Wilkesboro
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/beadda08e6b84cb787ae28dd7e9321f3.pdf
cf762cf7278fafd6c50c4c249ae983de
PDF Text
Text
����������������������������������������������������������������
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/02a0b6b7c2b59d0c3baa1ed65d220966.pdf
9317220c3a4940fda9180a037a30a77b
PDF Text
Text
Sept. 30.-- On these pages it is my endeavor to record such experiences that will give pleasure
and information to others. Perhaps in the chaff there may be just a little wheat. Man is prone to ride
some hobby. I take this method of presenting mine to the world. My literary gifts are few, but I hope
1003
�to amuse some by the oddities that I present on these pages. 136
At our chapel we have Rev . Mr. Riddle, of Carson-Newman College, with us. He talk[s] at
chapel from the subject, "The Magi". The thought that he brings is that we are following some
person. In doing this we must make sure that we have attached ourselves to a being that is worthy
of our allegiance. It is just as easy to become attached to the wrong person as it is to the right one.
Whether we are willing to own it or not we have our personal heroes.
After a day of hard work I decide that I must rest. I take a stroll and visit Aunt Alice Cook, a sick
lady. I find her in a cheerful frame of mind. In fact she delights in conversation. I feel that I have
ample time to do more of this kind of work. The contact of our friends helps us to aspire to better
things in this life.
136
Here Greene begins spacing between paragraphs.
1004
�A
J
Greene Diaries
OCTOBER
Oct.l.-- The finest apples in the world is Stark's Delicious. Today we purchase a crate of them.
They are grown in the orchard of Bob Taylor on Stony Fork. In all my life I have never tasted any
fruit that is so rich in flavor.
The subject that I enjoy at the present is Latin. There is some sentiment against this subject.
Many think that it is not worth the price, but I am convinced that it gives a training that cannot be
had in any other subject. It adds to my joy and satisfaction.
In my soul there is a longing for better things. Life does not bring to me the rich pleasures that
are mine. I allow the small affairs of others to rob me of the splendid career that should be mine.
The insignificant things are the ones that hold us in check. A man is prone to waste much of his life
on the trash of the world.
Tonight many hearts are made glad by the rain that is falling. This is the best rain that we have
had in months. It is the slow and gentle variety that goes into the earth. In a short time we may look
for an increase in the flow of water. On every hand we hear the alarm that our supply of water is
decreasing rapidly.
Oct. 2.-- There is much rain today. This is the best showers that we have had in a long time.
Mud is almost a stranger in this part of the world. Doubtless from this time we shall have it in
abundance. The dead springs and streams are coming to life.
One of the most terrible things that I have to combat is a sensitiveness that I am not appreciated.
This is one of the horrors that a teacher has to contend. At the present we do not have much
satisfaction. Our reward is in the future.
I have had a little pleasure today that I must record. I write a little story in Latin. It gives me a
thrill to have a new means of expressing myself. Joy comes to us when we can get into the spirit of
affairs. There is joy immense in intellectual endeavor.
Oct. 3.-- The new day brings us many blessings. One of these is plenty of work. The duties of
life increase instead of decreasing. There is no period of relaxion [sic] in sight. New things come
along to goad us onward. If we had no duties, doubtless we should be very unhappy. There is one
thing that we crave amidst all our duties, and that is strength to perform them. This strength will add
intense joy. After all we need to give thanks for something to do.
In the afternoon we go to my home at Vilas. As a usual thing we are too tired to enjoy the
welcome that we receive. The struggle during the week takes all the vitality out of a man. By some
1005
�means I do not have an appetite for reading.
Oct. 4.-- At Brushy Fork there is a county singing. Our Sunday School adjourns for the occasion.
As far as I am concerned the singing contests would soon be a thing of the past. The mob is so great
that there is no real enjoyment for any one.
I plan to rest, but I do not carry out my plan. I manage to sleep just a little. At times I lie in the
bed and relax. A man who is under a strain during months of intense activity must have periods of
absolute rest.
During the morning I visit Aunt Polly McBride. She is in her eighty-ninth year. Her health is
poor. At one time she had plenty, but now she does not have much. Her lament is enough to touch
our sympathy. She has a wonderful gift in attacking people. During early life she formed this habit
and it still clings to her.
Oct. 5.-- This morning I remain at home. I have several little jobs that I try to do. I succeed in
getting the insurance adjusted on my home. The com is all put in the shock.
At noon I start for Boone. I walk about two miles when a man from Bristol by the name of
Hagaman picks me up and carries me into Boone. I remain in the town until almost night. It seems
to be a busy day for the different officials.
The work that I have on hand must rest until another day, for I am too tired to give it my personal
attention. By the proper hour I am in my room at work. I do a little work in Latin composition. This
is a delightful thrill in this kind of work.
Oct. 6.-- The weather is somewhat cooler. For a long time it has been very warm. The time has
come for us to study. During the hot months we are not able for intensive work. The winter is the
period for work. Then the mind is alert.
One of the impressive things today is the great religious controversy. On every hand a man is
questioned as to his belief. We are not willing for others to have the same freedom that we wish for
ourselves. On every point many of us think that we have the real thing. The present uprising is
going to cause much disturbance in the brotherhood. There are so many who will not concede any
thing.
Oct. 7.-- Early this morning we have a good shower of rain. The little showers do good, but they
are not causing an increase in the flow of the waters . Of all seasons this is one that we shall
1006
�A
J
Greene Diaries
remember. The entire season is one of sunshine and dust. After all we have more crops that 137 we
anticipated. The grass crop has been short. What feed we have is of a fine quality. The amount of
com is going to be surprisingly large. After all the season in yield is an average.
The class that I enjoy most is a class of girls in English. The discipline is easy. The most of
them make some preparation. I see almost all trying to grasp something new.
In the afternoon I engage in several activities. The first is a trip to town on business. I do not
stay long. I return to my room for study. The next break is working on the road by the school
building. I break rock for some time. This puts me in good condition for hard study.
Oct. 8.-- The rain comes again today. In due time the waters will flush. The earth is so dry that
an ordinary amound of rain will not start the normal flow of water.
At a meeting of the faculty there are many things discussed. One of the chief topics is the
improvement of the High School. The great cry of the teachers is what can be done to get students
to work. There are so many who wish to get by without any real work.
In the afternoon I make a trip to the shoeshop. It is interesting to see the colored man mend old
shoes. He has learned to do something valuable with his hands. It is no small thing to be able for
a job of this kind. Skill ought to be admired in any person. The man who can do a job well is due
praise. I believe that more of our people need to be taught to do things with their hands.
Oct. 9.-- Today there is a change in the weather. During the night there is much rain. It
continues all day. The wind rises. The sound reminds us that winter is corning. The air is somewhat
cooler. Before many days we shall look for frost. I am sure that we have no right to grumble in case
we have some severe weather. The season has been remarkable.
At chapel Mr. Rankin makes a talk on "Success". The leading factor in this is work. There is
not a case on record where it comes without an effort. The person who yearns for success in life
must pay the price. The reason that so many people fail is that we are not willing to pay the price.
Our business must receive the best that there is in us. Our pleasures must be a secondary matter.
First things must come first.
The most impressive thing today is the earnestness of a few students. There [sic] work is taken
with some degree of seriousness. The men and the women who expect to do things in the future
must go into bondage. Freedom comes to those who merit it. The young person that submits to
training is the one who will have supreme joy. Ignorance is slavery. A thousand bond surround the
137
Than?
1007
�benighted mind. Training of the proper kind will bring the light and flood our lives with deep
emotions.
Oct. 10.-- Today at chapel Miss Allridge, of the Demonstration School, gives a reading to the
delight of all. She read three pieces. In this art she shows some skill. It is no small accomplishment
to be able to please and entertain other people. She has the gift of impersonating. This includes the
ability to show the characters of people and to interpret their lives.
This morning there is a snow on the ground. Of course it is light, but there is enough for it to be
called the first snow. The mountain is white. In the valleys there is ice. During the day there is a
fierce wind. By some means it reaches the hide. Many of our friends are look[ing?] for a severe
winter.
At our home at Vilas we have a splendid time. Uncle David Fox, a violinist of some note, comes
to our home. He and Maxie make music until we are tired. He can play a great variety of tunes.
They range from the "fiddling jigs" to the most choice humns. There is no instrument that lends
itself so readily to such a great variety of tones as the violin.
Oct. 11.-- After some preparation I attend Sunday School at Willowdale. The crowd of people
is small. This is what I call chestnut Sunday. A few must pay the last visit before winter comes on.
All of the classes are a little small. It is difficult to make the school go well all the time.
Just afternoon Mrs. Greene and I take a stroll over the farm . From our fields there is a fine view
of the Highway and the Brushy Fork Valley. It is a pleasure to walk through the woods and over the
fields. The wood that we have gives us surety of heat in the winter. We return to the house
delighted with our little home in the little nood. 138
This morning we have the first real frost of the season. After the sun shines there is evidence that
Jack has been on the job. In a few hours it becomes warm enough for a man to sit on the front porch.
Upon our return I make a trip to see Aunt Polly McBride. She is lonely in her home. There is
no one to talk with her. She is the type of woman that would enjoy some one to gossip with all the
time. On my return I get with Mr. George Hagaman. We drive out the trail for several miles. There
is no more companionable fellow than he is. He has much ability and tact.
Oct. 12.-- During the morning I do several little jobs. At times I am tempted to let go all my
work, except farming. It occurs to me that there is much joy in gathering in the crops and enjoying
the fruits of our labor. It has been my unhappy lot to loose [sic] the pleasure of bringing in the crops.
138
Wood?
1008
�A
J
Greene Diaries
I have an early dinner and start on my way to Boone. I go out with the Mountain City-Boone
mail car. At noon I am in Boone attending to some business. From here I go to mu room and spend
the afternoon in study. I love to have much time for reading and meditation.
Oct. 13.-- Today there are several vacant seats at chapel. Mr. Rankin and Mr. Downum are
attending the Methodist Conference at Statesville. Prof. Williams leads the devotion at chapel. Rev.
Mr. Parsons, of Wilkes County, makes a short talk. During a school year we hear several valuable
talks.
At the second period in the afternoon I attend a program given in the Department of Primary
Education. It is a program for Thanksgiving. All of those who are present took part in the games.
At three o'clock I attend Church at the Baptist Church. Rev. Mr. Jackson, of Wadesboro, is
beginning a revival. He is a man of small stature. His general appearance is fine. He has the marks
of a scholar. His theme is "Going without Jesus".
The weather makes a change. The rain comes in a gentle manner. The next may be snow, or
some severe weather. At this time of the year we may look for much change.
Oct. 14.-- At chapel we have Dr. Jackson . He talks from the theme, "Sharpening our Tools".
This is one of the most thoughtful talks that we have had in a long time. The duty that young people
owe to themselves is to get training that will fit them for the activities of life. No one can do good
work with dull tools. The sharper the tool is, the easier it cuts.
In the afternoon I attend service at the Baptist Church. Dr. Jackson talks from the theme, "The
Things That Jesus Does for us". (1) Gives us peace (2) Gives us a mission (3) Gives us the Holy
Ghost. His style of sermon is clear and thoughtful. This is the finest kind of preaching.
After school there is a meeting of those teachers who work in the High School. The center of
the talk is how to get people to study. The next move is to get people to have hours of study in the
home. The trouble with students is that they put in such little time in preparation of the assigned
work. Too many things are in town to divert the attention of the young.
Oct. 15.-- During the night and the day we have had much rain. This is the best season that we
have had since last year. A few days of this kind will bring new life to the waters. The town of
Boone has mud for one time this season.
