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Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, Tape 74
Interviewees: Mr. and Mrs. Jim Greer
Interviewer: n/a
Date: 11 June 1973
Transcriber: J. McTaggart
Interviewer: This is an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Greer for the Appalachian Oral History Project in
Triplett on June 11th, 1973. Okay, first I'd like to have your names and ages, please.
Jim Greer: Mine's James Calvin Greer and I'll be 65 years old on the fourth day of September.
I: Oh okay, what about you, Mrs. Greer?
Vera Greer: Um mines Vera Greer and I'll I was 61 the first day of May.
I: Oh and where were you born?
JG: I was born around here at the community center.
I: Wereya?
JG: Yeah, just around the road there.
VG: Yup right at the community, yeah. And I was born in Caldwell County.
I: Have you lived around here all of your lives?
JG:No.
VG: No.
I: Where have you lived?
JG: I lived in [inaudible] state gone for four years before I come back. I lived in Caldwell County, Wilkes
County.
VG: Who's that? I hear another car.
JG: I don't see it. Some folks bought that place up here.
I: Why did you move from here?
JG: Well, my mother moved to Wilkes County to my sister's and my daddy he left when I was four years
old. Mama had to keep me and my sister up 'til I got big enough to work. And I had to help her 'til I got
grown. We left here when I was about nine years old and went on up ahead the creek where Ralph
Greene lives now; got roots and herbs and gathered barks and stuff to get our groceries and clothes
with. Mama made all my clothes she just bought the cloth and made it. And uh you couldn't get no work
�nowhere; there was no work to do. And I wasn't big enough to work and mama she'd wash around here
on [inaudible] branch all day for 50 cents. [Inaudible] not too big a washing for 50 cents.
I: How would she wash 'em?
JG: With her hands and washboard, paddle board. Stand on big ol' banks and she had the paddle and
she'd beat the dirt out with the paddle. It was rough going, I'll tell you.
I: Were there just you and your sister in your family?
JG: Yeah at that time, the other had three.
VG: She was married twice [inaudible] the first time.
JG: She was married twice, my mother but the other two was married and gone. Last, my daddy was
being an [inaudible] sister.
I: Is she older or younger?
JG: She's younger than I am. Daddy [inaudible].
I: What was your father's occupation?
JG: Well, he worked for people, dug ditch and anything you could get do.
VG: All of these cleared fields on top of the mountain up here he cleared them.
JG: On top of the mountain up here, he cleared them. When you first go out up here them fields out
there when you first go out old man Tom Greer's mail [inaudible] on top of his up there. All them fields
my daddy cleared back there.
I: Well, how did he do it?
JG: Ax, chopped 'em. I've seen him cut trees down four foot through with an ax, chop 'em down.
I: How long would it take him?
JG: Well, it'd take him three or four hours.
I: And how much would he make?
JG: Well, he got when he did get anything it was 33 and 1/3 cents a day was all he got out of his work.
Killed himself at work and people living off his labor right now, enjoying it.
I: Did your mother work or was she just around the house?
JG: She worked around the house and whatever she'd get to do for people, haul corn and stuff like that.
Wash and things like that; we'd walk way up here to the creek, three miles down here [inaudible] the
branch and do a little washing.
�I: She would just do the neighborhood's washing?
JG: Yeah, mm hm ol' lady [inaudible] and uh Minnie Hayes' mother, yeah. She'd come on out of there
and work all day and get by the time we had a cow, she'd take it up and fodder. You know, top fodder of
corn. She'd give it about five or six shucks of top for a day's work. And she done carry them out from
around there [inaudible] Creek here in about three miles. And I'd come and meet her in the evening and
take part of the load off of her and carry what I could. I was little I couldn't do much, 'bout five or six
years old something like that. And me and her would get out in the woods and gather herbs and roots
carry it little up here to [inaudible]. [Inaudible] that big brick house up there on the right of the road
there used to be a big ol' store right there where that there cloth place is now. And old man [inaudible]
McNee run a big store there and we'd carry our herbs up there right up there mountain 'bout I guess
we'd go three miles. And the mountain we'd climb all the way 'till we got on top.
