Interview with Ruth South [January 10, 1976]
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
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.
Hyder, Wade
Proffit, Deloris
South, Ruth
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Interview with L.E. Tuckwiller, April 10, 1973
Farm life--West Virginia--20th century
West Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century
Farm life--North Carolina--Watauga County--20th century
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Mountain life--West Virginia--History--20th century--Anecdotes
Berea College
L.E. Tuckwiller was born September 16, 1908 in West Virginia. He graduated from Berea College in 1934 and was the Watauga County extension agent for the past 30 years.
Mr. Tuckwiller talks mostly about his career as an extension agent throughout the interview. He explains his academic career and what lead him to the job. Mr. Tuckwiller was born and raised in West Virginia, so he describes the history of that area and compares the land to Boone. He also talks about his childhood on the farm and stories he heard of the Native Americans and the Civil War. For a large portion of the interview, Mr. Tuckwiller talks about farming in Boone and how he has worked with farmers. He also discusses the loss of farming land to development.
Lamm, Joy
Tuckwiller, LE
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Interview with James Edwards, June 12, 1973
Farm life--North Carolina--Baldwin (Township)--20th century
Baldwin (N.C. : Township)--Social life and customs--20th century
Farm life--North Carolina--Ashe County--20th century
Ashe County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Depression--1929--North Carolina--Ashe County
James Edwards was born in Bladwin, North Carolina in 1890 where he grew up on a farm. His occupations included painting and carpentry. Mr. Edwards built his own house in 1912 in West Jefferson.
Mr. Edwards spends a large portion of the interview talking about growing up on the farm. He also talks about cooking and producing food such as molasses and drying fruits. Mr. Edwards also talks briefly about his mother's cooking and recalls some memories from holidays as a child such as Easter and Christmas. He recollects childhood memories of courting, school, church, the Great Depression, and fun activities children did at his age. He also briefly mentions helping with work projects during the Great Depression.
McNeely, Mike
Edwards, James
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6/12/1973
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Interview with Charles Bolick, June 21, 1974
Bolick, Charles (1891-)--Interviews
Farm life--North Carolina--Caldwell County--History--20th century
Distilling, Illicit--North Carolina--Caldwell County
Caldwell County (N.C.)--History--20th century
Caldwell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
“Charles” Wesley Bolick was born on August 15, 1897 in the Mulberry Valley community of Caldwell County about ten miles from Blowing Rock, North Carolina. His parents were Emanuel (b. October 24, 1852 - d. August
16, 1926) and Mary Vienna Sherrill Bolick (b. April 1860 – d. August 27, 1934). He had four siblings and was married to Elizabeth “Libby” Gomer Bolick (b. October 7, 1881 – d. January 16, 1983). Charles Bolick died on April 29, 1996 at the age of 98.
During the interview he talks about his parents and siblings, selling whiskey, making apple brandy, living off the land and making everything the family needed. He reflects on the Depression, and attending school. He also discusses making molasses, sleeping on a rope bed, courting, digging for ginseng, and the floods of 1916 and 1940.
Bolick, Charles
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21-Jun-74
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