Dr. Jackson came to our chapel again today. His theme this time is "Dreaming". He gives only
a part of the message, and he will conclude tomorrow. In the afternoon I have the pleasure of
hearing him again at the Baptist Church. The theme is "The Lord's Prayer". This is found in the
seventeenth chapter of John. The following points are made to stand out vividly: (1) In the world,
1009
�(2) Not of the world, (3) Sent into the world, (4) Hated by the world (5) To make the world believe
(6) To be taken out of the world. There is one special thing that I admire in Dr. Jackson's sermons,
and that is he stops when he has finished. He has the gift of making his points clear. Of all the
strong men that we have had in the church at Boone, I think that he is the best.
Oct. 16.-- At chapel today Dr. Jackson continues his remarks from the subject "Dreams". His
talk is timely and full of wisdom. In the afternoon I attend Church and hear him speak from the
theme, "Compromising with the Devil". The lesson is taken from the story of Moses' dealings with
Pharaoh. The following are four things suggested: (1) Stay in the land, (2) Do not go far away, (3)
Go but leave your substance, wives and children (4) Go but leave your substance. It is a portrayal
of present conditions.
At noon I go to Prof. D. D. Dougherty's for dinner. Dr. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Huggins are
present. It is one of the finest dinners that I have attended in a long time. This dinner almost knocks
me out during the afternoon. Plain food is the best of all.
In the evening I attend a game of basket ball between West Jefferson and the Normal School.
The score stands 59 to 9 in favor of the Normal. There is much noise. The game is a light affair.
Oct. 17.-- Today there is more mud in Boone than there has been this season. The streets are
almost impassable. In fact the mud is deep at all places where there is no surface. The people will
cease to grumble about the dry weather.
At the close of the work for the day I start for home. It does not take us long to make the trip.
I find all are in health and enjoying life. There are many things for us to look after. It seems that I
am busy all the time. I have no time that I can call my own.
At school we have Prof. Johnson, ofElon College. He is in the mountains to see his friends and
to get some chestnuts. There is hardly a day but what some distinguished visitor comes to see us.
Oct. 18.-- At an early hour I do a little reading. About nine o'clock I start to Trade, Tenn. With
Roy Dotson. He is a little sick. I go along to supply his pulpit. Owing to the bad condition of the
road we walk from the State Line. Just recently a new road has been graded. The late showers have
turned the road into a quagmire. At the regular hour we have Sunday School. The crowd is small,
but we have an interesting time. At eleven o'clock I talk to the people from the subject "No Room".
The congregation is small, but it shows its appreciation by giving close attention. After church we
go to Uncle Jacob Garland's for dinner. At two o'clock we start on our return. At three I am at
home. It is remarkable how far one can go in a short time. I am too tired to read. I try to rest in
order to be ready for the work of the week.
Oct. 19.-- There is a change in the weather. This morning we are threatened with snow. By the
1010
�A
J
Greene Diaries
afternoon it is clear. The wind is traveling at a furious rate. This is only a reminder that winter is
coming. At any hour we may look for severe weather. It is due to come.
I do a little work; then I prepare for a start to Boone. I do not get off until after the noon hour.
As luck comes my way I get a way to go when I get to the highway. In a short time I am at the
Pastors' Conference at the Baptist Church. Dinner is on hand. The program is taken up with several
talks on the Cooperative Program. I have my doubts about the value of so many meetings. A Pastor
is expectec to attend all.
After the Conference adjourns Dr. Jackson preaches a powerful sermon from the theme,
"Feflecting Christ in Our Lives". It is a masterful effort on his part.
Oct. 20.-- The change in the weather is great. Today it is clear and dry, but there is a high wind.
It is the kind that goes through our clothes. The mud is frozen. There is good travel on the streets.
In case we should have snow the streets are tom up so badly that we may not be able to traffic much
with vehicles in a few places.
Dr. Jackson comes to our chapel again. His theme is, "Sins of Youth are Remembere in Old
Age". It is a fine admonition to young people. The good life is the only life that pays. Wildness
always leads us to trouble.
After school I go to see Aunt Alice Cook, who has just returned from the Hospital at Baltimore.
It is a pleasure to find her in such a fine condition. The little time that I have to stay is spent
pleasantly. It is good for a man to leave his work and forget that he has any thing to do.
Oct. 21.-- The weather continues cold. The wind is a little biting. This is fine for health. The
cool breezes sharpen our intellects.
In school we have the usual work. There are so many people who do not want any work. They
prefer to idle all the day. It takes all their time to do the social affairs; there is no time for study and
the sterner things of life.
After school I make a trip to Mr. G. W. Hayes' for some apples. The old brother loves to talk
on the growing of apples. To be sure it is a fanciful project. There is development in this type of
work. A man can experiment all that he wishes. There is no end to new and interesting things. New
bits of knowledge are always corning this way.
Oct. 22.-- Today the wind has been furious . It reminds us that winter is not far in the distance.
At one time during the morning there is a little snow. One of these days the ground will be robed
1011
�in white. In the afternoon the wind abates its fury. The wind has vinished 139 the muc from our midst.
Almost every day we meet with disappointments. At times we find some good student falling
down. This makes us sad. Perhaps it is too much to expect a student to be good in his books all the
time. I enjoy working at school work. I can see how much good that a man may do.
In the afternoon I put in much time in putting my p_
aper work to date. It is hard fo9r a man to
catch up when he once get[s] behind. A man needs to do the work of each day as it comes. One day
puts us behind. The reading of papers is some of the drudgery that a man must submit to in order
to hold his job.
Oct. 23.-- Today we have a little change in the weather. The wind is not so fierce. The clouds
hang a little heavy. The air is a little damp. The sun does not shine much. The day is not so severe
as yesterday.
In the afternoon I witness a game of ball between Poplar Grove and Cove Creek. The boys do
so [sic] fine playing. The future players are to come from this group of boys. It is fine for boys to
learn to use their bodies. The game has its many fine points. The boys are enjoying it much.
Today I work at my Latin. I enjoy spending some time in increasing my knowledge of this
subject. There is a thrill in bringing the thought out of another language and making it a part of your
own. In the study of Latin we get a drill that cannot be had in any other study. We observe the
necessity of paying attention to details.
Oct. 24.-- This is one of the bad days of the season. Rain pours almost all the day. At an early
hour it is raining. There are not many hours in the day that it is not raining. The mud is stirred to
the limit. From appearance the streets of Boone will be desperate during the coming winter. There
is no surface.
Mr. Arthur Moore, a former student, pays us a visit. He brings along the Dean of Education.
The Dean makes a nice talk at chapel. Sometimes I think that students are imposed upon by visitors.
There is so much good advice that does not cost anything. There are a few visitors who use the
occasion to start a propaganda of their ideas.
Late in the day I make a trip to Mast's store at Sugar Grove. I go to pay a long delayed account.
A merchant never refuses to accept when a part of an account is offered. Store debts are easy to
make, but I must confess that they are difficult to pay.
139
Vanquished?
1012
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Oct. 25.-- Early this morning we have a terrible storm of wind and rain. It brings off almost all
the leaves in the forest. The forest is putting on its winter clothes. The storm carries away the
golden garments.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd in spite of the weather conditions. Our people are a
little timid; but they are loyal in a great many respects.
In the afternoon I attend the burial of Uncle George Whittington, a colored man of our
community. At the requests of his friends I conduct a short burial service. The finest singing that
I have ever heard is done by the colored choir. The general opinion is that a great leader of his race
in this community is gone.
During the afternoon we have several of the neighbors come to see us. It is a fine community
for people to be on good terms. I must confess that I enjoy some company in my home.
Late in the day I visit the home of Mr. W. L. Henson's. I spend an hour trying to rest and make
myself pleasant in another man's home. The day is ended at home around the fireside.
Oct. 26.-- Today there is a great variety of weather. At first there is an appearance of turning
cold. By noon it is clear, and there is every appearance of fair weather. In the town of Boone the
mud is very bad. It seems that the streets are in an awful condition.
I remain at home until ten o' clock. I do some little chores about the house before I start. At the
post office I have a long wait. Finally I arrive in Boone. It is past the noon hour. I go to my room
in the Hall. I put in the afternoon at work. I have some fun working at my beloved Latin. On every
hand I find much to do.
Oct. 27.-- The air is sharp today. It comes from the northwest. This course has a fair sweep in
Boone. There is no wind-break. It has a long valley in which it may press without any hinderance.
In school we go through the usual routine. There is nothing to excite or arouse us. How much
we do appreciate these good quiet times! A crowd of students are doing well when they are still in
the study hall. On every hand we have evidence of study.
After school I manage to take a little exercise. I do this by walking in the hall on the third floor.
I make twenty-six trips. This gives me a little more than a mile. After a day of hard labor, a little
exercise is refreshing. It tomes the tired nerves and gives us a relish for our food. A man is no older
than is body. In order to keep young we must renew our youth in pleasant exercises. Unless we
exercise, our brain becomes dull and we are not able to do our best work.
Oct. 28.-- The weather is much colder. There is a cold wave coming from the northwest. All
1013
�the country seems to be within its grasp. The wind is putting the roads and the streets in good
condition. We long to see all the streets of the town in good condition. We also wish to see all the
drives and the walks on the campus in good shape.
At chapel Mr. James Moore sings for us. A student body always enjoys any kind of music. I
must confess that I do not have a voracious appetite for singing when I do not understand the words.
A cultured voice is all right, but a display of noise does not reach me. At times I am led to belive
that all the people who pretend to enjoy this type of music do not know what they are talking about.
Today I try some more exercise. When I spend a few minutes in this way, I am in better shape
for work. A man is just as old as his body. If it is not wisely used, it has a tendency to decay. Our
bodies are kept in good shape by wise use.
Oct. 29.-- Today we have a continuation of the cold wave. I must confess that I enjoy cold
weather. The mind is more active, and we are able to do better mental work. The one fine thing
about this weather is that we do not have any mud.
At chapel we have Archdeacon Griffin with us. He leads our chapel. His remarks are apt as well
as full of life and fun. His personality is pleasing. He has some ability as a platform speaker. His
business at the school is to see all the Episcopal students. There are very few of this belief in school.
The territory from which our students come has only a few of this kind.
After the work of the day is over I go on a visiting tour. I spend a while with Aunt Alice Cook.
To the delight of all her husband has come to live with her. From here I go to Mr. Corbett's to
purchase some honey. To finish the tour I call on the Edgar Edmisten and wife. Perhaps this is
enough for one evening. I return to my den at the Hall and resume my labors.
Oct. 30.-- The weather man comes to see us today. His threats are hanging over us this morning.
In a short time he gives us a little rain. After a few hours he turns loose some real snow. By night
the earth is robed in spotless white. For one day the old fellow has been busy.
At the noon hour I attend a Halloween Party given by the first year Cooking Class. It consists
of games and a two course luncheon. To say that it is done well is putting it in a light vain [sic]. The
girls are learning many valuable things. I love to see the youngsters having some first class training
in the affairs of life.
This morning at chapel President Dougherty makes a talk on some unwritten history about the
last days and death of President Andrew Johnson. He makes the statement that he died among the
laboring classes, for he had always been a champion of their cause. A man must have his climax and
then his decline.
1014
�A
J Greene Diaries
Oct. 31.-- This has been a hard day with me. My nerves have been on high. It seems that I suffer
much along this line. Beside this I am not pleasant to deal with other people. It seems to me that
a man in this shape is an object of pity.
The weather has been nasty. There has been much rain. This stirs up the mud. On every hand
it is hard for a car to go through this town. The rain is bringing the waters to life. The ground has
not been so wet during the whole summer.
At night some of the young people of our community tum into ghosts and celebrate Haloween
[sic]. After all the reports are in, we learn that there are many on the path. In fact three or four
different groups come in collision. This furnishes amusement for the young people. It gives them
a chance to extract all the silly out of their system.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1.-- This is a day of rain. There has not been much time when the rain was not falling. The
good weather of the past summer makes us shudder at the dark and gloomy days . After all this rain
is much needed. It will fill the ground with moisture for next year.