I: So you would sell your roots and herbs and things?
JG: Yes, maybe get up there and maybe have a dollar's worth with all we can carry.
I: Mm.
JG: Some of 'em were a cent a pound; some were a cent and a half some two cent, three cents. You
couldn't get nothing for more than that. I've had hard all my life and the highest I ever made a working
was the furniture factory [inaudible] 36 hours. I worked all my life, raised my family, worked for my
mother and sister 'till I was 21 years old. I helped on that highway that goes down the mountain to
Wilkesboro; I helped build that bridge from the bottom to the top.
I: Really?
JG: Yeah, see it's about four miles to do that, no way around it [clears throat].
I: Goodness, what do you do now, what kind of work?
JG: Nothin' I've been disabled for about 16,17 years.
I: Oh.
JG: My [inaudible] to the heart [inaudible] won't let me. He tell me last year not even to put out a
garden. The digging might have a stroke or something.
I: Mm, did you have a garden when you were little and growing up with your family?
JG: Yeah, me and mama gardened every year and raked. You went through the houses sits up here and
you start up the mountain and you leave this old house down here at the foot with the rock crusher. The
two little houses sits on the right on the holler. Now this field right here above the road me and mama
made our bread on that hill there.
[Background noises]
�I: Made what?
JG: Made our corn bread when I was a little boy. We had corn all over that hill. We had a third of it for
raising. We dug holes and plant the corn with a hoe then dug it out and hoed it when it come up, made
our corn up on that steep hill. It's straight up and down now.
I: Goodness, I don't see how you could hoe like that.
JG: You couldn't hardly stand up on it. You'd slide down and fall; we worked it 'til we got our corn
worked out. We made corn out of it two or three years on that hill. It's growed up now they've been
timber cut off it since me and mom worked corn on it.
I: What other kind of crops did you raise?
JG: Well, just beans and cucumbers and maters, Irish potatoes stuff like that.
I: Did you have any livestock or animals?
JG: No, well we generally kept cow most of the time. Dm, I've eaten boiled Irish potatoes for months at
a time for bread. We didn't have no bread and we didn't have no bread to eat. We'd boil Irish potatoes
and eat them for bread and butter. That's what we had to eat. You tell people that this day and time
they wouldn't believe it but it's so.
I: Hm I guess you were glad to get that though.
JG: Oh Lord yeah, I was glad to get it. A lot of times we didn't have potatoes. And I've eaten water gravy
a-many a-times just made out of flour and water and a little grease, you know. Maybe ol' strong meat
skins or something fry the grease out of 'em and make cream gravy. [I'd] eat that many a mornin' for
breakfast.
I: Hm.
JG: Mama made all my clothes. Here, here maybe I'll show you here. I've got a picture if I can find it
when I was a little boy. Where is that picture?
VG: There's one right up here. Yes sonny, they're right up here where I hang it!
JG: No, not mine!
VG: Yes! You're too!
JG: Did I put it up here?
VG: [Inaudible] I know you did!
JG: I'll show you this so you know I'm telling the truth. There it is. That's me and my mother there.
I: Aw.
�JG: I was 21 years old when that was took down at far end of that high bridge I was telling you about.
I: That's a good picture.
JG: There's another one just like it. [Inaudible] my other picture.
VG: Well, I don't know what you've done with it, honey!
JG: Let me see.
I: Your mother made these clothes?
JG: Mm hm, made my clothes.
VG: No, not them. She's talking about the little picture that he had. I don't know what he's done with it.
JG: Here it is! Here it is! I'll show you. I knew I had this.
VG: Damn, I thought that was ones he had...that is him and his mother.
I: You were 21 here?
VG: Yeah.
JG: Mm hm.
I: That's a good picture.
VG: Now, right there's where...
JG: That's where [inaudible] year old when that's took. You see, the homemade overalls and the shirt.
You see the buttons on it. Now that pictures way old, it's about 60 years old I guess maybe more.
I: Oh.
JG: It was took when the old picture was crackled up you know and you couldn't get the crackles out of
it.
