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Appalachian State University • Collection 111, Tape 92
Interviewee: Viola Greer
Interviewer: Karen Ward
16 June 1973
KW: Karen Ward
VG: Viola Greer
This is an interview with Viola Greer by Karen Ward for the Appalachian Oral History Project on
June 14 at Mrs. Greer’s house.
KW: Mama Greer, where were you born?
VG: In Tennessee.
KW: Where?
VG: Crandall, Tennessee.
KW: When did you move to Watauga County?
VG: I didn’t move here until after I was married and my first baby was about…oh, I guess two
years old.
KW: Do you know how long you have lived in Watauga County?
VG: I’ve lived in Watauga County ever since I moved here, then I moved away several different
times and lived other places for a while. I went to west to Montana and lived there for one spell
and then we lived down in Ashe (County) one time, and then we went down to Zach’s Fork near
Lenoir for a few months one time. And all of my children were born here.
KW: In this house?
VG: All but two. Two were born down at mama’s, down the road a little piece. The first that I
went to school was in Ashe County over at Pine Swamp. Then we moved from there to the
Fleetwood School and that’s all the school that I went to.
KW: What year were you born in?
VG: 1906.
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�KW: So that makes you how old?
VG: I was 66 in March.
KW: What were your parent’s names?
VG: Arthur and Martha Nichols.
KW: Where were they born?
VG: In Wilkes County.
KW: Both of them?
VG: Yes, but they moved to Tennessee. Both families (had moved from Wilkes County to
Tennessee) but they didn’t meet until after they moved out there and then got married. The
first four children were born there (Tennessee), two were born in Wilkes County and three in
Ashe County.
KW: So you had nine in your family?
VG: Nine children.
KW: Can you tell me all of their names?
VG: Yes. The oldest was Monroe, then me, then Chow, then Emma, Hattie, Ethel, Florence,
Minnie, and A.F., Jr.
KW: What was your father’s job?
VG: He was a sawmill man and lumbered you know. He bought timber and sawed it, that type
of work.
KW: You told me where you went to school. How long did you go to school?
VG: Well, I didn’t go very much. I just went off and on.
KW: About how many years all together do you guess you went?
VG: Oh, I don’t know. I only went about four or five years. I would go some each year and that’s
all.
KW: How many months out of the year was school going on?
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�VG: Six months.
KW: Six? Did all of your brothers and sisters go to school?
VG: Yes, they all went some. The last ones, well I don’t know. I reckon they finished high school,
but the first ones…we had to stay home and work and they didn’t have a law to make you go to
school and with that big a family we had to work. We farmed and dad had the sawmill too.
KW: Did your family have a big farm or garden?
VG: Oh, yes.
KW: What kind of crops did you all raise?
VG: Oh, corn, potatoes, and beans and just everything.
KW: Did you sell it or just use it (the crops) for yourself?
VG: No, we ate it. The twelve of us ate it.
KW: What were the teachers like in your school?
VG: Well, at that time there was only one teacher. One-room schoolhouses and one teacher.
KW: Were they strict on you?
VG: Yes, it was different to what it is now. You really had to learn and had to get your lessons or
you would be punished. Either whipped or either kept in during all the play periods and dinner
hour you know. Back then every morning we had chapel, you know. The teacher always read
the Bible and then we had prayer and we would sing a couple of hymns, every morning before
we started.
KW: They don’t do that in schools now.
VG: I know and the teachers, they were good and they loved to teach the children religion.
KW: What kind of subjects did you learn?
VG: We had arithmetic, history, geography, and spelling.
KW: You had the same type of subjects that we had.
VG: Yes, we didn’t have science like they do now.
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�KW: Do you think the schools have changed quite a bit?
VG: Oh, yes.
KW: How?
VG: Well, I don’t think they are as strict as they used to be when I went to school. The children
were quiet. They were really quiet. We just played ball or something during our play periods. Of
course there were not a lot of children in one little school, maybe twenty or something like
that.
KW: Is that all?
VG: Yes, because there was a little school in every community you know. Children in each
community went to that school.
KW: Did you ever work anywhere besides just your house?
VG: No.
KW: Just worked in the garden and at your house? What different types of churches were in
your community when you were growing up and at the different places where you lived?
VG: Well, as far as I can remember, I have always gone to the Baptist church. I’ve gone to the
Methodist church only when they were having a revival. When I was young we used to walk up
to Mill Creek when we lived in Ashe (County) when they were having a revival. Some of the
people that lived around us were from there. Their parents would go. We would either walk or
somebody would take a wagon with horses and we would fill the wagon full with everybody.
KW: What church did most people go to?
