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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?
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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
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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 .
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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.
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Interviewer:
Is that---
Were roost of the men you mentioned were they confederate?
Mr. Proffit:
All confederate .
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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Uh-Is that drinking soda or baking soda?
No baking soda.
Interviewer:
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Interviewer:
Mr. Proffit:
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They still don't call drinks soda here.
Intervierer:
Yeah. I guess that's just where where I'm from.
0 Interviewer:
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,) 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---
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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?
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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
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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 .
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Skelton, Joseph
Proffit, Deloris
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Proffit, Deloris
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Mountain life--North Carolina--Watauga County--History
Mountain life--North Carolina--Ashe County--History
Mountain life--North Carolina--Wilkes County--History
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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Deloris Proffit
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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
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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
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This is an interview with Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Richards for the
Appalachian Oral History Project by Donna Clawson at Rt. 7,
Boone, en June 12, 1973.
Q: Mrs.-Richards I'll start with you.
Where were you born?
A: Well, I was born at Silver Stone in 1902.
March 5, 1902.
Q: And your parents always lived in there?
A: Yes.
Q: They were born in Silver Stone two?
A: Well, my mother was born rear Poplar Grove and my papa
was horn there.
Q: How many brothers and sisters did you have?
A: Well, does that mean living?
Q: No.
A: Well I have six sisters and one brother all the others
are gone.
Q: Can you remember, do you have many memories of what life
was like when you were growing up.
Did you live on a farm?
A: -fes.
Q: What kind of crops did you raise?
A: Well, Papa raised corn, wheart back then to amke our flour,
you
taow.
WB used to gst out the Dutch oven, my brother is
one of the younger ones, you know.
Us girls, he used to cut
his wheat with you've seen these old cradles you know. Did
you ever see cne and cut wheat by hand?
�We raised our corn, hogs and chickens, things like thata
didn't have to run.to the store for everything.
You
It was pretty
hard vork.
Q: Did your father sell any of his crops or did he just
A: Well, I didn't have ituch0
0
.
I went to "the sixth grade.
Q: How many months out of the yaar did you go to school?
A: Well, when I first started in school it was four months.
Then they got to having six month school.
Q: What was the names of the schools you attended„
A: I always went to Silver Stone.
Q: Do you remember you teachers names.
A: Well, my first teacher was Mrs. Lottie Bowes, she's still
living and I think my next .teachers name was Jack Greene and
Mr. Charlie Haigaman, and Mr. Alie Tugman and Mr. Don Horton
and that was all of them.
Q: What kind of thing did you learn and what kind of text books
did you have?
A: Well, at first we didn't have anything only first reader,
they called it.
And then got a little high.
We had a reader
and spelling, arithmetic and grammer they called it, geography
history.
Q: About the same thing they teach no isn't it?
A: I guess so.
Q: I think it is0
Mr. Richards where were you born?
�A: Caldwell County, I think.
Q: And were your parents from these too?
A: Vfell, ny father was.
My mother and father lived there and
I come back up here to this country in the mountains when I
was six years old.. We lived up on Meat Camp from 6 til I was
grown, about 20 or something like that.
farmed you know.
I lived up the 1s and
About everybody ip there farmed.
It was
hard labor of course but we farmed.
Q: What year were you born?
A: 1897.
Qi What kind of crops did you raise on your farm?
A: Well, it was just about like she'd tell you.
Corn, pota-
toes you know wheat, rye, buckwheat alot of buckwheat«,
thing to eat on too, you know.
Some-
And that was before they had
the market crops like tobacco, beans and cabbage.
In the later
years we got to having market crops, like tobacco and stuff.
Q: What kind of live stock did you have?
A: Cattle mostly, worked steers.
Did you ever see any steers?
Q: Yeah, I seen 'em.
A: Steers to plow throught the harvest.
Had an old cross cut
saw to saw up wood in the winter, to put in the fireplaces about
half as wide as this house.
Q: Go diead.
A: One time one side would burn up and the other side would
freeze.
�Q: I didn ' t know.
A: My father would, Jater years got to rasing tomatoes and cabbage to sell0
Q: What about school?
How many years of schooling did you
bave?
A: I don't know.
I did n't do no good when I did go.
About quit between fifth and sixth grade.
Q: Howmany months out of the year did you go?
A: About ibru months sometimes we'd run short about three
monthso
It didn't take long sessions like they do now.
children most of them any account at all had to work.
to farm the time I was twelve yaars old on.
The
I had
We all had to work
seem like to make it. We didn't have a bif family no how.
Just myself and two sisters.
One of them lives in California
and the other one passes away a week ago Saturday.
My mother
married, you know Jason Muller don't you.
Q: I don't know.
A: He lived here and was raised up on Meat Camp up there and
never traveled around too much.
He was Larken Miller's brother.
All passes away I think but Jason.
But he married my mother
and I had a step father for about five or six years.
up about 12 years old0
(Mrs. Ro 'I think he was about 10'))
A: Well, something along there.
(Mrs. R. 'I know he's 94')
I can't remember0
I was
�Q: When did you two get married?
A: Miy the sixteenth, 1918.
Q: Where did you live then?
A: Well, he lived on Meat Camp and I lived. . 0 Oh, you mean
where we lived after we got married.
Q; Yeah0
A: Well, we lived on Meat Camp awhile and we moved over to Silver
Stone over there.
while aid out
And we moved over to Howard's Creek a little
to somewhere.
Q: You've always lived in this county then0
A: Yes.
A: (Mr. R.) No we lived about four years in Cleveland, Ohio,
wasn't it.
R: Well we didn't exactly move up there.
A: We lived up ther with Sally Roten (Mr. R).
A: You was vorking up there and I would go up there awhile.
Q: Mr. Richards what kind of jobs did you have?
A: All kinds.
I've worked in several shops.
I've worked in
a shop up there in Cleveland and I used to work at Lenior in
a furniture shop.
And I've had several jobs sawmilling, car-
pentry work and I never could be very choicy about that.
I
had to work at something or another that wasn't hardly right
to work awhile and find something better.
Jones, don't you. feymond Jone's brother.
You remember Hubfoard
Joneses sons.
I
�worked for him a whole lot.
I reckon liked him alot.
Most of anybody that sawmilled
I don't guess you remember a bunch
of Jews around run a pie factory a few years ago.
when ve first moved out here wasn't it.
ago0
It was
Close to 30 years
I don't imagine you're that old.
Q: Not qiitec
A: I vrorked there 10 years ago or longer around and about, around
and around.
Q: Can you remember a time when you had a hard time getting
a job?
A: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, lots of times you couldn't hardly get
a pi?.
Eack then they didn't pay much, they got labor real
cheap»
I used to vrork alot for a dollar a day and wages like
that.
And now they don't like tlBt you know.
A: (Mrs. R) If you got a hold of five dollars you thought that
was a whole lot of money , didn't they.
A: (Mr. R.) How much was it a dollar and seventy five cents or
a dollar and a half, something like that.
He was awful good to pay what he promised,,
I don't remember.
It wasn't very much,
but still we sorta lived about all you could expect was to live
and went to Cleveland, then and made better there, better than
I ever had in this county.
Q: What kind of wrk did you do in Cleveland?
A: I worked in a factory or where they made
�R. I call them clothers hampers.) Clothes hampers.
For people to carry their laundry around in.
like that*,
All kinds of stuff
I did so many different things I can't remember
all of it.
A: (MrSo Ro) . . „ we have had it a long time andit's getting
old.
A: Bunch of Jews I worked for and they were from New York and
ate these0
I cut out all that stuff outl
I cut it all out
on a shaping machine a saw, a big table saw, and shaping machine
and a , they tad all kinds of machinery and I ran a machine
all the time myself.