VG: Took it from an old picture you know.
JG: A boyfriend of mine had a creek up there in little Triplett and his grandfather's back here behind. I
tried to take 'em both off but didn't get 'em both.
I: Who took these pictures?
JG: [Inaudible] Greene took them way back when [inaudible].
VG: She lives at uh...
JG: Spruce Pine.
�VG: Spruce Pine!
JG: She's dead now. How come you get that now she's around at Minnie Hayes's and uh asked her and
she didn't have one of my old pictures when I was a little boy. And she said yeah, she did she took it with
a little bitty Kodak just made little bitty pictures about 2 by or 2 by 3 or something. And uh she kept it all
this time and I asked her if she'd let me have the picture. She said when I'm dead, says you can have it. I
says well I might die before you go [chuckles]. So she died and her daughter had some made, some
smalls made and sent me two of 'em and I took them and had 'em enlarged like that so they could be a
little bigger.
I: Aw, that's a good picture.
JG: I was about nine years old when that was took.
I: Aw, I bet you're glad to get that.
JG: Oh yeah, I wouldn't take nothirt' for it.
I: Goodness.
JG: I wouldn't.
I: Mm.
JG: I had on a little black hat you see it? You can see it.
VG: That was up here on [inaudible].
I: How long would it take your mother to make a pair of overalls like that?
JG: It would take a month.
I: Did she have an old sewing machine or would she make 'em by hand?
JG: No, she made 'em by hand.
I: Oh and she, where would she buy her cloth?
JG: Go to Eller McNee's (?) store on top of the mountain.
I: Oh yeah, do you know how much it would be back then, the cloth?
JG: Well, it run sometimes 10,15 cents a yard according to what...
VG: Well, you can't put the [inaudible]. [Inaudible] he had surgery on his back twice, got hurt at the
shop. He dropped his [inaudible].
I: Did your mother make her clothes too?
�JG: Mm hm, you had to make your clothes then couldn't go there was nowhere to buy 'em.
l:Hm.
JG: She make 'em [inaudible]. I stayed barefooted Christmas. I never got no shoes 'til Christmas then got
these ol' brogan shoes, ol' yellow shoes with brass rivets in 'em here and brass toes on 'em 'cause if
you're...hard as a rock you couldn't be in 'em, skin your feet all over. You'd have sores all over your feet
and your ankles.
I: Goodness.
JG: It was rough going, I'll tell you.
I: How far did you have to walk to school?
JG: Oh, it's about three miles on the way up there to Howard's Creek where Ralph Greene lives, left at
the rock crusher, and right on up the creek as far as you can go.
I: Oh, really?
JG: Mm hm.
I: How much schooling did you have?
JG: Well, I went to school to the fourth grade but I never did learn nothin'. The [inaudible] didn't have no
dad either I'd look after him. These Tripletts down here all of 'em have a big head and queers(?). They
beat me half to death at school and do things at school to get the teachers to beat me. And uh I couldn't
help it 'cause they'd just double up on me three or four get on me at a time and beat me half to death
'till I got big enough to take 'em apart. I beat two of 'em nearly to death after I got up big enough. And I
broke them and the rest of 'em ain't bother me anymore.
I: They've learned their lesson [chuckles].
VG: They broke once [inaudible].
JG: So uh I was [inaudible] off the road by all the young'uns up them days when I was growing up.
Everybody had well... I was the same about the same as orphans, you know. My daddy's gone, my mama
had to work all the time she couldn't be with me all the time. I wasn't mean; I didn't do nothin' to
nobody. And Stewart Shimens(?) around here can tell you all about my life. He knows everything about
it, knows how people treated me, all these old people around here. And I was treated like a dog, what
you might say all my life. I have been and since I've been married, same thing. People took off me and
beat off of me and you know the same three men got [inaudible].
I: Mm, why do you think they treated you like that?
JG: Well, just 'cause they could get something I had, you know, might [inaudible] borrow it and never
pay it back. Things like that. I've been too easy with people, let 'em go. I ain't doing it anymore, I can't.
�VG: We got a son-in-law that...