At Sunday School we have a fine crowd for the weather. By some means our people are
interested in many of the good things of life. In the afternoon I attend the B. Y. P. U. The program
is common. The only way to succeed at any enterprise is to keep at it. I think that it is encouraging
to see how well our young people do.
Today I take dinner at Uncle Johnnie Smith's. They have the following at dinner: Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Mast, Mr. and Mrs Conly Glenn, with their three children, Mrs. Nan Dugger and the writer.
We have one of the finest dinners that I have eaten in a long time. In addition to the good dinner we
have a splendid time.
Nov. 2.-- This morning I arose with my temper several degrees higher than it ought to be. I must
do something to rid myself of this terrible malady. I try working it off. I arrange the feed in the bam
in the proper way. It is in such a shape that a man can not put much feed in it. In a short time the
arrangement is better and my temper is almost normal.
At ten o'clock I start for Boone. I have a long wait at Vilas for the mail. Finally I get to Boone
a little past the noon hour. I go to the courthouse and other place[s] of interest in the town. I take
in the movie. The famous White Fang in one of Jack London's novels is on the serene [sic]. To say
the least it interests me much. From here I go to my supper. At the proper hour I am in number
twenty-five ready for business. I try to use some of my time in a profitable way.
1015
�Nov. 3.-- In weather there is a great change. The sun shines and we have a spring-like day. The
gloom of the last days has vanished. The conditioin of the weather has much to do with our spirits.
The clear, sunshiny day puts us in a happy mood; the dark, cloudy day gives us a fit of real
melancholy.
At chapel today we have a genuine debate. Four of the young men from the High School debated
the question: Resolved, that Prohibition has been a success. The affirmative is championed by Curtis
and Klutz: the negative by Dockery and Cook. The judges are Howell, Norton and Greer from the
Faculty. The decision is given to the affirmative. The young men did some fine speaking. Archie
Qualls declamed [sic] a splendid piece. On the whole this debate is a decided success. It is time to
arouse the old-time way of expression. The spoken word has not lost its power to move people. One
by one the good things are coming to the front.
Nov. 4.-- At our chapel President Dougherty gives a running sketch of the career of Dr. Edwin
A. Alderman. He attributes his success in life to his ability for speech making. All over this state
Dr. Alderman delivered educational addresses. Far and wide he was known as a fluent and eloquent
talker. There is no doubt but what these remarkes will be a source of inspiration to many of our
boys.
Just after school there is a game of basket ball between the Freshmen and Sophomores of the
High School. The battle is furious and many brave deeds are done on both sides. At the end of the
game the Sophomores have the larger score.
There are many things to divert our attention from work. It occurs that we have too many
activities. Often I am surprised that a boy or a girl can find time to prepare the lessons for the day.
The call comes from every direction for the various activities.
The thing that is the most interesting to me is the spirit of work that is developing among the
students. The sorry crowd is almost a thing of the past. The atmosphere is not congenial for them.
They will have to seek other places for congenial association. On every hand we can observe some
evidences of work. Busy folks give no trouble.
Nov. 5.-- Today the weather man has done his worst. The fog has hung low over the earth. This
damp atmosphere is disagreeable. The mud in this town is frightful. It is almost impossible for cars
to go.
Rev. 0. L. Brown, a methodist minister conducts our worship at chapel. His remarks are apt and
to the point. The chief thought is that we are able to get what we want. A person that seemsk for
the good is going to get what [he?] wants. On the other hand evil may be had for the seeking.
In the afternoon the teachers of English have a meeting. The chief object is to find what we are
1016
�A
J
Greene Diaries
doing. In general we are in accord. There are certain things that we need to eliminate. Of course
all of us think that we are wise and that we have the best way of doing things. In our way of thinking
we are the real thing. Our methids must not be questioned. In other words our standard is the one
for all to get a pattern.
Nov. 6.-- The severe weather of yesterday has changed for the better. It is so cheerful to see the
sun and to know that the mud is going. Dark weather certainly does depress us. It seems that life
is not sweet and that it has small values.
President Dougherty talks at chapel on the use of money and how to spend it. There is no
question of greater value before the young people. The craze for spending is among our people. We
desire the best that there is in every respect. On of the most serious propositions that is before us is
the checking of extravigance.
In no time have I ever had more to do. There is not a moment of time for me to waste. I have
something to do all the time. The more that years piles upon me, the more work I have on on hand.
I do not have time to take the proper exercise that I need for my health.
Nov. 7.-- This is one of the bad days of the year. We have rain and mud in abundance. The
streets of Boone are almost ready to run. A driver has to use much care, or he will stick fast. In the
afternoon I go home. We have some trouble in getting out of town. From the town limit we have
easy sailing home.
At Chapel Dr. Rankin talks to the student body upon the life of Edward Bok. He tells the story
in a charming way. It is a story full of courage and faithfulness to duty. True worth has its value.
Today we have some visitors from Tyron 140 High School. They spend the day in seeing the
school. At night there is a game of basket ball. The score is in favor of the home team.
After my arrival home, Mrs. Greene and I go to Sherwood's store on business. It does not take
us long to make a trip. We have to have a deed probated and fix for it to be put on record.
Nov. 8.-- The morning is very rough. There is much rain. We have one of the wettest periods
that we have had this year. In the afternoon the clouds break away and the sun shines a while. It
makes us almost happy to see the mud go.
At Sunday School we have a good crowd. Owing to the weather I did not expect many to come.
At times a man can be surprised. There are always a few whom the weather can put out of business.
1017
�For dinner today we have Attorney and Mrs . J. H. Bingham, Misses Nora and Roxanna Bingham,
Prof. Charles R. Greene, and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Henson. They spend the afternoon with us. I must
confess that we have a gay time. It is a good policy for a man to have some of his neighbors for a
meal occasionally. We forget our trouble and come in touch with the better things of life.
Nov. 9.-- This is a fine day. The sun has been shining all the day. The mud is going rapidly. Oh,
what a change of feelings sun does bring to us! All the people love to have the warmth of the sun.
It brings peace and health.
During the morning I do some work. I love to get out and use an axe for a short time. It brings
joy and gladness to my soul. Sometimes I want to get out and work on the farm.
At the proper hour I start for Boone. It is noon when I arrive there. I transact some business
before I go to my work. I hear the sale of the Mast Power plant. S. C. Eggers is the successful man.
The price is four thousand dollars. From here I go to my room at the school building. I put some
time in preparing for the work tomorrow . There are two subjects that interest me much. Latin and
Algebra are receiving my attention. I am doing my best to learn something each day. A man must
try to gain a new knowledge each day.
At night I am in my room at work. I use the most of the time for writing. I love to record the
events that happen dming the day. In other words I poise [sic] as historian.
Nov. 10.-- This is the finest day of the season. The dark and gloomy weather has cast a shadow
over all of us. A few days of sun will help all .
At the chapel hour Prof. Downum talks to the student body on "Manners". Mr. Downum is at
his best. By some means he is witty. His many homely illustrations bring applause from many. If
we only observe, something good comes our way each day.
Today we have a meeting of the faculty. This is the first one that we have had in a long time.
There are not many things of importance for discussion. The schedule for examinations is
determined. On every hand we hear the query: How long are we going to have for Christmas?
People always look forward for a good time. In general we are in a better condition not to have any
Christmas at all. Our dissipation costs us much.
Nov. 11.-- Today is a legal holiday in some places, but it is a day of work in our school. We do
not have many days off. I am sure that it is a wise policy for work not to stop long at a time. At the
chapel hour we have some songs and a dry lecture on some parts of Europe. I should have enjoyed
a rest more.
Today has not been one of the happy days to me. My rest was broken last night; and I am not
1018
�A
J Greene Diaries
so fresh. Unless a man sleeps well, he is not in condition for the best work. On every side my work
is piling up. It seems that my work will never decrease, but it increases all the time.
Nov. 12.-- Today is one of our awful days. The rain has not fallen all day, but has poured. The
waves come from the east, and then they change to the west. I am not able to tell how bad the mud
is. There is rarely a time in this section when it is so disagreeable to go from place to place.
Doubtless this is a forerunner of snow.
In the evening Miss Dale of the Home Economics Department holds the center of the stage. All
the costumes that have been made during the quarter are put on the stage. To say the least it is
interesting to see how sensible are the designs for this season. Between the grand acts James Moore
sings. The greatest effect that I observed is that he scared a baby into a fit. The little urchin is not
use to such howling. He had to be carried from the Auditorium, and his wails could be heard for
some time. The Japanese play shows some interesting performance. Dress is one side of life. If we
are willing to confess it, all love beautiful and costly apparel. At all times we do not seek for
comfort.
Nov. 13.-- The wind during the night dries up the mud. In a short time the roads will be good.
The sun has assisted in drying the water. The air is a little cooler. In case the weather is good the
roads will soon be in good condition around the school grounds.
At night we have a game of ball between the local team and Mountain City, Tenn. The game is
lively from the beginning. The score is 21 to 11 in favor of the local team. A ball game is a good
place for a man to act silly. There are always a few people who never learn how to behave. At a
game is a good place to learn folks. A fellow often shows how high he is. As a whole the game is
fine.
The examinations for the quarter are on today. This is a time for real work. I tire very much in
reading papers and averaging grades. The students think that it is a terrible time. More stress ought
to be placed on daily work and less on the final examinations.
Nov. 14.-- This is a fine day it looks as if we are never going to have any more bad weather. In
fact it is too good to last long. Doubtless it is what some call a weather breeder.
Examinations are on today. I have a test each period. This is a trying time for a teacher. A man
must be on the alert because there are a few people are dishonest, and will use any means to pass the
course. I long to see some means whereby this may be eliminated.
At noon I prepare to go to Trade, Tenn. I wait a long time to go with the jitney, but it is delayed
so long that I do not go. In fact I am too nervous to make a trip. In the afternoon I make a trip home.
I am in such a condition that I can not rest as I ought.
1019
�Nov. 15.-- Today we have a great variety of weather. Early there is sunshine, then come clouds
and mist, next we have the most violent winds, and finally there is rain in great abundance.
This morning I visit my sister. I find that she is not so sick as reported. She is in the bed with
her tenth child. The house is just alive with children and grandchildren.
Just afternoon we have Sunday School and the B.Y.P.U. Pastor Eggers does not come. He has
to attend the funeral ofEx-SheriffE. R. Eggers. This man has been sick a long time. For more than
a year he has not expected to live. At times he rallied and would be better for some time, but finally
this summons comes. In many respect[s] he has been an excellent citizen.
Nov. 16.-- Grim winter is upon us . During the night the wind changes to the north . This brings
with it a little snow. Just a few hours makes a big change in our weather conditions. There is not
much variation during the entire day.
The morning is spent at home. I cut some wood and do some other jobs. Just before noon I start
for Boone. I arrive there at twelve o' clock. I go to my room and try to work, but it is too cold. I
visit Mr. and Mrs. Hinson. From here I go to a warm room where I can do some work. I make some
good time on the papers that I have to grade. I hope to have my report in within a day or two. At
night I make good progress in my room with the various duties that I have to perform.
Nov. 17.-- During the night we have a terrible windstorm. It is almost the hardest that I have ever
experienced at this place. It continues a greater part of the day. The sun shines all the day. By night
it is some warmer.
At chapel we have the Rev. Mr. Kirk. He leads the devotional. He has two singers with him.
The song that they sang carries a story with it. Miss Gray, of the Red Cross, makes an announcement
in regard to her work. It seems that we have several things corning our way.
In the afternoon and at night I work on my examinations. It will not be long until my reports will
be ready for the office. This is a hard season for the teacher.
Nov. 18.-- Miss Whaley, the Red Cross Nurse, tells us at chapel something about the History of
the organization. At the present time there is not so much interest in the organization as there was
during the war. When there is a great destruction of any kind, the Red Cross is on hand to render
relief.