They vent to a lot of. . . They was
alot of people worked there0
We went to a more colored people.
QK How many hours a day did you work?
A: Well, I worked eight„
We were supposed to work about eight
hours, but they let me work a lot of overtime„
10 hours, 10 orU hours alot of days.
I'd work avbout
We got time and a half
for o/er forty and thats the reason I made pretty good, was
the over time.
The pay wasn't but about a dollar and sixty
cents, I believe it was0
Then I'd get couple hours, maybe 3
everyday of overtime and when it ran over forty hours I got
time and a half.
Then carried up pretty good when payday come.
Q What year was it you were working up there?
A: 1952, fall wouldn't it.
3952, I went up there then about
four years later I come back about '56 or '570
Something like
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about 1956 or 1957.
Then messing around here I haven't done
too nuch work since I came back0
On a job.
I've been busy
all the time but it's been a farming and messing around,,
Q: What about diurches in the area.
Can you remember churches
that been around here?
A: ¥>u Mean.
Q: The denominations.
What kinds of churches?
Just in the
county and around.
A: (Mrs. R.) You nean we've attended.
Q: Well, yeah, Just any you can remember.
A: Well, I can remember Methodist Churches and Lutheran, we
still have them. Baptist, we always went to the Baptist Church.
Oh, I have been to the Methodist Church that was up at Silver
Stone.
I don't think to any denomination outside of the Baptist
Church since we lived over here*
Q: To which church did most of the people belong.
Which church
did most people attend?
A: (Mrs. R.) I always thought it was the Baptist, of course I
dan't know for sure.
Q: What were the churches like, have they changed slot?
A: Well, some of them have , but I like the old time way.
Q: How are they different.
A: Well, I don't know what.
You go to diurch now.
the people have the interest that they used to did0
then they had monthly meetings0
Seem like
Of course
The preacher would preach once.
�They'd have Saturday meetings to attend to all of the business
you friow, and on Sunday.
Of course we'd have Sunday School
every Sunday, but we wouldn't have preching any more till next
month.
Aid I remember the fourth Sunday was the monthly meeting
in Silver Stone.
once a uear.
And , oh, they'd have revivals you know about
Sometimes they'd last two weeks and they would
have a big time.
Have services in the daytime, then at night.
Q: Do you know how this community got its name?
Rainbow Trail
community.
A: I dan't rightly know0
Thats the name as far back as I can
remember. (Mr. R.)
A: (Mrs0 R, > Maybe Mr. Walter Cullins could know.
Q: Yeah, I talked to him.
A: They used to call it the Doe Ridge Section back up in yonder
that mountain right thea is Doe Ridge Mountain.
This used to
go by the name of Doe Ridge Road till after we moved out here
then they got to calling it Rainbow Trail.,
come they to change.
I don't know how
(Mrs. R.)
Q: Well this road here goes in around to Doe Ridge Church, years
ago,
It maybe now that it's impassable back up there in that
mountain.
I've been through these a couple of times, it's
just a dirt road , around through there years ago.
I can remem-
ber a person could walk up throug there. (Mr. R)
A: (Mrs R) Well we've not been out in there in 7 or 8 years
have we.
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A: (Mr. R) Yeah, I guess,
A: (Mrs. R) We've been living out in here nearly fifty years0
A:(Mr. R) What?
A: (Mrs. R) We've been living out in here nearly 30 yearso
Johnny wasn't hit about 3 years olcU
Johnny's 32, maybe 29
or 30 years.
Q: How has the community changed over the years?
A: (Mr. R) Everybody living, buildt em a new house.
A: (Mrs. R) Much better ttiat it was then.
moved in town yonder.
I know when we
Lots of barns looked better than it
did.
A: (Mr. R) You remember, that old house down yonder0
A: Yeah,
A: (Mrs. R) She did n't look to see if it looked worse.
A: (Mr. R) You oould tell from the outside before we tors it
down.
Couldn't possibly be very much on the inside.
A: (mrs. R)) I wonder how we kept from freezing to death of
a winter time.
Q: How long did you live down there?
A: (Mrs. R) Law we lived down there. We moved into this house
from down there in 1960 and I never stopped to count.
A: (Jtfr. R) Down there about 12 years.
A: (Mrs. R) Down there about 29 or 30 years then 1960 we moved
up here.
A: (Mr. R) From "72 it been 12 or 13 years0
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A: (Mrs. R) From 1960 on, no 1959 then it come that awful, can
you remember that awful snow that come in 1960=
Q: Yeah,
A: We vas moved in this house thei?,we was lucky we got moved,
Well, the weather seemed colder on us you knowa
One winter
time0
Q: I bet these alot more people lived around here now than
they used to be.
A: (Mr. R) Yeah.
A: (Mrs. R} The
0
. . moved in there.
We moved out here.
Who
moved out there at that house? Anybody living over there at
time?
Well, he lived over there awhile and Mr. Ladkey.
A: (Mr. R) Oh yeah he lived there longer than us.
A: (Mrs,R) Yeah, he bought up that place and then Gladys Smith,
she moved up here in this house a little while after we moved
in that old house dswn there0
where John Greene lives now.
And Mr. Hartley lived up there
Ed's mother.
But they Mr. Lewis
and Hartlys were off down the country a working.
daddy moved back.
When their
Mr. Colors he lived up in the hollar and
Donald Miller and ttet was about all.
And Mr. Woodry.
And
we lived down in the old house which we tore down.
That little
house that stood over there and they tore it down.
I forgot
them, and I believe Jeff Garner lived out there where Mr.
in an dd house that s$bd over there and they tore it down.
Where Mr. Woodring lived„
Of course they lived in another
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home.
And then there is Glenn Pierce the were living out there
in a house that got burned.
I can't remember.
I guess the,
Mr. and Mrs. Lackey living over there across the river.
A: (Mrs. R) Yeah, I remember em living over there along time.
A: The old road was like a stieeps path, the road down there„
The bushes out the other side of Mr0 Woods would generally lap
across the road.
A: (Mr0 R) You couldn't meet somebody two a walking, you couldn't
hardley passing0
Holler and a scare you to death.
Car couldn't
come out in here at that tLme0
A: (Mrs. R) There was one once in a while, I don't hardly see
how it did.
A: (Mr. R) The bushes was high and the cliffs down in here one
time.
Antler's one, hung on the youngest one, what's his name?
A: Petty
A: (Mr. R) Help me cut out the bushes off the bank of the road
so they wouldn't lap over the road.
cut em let the state cut em0
And they said let -ftie state
The state wouldn't come out here.
No electric lines, nothing out here.
A: (Mrs. R) We did have no maid; out there0
A: Yeah, we had to put our mail box out theie at Mrs. Barnes0
(Mrs. New Barnes0)
A: (Mr0 R) And they says let the state and I think to myself
you've got a long wait.
Q: The way it goeso
Well how long wag it till the mail started
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coming ip in here?
A: I don't Know but it was a good long while.
A:
(Mrs* R) I took awhile.
I don't remember how long it took.
The School bus come out there at to Mr. Judd Barnes and turned
there and the mail gst coming out that far. And it wasn't too
many years till ttie moil got to coming out that far. And as
to where you used to turn over to your house.
And then a little
later on it got to going to the top of the hil!0
Q: Wello
A: (Mr.R) There was Clyde Rumbarger. Do you remember Clyde Rumbarger?
Q: "feaho
A: Me and him used to go to school together.
We while,
we was raised up on Meat Camp and he carried the mail back here
A: (Mrs. R) I know a Johnny.
Tried to rush around and get out
to Mr. Woodring to catch the bus. Of course after they left
home, they's poke around and let the school bus leave them.
I'd get so aggravated.
Q: How did people get"around back then, when you were growing
up?
