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Title: Jackie Alexander Stanley oral history interview, 2022 June 8
Creator: Stanley, Jackie Alexander
Date Created: 2022-06-08
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Education, Church history, Genealogy, African American history, Local history
Description: Jackie Alexander Stanley and her daughter, Debra Stanley Barrett, discuss her family history and her life growing up in Mecklenburg County. She shares stories about Mallard Creek and other neighborhoods around Charlotte and memories of people and ...

Title: James Forrester and Mary Frances Forrester oral history interview, 2003 August 7
Creator: Forrester, James S. (James Summers), 1937-2011
Date Created: 2003-08-07
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Animals, Pollution, Local history, Medicine, Rural, Nature, Rural development
Description: James Forrester and Mary Frances Forrester recount their lives in Stanley, North Carolina, where they first moved so Dr. Forrester could work as a physician through a rural doctor program. Topics discussed include their appreciation for the land, ...

Title: Norris A. Dearmon oral history interview, 1998 October 6
Creator: Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-
Date Created: 1998-10-06
Subjects--Topical: Dentistry, Military, Mills and mill-work, Local history, Company towns, Textile industry--Technological innovations
Description: Norris Dearmon recounts his life in Kannapolis, North Carolina and his sixty-year long relationship with Cannon Mills as an employee and amateur historian. Topics discussed include his childhood growing up during the Great Depression, his experien...