Today I have been going into the expenditures of many students for a month. It is alarming to
know how much it is costing parents to educate and bring up their children. The rapid pace that has
been set for recent years is one of grave concern. My candid judgment is that we can not hold our
position, nor should we desire to hold it. We can hold life in high esteem with much less. Of course
1020
�A
J Greene Diaries
it hurts our pride, but it is far better to have our pride wounded than for us to go headlong into
bankruptcy. It seems that it is helpless times for parents. There is no stopping point. To say the
least it is a very serious time.
Nov. 19.-- There many events that come within our experience during one day. Some of them
are sad; others are cheerful and have the wine oflife in them. Memory lets us retain many things that
we need to forget. The mind is a wonderful thing. It contributes much to our joy as well as to our
sadness.
Today I start a course in Education. It is in the field of the Grammar Grade. It is much better
for a man to confine his work to one field. How much I regret that I am not able to take courses in
the best colleges of our country. A man has only one chance in life, and that is the time when he is
young. My life has not been all roses. It has been one long hard struggle for existence. A man does
not get much credit for what he does. Our brothers have a tendency to discount what he can really
do. At times I am almost determined to strive for promotion all my days.
Nov. 20.-- Today has been a great day at the School. The greates catrastophe [sic] in the history
of our chapel occurs. Prof. V. C. Howell is sitting on the rostrum in a very dignified manner.
Without warning his chair breaks and is lying on the floor. Of course it is useless to say that we had
a good laugh. All of us roar. Prof. Howell accepts the results in a very gracious manner. Some
contend that his weight causes the trouble; others say that his dignity caused it; doubtless it will
never be known just what the trouble was.
At night we have a game of basket ball with Dallas. A large crowd comes to see it. The game
starts in grand style. In a short time the Dallas team begins to disput[e] with the referee. The good
feeling that has prevailed is lost and our people become disgusted. Our boys begin to warm up and
soon we have them on the run. Finally the visitors see the writing on the wall and they refuse to play
further. This gives the game to our boys.
Nov. 21.-- Saturday finds us in the poorest condition for work. The late hour and the excitement
of the previous night dull our studying qualities. We come through the day in good style. In fact I
am not so tired as usual. The Red Cross Lady concludes her discourse. She has been with us for a
week. She is pleasant and we are sure that she knows her job.
In the afternoon I go home. I go from town to Vilas with Miss Nora Bingham. By some means
the good woman treat[s] with me with the greatest respect. Even they help me to get home. It is
much appreciated.
Upon my arrival at home I go into the wood business. With the help of the boys I cut some
wood. A little work helps me when I am worn out with the work of the week. To tell the truth I am
too tired to rest when I arrive at home from the toil of the week.
1021
�Nov. 22.-- This is a fine day. The sun soon melts the frost. It is a morning almost as delightful
as spring. It makes a man want to be out in the open. The entire day delights us all.
Mrs. Greene and I attends [sic] Sunday School. The crowd is a little slow in coming in. In the
final we have a good school. Some of our people have too much business to come to our school.
It seems that many people try to see how many things that they can do on Sunday. It does look as
if we might do enough in six days.
After school we go to Mr. Brinkley' s for dinner. I must confess that we have a good time. At
two o'clock we go to the church for the B.Y.P.U. Our young people are doing well. The program
is carried out in good style. At a late hour we arrive at home. The events of the day has please [sic]
us very much. Just at night there is a change of weather. The fine day is a weather breeder.
Nov. 23.-- This is a real winter day. This 141 is a little snow and some frost in the air. The wind
is a little piercing. The first thing that I do is to look for some timber. I discover how much good
fire wood that I have. This delights me. A man cannot have a pleasant home unless he can have a
good fire. After this I cut wood for more than one hour. I rest a short time and start for Boone. The
mail is on time and I am soon in Boone.
I go to my room for study. I use all the afternoon in reading in Education. I find many
interesting things about Elementary Education. I go from this to various other things. It seems that
I have more work than I can do. The happy man is the man who keep[s] busy all the time.
Nov. 24.-- This is a cold day. The sun shines, but the air is piercing in the extreme. In every
crevice it enters. The ground does not thaw any. If this kind of weather could last, it would be fine
from a standpoint of health.
This is a day full of duties for me. I am on the go from early morning until late at night. I do not
have a moment in which to relax. A man is not able to stand up under this.
Today we have a meeting of the faculty. One of the important things that is disposed of is the
program for Thanksgiving Day. From this we dive into a general routine of things. Some members
of our faculty love to talk much. Their work is the most important work of all.
Nov. 25.-- The weather has a great change during the night. The temperature rises. By the
afternoon the rain begins to fall. The fog hangs closely over the land. Just yesterday it is bitter cold;
today it is warm enough to go without extra wraps.
141
There?
1022
�A
J
Greene Diaries
At the chapel period President Dougherty makes a talk to the student body upon honesty.
Perhaps there is no trait in a person that counts so much. With it are allied industry and truth.
Character counts above all.
After.school we have a meeting of the English teachers. There are certain principles that we are
trying to establish; there are certain defects that we are trying to eliminate. All of us seem to have
the same opinion of the work.
At night I go to Mr. John W . Hodges to listen in on the Radio. Without any wire we can hear
a man speak a thousand miles. We have the best in all kinds of entertainments. It is possible to get
the best instruction to be had. The latest is in the air.
Nov. 26.-- This is Thanksgiving Day. It is the annual occasion when we cease from our work
and take an inventory of what God has done for us during the year.
The first part of the morning is spent in writing letters. I use this day to write my friends. The
second event is an experience in the dental chair. I have my first tooth extracted painlessly. This
process has come to us from Germany. There is absolutely no pain. The job of eating dinner comes
upon me. I make a good job of it if my mouth is a little sore. The game of ball between the College
qnd the Deaf and Dumb School of Morganton play. It is one among the best games that we have had
in a long time. It is clean from the beginning. By aa hard battle our boys win. As a final event of
the day I grade some papers. I enjoy it very much. Tomorrow I am even with my papers. These are
some of the activities of the day.
The final record for the day is the weather. All the day there has been a mist. The fog has been
so dense that a man can not see far. Doubtless it is one among the worst days that we have had this
season. The mud is dreadful to think about.
Nov. 27.-- I wish to record how well that I have felt today. I rested well during the night. My
work has moved alone 142 smoothly all day. The physical condition has much to do with how we get
on in the world. A man is due himself the proper care for health. The power of pushing work
depends upon our physical fitness.
At the chapel President Dougherty talks upon the good qualities that may be developed in games.
The question comes up: Does the points developed in physical training functioin in the other
activities of life? Every student ought to play some kind of games. It gives us pleasure to have a real
thrill.
142
Along?
1023
�The subject of subnormal children has received some of my attention today. This is one thing
that a teacher of children needs to have some special knowledge. More people are below the normal
than we think there are. This group of people needs the sympathetic attention of those who work
with them. It is difficult for us to be as careful as the subject demands.
Nov. 28.-- The weather man brings us some better conditioins. At least the sun drives the blues
away. It is surprising how much weather conditions affect us. The clear, cool sunshiney day brings
us the cheer and the wine of life.
In school we have a day of hard work. By the end of the week our vitality is at a low ebb. There
is such a thing as a man doing more than he is able to do. As a whole my work is more satisfactory
to myself. There has not been much friction in the classes that I have.
At chapel Mr. Wright performs with his music. He sings three songs. To be frank I must confess
that I am not exceedingly fond of this kind of music. However, when the performance is staged, a
man must look pleased and dignified. Many people clap their hands when the bore is over. This is
a method of rejoicing.
Nov. 29.-- This morning I attend Sunday School at Willowdale. There are several people present.
Some of our people manage to arrive at Sunday School just in time for the close. I believe that our
school is coming to the front. Never before have we had so many people who are interested in the
growth of our community.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown have dinner with us. To say the least they are congenial company.
About the middle of the afternoon I visit Aunt Polly McBride. There is no way to induce her to see
that it is sweet to live. She looks for trouble all the time. From here I go to Conly Glenn for a visit.
At night we have a program at our church. The program is in charge of Mrs Coleman. The
children give us a good exercise. The young people have a splendid program. Prof. J. F. Spainhour
delivers an address full of thought and the better things of life. In all the little exercises is a source
of inspiration.
Nov. 30.-- The day comes to us replete with things to do. The first event is a visit to a neighbor's
on business. The next observation is the work on Highway No. 69. The hard-surfacing commences.
About one dozen trucks are hauling sand from the river. This will stop a part of the mud to my
house. Then I have a lunch before I start for Boone. When I arrive at Vilas, I do not have to wait
long until the jitney comes. At noon I arrive in Boone. At once I go to my room in the School
Building and work for some time. Late in the afternoon I go to Mr. J. S. Stanberry's. I spend about
one hour with them. We have a splendid time. From here I go to my supper and then to my room
for the night. I work for several hours before I retire for the night. The day has been one of intense
activity. A man would be surprised to record all the details of one day. The things that we encounter
1024
�A
gives us the rich experiences of life.
1025
J Greene Diaries
�DECEMBER
Dec. 1.-- I must confess that my teaching experience today has been a joy. The first day in the
week is usually my best day. As a rule the pupils are the least prepared on this day. A holiday does
the student the least good. By some means he looses [sic] some information during the period. In
our system of education the children ought to keep going all the time.
This is a day in which I have been thinking of life. What a bitter existence some people do lead!
The highest aspects of real living do not come their way. The truth of the matter is they lead a truly
animal existence. Oh, how much we have missed when we fail to have mental growth! After all the
joys of the mind are governed by the condition of the body. The two are closely connected. The
better condition that the mind is in, the happier we are. The road to happiness depends upon the
condition of the body and mind.
Dec. 2.-- The weather is perfectly awful. There has been some rain during the entire day. The
mud has never been worse in Boone. It is slick and we cannot get from one place to another. Such
days as we are having makes us stupid and dull. We have to push ourselves into work.
At the chapel hour we have a debate by the Appalachian Literary Society. The subject of capital
punishment is discussed. The boys do not put much life into the discussion. The affair is rather
tame. Mr. Wright, Mr. Wilson and I are the judges. Mr. Wilson leaves before it is time for the
decission [sic] to be given. The result is there is no decission. Worth Speas declaims. This is a fine
form of literary exercise. To commit to memory a fine oration and then to deliver it before an
audience is a fine drill in English. The mind becomes full of words and fine phrases. This develops
our power of expression.
Dec. 3.-- There is a change in the weather. Late in the day it becomes clear. I long to see the
town clear of mud. About the school buildings the mud is terrible. In a few years this will be a thing
of the past.
One book has attracted my attention. It is a work on religious education. Never before have
people been so much interested in this theme. The religious world is going through a period of
transition. The past has given emphasis to preaching; at the present we are changing to teaching.
In the past we have been looking after adults; now we are seriously concerned with the education of
children.
After school we work at reports. This is an interesting event. At times I am amused at the
position that many teachers take. The ways that we arrive at conclusions are at times crude. By likes
and dislikes we stumble at figures.
1026
�A
J
Greene Diaries
Dec. 4.-- The weather man has been busy all the day. Early this morning it is warm and the sun
is shining. From all appearance we are in for some pretty weather. By noon the clouds begin to all
[sic]. It is not long until the rain commences to fall lightly. By night the rain is coming down in
good style. We are in for some mud.
The greatest event of the day is a game of Basket ball between Boone and Cove Creek High
School. The battle is fought out in good style. There are many deeds done on both sides. Finally
the score stands 40 to 13 in favor of the local team.
It is frightful to think how much work that I have on hand. There are three sets of English papers
for me to read. By some means I have not been able to push my work. It will take two days for me
to get even with the world. There are so many things that call my attention. I am busy all the time.
My time is not my own.
Dec. 5.-- During the night there is an abundance of rain. The truth of the matter is that it is one
of the worst times that we have had in a long time. Just after daylight the rain ceases and we have
a fine day. The clouds banish, the sun beams down, the mud goes, and all the inhabitants rejoice.