A: (Mr, R) They was a few people had horspes/ some wouldn't
or couldn't buy a saddle hores and buggy0
A buggy would
just run over you0
A: fclrse R) If you can believe it, I have gone to church
and other places in an ox and wagon.
Roads rough , rocky
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you know, just jolt around.
Q: I'll bet it would.
I guess it could.
A: (Mrs. R) Well, my daddy always kept an exxtra team.
out horse to work on the farm.
He kept an ox,
Rent
you'd better
b elieve they were pretty slow, but they started to plow farming
-he done with them oxen.,
here on the mountain0
Around the old turnpike you know up
Hauled all over the whole county0
Q: Where did most of the roads run?
Well just where were the
roads you had there?
A: (Mr. R) They were mud roads.
You sorta know this one was
when you fold moved in the old road.
in the country, where we growed up.
Gravel road or two like that.
worked
About like they all was
They wasn't no paved roads.
on them a little.
labor wanted the people out you know setting roads.
Free
Then they
would go in and take a rake, I call it a hoe.
A: (Mrs. R) Well a lot of the old new roads now run pretty
close to SDiaejof the old roads o
A: (Mr.R)> Pretty much the way they do now0
A.s Mrs. R They didn't used to be any old roads0
them pretty close to where the old roads were.
End
of Interview
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Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
Description
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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.
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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Richards, June 12, 1973
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Mrs. Richards was born March 5, 1902 in Silverstone, NC where she was raised on a farm. Mr. Richards was born in Caldwell County in 1897. He worked many different jobs including sawmilling and carpentry.
Mr. and Mrs. Richards recall their childhoods growing up on farms and their small amount of schooling. Mr. Richards talks about the hard time he had finding jobs and describes his working experience in his different career paths. He worked for four years in Cleveland, Ohio. The couple talks about the community and the changes it has experienced in transportation and religion.
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Richards, G. L.--Interviews
Richards, G. L., Mrs.--Interviews
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Avery County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Farm life--North Carolina--Watauga County--20th century
Caldwell County
carpentry
church
Cleveland
crops
farm
furniture shop
G.L. Richards
Lenior
Meat Camp
North Carolina
Ohio
Poplar Grove
sawmilling
Silver Stone
Sunday School
transportation
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This is an interview for the Appalachian Oral History
Program with Mr. C. K. Morris of Meat Camp, North .Carolina.
The interview is by Mike McNeely and today's date is
June 11, 1973.
Q. Alright, Mr. Norris, Let's start out with talking about
your, the farm you were born on. When and where were you
born?
A. Right up at that old house.
Q. What was the year you were born?
A. Eighteen and ninety-one.
Q. Okay.
Uh, ya...ya daddy was a farmer, right?
A. Yeah.
Q. How many brothers and sisters did you have?
A. I had three sisters and three brothers.
Q. Sounds like your daddy had a lot of help on that farm.
A. Well, right much.
Q. Let me get something here.
Uh, how big was the farm?
A. Uh...
Q. Acre wise...
A. Uh, you might say it's only about, about forty acres now,
till we added more to it.
Q. And how much of that forty acres was used for farming?
A. Well, I'll say about half of it.
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Q.
What all did you grow?
A.
Crowed potatoes, corn,, cabbage, wheat, rye, buckwheat.
And we had our own fruit, had ? orchard with plenty of
apples. We kept cows, made our milk, made butter and
cheese. Kept chickens for eggs and for the market. That's
about all the farming.
Q.
How much of the vegetables and stuff that you grew, how much
of that was used for the market and how much for your own,
home grown use ?
A.
Well, it took right much to feed all them people. I'd say
about half, about half a that amount. And that, the surplus
was hauled to town. It was hauled to Lenoir, Hickory, and
Morganton. We bought our salt and flour and what groceries
we used then out of the store, we bought with surplus, and
paid on taxes. We h?d to have enough to pay the taxes. And
on this farm one time, the tax was only about $4, 00,
Q.
Was that with all the buildings and everything on it?
A.
Yeah, and now I pay a hundred or more. A lot of difference.
Q.
Did you have hogs on your farm?
A.
Yes, We raised our own meat, raised our hogs, raised a few calves
for the market. And there wasn't so many cattle in the county then,.
like there is now. Most every family had, oh, from three to six
cows. And they milked 'em-a big family used a lot of milk.
And they'd sell off the calf. A plump, good calf would bring
ten dollars,, ten dollars to twenty dollars, A cow would bring about
twenty-five. Mow ed, mowed the meadow with a mowing
siythe. You know what th$t is. Cradle it, cut the grain with a
cradle- you ever seen a grain cradle?
Q. I'm not sure. You got one up in your barn?
A".
There's one a hanging right out there in the back of that shed.
Q.
You shew it to me pfterwhile, and I'll get a picture of it.
I saw your cniltivstor, pnd you had & plow ?nd what else?
�A.
We had a lay-off plow and a cultivator. Where they cleared
the land - where they cleared , now they'd go in the woods and
clear , like that over there. 'That mountain, one time, was
in timber all over this bottom. Go in there, and cut that
timber and pile it and cut it, and saw it up, so they could roll
it in big piles and burn it. Burn the logs and the brush. And
if it was too bad, the first year they'd dig holes sndijilant their
corn and beans. Dig holes with a hoe. And by next year, thye'd
take - they used 9 lot of them, ole shovel plows. Just one plow like sort a like a. cultivator, you know, a lay - off plow. They used
them a lot in gauching up the land. They used mainly the hoe
in the steep land. A lot of land was used , farmed and never cultivated.
I mean they just dug it with a hoe. Stacked their hay, mowed with a scythe,
and stacked their hay out in the meadow. You've seen hay stacks, plenty
of them.
Q. There's not as m^ny now, though as there were.
A. No, no body stacks their hay anymore. Very few really. Back on Cove
Creek way, they.stack right much hay, back toward Mountain City.
Q. Did you let your hogs - I was reading somewhere that a lot of people let
their hogs run free back then.
A. Run their hogs, and their sheep and some cattle - run 'em out in the range. Turn
'em out in the spring and go and, go and get what was left in the fall. And
everybody had fences and some cattle just run out on the outside. They had
stocklaw then and everybody had a fence back when I was growing up. All
the fences were made out of rails. Made out a split rails, yonder lies
a pile right now.
Q. How was that meat from the cows and hogs that ran free around
wag -fotfesin the woods? Was it any good?
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A. Oh yeah. Well, they'd bring 'em in now, they drove - bring
•em in and put 'em in pens and feed 'em corn a while before
they killed 'env And they's a lot - now some of them,
they's sjpme run out and was killed just off of the mash.
Had lots of chestnuts and acorns, and them hogs would get
just as fat , and that was the best meat you ever tasted.
A lot of -'em noe, they'd bring their hogs in, they had 'em
marked, every man, you know, they'd get together. And every
man had a certain mark that he knowed his hogs. And then
when they brought 'em in, they'd sort 'em out. Get "em in
a pen, a lot somewhere, and every fella pick 'em out.
A lot of 'em'd go wild. Once in a while, they'd never get
'em. They'd be wild hogs out in the mountains.
�Q. When did ya'll have your - did you have an annual kill, or
you ju$t kill 'em at different times during the year of what?
A. Anytime, anytime, there wasn't no slaughter pens at that time
My neighbors'd go in and help each other kill hogs. Sometimes
they'd kill fifteen or twenty a day. A whole lot of hands go
in, keep water in big ole pots and barrels and fill a barrel.