VG: Well, in all the communities that I lived in, people went to the Baptist church.
KW: Do you think that religion has played an important part in your life?
VG: Oh, yes. Sure do.
KW: How do you think it has?
VG: Well, I wouldn’t know how to explain it. I wouldn’t know what to do if I wasn’t Christian
and didn’t go to church and did all these things. I’ve gone to church all my life, expect for the
period when I was raising my children…I didn’t go very much at that time. But since then, when
I have had a chance, I attended church. I have always gone to the Baptist church everywhere
that I’ve lived. The community church was Baptist.
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�KW: Do you think that the churches that you used to attend have changed with the churches
you go to know?
VG: Yes.
KW: Are they better or different or what?
VG: Well, I think that they might be. They are not as strict as they used to be. I can remember if
a church member did something….for instance, if a girl had a child, they (the members) would
turn her out of the church if she didn’t come and repent. Yes, they used to do that to people
years ago; they would turn them out if they didn’t come back and repent. Now, they don’t
seem to pay any mind to anything that happens.
KW: What kind of sermons did the preachers preach back then?
VG: Oh, I couldn’t tell you. There were ‘old timey’ preachers who didn’t go to the seminary. Just
old country preachers that would preach for hours until you would just about lose your mind.
You would be starved to death and you couldn’t stand it. And they sang a lot.
KW: Did you have a piano or any type of music back then?
VG: No.
KW: Just sang without music?
VG: Some churches had organs, but not very many. We just had somebody…who used what
they called a ‘tuning fork.’ Do you know?
KW: Yes.
VG: Some of the churches had them (tuning fork) and some didn’t.
KW: What about the church that you went to most of the time. What did it have?
VG: Nothing.
KW: You just got there and sang?
VG: Yes. We would have ‘singing schools’ and then the singing leaders would always have a
tuning form. But otherwise we always just had a leader, somebody to lead and we just sang.
KW: Well, it sounds like fun.
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�VG: It was fun. I just loved the old songs but I can’t remember half of them. I can remember a
few. I can remember the preachers preaching so long, most of them did.
KW: Did you ever have any dinners after church on the grounds like they do now?
VG: No. Sometimes, I guess it was ‘homecoming.’ We would have a big dinner.
KW: But you didn’t do it like we do now?
VG: No. Back then we had associations and we always had a lot of good food then.
KW: Can you remember anything about politics when you were growing up?
VG: No, I never paid any mind to politics. In fact, I just didn’t hear much about it. I can
remember when (President) Wilson was elected. That’s the first election that women could
vote. I remember, I was married then. I remember my mother going (to vote) and she didn’t
want to. I was married, but I wasn’t old enough to vote.
KW: How old did they (women) have to be to vote?
VG: Twenty-one.
KW: Twenty-one back then?
VG: Yes.
KW: Well, can you remember how people would tend to vote…Republican or Democrat?
VG: I can’t remember it a bit. Women didn’t talk politics, and you know men…they just went
and voted and back then you didn’t hear anything about it. Now they just really carry on, but
really I can’t (remember). That’s the only election (President Woodrow Wilson) that I ever paid
attention to.
Now, dad didn’t talk politics but he was a Republican and my mother’s people were Democrats.
But she always voted Republican after she started voting and all the children…
KW: Republicans?
VG: Not Ethel Clawson. She married a Democrat and the first time that she ever voted after she
was married was when Eisenhower was elected. But all the rest, like my sister Hattie…she
married a Democrat but they never voted. She’s never voted since she’s been married. She
voted one time before she was married and her husband didn’t vote, so she didn’t vote.
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�KW: Do you know why?
VG: No. Well, she wouldn’t have voted for a Democratic ticket I guess. Maybe she just wasn’t
interested enough to care whether he (her husband) voted or not. But he never did vote, nor
has she ever voted since she’s been married. I doubt she voted in this last election. I don’t
know.
KW: How did people get around for transportation when you were growing up?
VG: They walked and rode in wagons.
KW: Covered wagons?
VG: Some covered and some just bare. Everybody had a team of mules or horses and had a
wagon. When they went somewhere that was too far to walk, they rode a wagon.
KW: Did you walk a lot?
VG: Yes. I’d rather walk than ride the wagons. We walked everywhere we went, unless it was
too far to walk.
KW: How far was ‘too far’ to walk?
VG: Well, when we went down to Wilkes to visit some of dad’s people.
KW: I agree that was a little far.
VG: My mother used to walk from Tennessee to Wilkes (County0. Yes, before she was married
she walked it once a year. She would go back and visit some of her brothers and sisters.
KW: How long did it take her?