In school we have the usual routine. At the close of the week all of us are tired. It is enough to
cause gloom to come over us.
At chapel Mr. Rankins [sic] tells us some important things concerning the English language. The
history is told in a few words. The number that speak it are favorably mentioned. The flexibility
and usefulness has been the pride of all. Today it is the greatest spoken language in the world. None
of us measure its value and its beauty.
Dec. 6.-- This is a day full of activity. By some means I am out at early hourthis morning. Mr.
Jeter Ramsey and I go to Trade, Tenn. We arrive there in time for Sunday School. There are not
many in school. The number is small. Mr. Ramsey leads the singing and I teach. At the eleven
o'clock hour I talk to the people from the theme, ["]The Name of Jesus". The folks give me
excellent attention. They seem to be interested in what I am saying.
After preaching we go to G. T. Lethco's for dinner. This is one of the finest that I have eaten in
a long time. We spend some time here most pleasant! y. By the middle of the afternoon we start for
my home at Vilas. To say the least it has been a day of activity, and I have enjoyed it immensely.
At night I engage in reading a work on "Religious Education". This is a subject in which I am
very much interested in. I fear our churches are falling down on the job. We depend too much on
talk and too little on training. We leave our religious instruction to the weakling, or we ignore it
totally. The church will not come to her own until she teaches her children.
1027
�Dec. 7.-- The day is cool. There is a brisk wind from the north. Many people pronounce it a real
blizzard. The sun shines, but the ground does not thraw [sic] .
My activities today have been numerous. The first job that I have is typewriting. By the time
that it is over I must start for Boone. At Vilas I catch a ride. In a short time I am in Boone. I am
interested in many things. One of these is a county Agent. Today we have a meeting before the
Commissioners. The sentiment seems to be in favor of a man who is able to deliver the goods. The
farmer must be prosperous if we are to have a great county.
After the meeting is over, I go to my work at the school. By some means I am not able to get
much done. I manage to read one set of papers and to do some general reading. At the hour for
retiring I am tired enough to rest.
Dec. 8.-- The first work of the week comes to us today. As a rule the lessons are poorly prepared.
Usually I feel so well that I run with much smoothness. As the week comes on, the rough work gets
the best of a man. It is hard for a man to run at his best all the time.
At our chapel today there is much doing. The quartett [sic] gives some negro selections. A
student body loves music. There is not any thing that lends more joy to this group of people than
a change. There are so many talks the students grow tired of them. Mr. John K. Perry, of Sweet
water, attends chapel and makes a brief talk to the students. He is the type of man that says what he
has and retires from the scene. In the afternoon I try my skill in grading papers. I work for more
than three hours in order to catch up with my work. It takes me far into the night. The hardest work
that a teacher does [is?] paper work. This is necessary in order to keep in close touch with the
progress of the class.
Dec. 9.-- As a whole the day has been delightful. The air has been sharp, but the mud is a thing
of the past. The wind and the sun have dried up the mud. Anyway the cool weather makes us more
alert.
At chapel Mr. Wilson tells about a trip to the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. By using dry humor
he makes a hit. I am not sure whether all students enjoy these talks or not. I am somewhat inclined
to believe that the majority do not. After all many good things are delived from the platform.
At night I become interested in the treatment of dull children in our schools. Many of us teachers
think that a child [is dull ?] when it is not true. There is no doubt in my mind as to the shameful
treatment that is accorded my students. The gods do not bestow the gift of intellect upon some in
abundance as they do upon others. The wise teacher will observe and discover those that are
subnormal.
Dec. 10.-- During the night the wind blew violently. It was so severe that many of us could not
1028
�A
J Greene Diaries
sleep much. There is a continuation during the day. Boone is in a gap. We are in for full benefits
of all wind. I must record that we received it last night with interest. Even a brick house is made
to tremble. The windows rattled loudly.
Mr. Logan holds the stage of action today at chapel. His subject is "The Rocky Mountains and
the Appalachian Mountains". He tells many interesting things concerning the Rockies. The state
is so constructed that it is difficult for me to hear all that is said. The talks are to continue from time
to time.
Today has been hard for me. By some means I am out too early. I move along so much better
than I expected. The classes have responded well. I must confess that I have enjoyed the work of
the day. There has not been much to disturb. I think that life is sweet and that it is worth living.
Dec. 11.-- The change in the weather is marked. In place of wind we have a little rain. The
weather man is threatening us with muc. There is one thing that we can depend upon and that is a
different kind of weather every day or two. One extreme follows another.
Mr. Williams shows off his wisdom. It is a lecture on the change of the European map. In these
talks much information is imparted and many interesting things said, but I have serious doubt if
students fully appreciate the effort. Many look upon them as a bore. Within their hearts they resent
the pains taken to help them.
Just after school there is a meeting of the faculty. The great question of getting out for Christmas
is up for settlement. Why are we so crazy about the holidays? We are not in good condition when
they are over. The conditions for getting an early day are rather hard on the teachers. We are to have
two Mondays for work.
At night I enjoy reading a chapter in a book that explains why we swear. The best explanation
that I have ever heard was given by an illiterate man. Here it is: It gives a man a little ease. This acts
as a valve to let out the emotion that has been restrained.
Dec. 12.-- This is a day full of work. I have no time that I can call my own. From early morning
until late at night some job is demanding my attention. I suppose that it is to a man's highest interest
to have a job on his hands. The idler is the one that is miserable.
In the afternoon I finish my work and go home. I have to walk for more than two miles. I
thought I was in for the whole trip, but a man in a truck comes to my rescue. In a short time I am
at home. I must confess that I am tired enough to rest. A week of work gets the best of a man. I
wish a change.
At night I attend a moot court at the Cove Creek High School. In many respects it is a light
1029
�program. The lawyers try to look dignified. In many respects it is not worth the price. There is one
good feature about a thing of this nature. It gives relaxation from the serious affairs of life. It is late
when I arrive home. I must confess that I am tired enough to have some rest.
Dec.13.-- As usual this is a busy day for me. At our Sunday School we have several interesting
discussion[s] on the purpose of life. It occurs to me that there are only a few people that really have
a driving purpose in life. They leave every thing to chance. In other words they drift with the tide.
Mrs. Greene and I take dinner at Mr. W. L. Henson's. His guests are Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Qualls,
of Boone. We have a splendid time as well as a good dinner. It is worth while to be in the company
of sociable people.
At our home in the afternoon we have Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thomas and Mrs. Ed. Williams, of
Mabel as visitors. We have a good time. The best way for me to rest is to walk about with a few
people.
At a late hour I start for Boone. Just as I get in the Highway Roby Greer comes along and carries
me to Boone. In a little time I am in the town. I go straight to my room, and engage in reading and
writing. I choose to retire early in order to obtain a good night's rest.
Dec. 14.-- The rain is pouring again this morning. When we think that the weather is going to
be good, the rain begins to fall. The worst thing about mud is that it impedes our ability to move
from place to place. On every hand we hear the complain[t] that the streets are terrible to see.
Our work in school has been excellent. I have enjoyed it immensely. I must confess that I do
not admire six days in a week. A man needs a day to rest. I must record here that we have a splendid
school. The deportment of the students is the best that we have ever had.
After school I take my usual exercise. If I fail to do this, I am not able to do my best work. I do
not take the care of my body that I ought. In our habits of life we tear down much faster than nature
can build up.
At night I have a splendid time reading. I love to read and think about the great motives that give
us our great driving power of life. The trouble is that our motives are not of the right kind. They are
low and unworthy of us.
Dec. 15.-- When we have nothing else to record, we have the weather to fall back on. Today we
have some rain all day. The mud is just as bad as we can expect it. The streets are tom up, the cars
plow through the dirt, and the rains fix for us to have some real joy in wadding [sic].
Tosday I have felt the best that I have in a long time. The good rest during the night has given
1030
�A
J
Greene Diaries
me a pleasant day. As a usual thing the day of this kind affords us much remorse. A man who treats
himself with any degree of thoughtfulness is due to feel well all the time. Life has much joy in it
when we live in the right way.
The writer gives a talk at chapel on strange words and expressions. By the attention that we
received I think that our talk was appreciated. During the day many fine expressions of
complimentary nature came to us. Of course a man appreciates these--even when they are flattery.
Of late I am interested in the subject of play. It is one among the most natural of our activities.
The young of all animals play. In some way all animal life needs to train the body for defense. In
other words we try to express the experiences of the race in games. As a means of education play
occupies a very commanding position. In other words it holds the key to success.
Dec. 16.-- The weather man gives us a chance to make comment. At an early hour it is densely
foggy and has the appearance of cold and snow. Just before noon the clouds vanish and the sun
delights us. In a few hours we are threatened with rain. I suppose that there is no place that has so
many weather moods as Boone. There are so many changes in one day.
Mr. Kirby, an agent for Ginn and Co., 143 comes to see us at school. At the chapel program he
makes a talk. His best thought is that a few things ought to be mastered well. There is no doubt in
mind but what it takes that to grow and develop a strong individual. The weakling is the one that
spreads out over much territory.
One of things that is attracting my attention is a course in Elementary Education. To my mind
it is one of the choice fields to work. To know the job and how to put it across is one of the fine arts.
Dec. 17.-- The weather man is in for remarks again today. This morning there is a heavy wind.
It is from the north. I must record that Boone is getting its share of it. During the day the
temperature falls. This is one of the coldest days that we have had this season. The mud is a thing
of the past.
Things at the school have come on well. The work has been a little tiring. At chapel Prof. Logan
leads the singing. Some of the students think that they must clap all new singers. Mr. Rankin tells
about a Methodist preacher who made a fool of himself by making a noise and talking at the wrong
time.
After supper I go to town on business. The stores in the town are in holiday attire. It is
surprising to know how many fine things that may be found in this little town. There are so many
143
A textbook publisher.
1031
�things to please and to delight the children. The old can have their desires satisfied.
Dec. 18.-- At chapel today Mr. Rankin makes a masterful appeal for certain abuses of the
building to cease. He makes a skillful appeal to the thinking element of the school. We are sure that
only a few engage in this disgraceful work. In every school there are always several who are vicious
and dirty on the inside.
The weather man brings wind and cold. It gives us easy traveling, because there is no mud for
us to wade. Sometimes I wish that we could have cold weather all the time. The weather is so
uneven that it is not conducive to good health. The cool days and nights are what gives our minds
vigor. The warm days make us sleepy and dull.
In the afternoon I read many papers. This is one of the hard jobs that a man has to do. There are
so many students who just do enough to get by with a course. In order to succeed well in any line
of human activity it takes long and careful preparation. Without this it is hard to have success in the
world.
Christmas has a peculiar effect on the minds of people. There are so many foolish things
connected with it. Is it unfair to say that it is a period when people go on a debauch? We engage
in so many things that are contrary to health and longevity. The wisest of us must confess that we
are fools .