And they'd kill their hogs and drag 'em in. I've helped kill
as high as twelve of fourteen in a day. Kill, maybe one man'
have two or three of half a dozen. Go in and dress his'n out
whatever he wanted to kill. A lot of times, they's killed
one or two at, a time. They didn't go in and butcher 'em all
day long lik;rthey do now. •-/• And I never treated 'em or never
really took care of 'em, just kill 'em and salt the meat in
big ole barrels. And where they'd stay, well I've seen old
buildings was good then like that one there and they's
just hanging a;; over up stairs.
Did they smoke a lot of it?
A. Yeah.
Q. Did they smoke it instead of salt it?
A. They had to salt it, It'd take salt - they had to let
it take the salt and then they'd hang it up and smoke it.
They salted it in them barrels and lets see, there's about
a month and a half to two months and then they'd hang it
up, and then they'd put that smoke under it.
Q. Did the smoke give it any flavor?
A. Oh yeah, that smoke flavor's real, well, you can get this
breakfast bacon that's got that smokeed flavor. It was
more of a smoked flavor then, when we smoked it in the ole
smoke houses than they did in this bacon you buy.
Q. That's sorta like getting charcoal broiled hamburgers now,
get the taste of it like that?
A. Yeah.
Q. Well, you didn't have refrigerators or freezers back then...
A. No, we didn't have no freezers, and we kept the milk and butter
in the , had the spring house. Built a house right up the
spring. The water run in, and they have a big ole
trough as long as that car that run that the water right from
the spring in there and they kept their milk and their, all of
their stuff that, they like to use a freezer now. All their
pickled beans and kraut and everything that stayed in that
water. And it was like that, it kept it cold. And they
kept their butter and they salted and canned a lot of their
meat. They canned that and salted as we do yet. And they
salted and tender loined and all that stuff"now, they put
in cans and it'll keep right on.
Q. How about your vegetables? You didn't keep them in your
spring house did ya?
�A. No, nothing much. We buried the cabbage, the potatoes
and rutabaga and all the root crops eventually we
.
And we buried the cabbage and they're burying a lot of times,
burying a lot of them cabbage and use 'em all winter and the
dig 'em up, and sometimes there'd be a whole big field of
'em. And in the winter, they'd haul 'em to market they didn't
need to use and make barrels of kraut. I've seen them ole
wooden barrels - the fifty gallon barrels of kraut. And they'd
haul it to market a lot of it to sell it, oh, in a pint or a
quart. Just measure it out. Used to haul it to Lenior,
and them niggers, you couldn't fight 'em off: of the wagon.
Q. How did you make kraut?
A. Well, ya have that - hack that cabbage up real fine, pack it
in a barrel, put salt on it. Put so much salt. And then they
weight it down, put a plank on the barrel, put a rock and then
they'd put weight on it. And it'd pickle that cabbage in
only a little while. It didn't take it long to pickle it.
And then you'd have kraut right on.
Q. Was that kraut better than what you get over at Watauga?
A. Two to one better! Way better. That old chopped
really good. Take a dish of that kraut on a cold
and put a little sugar and black pepper on it and
it raw. It's good cooked too. I love it raw and
It was really good.
kraut was
winter day
just eat
do yet.
Q. Do you remember any days like Christmas or Easter or your
birthday or anything? What was Christmas like back when you
were a child?
A. Well, we didn't have much Christmas. I gotta stick or two
of candy and an apple or two, and a orange once in a while.
We didn't have but way little Christmas. Most kids got a
few sticks of candy. Didn't have no toys. Very few toys
at that time.
Q. Did you have a Christmas tree?
A. Sometimes we'd have a little Christmas tree. Sometimes at
the closing of school, they'd have a big Christmas tree and
the kids would all getta, all getta a little package, a few
sticks of candy, orange, apple or two, and that's about it.
Baked ole molasses sweet bread for a cake. I love it now
better than anything you can buy.
Q. You ever make molasses yourself?
�A. Oh yeah, we made our own molasses.
Q. How do you do that?
A. Well you grow the cane and pull the fodder off of it. Go
in and top and pull the fodder off and run it through them
rollers and catch the juice. Run it through a cane mill.
You ever see a cane mill?
Q. I think so, yeah.
A. Two; big ole rollers, and you ground with a horse. Horse
pulled it. Big ole pole round and it just went round and
rounf. Stick that cane in and it squeezes juice out. And
they had a furnace and a big ole boiler sitting on it. And
they boiled that sown and made molasses. I've ground cane
a many a time till I'd just about freeze. And then the
kids'd come on and play on the cane stalks and have a good
time. Boiling molasses, ah, nearly every family back then
made their own molasses. Some of 'em made a hundred gallon
or two. But the average family didn't make but twenty or
forty gallon. And then they didn't have to have much sugar.
Sweetened a lot - and they made tree syrup.
Q. Maple syrup?
A. Maple syrup - maple sugar. I can remember my mother sweetening
her berries and fruits with the maple sugar. They'd have big
ole dishpans full of it and just go and shave off whatever
they wanted and put it in their fruit.
Q. Mr. Walter was telling about a guy that still does that,
when he makes pis molasses, he just boils it on down to sugar,
cakes it up, and goes and sells it to the stores.
A. Oh yeah, there's a few that still makes that tree sugar and
tree syrup.
Q. Did your mother use that much in her jellies when she was
making it?
A. Well,,1 don't know whether they used it much. They didn't
make much jelly at that time. I don't know whether they
used any in jelly or not. They could have, I guess. I
guess it would really be better flavor than the white sugar
now. I can remember when you could buy brown sugar. They got
it in big barrels. I've got some barrels now. Four hundred
pounds of brown sugar and you could buy it for $20.00, five
cents a pound. And the white sugar was a little bit higher.
And they weighed it out in, from a pound on up to whatever
you wanted. Dipped it out with' a scoop and put it in bags.
Q. Yeah, its already bagged up.
A. Yeah, it's up to four hundred pounds usually in a bag. And
a, and the first fertilizer that ever come to this county
come in barrels. Two hundred pounds in a barrel.
�Q. What did you use before fertilizer, before it came in the
barrels?
A. We didn't use it. We didn't have it. We just planted
without it.
Q. Did you use any, like cow manure or anything?
A. Yeah, we used what manure we had. We used manure, and the
earth growed the rest of it.
Q. How about the feed for the animals? Did you just feed them
some corn that you grew or did you go buy some of that or
grind it up...
A. Well, we ground into, I had it ground, some of 'em fed the
biggest part of it just whole. Feed your cattle whole. They
had some ground. They'd have the buckwheat and rye, they had
the small grains ground, but most the corn was just fed whole.
Wasn't no hammer mills. Just a flour mill and a corn mill
was all the mills there was then. There wasn't no thing as
a hammer mill. All water power. Back yonder all the mills
in this country was run by water. Big whole water wheels,
you've seen 'em.
Q. Like down at Mr. Winebarger's mill?
A. We take wagon loads of grain up there, of buckwheat, raised
buckwheat, and go and have it ground and then use a lot of
it for flour. And ole buckwheat cakes are good. And then
they haul it. They'd have that flour ground and put in ten,
twenty-five pound bags and haul it to Lenior and all down
south, Lenior, Morganton, Hickory, Statesville. And sell to
the stores. Swap it for wheat flour and we bought our salt.
We'd buy a hundred pounds of salt for sixty cents ($.60) then.
Q. Wow!
A. In Lenior, that's what it cost.
Q. Did you truck it down the mountain in wagons?
A. Oh yeah, there wasn't no trucks.
Done it all in wagons.
Q. How were the roads?
A. Muddy a lot of the time. Real muddy. Sometimes there'd be
a row of wagons as far as from here to the creek, right along
together. And they'd all camp out of the night, tie our
horses and cattle up and feed 'em. Lot of time we got to
make our bed on the ground under the wagon. After we'd get
a load off - after we'd get a load off the wagon, then we'd
have hay and stuff we'd fetch on our load for our produce,
you know, and then we'd sleep in the wagon. And it was fun
when the weather was good. I'd enjoy it now. But it was
rough going, when it was pouring rain or snowing.