JG: Owes me a thousand dollars right now.
VG: Just about a thousand dollars in money now. And we will not I bet you we never as long as live see
every dime of it. They done, you seen that car sitting out here when you was here before. That blue car
that's pushed off down there and I told you that's my son-in-law's. Well, that's the one bless your heart
and they come and got it Saturday.
I: They did?
VG: He told us that his daddy borrowed the money for him and paid cash for that car. And honey, it was
through the American Credit right up here.
JG: He borrowed the money from American Credit.
VG: And went back and borrowed $75 on it besides.
JG: And he's not gonna pay for but he come and got it [inaudible].
VG: But you can tell her to get back on you how you used to walk ten miles a day and work.
JG: Yeah, I walked ten miles a day and worked ten hours and back home, after I go back home by
moonshine.
I: To moonshine?
JG: By moonshine.
I: Oh.
JG: In the woods, you know. Go to the woods, carry wood out, and cut it up-and stow in the woods. In
the summertime, work ten hours and walk five miles this way, I mean ten miles this way.
I: Mm and what were you doing when you were working?
VG: He worked in...
JG: I worked in the furniture shop [inaudible] furniture with my mom. I lived way down on Lenoir Creek...
VG: And then when we was in the Depression though we, we had a terrible time. One of our children
was born.
JG: Me and her during the Depression dug roots and gathered herbs to buy our clothes and groceries
and the baby's clothes.
VG: ...buy our first baby's clothes.
I: Really?
�VG: I went to the mountains this is as long as I could walk.
I: Goodness.
JG: ...crossing the mountains with me, we'd dig roots and gather herbs, sang and stuff.
I: 'Bout how much could you get for that?
JG: Well, it was cheap.
VG: It was cheap then. It wasn't much...
JG: You couldn't get over five cents a pound now for what we had.
VG: No.
JG: And I had to carry it three miles down [inaudible] in the summer. Down the mountain all the way and
carry it two sacks at a time on my back.
I: Was it very heavy?
JG: Pretty heavy, yeah. [Inaudible] I get there.
I: I bet it did [chuckles]. How many children do ya'll have?
VG: We've had nine but two of 'ems dead.
JG: Seven living, six girls and one boy and got two boys dead.
I: You said you had a child during the Depression.
VG: Yes [both talking at once]. I had one good dress and one old ratty thing I'd put on 'till I washed my
good one.
JG: I didn't even have clothes to change in. I wore her overalls [inaudible] my marriage and she could
wash mine. And I dug the ditch and worked the hill and cut the wood for 50 cents a day and had to take
it to mill our flour and a piece of meat or something like that. We couldn't get a dime to [inaudible].
Nothin'...
I: So, uh did ya'll have like a farm or something during the Depression?
VG: No, we just lived in what they called a little sawmill shack. You know where they built shacks
through the mountains, you know, to work a sawmill. And Jim worked the sawmill some after our first
baby is born and then it got down to that Depression. And uh when the next baby come along, and I'd
saved her clothes. If I hadn't saved her clothes [inaudible] went naked 'cause we couldn't buy none.
JG: Two hours a day at the sawmill [inaudible] and saw carrying green lumber and [inaudible] out for 50
cents a day.
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I: Mm and was this every day?
JG: Everyday 50 cents a day. That's [inaudible]. You can tell these young people about what it was like
[inaudible].
I: I know it. I've heard too many people say the same thing.
JG: [Inaudible] I couldn't go through it again.
VG: We'd go to people's houses for the raced your own hogs and they'd give us meat skins to season
what little we had to season.
JG: Fry the grease out of it and season your potatoes and beans or something.
I: Oh would, uh were people friendlier during the Depression?
VG: Yeah! We had a few good friends not too many.
JG: The town built her uncle [inaudible].
VG: And then after my baby's born, my aunt give me clothes so I could wear her clothes after the baby.
I: Oh and your uncle what gave you the hog skins and stuff like that.
VG: No, it was another one.
JG: Yeah, he gave us some.
VG: Yeah, he gave us some but there was another one. What was his name?