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
64
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 55 [September 30, 1925 - December 18, 1925]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1925
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
50.4 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_055_1925_0930_1925_1218
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene kept this diary from September 30 through December 18, 1925. He wrote on September 30th, that he wanted to record experiences that will give pleasure and information to others. His goal was to both amuse and to inform. In the diary he wrote about his visit with friends, daily chapel, and his work at Appalachian Training School. He also included information about the weather and community events.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Alice Cook
Arthur Moore
basketball
Bob Taylor
Boone
Cove Creek
David Fox
Demonstration School
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman
Edward Bok
George Whittington
Mountain City
Polly McBride
Poplar Grove
Red Cross
Roy Dotson
Sherwood's Store
Stony Fork
Sunday School
Trade Tennessee
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/a09902ff574c2dca6fd186836670cc7c.pdf
8961ea7b6b42197c8bfd421ee646fd9d
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
27
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 57 [March 25, 1926 - April 24, 1926]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1926
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
20.6 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_057_1926_0325_1926_0424
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene kept this diary from March 25 through April 24, 1926. There are daily entries on the weather, the Appalachian Training School, and his visits with friends and family. This diary gives a unique look into the time period, and a different way of life.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
`W.H. Brown
Abner Smith
Ben Osborne
Boone
Cove Creek
Cove Creek High School
David Anderson
First Baptist Church of Morganton NC
Johnnie Walker
Mountain City
Mr. Dean Smith
Prseident B.B. Dougherty
Sunday School
Vilas
Watauga
Welfare Board
Willowdale Baptist Church
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/76a8b51b23ece22b25f12d58d63466d2.pdf
1fa3754fba5ea905e353c75c1e95611b
PDF Text
Text
���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
99
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 61 [October 29, 1926 - January 30, 1927]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1926-1927
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
75.2 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_061_1926_1029_1927_0130
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene recorded this diary from October 29, 1926 through January 30, 1927. In this diary, Greene recorded his visits with family members and friends such as W.J. Mast and John Dugger. He also recorded the details of the daily weather that they were experiencing, whether they had fog, or rain, or snow, the temperature, and clear skies. In addition to recording the weather details, he also recorded much information about life as a teacher at Appalachian Training School. He named speakers that came to daily chapel, important events that took place, important faculty members, and the daily classroom activities.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Blan-dolph Literary Society
Boone
Boone Junior High
Chapel
Clarence Garland
Cove Creek High School
Dr. W.O. Bingham
election day
Elizabethton Tennessee
Foscoe
Friendship Church
Graydon P. Eggers
Greene Inn
Herbert Wagner
J.C. Farthing
Martha Washington College
Maxie Mae Greene
Miss Elsie Mae Chappell
Morganton NC
Newland Hall
Normal College
politicians
Reception of the Rankin Wilson Literary Society
Reverend F.M. Huggins
Reverend J.R. Owen
Ruth Proffit
Shouns Tennessee
Sunday School
Superintendent Smith Hagaman
Thomas Hicks
Vilas
Watauga County Examination
Watauga County N.C.
Wilkesboro NC
Willowdale Baptist Church
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/938051dadc6de71e55296bf0b893af90.pdf
b28bd122869ad1c96792f626238b14b4
PDF Text
Text
����������������������������������������������������������������������������
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
76
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 62 [January 31, 1927 - April 12, 1927]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1927
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
66.1 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_062_1927_0131_1927_0412
Description
An account of the resource
Inside the diary, one can find the story of a teacher, pastor, father, and husband. He wrote about the weather, his family and his work. This diary includes information on the Appalachian Training School such as important professors and administrators, certain names of campus buildings, and the daily concerns of the classroom. It also includes information about how people of the time period traveled. Greene walked many places, sometimes a train, and sometimes he found someone with a car to drive him.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Atlantic Christian College
Avery County
Baptist Church of Boone
Boone
Clyde Greene
Crossnore
Cullowhee Normal School
Davenport College
Earl Henson
G.P. Hagaman
Groundhog Day
J.A. Williams
Jane Bingham
Lenoir Rhyne College
Lewis Reece
Lovill Hall
Marshville High School
Newton Cook
Nora Bingham
Pembroke Normal
Pleasant Grove Church
Polly McBride
Robeson County
Sue Horton
Trap Hill
Union County
W.L. Henson
Wilkes County
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/8825c475221233a0a620c224735241d1.pdf
3bb71efcd18c9bba64b48060295f1239
PDF Text
Text
������������������������������������������������������������������/?
^lS-4^r^
^?
^
t^-^L^-^Cf-
�/Jf
*~~J~fl~
^tsU-C/t/M-S
n
u
/)
^^-?—*t-^-Z59£^--2'<--
/I
{//
//
c^££^
i/
�f/
T»-*X£~ >rS_
>//
<x~-j£—-^yi^LCK^
x?-
tfrf
^^^^lr-^L^<> ,
^£^U^ ^t*-^&0
4
O^S
(/
/i
+ J
ty^S
^d^U^t^ , ^&rl£y
/)/) /
/
V/
�/
+V4>?-ir?-4-^&
~—tf~2^^7^~~
c/^
�^l^~~f<O
G^n/i^T^'
-^6
-T.^-—p->v^?—
�P
^>t^-^-
^i^U^ <y^—c^
n /
-
0
/^-^- —z»—c—^L_-^-
/? J
sLr~ OL^~^
/-
_-JJ_-^£^U-e-^l*_«---
�SJ f
^ /t
^7'
,
j a
�u^-
*
(3f&—-tf-*~>*~-^^r(^-p-^y
~/f~-V~-i —
W
'tfUL \^W
J
^L/V—^T-^-^^-
Zjr—^
�o.
^e-^r-^C^
/y/X ffi >
^^^^<Csf<-^<€^rz--~f ,
A
9ft7
//t^zzt^?2^tf
s
/
�-&J^
—7<2X^-2^y
c-f/
�^
^t^f
^^^T^ V *ff^°
c^a^
�..**r
^L^nji^
OCAJL&~
jt
do
r y
�^
'
-TT^
-&
'-&?/-
___x^-*-a-'»70'^?
—>-**^2^*-—
.ynnM^
�^^fu^-
a^
^^5tL.
~^L&£L for-.
^<46?4^#S^l*4tS-»^
^Cs&
f* £U~
^U*^£?u
C^ ^^^Z?t^>t^&cL~-
-^—X—*
^&*d'r7^z^0*2^j£~
^<^7^y
<£3l---2«^-s2_
^t^~~^-)^
^
J J
:
/
7
^^^o ^^X.
^ir^njz^j^—
I
^^f^^l^U^t. ^^tA^—
-A
/)
/>
^7^JL
er-j^ —rrL£^t
—^-^-<2__
£Le+^*^i^L£r
<r
�/// 1
I ho
/x
y?
-^rL~^*3 ^^V~££^t^
^Lsls~+_ji^K.
S
4?
'(//
�£*sm4~+t-*
^ASJ/UL+
UCfc^—<£-f>-^_^*~&L
^rt*-
�-J
£s-^0L—7\-^^-
�<£2-~->«
J>
/-
£^^-ZJU-t^6
/)
j*
^L^t-J^-fL
JL
^kLJL^-^-^/^- -
7 f~.
/w
"^ C^t?^2-^—
-
--6-<7
&P-
1
-^rl^LX^-^sz—isx_^~i^—t^ '
^C4s)sJ^_S~-*
IL
z^-
J
^L^^C^---^^
�•^ sr ~^T^ r
-•*—**-J^^-
/
�M^r-
/
-^j^
a &
*^L~£--Z?—jj^-e^--
diL.
^H^7
C^^Z-^X^C--^--
0~4L
^Z^-U—
7
�/_:/
^L^^t^-^y^^.
_/)
CP^
tX^
/"
7^
/*/*
sX^ ^^^^^
/? s
<& -^^r-£-
s
-*gL~£^l^~&—3erzr"t*r±
f
y^
^
n^zr~1A-*^ -<£?- -*^t^J^^
�"""^/^>"~K2~'
^Yf^^^a^^7^~
£/~
.-*/
0-7?^S2—-t>
'-&Ts
&^£a-s?0'—,
~ff-^^T^
(7
S~fr-JT7>^—^^<^x
TfT^ -^r- ^^7-^
�^z&fr^.—
J
-iZ-r-V- ,
/
#L~^-r>-~-ZK-'
^
^
I
�y
�r'
~~-*
/? (/
1'x-^r^^^y*^7
/) -^
y^-^^T^
ff
*~*&V
ir
~~^i^c~-T^O
U
_
/
—*-7?-~4^
.(7
f
^A-yz^T^-^
(T*-
*^~iri^(--^-)^~\s'
/ ' f
�L
2f
1
�'
1
y
/
"
^_
-^-^-^Z-^-nx^
V+J>
s£*i£.
•^iS~-sl--ff--1h~*-^-
V
-<i_^
�L
-
v
�-r/n
0.
"^T^T^^ ~
'™Q
-^v^^- ^f*—-r^&
i <r
^r
~f—
rf
U
'"• /
^^S^**~~~t^l4>^
"^^
^TT
�^
J>+-
-^Is^lSL^Os^fr/L
-j^P
^X-
<^-. &,
�i,^
> v*
v, *~
t
•
V.
,w 4.71 ' *
v 4
-<
^'
'v.^ , ^ X U
\f9.-,
.' <
'//
^m^m:
^j£~s:&$,
y>
y -i
+• & ' ' F>
**€-**
S
#• "-
* *-<*
•/•< v
'
\
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
97
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 63 [April 13, 1927 - July 16, 1927]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1927
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
67.2 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_063_1927_0413_1927_0716
Description
An account of the resource
This diary was recorded by Andrew Jackson Greene from April 13th through July 16th during the year of 1927. This diary includes the typical account of Greene’s day such as the small details of the daily weather, the names of important speakers that he was able to listen to, the friends he visited with, and where he took his dinner. He also included a lot of detailed information about his work at Appalachian Training School. He wrote about his hopes for his students, and the information that he was teaching at the time. He also wrote a lot about the church which he pastored, Willowdale Baptist Church. He wrote very often about Sunday school and his meetings with other pastors.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Baptist Church of Boone
Boone
Booneville
Cove Creek High School
Dr. W.C. Tyree
Floyd Ward
J.B. Horton
L.A. Hunt
Lenoir
Mars Hill College
Mountain City
Normal School
Rutherford College
Teachers
Thomas Baird
Trade Tennessee
Vilas
Willowdale Baptist Church
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/4b5b53d63ffac2b1ff4f22da5565f228.pdf
2770e3edad7a1090723fcec2abad2f17
PDF Text
Text
<-***
frjftXV
x«v
�r+7
-z^t£*s- c£-^
0
^rLl^.
/
I-^-~->'~~
X
/y~*—' —z^—<-—-
~^t^~-
~~ '
'
�s.
'tzj&-&~*—T^
^c^rtf ste>^<
•^
I/
-'ziS^^-zTi-^i-j^l^-c*—/TSL-^»*
s^tx~^U-4^rt^C-
/*)
fi
'
�'&*^h--^-£^
P
�L
^-i^-fp
--^<
-^t^r>
�r
-™,
^/
tf
(
��'^^^-^^H^^- -"?^£i7
£K?"V
y
/-.-
-~^-*^.
�I f-2.%
^L^tf^-C^T^a
��/
(
�^
-f(-—t^-zr-^-~—
^/^r-^-'-z^^
I
J]
^L^L^L/r
/ '
I-
CM^Q—-v—p~^ht^<l^,
~ C^K
A
o^
' i/y
%^
^faj-
£&—T^J-^
(
^<L£-4_—
�/
A-^-^^T^-er
j(_
fl
> —I/__•
I
^->^) y v' ^-» ^-^^
�"^n&^
C^-zr^L^'^T^-p^r-rt'
-w;^-^-
sSH^>tM^U4>" C?
0
v
--j^<^-7^2ri^>' ^^~r~2/'
/
7
-tf
^Tp^L^v?
' V
�^ s
./
«-^-*»z-f
•£~J-
"
-
/ //,
�t-^t~lS^—"7^
&
-—&-}
'
v/
^™,- ^y
•
-- • (rt^-r?
(J
�P-—»
\j
�V
�Q-^\-
^
J^'
C^y-^L ^c^
�t^rrt^^r^*
tft^u-- s-^-^^£^
' v . /,/. / ~f~' _
.
_,
/^M^
�(2
�7
�-hif
�/^ y '
^^tt-^^fast^L**
\Lt^^-^i^e_ji^
/v
/r-r~uL*s
t
�<^^™t^h TjO
�^' .
--^A-^^Lxi->^ ,
yy
&>C<-
�^L/frjL^
O !
^Wv^Z^^r
"
+
^/V-t)^W~
/'
^C^^T^e-^
^£
/
x
~/Z^-^r— — •c*-&^ff<-~1
/
�-h-
Jy-^i^-^
oJ?