Q. You had to go in the winter?
�A. Oh yeah. We'd go when it was cold weather. Oh, we had a lot
of apples then. Haul apples, potatoes, chestnuts, beans, shale
wheat, buckwheat flour, meat, butter, and stuffed hams - people
then sold a lot of hams. The farmers have more meat than they
could use, and they'd haul them and sell them to the stores.
And you didn't see much loaf, well, in this part of the country
they didn't. Very seldom did you see a loaf of bread in the
store. They didn't - well down in the bigger towns you could
get loaves of it some places. And you go in and you could buy
sausage and beef and
. We done our own cooking.
It was fun. Build a fire outside and cook potatoes and cabbage;
we didn't take time to cook beans. Fried taters and onions.
Tie our team up and feed 'em and while they were eating, we'd
get supper or breakfast. Fry eggs and meat. And hit was they was a lot of fun in it. Whole lot of hard work and
hardships too.
Q. Do you remember any incidences where a wagon didn't make it
all the way down? Where there any that ran off the road?
A. Well, not much. There's a woman or two got killed, run off the
road on a wagon, way down at Blowing Rock Mountain. And once
in awhile they'd be a team run away and tear up everything.
But not hardly ever hear tell of any. Once in awhile you
hear tell of a train running over a team and killing them.
And it took about four days to go, four or five days to go
to Lenior and back, sell your load out. Took about two days
to go and get your load off and get back home - and two more
to get back. And if it was slow selling, it took another day
Sometimes you'd see twenty-five or thirty wagons in town selling
produce. They peddled a lot; they'd go from house to house,
done a lot of peddlin'. And sometimes they'd buy half a
bushel of potatoes, apples, bushel - bushel of potatoes, maybe,
and a bushel of apples. Oh, the next house, maybe they didn't
want nothing, maybe the next one you'd go to would buy something. That's the way we got rid of a loy of it.
Q. What was the price of farm products back then?
A. Well, potatoes was a dollar or less a bushel. And apples sixty cents to a dollar a bushel. And cabbage was seventyfive cents to a dollar a hundred. Now we didn't get eight or
ten cents a pound back then like they do now.
Q. Did your mother, here at the house, did she bake a lot?
A. Yeah, they baked corn bread and biscuits, fried buckwheat
cakes , made light - homemade, light bread, baked pies,
cookies, sweet bread, that ole molassey bread. And that was
all done in an ole skillet by the fire.
Q. When did ya'll - ya'll get a wood stove?
�A. Finally, I can remember. I helped work out money to buy the
first wood stove my mother ever had to cook on.
Q. Which did she like better, working on the fireplace or the
cookstove?
A. Oh, it was much better to have a cookstove. Easier to do the
cooking, than it was by the fireplace. But that ole cornbread
and light bread baked in them ole skillets, it would melt in
your mouth. It was the best cornbread I ever eat. She had a
great big ole oven she baked light bread in. Loaf bread, they
call it now. A great big thing. And she'd mix her - make
up her yeast and get her dough ready, put it in that big ole
oven and she just heated it real slow, barely warm, you know.
And it'd rise a way up - just puff a way up there. Be that
thick. And then she'd put coals under it and she had a lid
to fit it, a cast iron lid. And it'd rise up there, and she
put the coals on that thing, heat it slow and after a while
it'd just finally turn - when it got done, there'd be a good
brown crust on it. And it was really good. A lot better than
this bread you buy now.
Q. How often did she bake?
A. Oh, only once in a while. Maybe every two or three weeks, to
make that light bread. They didn't bake it every day. They
made biscuits and I can remember when most people, they eat
cornbread for breakfast and biscuits every Sunday morning.
You wouldn't believe that.
Q. I believe it. I love cornbread.
A. I do too. I eat it, most the time, twice a day. They didn't
have wheat flour to make biscuits every day. And you used
eggs and shortening on the old cornbread, and it like you do
biscuits and it was pretty good.
Q. Did you ever have corn fritters?
A. Yeah, I've seen my mother bake corn sweet bread. Bake
it like they did the ole molassey bread, put molasses in it
and it was good. But I'd rather have that old molassey sweet
bread now than to have any you could go to the store and buy.
They baked what they called gingerbread. Great big, thick.
They baked it in cake, make them cakes to fit the skillet.
It was really good. Put ginger in it and that ole gingerbread was hard to turn down, when you're hungry.
Q. Your mother had to buy a lot of spices at the store didn't
she?
A. Yeah, they bought the grain spice and ground it.
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Q. Really? Did you have one of those things like a pepper thing
that you ground?
A. Ground the coffee - ground the coffee in the bean. They bought
that coffee green and they parched it, parched that coffee and
they - seen my mother a many a time parch that coffee in a one, them ole skillets. And they had a coffee mill. I've
ground coffee - you seen them, hadn't ya?
Q. Yeah.
A. Hold it between your knees, grind that coffee. The coffee
then, now you got real coffee then. There wasn't no dope in
it.
Q. Did they do the spices the same way?
A. leah, done the spices the same way. Pepper. Gosh, that
ole pepper. You get it in the grain and grind it, you
didn't have to make anything black to taste it. Ah, it's
a gettin' now, you can make your egg black now, and hardly
taste it.
Q. How about, did they dry a lot of stuff?
A. Dried berries, fruit, dried berries, apples, cherries of all
kind. Beans, dried beans, dried pumpkins, they dried a lot
of stuff. I can remember when my mother didn't have more than
two or three dozen cans. Dry that stuff and cook it. And
them ole dried beans, they was worth it.
Q. I've heard of drying apples - I've seen people drying apples
and beans and all. But I've never seen 'em dry cherries or
blackberries. How did they do it?
A. They used to dry lots of blackberries and cherries. And they
didn't do too much canning and they didn't have no way of
freezing it.
Q. How did they do it? Do you remember?
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A. Well, they had grates, and they had good, big crates they'd
put 'em on. And when the sun shined good, they put 'em out
on....
Q. The apples they'd slice up and cook....
A. Slice up and dry it out. They dried the bigger part of their
fruit at that time. Dried sweet potatoes. My daddy used to
grow a lot of sweet potatoes. He didn't grow 'em for the
market. He'd just grow 'em to have plenty to use. They cooked
them and sliced 'em up and put 'em on crates. And when it
rained, they'd take 'em in and set them around the fireplace,
so that if they ever stayed out in the weather, they's spoil.
You had to keep them dry.
Q. Back then you had the spring houses, right? So that's where
you got your water. When did you build your well out here?
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A. Oh, it's been about forty-two years or longer.
Q. Where was your spring house located?
A. We didn't even have a spring house here. There's a spring
down under the bank there that we used - we just had a box
down there. And we kept pur milk and stuff to keep it cold
in there 'til we dug the well. I was aiming to pump the
water from over yonder, but the spring went dry. And the
people built way up on the hill somewhere and they carried
their water up the hill. Why, they'd carry, some families
would carry as far as from here to the hog house over yonder.
Didn't think about a well or a pump. No, carried their
water from the spring/
Q. How often did you take baths back then?
A. Well, once a week, and you're lucky to do that.
Q. If you had to carry water that far, you wouldn't take it very
often.
A. Didn't have no bathroom in the houses. Outside toilets.
They wouldn't such a thing as a bathroom in the house. No
where in this county and its not been many years so there
wouldn't a bathroom in none of the houses that are here, in
this part of the county.
Q. How big was the house you were born in?
A. Oh, it had about four, four to five, five rooms, I guess.
And some places, they just had one or two big rooms, old log
houses. Three or four beds in one room and the kids slept
in
little beds you pushed under the big ones.