JG: Dave Frasier gave us some.
VG: Yeah, yeah.
JG: [Inaudible]
VG: We sure had it rough, buddy. And he worked my doctor bill out at 80 cent a day.
JG: Paid half of it on the doctor bill...
VG: ...and half of it to get something to eat.
JG: I stayed away from Blowing Rock for a long time [inaudible].
I: And where was this?
JG & VG: Down in Wilkes County.
I: That's where ya'll were living during the Depression, in Wilkes County?
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VG: Yeah.
I: Did it affect many of your neighbors as far as food and things?
VG:Huh?
I: Did the Depression urn affect many neighbors as far as food and things?
VG: Oh yeah, just about everybody.
I: Did the people not have enough to eat?
VG: I don't know but we didn't.
JG: There was a lot of 'em didn't have enough to eat. We didn't make [inaudible]. I was eating, I was
telling you about walking ten miles and working at the furniture shop. I eat oatmeal for breakfast and
worked on it 'till 12 o'clock and maybe make a sandwich, a peanut butter sandwich at dinner time, cold
Cola and work on it 'till night and walk on home.
I: I don't see how you could stand it, could take it.
JG: Well, people couldn't stand it.
VG: People, people at this time now is much as uh we you know have now.
JG: The people...
VG: If it'd come now I don't believe could live.
I: No I don't think so.
JG: Well there'd be a many of 'em starve to death if the government didn't take care of 'em it wouldn't
work. You couldn't get people out here and work for 50 cents a day to save your life now. They wouldn't
do it but I had to do it or starve to death I didn't like the stuff.
I: Did you ever hear about any of the government projects during the Depression like the WPA?
JG: No, well yeah we did too. They give away stuff a lot at Wilkesboro. We never could get nothing of it.
VG: Yeah, we did. We got some blankets and things one time.
JG: One time, yeah one time. I'm talking about food and stuff we never did get that.
VG: We didn't get no food.
JG: And my brother in law, he's [inaudible]. He's got his own farm and he worked for the WPA. And I
signed up don't know 50 times I guess that the WPA and they never would give me a call to work.
I: Hm, I wonder why.
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JG: I don't know why they didn't but they didn't...
I: I thought they would let...
VG: I think they just had their picks...
JG: Yeah, just certain ones that would work three days and then the other ones would work three days.
And I finally [inaudible] to call Will and I didn't have any job at the shop. I finally got on a contractors job
up there building that highway to Morganton and Lenoir. I got on that and worked I get to work three
days...
VG: And off three days.
JG: ...and off three days. I think it was a dollar, a dollar and half a day [inaudible]. I worked on that till
they cut me off of it and I finally got me a job in the shop between...
VG: 27 cents an hour.
JG: 27 cents an hour.
I: What were you doing then?
JG: I was working shingling with working with [inaudible] hanging the shingles things like that. Just
anything about if you wanted to know, [inaudible] cut off saw, planters, sanders, two jointers, things like
that. 27 cents an hour and I worked there for nine years. Well for nearly nine years before I ever got a
raise.
VG: Halfway left 'till September we've been married uh, 44 years.
I: Really?
VG: We ain't ever been apart a day in our lives. I mean he's went off to work but what I mean you know
get mad and separate or something.
JG: And since then, people get married and they don't get along.
VG: We don't even quarrel now maybe one of us be a little nervous and might smack one off, you know.
I've got bad nerves. When I was in that wreck, I took I had the epilepse [epilepsy].
I: Oh, have you ever worked any jobs?
VG: Uh uh, nothing only when I was little, I dropped corn and beans and stuff like that for people. And I
take it and butter and milk and take it home to eat for all of us.
I: Yeah, how many were in your family?
JG: Bernie and James.
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VG: Yeah but honey, that was after mom married the next last time.
JG: Six of 'em the last time, Carl, Will, Lance, Marie, and Horace. That's six.
VG: Yeah but they wasn't born when I dropped corns.
JG: I know, well there was just three of you. You and James and Bernie.
VG: Yeah there was just three and we had a step dad and he was a terrible man to us. Lord, he'd beat us
for nothin' just beat us like beatin' a dog.