�-^4-4-^1^*
W
^Pu—
D
~-7/-—?^<—^i^-~+^7
��r
k^>
C^T~L*^t-
u
/
-*
^^^r^^T^/t^^-T^
Tnt^?
////
V
/
-.^-znv^
/
^
'
-r^-
-V&-
I//
/
(4?
J^-Tft^Z-^?
V
/7
9
�nr^/^Tf7^L4__/n-^
^-Q^~^
f *a
^4-—~
o
/
<X^7
/"
V &
c/
V
<7
i/
Sf
9
* TF
(t
(T
—*—Sl^^~
J/V7.4
�"
.,0 (r
/
J
/
e^Hxr
"
��-TZ^^-T^•*T0-D
^%^
&
/
�T/L~
^2-l^tiS
^
^
^
-^T
^
-7^^
V^-7/-
^
-
'
�e^-
—-7^
^
c^/ £UL^r^^-)/i^
A
/ J *
<?^->^^-*-^v^
/• ^ /
c/
-,
&^/h^
t^f-^
/
>
�^-
V
^t^-z>--?^
«f
//
—^T^-r^n^
^
^
/
-^
���r^
—-jZ-vJ*^''
zp.
U
/^
'*
'
�C-^-c^c^i^i^^t^ ^^4-4^£^4..4^^_4^?
0
. /
/)
/
/) y -
z*C^
H^-^
7--<^r«^-^-0
^^tJj?
/
/
�ff
C
-~r~i---^--?r^l^
//
7~
"
�JT^^t?
u
(//
(/^
s u n
cX
L
y
�O-'-^-VT^
-V2
f
L^Z-^LSL^
0
a~*//^'
�L
~^y^
�,/
^r
//r-
(7
c^mts&^U^ •^V"
°TK
>
j o
:
^^r^-^^z^
-r~~7* ff*^*- —^
°^TJb -T
v
ir~—'
f
j
-*7^s*?3r&
*^r.-rt?
,
~*~Ts^
**~~M^rj.
' /i
^Lxf
'nTJT'V
�/}
<VJ^
I
'Z*-^
_
^
^
Z
L
?
<
^
~
~
A
_^j^L-*^r
c^c^^^^c^cL-
^_jo
• y—
x)
-^^^<n^e^.
j^~-
�<^7^1/IAJL^3
^Z^«
^^fc~-«r~-tr-~?e^3
V
f)
�//)
�I- <f
-
�IA
t
~-y^?i^>
<z%
y^
/L^U-^
S
/
Z-r~-zr-34^/
•^y
�106-
i 7,—
L^T^L*^-
a/
/
/
—Z>7^^L~*-—T^jz^^r
�---V^-^-T/f^-a^-v^
a
V /
(/
?V
•
Tr^~*~trf-
-^o
(
\0I
�(/
/—
/_
��fl-4
��/L^i^j
{/
V
_^-n?U<-X-^
^e^~2^-i
t/
(
*
f
�v
^i^i^i^' -?t ^y~
i iff
(
^7
�" •^
/
C7
.
_^yW_'
A^
(
^
y<-
. /^,
�n
/I
1^2-</
XTTZ^z^U,
sfcf
/
^L J^M*.
-)/-+. 0
J-L^
i3^-~?^~^Q^<-~-^^T^4 ,
I, f
/ I
-^Z*—--)st^f- -
�r
-fT '
7—iJ^—
(7
~^^*^&
~J^2^~
j? *
£? y?
�0-0S
<7
1{4>
•#';*;
�2^*—^--^
££*£*l^4«^r
,
y
-^r^
/ /<^Lt^^^
^t^zz^tAT- .
J
V
7L<frT
a/
<~/\r-*-~
,
^
&
"
�W s/(7
//-
(7
'>
v
4rTrr~n^-0-~L-vi^~--
/ff
&
n J
c^r^
T
ff ff
o
�ffj
/
x^%^-
A
^^z^^/^^^
V
"
a
�yr
~»a
c-—v~>0^~~Y?
-
jr<£/
(/
��^
�fl
(L^H^^r^^fd^
�y s-zf
^L^-
£>C->0^
* J ^
^
^--T-Z-^L--^--^^^^^^*-^^.^^^—
^ /?
^t^rLe.—
^L^fiji
�i
TT-
�-fr^^v
/
^sLe>~
f)
t^C— ^Z^f^T
£fc-~-7-?tl.
' y-
^ ^£rzr-
^ A
—7V^-7--j^,
/
��Mr*
G0
!•
A
0
^^^ —-^L~zr-t^-
�-<=»-^^—
c>^i^J^->^~i^'
-
r-f/
�r
7
y
& s-ry^
^r*-#^
/z
'
/
r#
"
~^ '^T
~T
y
—/- __^^<^->-/--^
�I
#T*r
yV^M/- ^Utrf^-
�/i^^/^ a
/£
.
-
-C^zt^-7£-<y
/7
cy
> - - ~ '
TP^^e^r
"^^-^
^t^-TX-^fe-*?*-
£fl4*4
y^
�/^
^t^o
^fflbi^
-^"-zrr7{
^t^ii^
P
^fe^jz-^
CF
^Pf^tj^
^&??L^-~
V
2^
^^t^^£^~
7x2o
/^'x
^f^—^~
^4<_
_
OL^~
I
A-
/
"7 '
_^L^rns—
A
-t^fa'
--£?-
p
^^_^y^^-,
/
^-t-<3
3
x^X-
tZ.^
^*4*r—>
-^msu^^/
sL~-e^fcjL-*>
^6*3
*^/f—r—S~
^-^^-4^,
/
~7r~'r
•
^
&^r^U*£^
-^y y
£^w»
^AS^f^
/)
-j^rrLfi-^1
/
'
OJ—
�/4j?
^A-/
V
/6
S)
^V-£^>cfas~~
.
f
—-"2^-
~^£?Ut.——
J>
J
/
^
/ /^/^
•*Q-~<-4^l*^~-0L^?ZL^fy^3
r
/ •
^^L^i^Tr-
C*L^>~~-
J
I
*y-~T*~?n*~^A^~v~
^ J?
^^-—
^Utl^
-r—0^^ ,
y/~—
-^C^X^xA^-«-^x
/
�t^~*2^£6C-
^
!r^^^-
-*pr~ j
w^^^~ ^V2r~ (f*
—?? •^~~y?^*^~3 7^}^~iO
r
~*-*'~—-'
�I
<z*—>-^6 <r-r~.
<^
/
~/~~- •J&*?*^S->^'
"7^
9ys /? / ^
^t^-^^^<2
<^y
1
�vt^^^Z-^^2^'
JL
"1>^">^~<Z^?
/-'
t—»—v£-—-0
—_^-r-^
/
—\^t^Y?
-^>^3?
p-
•^2^ r
TV
�o^*^y*-^
p
/ -
t,
•^^t-—&^T^~
—ir-^-SL^~T2
"TT~X~yL^
-
-?- !,*?•'
-^-c-T—^-T7
.
an
(l^W
' "
f
�f
--^Cj—-^^-->z^cv
£sL-^><^ifs&
^n^T^L^-^---^^V^j^T^^
-^Jn---f^4^t*^sL^
^C^C^TT.—&— 'fa<JL-
�I
^L^^r
/\
c^~
(/C^l^^^--'
--^t/ST^^-tsL,—
^i*-i-
^J^
J^ai^-
^^^^^
"'
J^^^w^6
-/-
'^- *
•^c^^^ ^^^-2-^~.
-
=^^A
c-^-^t--
?^^/r
-r->r-#>
a^^^>
(Lg**^^ d-*r-
�yf^_
• e—-EV-—*2^T^—}
c^~n^-
70-^
(f
(71
•*^s^*~^JL^~jr
�1/s^—rt^l-—^-Z^>-7/-
<T
(T+-
--^ ^ • - '
T
n^l^L^L-^
'-
��V
�T1
/£$-
"/
J{~ /
~^L^UL~^
&t-^7^a^_
<%=J^->-r—•
#—7—ZJ^X-TX- —^er-
'7^-
^
~^r~
<>3t^7>t^/
•0^24*—^'
^
*
T~-J—
yy
^-^^6xt
-«—*—X
j
3*— —-
^^M^-^7^^-
:£?L0sf--
^
-^Cw^~~
3/^
-^^Tjt—
y
^71-^^72-^-7—^^
^^
�' <^-y--rvr?-0--T^.
^z^^~
^f.
^^^T^y^
—S-TZP^V}^ -nt3^
(7~-
^/
____-N
' 6>^~l4L^7^-p*~'
�A-^
y^Z^tf^—-
'^L^^-^.
<?L^<-^>
. ;
-r L-o^i^-^-
f
/ ^
�"?»
/< -^«-^^<—
\
/~r-r-^
^--^<__^>^y.
iS^
�' -^---^--^7^>
��
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
98
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 66 [January 25, 1928 - April 29, 1928]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1928
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
65.1 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_066_1928_0125_1928_0429
Description
An account of the resource
This diary was recorded by Andrew Jackson Greene from January 25th through April 29th, during the year of 1928. Greene wrote each day an account of what he experienced that day. His typical day involved Willlowdale Baptist Church, Appalachian Training School, visits with neighbors, and a trip to Boone.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Administration Building
basketball
Boone
Central Dining Room
Chapel
Cleveland County
court
Cove Creek
David Greene
educational standards
Fifth Sunday Meeting
Greer Café
Justice Hall
Lonnie Henson
Miss Margaret Eury
Miss Maude Greene
Mitchell College
Normal School
Paul Henson
President Dougherty
R.M. Brooks
Reverend J.M. Denton
Reverend P.A. Hicks
Ruth Tugman
Teachers College
The four year college
Trap Hill
Union County
Valle Crucis
Vilas
W.J. Sherwood
W.R. Lovill
W.Y. Perry
Watauga Hospital
-
https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/92bd43aeeb5657f48de1acad12750bde.pdf
407744b189f70a58136eecdb038921d2
PDF Text
Text
r?
PROPERTY £F
{&'
Y*t
V.,
f
v \
�.
�rr' /
—--^X-z*
^C^
<£ ^tst±-e.a-~^&«3.
^f~-o-^-^-^--<^^y
/
^-
c:><^^^^f-^'^hJ>--7/—
—C^fZt^r
&L~mS~^
•^-T^-z*--
<7
n
,
/
�'-77
~~
_
�—f-'f
/
/
—
/ (?
/"-v—x^^
Off
c/ &
'/-,
<7
v
�s
/
T
^/r~*-~
<&^L^J
^ 'j- "
<>-*f' ^<^L&
^
a^2^--#-~w--^ft^
y
£2^t2^~^
/ tf\f
^^L^^yuL^^--^^.
/
~mj2^nSr,
.j^~
f
V?>
*
' ^ // />
*
ff
J//? ff /?
•^73_je^^&^t£^ ^77^-^*—^
/ '**?
/? '
t^x _^x^ -^7/^^^/^^^y,
»
/
.c^A
�ff
0 L4
-^f
#
/?
--^^^^yf '.
<s
L/
•
^yi^-j^—ejs
* / * T
P
^n ^£--^-3^7r^'
JVW
^y^riA^^f^9^''
ff
__
' ,-^r^^^1^^
—-•f^ r O
</ u
/
-fa
Ql
�^J7^
v-zf*
1&Z
f
-4T^iry^-~
/
0
r
C/
'
(X
�I',
IT
^L^^-e^-t^^2-/-^
/(/
xC-^>-
£U&s *-/^,
A
fl
^
. ^~
<//)
"
/,
�t
/-a^V^-^7
?/
^
'
^
___^6---"
^"
• __,
" 0
a..
^^a
b4
�V
^~^
^Ylpj^
(£&/
/T^^*"2^"" -^yt^z^Vf^' / <?