VG: Two days I think. They just spent one night…you know back then, whenever it began to get
real late they would stop at somebody’s house and ask if they could spend the night and they
(the house where they stopped) always took them in. Back then people just took-in anybody.
KW: You couldn’t do that today, could you?
VG: No, no.
KW: Can you remember when you saw your first car?
VG: Yes, that was when I was a little girl. I lived in Wilkes (County) and I can’t remember the
man’s name, but they had this T-Model (Ford) and we lived right down the road…a dirt road. I
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�would see him go back and forth and everybody would just run to see that car.
But in Ashe County when I was just a little girl, the first car I saw there my daddy bought it. A
Buick Touring Car. We would ride the old dirt road you know…and then come to this steep
rocky bank. You would get out and push the car over this bank, ride some more until you came
to another steep area and then push it again.
KW: Can you remember how much cars cost back then?
VG: No.
KW: Not hardly as expensive as they are now.
VG: Lord no. But I don’t remember (the cost). I probably didn’t even know what dad paid for
the one he got. Then my brother when he got grownup, he bought a T-Model.
KW: What did you think when you first saw the car?
VG: Oh, I was scared of it. The first one that I saw, I was scared of it. The car made a lot of
racket and noise and I was really scared of it. I didn’t see how people could get along without a
horse or a mule or something to pull a wagon.
KW: In previous years, did you ever make soap or quilts, or weave?
VG: Oh, I’ve quilted all my life. No, I never weaved.
KW: What about making soap? Did you make soap?
VG: Well, the kind that my mother made was called ‘coal soap.’ People would have a lot of
grease and then they would add lye. I never did make any myself and I can’t remember how
much lye was used. But mama would make soap and she called it ‘coal soap.’ It was white, just
as white and she would cut it up into bars.
I have seen the old soap that people used to make. They would save all the old meat skins and
meat scraps and everything and boil them. I’ve heard mama tell that they made their own lye
out of ashes to eat up the old meat scraps and then it would be yellow and soft.
You just get a handful and put on your clothes and scrubbed them on the board and put a
whole lot in the big old wash pot and boil the clothes. Keep jabbing the clothes with the stick, a
paddle or something…you scrubbed the clothes on the washboard.
KW: You used washboards?
VG: Yes.
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�KW: How long did it take to wash all your clothes doing that?
VG: Oh, all day. But there were so many clothes to wash for a home and my mother was so
particular. Everything had to be just so clean. You would scrub them to get all the dirt out on
the washboard and then you would put the clothes in the pot and boil them in lye or that soap.
Mama used to just cut that white soap she had made. She just cut up a whole lot of the soap in
the pot and let it dissolve. Then she put the clothes in or had the pot usually hanging on poles
over the fire and you put wood underneath and boiled the clothes.
KW: Boy, I bet it did take a long time. Well, you said that you quilted. Do you still quilt?
VG Yes.
KW: Do you enjoy doing that?
VG: I love it.
KW: Did you do this one here (pointing to a quilt)?
VG: Yes.
KW: That’s pretty. I like that.
VG: I have made quilts all my life.
KW: Really? Do you sell them or give any quilts away, or just keep them?
VG: Oh, I have given them away. But you know, people used to…they had to have lots of quilts
because they didn’t have warm houses like they have now. We just had fireplaces. You had to
have lots of quilts for every winter. Mama made quilts.
I have quilted ever since I was old enough to quilt. Ever since I have been married, I have not
made as many. Well, I’ll say that I haven’t made quilts in maybe two years. I love to make quilts
in the wintertime.
KW: Do you do it with other people? Do you get together?
VG: Sometimes.
KW: I bet that’s fun.
VG: It really is. Last winter, a year ago now, I made three and Ethel, my sister, came up and
helped me finish the last one. I haven’t made any this winter. I’ve been lazy.
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�KW: Catch up next winter I guess.
VG: I love to piece the tops, all different designs and they are so pretty when you get them
done.
KW: They are pretty. When you were growing up can you remember any ‘outlaws’ in your
days?
VG: No.
KW: None at all? Did you ever hear of any murders or stealing?
VG: Yes, I had heard of stealing’s. I guess there were murderers, but not around here. But over
in Ashe (County) there were a bunch of children…they were about grown…but they would just
steal everything that was loose. They would steal from anybody that had a barn and a lot of
chickens. They would steal the eggs and chickens.
KW: Just for meanness?
VG: Well, I suppose that maybe they would cook the chickens and eat the eggs. I don’t know
what they did with them, but I know that bunch of children used to get our eggs and steal our
chickens. They did that everywhere.
KW: Can you remember any superstitions when you were growing up?
