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Title: Beaumert Whitton oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Whitton, Beaumert, 1910-1990
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: World War, Boy Scouts, Scouting, Camping, Youth--Social life and customs
Description: Beaumert Whitton recounts the history of the Boy Scouts in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s and 1920s. Topics discussed include the founding of the city's first three troops, a short chronology of Mecklenburg County's Boy Scout...

Title: Earl Stafford oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Stafford, Earl, 1915-1982
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Floods, Voluntarism, City and town life
Description: Earl Stafford recounts memories of Charlotte, North Carolina after moving to Mecklenburg County in 1943. He discusses North Carolina's flood of 1916 and how it destroyed many communities in western North Carolina. Other topics include change in do...

Title: Jessie Cherry oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Cherry, Jessie, 1915-
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, African American families
Description: Jessie Cherry shares details of her family life living and working on a farm before moving to Charlotte in the late 1930s. She discusses her first time trying to slaughter a chicken, her mother's garden, and variety stores in downtown Charlotte du...

Title: Paul G. Rodden oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Rodden, Paul G. (Paul Gilbert), 1909-
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Genealogy, Families--Social life and customs, Country life, Education, Rural, Family farms, Mills and mill-work, Insurance companies
Description: Paul G. Rodden recounts his years working as an insurance agent for the Pilot Life Insurance Company during the 1940s-1970s and his family history. He describes his interest in genealogy; the Rodden family in Davie, Rowan, and Mecklenburg Counties...