Q. Yeah, tumble beds. I've seen those.
A. And they didn't have a whold lot of room, like they build
houses now. Wasn't a bedroom in every little corner.
Q. Did your mother have to make all your clothing?
A. Bigger part of it. Weave, she had a loom and she'd weave the
cloth, weave clothing - made our clothing. And they made shoes.
There were men had shoe shops round and made most of them, wore
homemade shoes - men and the women. They had a few shoes in the
store, but the bigger part of the farmers wore homemade shoes.
A lot of the women - the women's dresses drug the ground. And
they wore button shoes up about that high. You never seen
them, did ya?
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Q. I've seen pictures of them.
A. And the dresses drug the ground.
Q. Did they go to the store and buy the cloth to make their own
dresses?
A. Well, they went to the store and bought some, but the most part
was homemade. Wove at home. My mother had - she'd card the
wool and spin it. She had them spinning wheels and then she
had a tig ole.Toom that she wove that cloth. I've wore homemade clothes many a time, many a day. And they'd make their
underwear. They didn't wear much underwear, like they do now.
They'd make their pants and coats and vests and all like that
out of homemade - outa wool. That old wool'd get next to the
hide, it'd just scratch ya. It'd rip you to death. Wool and they knit your mittens and knit our scoks, outa that homemade wool.
Q. She didn't have a sewing machine, did she?
A. No, my mother never had a sewing machine in her life.
Q. She did all of it by hand?
A. Did it by hand. My aunt done a lot of sewing for people.
She had a sewing machine. Lived up the road here. But my mother
done all her sewing by hand. And the bigger half of the women
did it. Made their own dresses and their men's clothes and
everything by hand - sewed by hand.
Q. They made their quilts too, didn't they?
A. They made their own quilts. Wove their own blankets. Old
yarn blankets. Now that old wool blanket, it'll keep you
warm.
Q. Scratch you to death, but keep you warm.
A. They was really good and they'd last for years and years.
Had feather beds. They kept geece, and picked your feathers
out of them and made bedx. I sleep on a feather bed all year
round now. We've got two or three feather beds. My mother made
it in her life time. And I still sleep on it.
Q. Was the church really important in this community?
A. Well, more than it is today. About everybody walked to church
And ole timey preacher. And they got up there and preached,
we sat on ole benches. Had four legs on 'em shaved out of a
round piece like a chair post. No back. Hardly a few of 'em
had benchs of this - seats made out of plank. But back as Ion
as I can remember they sat on them old split logs. And they
all went and they enjoyed the meeting, they enjoyed the sermon.
And sometimes the preachers had to walk four or five miles.
And he's get maybe fifty cents or a dollar for two sermons.
And they all - and the preaching was over and they all walked
out and ever - out this road they all walked together. Where
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one or two would drop out, and they'd stand and talk and they
enjoyed themselves, much more than they do now.
Q. How often did you have meetings?
A. Well, they had it once a month, a lot of churches. Just have
it once a month, two services. Then they'd run a week or two
of revival, sometime during the year, usually in the fall of
the year. And they'd have a - have a real, live one. One
of 'em get happy and they'd really have a time.
Q. Was the preacher a hell-fire, brimstone preacher?
a mild one?
Or was he
A. Well, they - sometimes there'd be one preacher for eight or ten
years before they change. And then maybe they'd set a new one
amd maybe he'd serve a good many years. Now they have to have
a new one about every twelve months, don't they? A lot of
churches. They change right often.
Q. Did the preacher - what type of sermons did he preach? Did
he tell the people what they were doing wrong or did he tell
'em something they wanted to hear, like...
A. Ah, he went to the Bible for it. Told 'em their wrong doing.
Q. What church did you attend?
A. Meat Camp. Right over here. I went ot differnet churches.
Went to Howard's Creek. You know where Howard's Creek is?
Went there part of the time and went to the Rich Mountain
to that church. Sometimes we'd go way down yonder to Fairview
way down toward the river. People wasn't too selfish where
they went to then. Now they have to - there wasn't so many
churches as there is now. Built a lot more as time passed by.
Q. Were there a lot of community activities centered around the
church?
A. Well, not too much.
Not like it is now.
Q. Did ya'll have any square dances then?
A. No, they wasn't no - wasn't nothing of that kind a going on
in this part of the country.
Q. What did ya'll do for recreation, when you weren't farming?
A. Well, we'd go a fishing or squirrel huntin1 or something of
that kind.
Q. What did you do when you were courtin'?
A. Well, we walked out there to our girlfriend, whereever she
might be. Sometimes we'd go to church, sometimes we'd walk
out and pick cherries in the summertime. Sometimes they'd have
a candy pullin'. Gatherin' in all and have music. Not too
much dancing. There wasn't many people could dance.
�Q. Did they "flatfoot" a lot around here?
A. Well, not too much.
Q. What type of music did you have?
A. Had a fiddle and a banjo. Once in a while a guitar, French
harp. My daddy and a neighbor, they went lots of places and
made music. My daddy was a fiddler and my neighber was a
banjo-picker. They'd go to the closing of the school, sometimes to a neighbeor's house, make music - a few of the neighbors
would come in. They'd just set and enjoy it. Close of the
school, they usually had 'em come in. They'd give 'em a
dollar or two at the close of the school.
Q. Tell me something about the school around here, like the
size of it, and the people in it?
A. Well, these old school houses where they walked, I've known
teachers to walk five or six miles to teach school. And there
wasn't too many One teacher was all they had, and they teached
up to about the seventh grade. And then they had to go - they
went to Boone then to finish up. The eighth or tenth grade,
something like that. Go to Boone - go to town for the rest
of it.
Q. Tell me about life during the Depression.
A. Well, we got enough to get by with, but it was hard going, we
just had to work a day or two to get a little chew meal to help.
And we're lucky to get by with it. People didn't have enough
to eat. They got by, but Their clothes were pretty bad, hard
to get a day's work. Dug roots and drained the wood and dug
roots and gathered herbs to help keep clothing and something
to eat.
Q. How about - were there a lot of moonshiners?
A. No, not much. There's never been - oh there's a few around.
Right many in Wilkes County. And if they had to get something
to drink, they went to Wilkes and got the most ot it. I can
remember when you could buy corn whiskey for sixty cents a
gallon, and it was pure corn. And they was - there was one
man that made it, I'll never - my mother got some for my
grandmother once, take it back here between here and Todd,
on the Big Hill. He had a bonded outfit and they come around
and check 'em once in a while. Gaugers would come around they wasn't allowed to have so many barrels, you know. He'd
come around and they always knowed when he was coming, then they
would get it down to where they wasn't in no trouble. And
theycould sell - I don't know how much they's allowed to sell.
I was too little to know much about it.
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Q. Do you remember any government programs?
the CCC?
Such as the WPA and
A. No, no, well, I remember when the WPA worked here. They bought
'em a lot of mules to farm with. They were army mules that
was brought here when the war was over with Germany. And they
had people take 'em and work 'em. Farm 'em too, try to raise
'em something to eat. And they worked 'em on the road. They
worked a whole lot - the WPA worked at a building that highway ,
They let 'em work ehm mules, to farm with and, I don't know,
they all just gor old. Last one I ever knowed of, well it had
a picture of him. An old white mule and man a following the
plow. And they said the best they could estimate his age, he
was fifty-five years old. He was a relief mule.