VG: Yes, one was not to walk under a ladder.
KW: That one still exists today.
VG: Yes. Everybody always thought that Friday the 13th was unlucky and everybody would try to
be so careful. Another one was not to cut your fingernails on Sunday.
KW: Why?
VG: I don’t know.
KW: I have never heard that one.
VG: People said that it was ‘bad luck’ to cut your fingernails on Sunday.
KW: Did you ever plant your garden by signs?
VG: Well, I didn’t know what the ‘signs’ were, but my mother always planted by the signs. This
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�lady Mrs. Trivette that lives across the way over there in the white house…she always planted
by the signs.
KW: A lot of people do that still today.
VG: I know. My mama always said to plant cucumbers and beans when the signs were in the
‘Twins’ (the Gemini astrology sign between May 21 to June 21) because there would be a
higher yield. She would have a lot more beans and cucumbers and they would make kraut.
Well, they still do that and pickle beans. Mama always made it (sauerkraut) when the sign was, I
believe, in the ‘Head.’ And pickled beans.
KW: Well, did the Depression affect your family very much?
VG: No.
KW: Really? You always had what you wanted?
VG: Well, not what we wanted, but you had enough to get by.
KW: Were you married?
VG: Yes.
KW: How many children did you have?
VG: Two. Ages two and three. Fayne was born during the Depression.
KW: Oh, was he?
VG: We bought this home here. Bought the land and we eventually got the house built on it.
We built the house enough so we could live in it and we just kept building. But I really
didn’t….because I have always made gardens and grew all the vegetables. We used to always
keep hogs. We never did keep beef, but we always bought half of beef or something in the fall
then would ‘can’ it.
KW: That helped a lot.
VG: Sure did and we had our own pork you know. I was having a hard time, but I had one
before. I don’t know if they were any different. I still just work as hard as I can.
KW: Good for you.
VG: I love to work.
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�KW: What was your husband’s job during the Depression?
VG: Truck driver. He owned his own truck and hauled lumber all the time.
KW: You said that you always had enough food during the Depression, right?
VG: Always had enough food. You could take fifty cents and buy a whole shopping bag (of
food).
KW: Could you really?
VG: You could really buy just as much food.
KW: What did you do about lights before electrical appliances came in?
VG: We had lamps, kerosene lamps for several years before we got power. We had two Aladdin
lamps and then just lots of little lamps. Just all over the house and we would go around and
light them.
KW: And blow them out when you went to bed?
VG: Blow them out when you went to bed and light them when you got up. We just washed the
lamp chimneys and trimmed the wicks.
KW: What was your first electrical appliance?
VG: A washing machine and an iron.
KW: Was that after you were married?
VG: Oh, yes. We didn’t have power until, I believe Kent was a baby before we got power
through here. I don’t know how long it’s been…it was the REA (1935 Rural Electrification Act).
KW: That is what you had?
VG: Yes, and we got it just as soon as they were available and then a washing machine and an
iron.
KW: I bet you were tickled with that?
VG: I sure was and I also had a refrigerator. Kerosene I believe and for several years before we
got power. We had a Delco light plant (a small generator that farmers used for electricity). We
had lights and we had a refrigerator that you had to run this plant (the Delco) to build up the
power. We didn’t have (consistent) electricity until the power line came through.
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�We had this Delco plant for several years before the power line came through. I forgot about
that. We had a building up here in the back with that light plant in it.
KW: Where is it at now?
VG: Oh, daddy sold it years and years ago. I can’t remember who bought it. Somebody back in
the country bought it before they got power. I can’t remember who.
KW: Tell me about some of the homemade remedies you had for medicines when you were
younger?
VG: Well, I’ll just have to tell you what mama did. If some of my children got sick, she doctored
them for years. She would make catnip tea and onion poultice (Onion poultices are used for
moving toxins out through the blood, lymph and skin in cases of bruising, swelling, and
inflammation that causes pain). Now, I don’t know how she made them, but she roasted an
onion poultice and I can’t remember what she put with it. But she would make that when one
was so tight in the chest. Put that on the chest. She used to make pennyroyal tea. Do you know
what pennyroyal is?
KW: No.
VG: Well, it grows out in the fields. It has a little blue flower on it and I don’t know what she
made that for. I mean, I don’t know what she doctored for, but I remember making it. That’s
about all I can remember other than salves and stuff like that. She used Vicks salve as far back
as I can remember it.
KW: Do you remember who was the first doctor in your community?
VG: After I moved up here, Dr. Blackburn. He lived in Todd, but he was our doctor and you had
to ride horseback, the doctor would. He was with me when my first baby was born and when
Fayne was born. Dr. J.B. Hagaman, Sr. was with me when Anna Lee was born.