J?V
-^YI^~
' -^t^-C
j/v^i<ijs-i^'
~* 3^
/
'I
�X7^^7^z^^2^^^^^-<>^^^^ o-^t^>-
/ /
^
( T o
•/
^-^2-;
^w*^^-^
c^
<s>
�^Vue^ju
/
-,#—f—/—_
/- D
^tx^^y
/
y-J>
^L^lt^
V /
^f-'f-^^L^
^ ^
; ^rT^^^ .
. /? .
y-
/^
^Z^Le**-^^-^^
-7^_lSL^t-i^^_^i^^l^-^y -t^
*". *
/ a
/
C-f^^o
JfL^L.1.^^
\
x-, X
/I /
/
�-y2*X~
c4/^*-^rj4~^^>^^j>^
7
/
~i
-@r
rT^a^^^v^t^*-^^
~f
'
v
tf
C
'^ris^hir- snt^ J*^ ~^*-^>^^^
-/-/K
^r^
^ (7
/-
-s
��9
�£Z^y,
-A-0
/
0?/i_
�o
p
-* V
�P
/'
-
--^C^->t^_^2^X^
//T^^^^o ^^U^^te^a^
�"2^-
^
/&.
^7^
<7
^x^/^
'/^r-rtL^p-n?
•J^ '
^rr
<'^~-~k5>
~~ar&?^
fa^>
ac ^
/•
'•7T
' c^T^d^T^^^T^'.
i^T^ ^2^1^^Z27/
-& /* / / ^
•^W^^ ^^
(/ y
./
i *'
<L. „
V
/<r
s^y^^^-^jl^'spV
• </
Ji^'o
�^4^^^
^5^-_^^^L^^€^-,
{/
**—/-/
^2/-
�/?
•^r?~ .'-,
/
--Trt-^-^it-
s^*t^rry^-yn^ ^^--o^—
T~
"T /'
b^t^-i-Yw^-ins,
H&
�<
,
Ttf
�x^
d?^C-C^/—Z7<~-*4s^>
jr
C^o
'*
6X
—-^-^>2^tL^—
/«
/
&-^u~T^
M^^cJl-^L
-^ii^
S
�£^~
-/£l'^^^
"~7%44^<_
-f^
^t^-Ct
p > _^L^h^^.
jj> '
^AjUL^sr
^
-*—*?
�-
��n #
j*
-^/- /)
�'192?
_<^
**^£r.
U/L^^&^v^
-^r
~^o
-4^rLn^ C^t^t^t^
cx^
Jti^*
^^
^i^yr^^> -^L^L^sr~
_
^TT'
c^4^I^^w^>
^
/
.
for-
/?
/3
��.J)
•^f^Xl>&^
f^^^LI
n ,
/ J "
c^u^h^^^^
Up n
^ZVCixvi^xo
n
o^v^
( *
_^i^t^^1^^
u y~fl
•
/I
ft
yv
-A
/
�'
+
�•*-t^- —<£_-*?—/
�--
</
�(7
^y
*
/
x -
^-^^^^-->7^^^^-^^^<7
0
/I
/)
/
/?
^
-^x^^u^^-^z--^^^*-^^ A
^>
'^sJ^^^^t^t-^
/
�^-
a
o^^—*2—"T'T^---"
^^
s
//
"
-^3/^°—*^ryty'—)
X,
/'V
�7/
_^---7^'2^>t^^~-«<^^^
�--^cZ^t^c^r*-^
L
SZSj^st^t^wr
�-
*v
�(/
^-*-£(f
ff
v (
s
tf
^ fa
�r* /
^
<r<?
^/^ -a-A/
(7
J*
ff
+
�{/
'
ff
��__^^/^/^
d?
A
—j~.
�v
—
h^s—T~^^
V
*
(/
-+
(J
11 j
ff
0+
�/
^t^
•-
^^~\^K^T
r
tf
.
.
.
_
ist^3
tP -u
.
j^
)js^3
�(7
��/-^Z^7
^
U
1
(J
. _
^ X
^
^
�0
-T
"
J
/
^~r2^^i^.
^b
4
^
/
O
�V
0
<
V
J
V
-7>n^~
V^V/^r*
�I
X=2--^—V—T^L^,
'
f
^
�J? (7
-^-^P--~fl^~ryi^
##- ~a^t^-^> /??LL/
_j£d^^
t
v
/
(^£-^-*<st---e£-^^^
^
,
/
�y ,s
^^^^^p^fajb*^0
ff/
y /? / /
<?^^^^^»-^-^7-^x,
(
. y
�0
/-
J
�c^-rn^-^^^^-
-r
--^T/^^-
(7
ff
^^T^>^7^^^^^
'
tz^-i^tf&r-t
'^
, -—
�s,?--i£C--~---^^
M
+
^-^H^^>
yU^^sk--
/>
,
'
^L^r *
L^-~^-4~?i~^
f^^LL^
J^L^-
I
/\
/)
O
~7^-
V--
^^^_^^i^-^ ^=^ _^^W^^- ^^ ^^^cr
" (---~~--e2^#Jl^~<)
?
U^KT^pi^-^z-^-
<£**fc*~
_^-^^t^C^x'^-2/7^6x<:^-cl^--^y —NfeZ-
(7
�tf
/?/ ' ff +/
,^i^^rT^-a-~~L^
/
/
(7
-
^i
(7
r//
�fr+
yO
V
' i^ri-^^-f^Tr
—TV1^
*
/
s*
—i
—
(/'
-h/l
�<
/Trtff^sT&^T^
(/ '
(,
-p-
,
^7
�#
/'
^&
/?
'
/?-/y^j^/tj^t-t^M^
o~^
J '
/
A
�f
-~
<<
�/ /"
/
^l^^T
(/^L
(7 , '
^\LJ~A^O p^+Jo
/tjr—
�hSbts&^VtJ,
��Si
/I
^?^<i^4//w~~
T
~J7~~
/
^PVl^~
�/-
^
/>-
�iV<y-
(V-^>^-^-^22-^t--f/~
f
/^
r
�-^H^x^=
^V-tji^-
/ S
f
/ ft
-^^^n^?/^>
^
/
^r^^ert^o
--^——«?—T^Jk^i^t.^-
'//
^lA^L^H/
y-P
^C^fUL^
/ /^0—)-sL-f>--i<*^>
£7*^-3^,?*^
—^^—^^--
�our
<sL4?
�ju.
SD
/
0
-l2~^^t^Z^^K
�J&Jr.
/?
_^i--n^>^^~
6^
�-
.
/^/^&^d~-Z%^
Lff
f
V
S
_
�i
i /^
,
S
/
V
V
�/
�v
*
V
'
* -
-
0
�ffr 1
I5T1
I?.
/
Sls^^u^n^f
^^te^L^C^
"$-
^£#UL^
^/
/7 /?7~
£/U^l*^
v
/Z>-
(^
/?
^-J
>t^5
l^ ^^^^-^L^^^^J^^
0 ^y- /
~^L<&
-^L^t^y ,
^>/
^^.
i^-
^5fal^
_^d- -Cu^tt^Tsr
~^u&<c^+-^?~~-&*-/.
^^Z^L^4J---
^£&—
~
//
7
_-<£->—•*-
(j^-^L^-i^—
^2X
�^V7x? /X?/7
t-z?.
^C^MJ^-
^L^l^jt^o
-7^-
/
�V—
7 &£L^t.
^2%g
Or <yd>L<) ,
-4
•
/
y
A^t^l^
f\
/
^d^&li^
*^r
/it / •
/
�c^nu^rtis-r^
-TTM^T^-
s
Si '
sr~—' ^** •*"
1ft
�S\^a^~7Tt^~
O''1
0(7
^^f^
#U
-4^&
(7
1^7^ '--^Y^<*^ru^j^ -^tyT^
\6 J J? -/(J r^
f+~.
^n^^^^^yi,
(/
'
' Z^
~~
-~{p=*
V
—f
>^
*
d^
/^-^^—^^~i^^^^^'
(7
„
(f
•+-
0
�,-^L4~
£?^TZ ^t^J^
��i
¥
"x
v
J
�^—-T^Z^C^
f
I? /
t
/
/
�s
/f^?
^^^^^j^
^o
X-tZvT^/
O^tA--^d~?f~p^~
(J
-/
vr
-^AM^y>^7
—'"r-V^-l^r^ /t.~.
/
<ff^S
0
f*
A^^<i-^~y2^-^-^?~-p^-
v
v
0
/
/
c^rUst^Q^)
til
�v /
<~^t-—T^-z^; -^TIK^LA^
'
' /
�ITJL
//J*
/J
P^
,o
C^-^^Z-^^z—^
�Sf
y
7
""
'
^ <7 j,
?*^~ -^r-^^r^t^fct
trl
7/
�-.
s?^tt-
^-*-a^~&^24^
^ W^f/
'/^~
^pls
st^r~~j£^
^-/f
. (7 /} -
<T
v
/
r
�"
'
%7
//V-TJt-t,
9^/ ^ y- ' A y
^-T^-^O^S
^f-^li^
^
-<^>2—iz-^TzLe^-
/I
^^t-^t>
s S
^
t^Zt*-*^>
j*7^
C/
��(id
y
�(
-r~
V
/?
~--j^e~#^^>^?<£/
(7 (7
'
(7
#-*-
2^
/
^/r
.,*
��<^t^-^f^2^
U
/ /
/
—/
£L-—&1>^~1'
»
->T^L-^Z>—^>£-^- ,
�^fc<&&-4^
'^*L^r~~
J>
' <? J?-/-/f
^^I^L^^^L^-^/-—,
s\ D
ffff ?
.^&~
^^. *£
f
~r
7T-
~V—-Z>--~'7
SI
^4A-
�/'
c^-<^-^^^-->-7^K"
^—~t^t'—tZ^—^^r^-
^
�^^^— ^^~ry ^P^-fO '^-^-^^-^^^^^^
0 !r v &f I & 3/
vv
*
'^^L ^
==7) ' <^r^-& ^n^^
^#3:
v^~-
�/
L
�O^^t^C^--"
^=$
'W,
(^ff-
w^fa^d^
//? f i
C^U^^L^) , r~j^
y
fafy
%f&3l£*a^u-^ ' " .
P
�.i
' ^^Y^" '^-
T» . <:
v<.,^.
>V
;y
A
f >jb
;' . jr <"^, •< -. v ~\ ** *
»" > - c v -vi^*^ -2^
^ '/<-£', ^ v
« VJ
M
:>^i -^V:.>.^
»'
- -,•
f^. n*s s
• V^- ,,-
^
.'{,
."
•,
*<
�
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1906-1942
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Number of pages
102
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 68 [August 6, 1928 - November 10, 1928]
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson Greene Collection, 1906-1942</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1928
Extent
The size or duration of the resource.
79.4 MB
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
105_068_1928_0806_1928_1110
Description
An account of the resource
Andrew Jackson Greene kept this diary from August 6th through November 10th, during the year of 1928. Each day, Greene recorded entries about the weather, community events, friends and family visits. He also included entries devoted to Appalachian Training School, he even names some of the buildings still found on the Appalachian State University campus today such as Justice Hall and White Hall.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright – United States</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Diaries
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Watauga County (N.C.)
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
<a title="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" href="https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html" target="_blank"> https://www.geonames.org/4497707/watauga-county.html</a>
Appalachian State Normal School
Avery County
Boone
Bristol
Caldwell County
court
Dr. W.A. Stanburym Raleigh NC
Edwin Dougherty
Elk Park
faculty meeting
Hardie Lyons
J.H. Highsmith
Justice Hall
Leroy Martin
Middle Fork Church
Miss Mary Hale
Miss Ruth Rankin
Mitchell County N.C.
President Dougherty
Reverend P.A. Hicks
Vilas
W.H. Brown
Watauga County N.C.
West Jefferson
Wilkes County
Yancey County