I: Hm, could your mother not do anything about it?
VG: No, she'd try to fight him but he could outdo her.
I: Did ya'll have a farm where you lived?
VG: Yeah.
I: Did you have to work on the farm?
VG: Yeah! He'd give us, if he couldn't find nothin' else for us to do, he'd give us about acre of land to
pick up rock of the bay and we better have that done when he come in or he'd whoop.
I: Why would you have to pick up the rock, where would you put the rocks?
VG:Take 'em off you know pull 'em off the land where was cleared you know. He'd just have us do that
'cause he couldn't think of nothin' else for us to do. And I'd have to get all the wood and carry all the
water.
I: Were you the oldest?
VG: Yeah, yeah I was the oldest.
I: Hm, do you remember...
VG: Pulling drag woods out, drag wood out of the mountains and I'd have to chop it and carry it in.
I: Do you remember any good times when you were little and growing up?
VG: It was a dire some place.
I: You were what?
VG: It was a dire some place. We went out to play, he whooped us.
I: Really?
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VG: Yeah! He let one girl, one of our girlfriends, come one time. Asked him if we could goto her house
and play and he told us yeah. We didn't know no better we ain't never went nowhere you know before.
And when we come back, he told us how long to stay, two hours. When we come back, he said you
march right to them woods and get a hickory.
I: Why?
VG: He whooped us for going!
I: Did he tell you you could go?
VG: Yes!
I: Goodness.
JG: He was mean, he was just an old drunk and [inaudible] 'em.
I: Oh, that's just awful.
JG: I'll tell you how we treated my daddy. You know, this white house on the bank down there as you go
out the first one right there. Up on that hill, well Will Willy live there now and he got my daddy to cut
wood for him one time when that hill was there. And my daddy was cutting wood and a log coming
through down hit his shin and [inaudible]. You know what that man done? My daddy went in the house
tied it up to keep it from bleeding. Come over here son and poured on his shin on that skin place and he
had a sore on his leg as long as you [inaudible].
VG: Eat it up! You know carbolic acid will eat you up!
l:Ew.
JG: [Inaudible] And he poured that on his leg and it skinned up like that on my daddy's leg 'til a man
could cure it up. And he had a sore on his leg when he died over there.
I: Goodness.
JG: If I had been big enough and got hold of that man, I would kill him. That's how they treated my
daddy. He worked, the people would work him and they wouldn't pay him for it. They'd say I'll pay you
next week or next day or two or something like that and that'd be the last of it; maybe workin' a week at
a time all he got was what we were eating.
l:Hm.
JG: You couldn't get no 33 and 1/3 cents a day you know what you get out of a day's work then for ten
hours a day. He dug a ditch for people, cut wood, cleared off lands, cut logs for people and roll 'em into
hollers, and burn 'em and everything else, clean off their land for 'em. All these big mountain fields on
top the mountain when you go out, he done the most of 'em.
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l:Hm.
JG: People treated him awfully dirty but there's another day coming...
I: Yeah.
JG: ...when they get their part and it hits you.
I: Why do you think they...
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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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2014-02-26
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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Greer, June 11, 1973
Description
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James Calvin Greer was born in Triplett, NC in 1908. Vera Greer was born in Caldwell County in 1913.
Mr. and Mrs. Greer both recall very hard childhoods and growing up in the Triplett area. Mr. Greer worked at the local sawmill during the Great Depression. They recall collecting herbs and bark to pay for groceries and clothes.
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Weaver, Karen
Greer, Jim and Vera
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<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
Date
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6/11/1973
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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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15 pages
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English
English
Type
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document
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111_tape74_Mr&MrsJimGreer_1973_06_11M001
Spatial Coverage
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Triplett, NC
Subject
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Greer, James Calvin--Interviews
Greer, Vera--Interviews
Depressions--1929--North Carolina--Watauga
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
barks
Caldwell County
Great Depression
herbs
Jim Greer
North Carolina
roots
sawmill
sawmill community
sawmill shack
Triplett
Vera Greer
Wilkes County