Dr. Triplett from Wilkes was with me when the rest of them were born. They were all born here
at home.
KW: In your opinion, what do you think makes a good mother?
VG: Well, I think being Christian and I think staying home with your children and raising them
yourself and not leaving them with somebody else. I think correcting them and making them
mind, making them work. All of these things is what I did. I punished them if they didn’t…
KW: How did you punish them?
VG: I whipped them with a hickory (switch). That’s the way I punished them. Walter was always
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�gone. He was just always away from home and I was just here with the five boys and you know
how they can fight and carry one. So I just whipped (them).
KW: Do you think people raise their children different today?
VG: Oh, yes. You know when I was a girl, girls didn’t ever go anywhere by themselves or with a
boyfriend. There were always somebody with them and they didn’t date like they do now.
What we did on Sunday afternoons were all the neighborhood children would get together and
play ball or some kind of game.
One Sunday we would gather and play at someone’s house and another Sunday, another
house. Just a whole bunch of boys and girls. We played all kinds of games. We used to ride
horses, take turns you know. Someone would take a ride and then another would ride. Things
like that. There was nowhere to go except church.
We went to church and you would come back home and you had dinner. Several would be
there for dinner and we would go home with each other from church and spend the evenings
together and have a good time.
KW: Sounds like you did.
VG: We did have a good time. But everybody went home in time to do up the evening work.
They had their chores to do and they had to go home and do them. They knew better than not
to (to neglect chores) because back then children, they would mind their parents and if they
didn’t they got in trouble. They would tell their children what time to come home and the
children were there at that time.
KW: What did people when they were dating each other?
VG: They went to church and the boys would go home with the girls from church. That was all
we did. We just went to church.
KW: It’s different from today isn’t it?
VG: I know. There were no shows (movies) to go to like they do now. There just wasn’t anything
to do but go to church and sometimes in the fall, we would have corn shuckings. Just a whole
bunch of people getting together…young people and shuck corn and we’d play games. I can’t
remember how the game worked exactly, but every once in a while you would find a red-ear of
corn and you would get a prize for that. I can’t remember what the prize was. That’s all we did.
If children now were like they were back then, they would have had a much better time than
now because there wouldn’t be so many things to do and they would be happy just to get to
play. I always had to work, I didn’t have much time to play. I was the oldest girl and there were
eight children (siblings), so I took care of them, washed and cook. I was always busy.
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�KW: Okay, mama Greer, I want to ask you one more question. If you could change anything in
this world, what would you change?
VG: There are so many things that I’d change. I wouldn’t know which would be the most
important one. I really don’t. I just don’t know.
KW: Is there more than one thing that you would like to change?
VG: Yes. There are a lot of things that I want to see changed.
KW: Well, tell me one or two of them.
VG: Let me see…..one thing that I would change is the way young people do and I’d also change
a lot of things that the older people do. I’m just ‘old timey’ and I just like things to be done right
and good. I just want everybody to do what’s right.
KW: That’s the best way to be isn’t it?
VG: Oh, I’d just give anything if my children were all Christians and just lived life that I would
love them to. I think that I would be the happiest person in this world to see all my children
‘saved’ and all of them in church with my grandchildren.
END OF INTERVIEW
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Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
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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.
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1965-1989
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Artist
Greer, Viola (interviewee)
Ward, Karen (interviewer)
Duration
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01:33, Making 1uilts
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Title
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Interview with Viola N. Greer, June 14, 1943
Description
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Viola N. Greer was born on March 27, 1906 in Crandall, Tennessee, moving to Watauga County after she married Walter Greer and had two children Walter and Annie Lee. Her parents were Arthur and Martha Nichols Smith who were from Wilkes County, but had met in Tennessee. Her father bought timber for sawmills. As an adult she lived one year in Montana, then Ashe and Lenoir counties before returning to the Deep Gap area of Watauga County, where her children were reared. She died on November 2, 2003 at the age of 97.
During the interview Mrs. Greer talked about her parents, the importance of religion, quilting, making soap, superstitions such as walking under ladders, and planting by the signs.
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Greer, Viola N.
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<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
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14-Jun-73
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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.
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MP3
Extent
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15 pages
Language
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English
English
Type
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Sound
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Watauga County (N.C.)
Subject
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Greer, Viola N.--Interviews
Christian women--Religious life--North Carolina--Watauga County
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Tennessee--Social life and customs--20th century
Quilting--North Carolina--Watauga County
Deep Gap
making quilts
religion
Tennessee
Watauga County N.C.