Q. Oh, the mule was fifty-five years old.
A. He was fifty-five years old, the best they could estimate
his age. H<=: was still a pulling the plow. I never did get
one, I didn't use 'em. Had my own work horse. We plowed it
off a lot, plow, harrow with 'em, seen'a few worked a mowing
machine. But they was too slow to do much more with a machine
Most of it was with things like that out there. Pitch fork,
I've seen 'em use. I've seen 'em use old hoemmade pitchforks,
three-prong, I've got one. I'll show it to you. I've got one
that I guess is two hundred years old.
Q. You've given us a lot of information. I've just got one more
question. What's your philosophy of life? Do you have one?
A. No, I don't think I have one.
Q. Why do you think you've lived as long as you have?
getting along pretty good here.
A. Well I just worked hard all my life.
day, eat cornbread.
You're
Drink lots of water every
Q. Molasses bread too.
A. Molasses bread and I get along pretty good.
Q. Have you got anything you'd like to add to what we've already
talked about?
A. No, I couldn't think of anything more that would be of any
interest to you.
Q. Well, thank you very much.
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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.
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C.K. Norris was born in 1891 in Meat Camp, North Carolina where he grew up on a farm.
Mr. Norris talks mostly about growing up on the farm, such as raising crops and livestock. His family would haul their produce to Lenior, Hickory, and Morganton to be sold. Mr. Norris talks a lot about food throughout the interview including how to dry fruits and vegetables, make sauerkraut, use spices properly, grind coffee, salt meat, and make maple syrup. He also describes other aspects of his childhood including church, school, and the Great Depression. Mr. Norris also talks about WPA's affect in the Meat Camp area.
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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
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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
(
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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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.
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(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
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Q:
Where were most of the i(a:ojds and things?
A:
(Mr. G)
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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
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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
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
...
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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(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
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(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.
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Q:
That's right.
It's unfair to them.
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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.
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(Ms.G) That's what he says.
Q:
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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
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(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.
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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.
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Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Lee Greene, June 11, 1973
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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.
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Clawson, Donna
Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Greene
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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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Boone, NC
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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.
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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.
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 37 [March 24, 1920 - July 31, 1920]
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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1920
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Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Watauga County (N.C.)
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Appalachian Training School
Archie Warren
Boone Trail
Brownwood
Brushy Fork
children
church
farm
Greene Family
Housework
Luther Oliver
Mast Store
Meat Camp
Mr. D.F. Horton
Neighbors
R.A. Thomas
Sherwood's Store
Solomon Younce
South Fork Church
Todd
Vacation
W.H. Greer
W.T. Chappell
Walnut Grove School House
Willowdale
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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.
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. 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.
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�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.
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. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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• 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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�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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
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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.
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
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1906-1942
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 76 [September 15, 1930 - November 28, 1930]
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<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>
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1930
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74.1 MB
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English
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105_076_1930_0915_1930_1128
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Andrew Jackson Greene recorded daily entries in this diary from September 15th, through November 28th, during the year 1930. He recorded the ins and outs of his daily life. This includes visits from friends and family such as George Hayes as well as information about how his college classes are going. The school was really growing, and people other than locals were beginning to attend.
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Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Text
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Diaries
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<a title="Andrew Jackson "Greene collection" href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/39" target="_blank"> Andrew Jackson Greene collection </a>
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Watauga County (N.C.)
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<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>
Alex Ellison
Boone
Boone High School
Buncombe Junior College
Calvin Hicks
Clark’s Creek Baptist Church
D.J. Horton
Daniel Boone Park
Elk Knob
Elk Park
Emma Henson
G.W. Robbins
George Hayes
H.R. Eggers
J.A. Warren
King College in Bristol Tennessee
Lincoln Memorial University at Winston-Salem
Lucile Hopkins
Meat Camp
Mr. and Mrs. W.Y. Perry
Mrs. Ruth Rankin
Vilas
Willowdale Sunday School
Zionville
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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.
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
Date
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1906-1942
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Copyright - United States</a>
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81
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 81 [July 10, 1931 - September 9, 1931]
Source
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<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
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1931
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81.1 MB
Language
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English
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105_081_1931_0710_1931_0909
Description
An account of the resource
From July 10 through September 9, 1931, Andrew Jackson Greene recorded this diary about his daily life. He wrote about the weather, the church and the community. At this point, his children were leaving home and he was realizing that it would be a struggle to keep his farm going. He was busy between the farm, the schoolwork, and being a minister. He knew he was aging and found it hard to finish work many days. He also wrote about the college. They reached the 700 mark. He wrote these things in addition to the smallest details of his everyday 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
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Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
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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.
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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1906-1942
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 83 [November 8, 1931 - January 4, 1932]
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1931-1932
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75.9 MB
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English
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105_083_1931_1108_1932_0104
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This diary was recorded from November 8, 1931 through January 4, 1932. Greene wrote his inner thoughts and feelings each day. He typically writes of his sorrows and gloom. Greene wrote he preferred to be alone to avoid trouble. He often provided information about the Appalachian State Normal School, the local churches, and his travels.
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Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Coverage
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Watauga County (N.C.)
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Boone
Bowden State College
Brushy Fork Valley
Concord State College of West Virginia
Critcher Hotel
Depression
Dr. O.J. Chandler
Football
Greene Inn
H.A. Greer
Henry Brinkley
J.H. Brendall
Meat Camp
Pastor E.C. Hodges
Ralph Bingham
Sunday School
Tom Cushing
Vilas
W.J. Mast
Will Walker
Willowdale
Winnie Heafner
YWCA
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Andrew Jackson Greene Collection
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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.
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/190">AC.105: Andrew Jackson Greene Collection</a>
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1906-1942
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1939
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111MB
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This diary was recorded by Andrew Jackson Greene from July 29 through September 21, 1939. His entries give insight into his church life at Willowdale, his work at Appalachian State Teachers College, and community and local events. Locals named in this diary include but aren’t limited to Ed Hollers, W.L. Henson, N.M. Greene, Ronda Norris, Clyde Baker, Thelma Perry, and Velma Combs.
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Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 147 [July 29, 1939 - September 21, 1939]
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Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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Watauga County (N.C.)
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Albert Wilson
Appalachian State Teachers College
Bogle Cole
Boone
Brushy Fork Valley
Burton Church
Clyde Baker
Coy Billings
Cozy Nook
Dean Rankin
Ed Hollers
H.R. Eggers
Jacob Lewis
Meat Camp
Mollie Glenn
N.M. Greene
Ralph Church
Reverend N.M Greene
Ronda Norris
Sam Adkins
Sarah Smith
T.C. Baird
The Northwestern Bank
Thelma Perry
Velma Combs
Vilas
W.L. Henson
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Oral History Transcript
Appalachian State University • Collection 111, Tape 19
Interviewee: Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Moretz
Interviewer: Karen Weaver
5 February 1973
KW: Karen Weaver
AM: Arlie Moretz
MM: Mrs. Moretz
KW: This is an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Moretz for the Appalachian State University
Oral History Project by Karen Weaver at Boone on February 5, 1973. First of all we’d like to hear
a little bit about your family life, when you were growing up as children.
Where were you born?
MM: I was born over here at Silverstone. It’s in Watauga County.
KW: How many children were in your family?
MM: Eight.
KW: What about you Mr. Moretz, how many were in your family?
AM: Ten, nine grew to maturity. The first one died in infancy. I was born near the Tater Hill Lake
on the Meat Camp side. Granddaddy entered the land on which I was born; nobody had lived
there except the wild creatures until daddy moved in there and cleared an area. Five of the
children were born there. We walked three miles to school each day. I started at five and hiked
six miles away round-trip. We went on the Meat Camp side now, not back near the Tater Hill
Lake area, but in the other direction east of the Tater Hill. Very, very rugged mountainous
terrain and we were poor, very poor.
I can remember going with mother to gather roots and herbs so that we might have clothes and
most of all (our clothes) were made with needle and thread, she didn’t have a sewing machine,
mostly homemade clothes. Little tiny shirts and pants she ordered from a place called Proximity
Mercantile Company in Greensboro. I didn’t know where Greensboro was in those days.
KW: Did you grow most of your food and have a farm?
AM: Yes, it was country. We grew our food practically all of it, everything.
MM: We raised our own corn and beans and potatoes, and we raised some sheep and cattle
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�and had horses, mules, and hogs – had our own meat. We walked to school about a mile.
AM: Daddy was known for his hogs, he grew an enormous lot of tem, everybody in the country
came to dad to but hogs. Not only did we have meat, we had cane “lasses.” Now, I didn’t say
molasses, I said “lasses,” and we grew fields of buckwheat and we had to have pancakes made
with the buckwheat.
I remember how we cut it with a cradle, that’s a scythe sort of machine; we thrashed it with a
flail. I called it a frail, and I remember how daddy made those things with a hickory spout, about
as big around as your arm and beat it with a pole axe, the back of it, until it was limber. Wailed
the daylight out of it that the grain and separate it from the straw and we didn’t have the
windmill with which to clear out the trash and chaff, we borrowed one.
We would take it home on a little sled or wagon and use it to clean up the grain. We not only
used the buckwheat for pancakes, but it was ground and given to animals to eat too. We called
it “chop,” it was ground grain.
KW: What about your schooling, how much did you and your parents have?
AM: Granddaddy was a highly educated man, he was a minister. Great grandfather came to the
county, one of the first to move into the county and he was married twice and had 25 children.
I know where he is buried, I helped select it. Myrtle and I together helped pick a gravestone and
helped do the inscription on it. It’s near my original home in Green Valley on the Meat Camp.
KW: What was his name?
AM: His name was Jonathan Moretz. My grandfather was one of his children. He was a welleducated man, but daddy wasn’t. I think he went about to the third grade. I’ve heard him say.
Mother was something like a seventh grader. And I don’t know how much education you would
say I had. I haven’t done anything for the last 60 years except schoolwork. That’s quite a little
while to spend isn’t it? I have a couple of degrees, a B.S. (Bachelor of Science) and a M.A.
(Master of Arts), both from ASU (Appalachian State University). And I’m a minister and a
schoolteacher with 39 years of experience under my belt.
KW: What do you think about the way schools have changed from the way when you went?
AM: Well, when I been to go to school, we had two to three, maybe four teacher schools where
I went and I’ve taught in the same place for three years. And I’ve always taught in a one-teacher
school for three years and we’re back to the one-teacher school concept now. The team
teaching, individualized instruction, is practically the same thing that we had in those days in
the one-teacher school.
It’s the one-to-one “teacher-pupil” relationship. Frankly, I think we’re deteriorating some. I
don’t think the concept is worth a “blanket-blank!” I can’t say the word because I am a minister.
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�I don’t like teamwork. If the thing that we have done prior to this was good enough to develop
the best technology on the face of the earth, and good enough to put a man on the moon and
bring him back safely, I can’t see throwing it away.
KW: When you were little, what did you hear about elections and politics?
AM: Well, in those days we weren’t told much about why we held elections and in the schools…
there was very little said about why we were voting. Frankly, I don’t think that we knew what it
was all about in those days. I honestly can’t remember before the seventh or eighth (grade),
know much about why an election was held. We may have learned a little bit in a casual sort of
way, but I can’t remember anything.
KW: What kind of transportation did you have when you were growing up?
AM: The horse and the wagon. We rode horseback to church or in the wagon or we walked.
Walking was the biggest thing. There were no automobiles when we were little.
KW: Do you remember when you saw your first automobile?
AM: Yes.
KW: Do you remember what year it was?
AM: No, I don’t. It was somewhere in the area of 1918, near the terminal point of World War
One. I don’t remember seeing one before 1918.
KW: What did you think about it?
AM: We were fascinated by it. We hitched a ride on it if we got a chance. And the first airplane
was just as fascinating.
KW: Could you tell us some of the things about the “Potters” and the other bad men?
AM: Booney Potter was one of the meaner ones and John O..J. was pretty bad to get drunk. I
knew him personally. He told me one time that he was so drunk that he passed out and they
thought that he was dead. They laid him out on a cooling board and dug his grave. He said that
they had made his casket and put him in it. When he came to, he sat up and asked them what
was going on, to those who were there, if it was some kind of joke. The people gathered told
him that he would have been buried in another few hours, buried alive!
John O..J. told me that he hadn’t been drunk any since then. I can remember him sending me to
preach in his truck down in Bulldog, Tennessee. Quite an interesting deal, his grandson took me
and we spent the night and the only time I ever caught the itch in my life was sleeping with him.
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�KW: Do you remember any of the stories about the people killing each other?
AM: I can tell you about an actual murder that occurred over there in Pottertown. I could tell
you two. Let me tell you the one. Brown was his last name. I shouldn’t put the first name of the
“Brown” in the story because I think he’s still living. He wanted to borrow his cousin’s truck to
buy some more “white lightening” as they say. His cousin wouldn’t let him have his keys to the
truck. They quarreled a little bit about it. The incident culminated in the death of one of the
boys, the first cousin to the one who killed him.
I was in the church preaching when that happened. The other incident involved a merchant
whose last name was “Ellison.” He had operated a sawmill, a country, store and post office. He
was practically an illiterate man, but he had a great deal of business acumen. Everything that he
touched like King Midas “turned to gold.”
I remember he went into a business transaction with a fellow named “Smith,” to manufacture
little pins for the insulators of the telephone wire to be wound around, little pins about six or
eight inches long. Mr. Smith didn’t live up to his end of the bargain and Mr. Ellison ran an
attachment on some of the pins, some sort of legal transaction so that the workmen could be
paid and Smith hopped onto Mr. Ellison with a knife and was about to whack him a little bit and
Ellison shot and killed him.
He came on to Boone himself and told the sheriff that he’s killed a man and he sent for me to
come to the jail and talk to him about it. Later in the flood of 1940, he died and I went to do his
funeral, had to wade the water up to Meat Camp Creek and across to Pottertown where he
lived. I helped put him away.
KW: You mentioned the flood, what can you tell us about that?
AM: It was rather terrible. There were several people killed down in the Stony Fork area. I did a
double funeral of two who were drowned in it up in the Howard’s Creek country on the rich
mountains near the Tater Hill Lake.
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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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Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
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1965-1989
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Weaver, Karen (interviewer)
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01:13, Drunk man almost burined alive
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Interview with Alie Mortez, February 5, 1973
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Arlie Earl Moretz was born on June 30, 1908 to Sion Gideon Moretz (b. January 16, 1880 d. October 29, 1950) and Virginia Dare Stanberry (b. March 16, 1883 d. February 2, 1970). He married Alice Myers Moretz (b. May 12, 1912 d. January 25, 1965) who was born in Crossville, Tennessee to the parents of Thomas Myers and Olive Dougherty. His great grandfather was one of the first settlers in Watauga County, having married twice he had 25 children. The Arlie Moretz family lived in the Meat Camp area of Watauga County. Arlie Moretz died on September 7, 1997 at the age of 89.
Mr. Moretz earned B.S. and M.A. degrees from Appalachian State, and professionally was both a minister and schoolteacher with 39 years of experience. During the interview he reflects on how education has changed from the time when he was a youth through his career as an educator, talks about attending and teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, personal reflection on education, and local politics.
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5-Feb-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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4 pages
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Watauga County (N.C.)
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Moretz, Arlie Earl--Interviews
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County--Interviews
Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County--Interviews
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Appalachian State University
car
Depression
Education
herbs and roots
Meat Camp
moonshine
New Deal
Pottertown
Tennessee
Wake Forest
Watauga County N.C.