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Title: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt oral history interview, 1993 June 1
Creator: Heafner, Anna Lou, 1920-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-01
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball players, School sports, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Country life
Description: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt describe their experiences playing basketball in the Steele Creek area of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (now part of Charlotte) during the 1930s. They talk about how many of the girls w...

Title: Balls Creek Camp Meeting oral history interview, 2002 August 24
Creator: Ewing, Todd D. (Todd Douglas), 1969-
Date Created: 2002-08-24
Subjects--Topical: Camp meetings, Families--Social life and customs, Country life, Protestant churches, Outdoor recreation, Land use, Rural
Description: The interview is with members of two extended families, the Harbinsons and the Ewings, at the Balls Creek Campground, where generations have met to attend worship services, visit neighbors in their community, and relax with their families. Individ...

Title: Beth Douglas oral history interview, 2003 July 1
Creator: Douglas, Beth (Counselor)
Date Created: 2003-07-01
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Land use, Rural, Animals, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Trees, Rural development, Litter (Trash), Water--Pollution
Description: Beth Douglas describes what she likes about living in Gaston County, North Carolina, where she moved to in 2000. Mrs. Douglas discusses the importance of recycling, protecting the environment, local wildlife, and how she would like to see the coun...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 7, 1987 December 8
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1987-12-08
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Teachers, Universities and colleges
Description: In this second of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone reflects on her childhood, youth, and ear...

Title: Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
Creator: Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-10-26
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
Description: Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...

Title: Christine Miller oral history interview, 2006 November 19
Creator: Miller, Christine P., 1927-
Date Created: 2006-11-19
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Working mothers, Small business, Hardware stores, Tithes
Description: Christine Miller recounts her life growing up in Salisbury, North Carolina, as well as her forty years living in Charlotte. She describes living on her family's five-acre farm in the country outside of Salisbury and her time working at Ketner's Su...

Title: Clara Carson oral history interview, 2002 September 27
Creator: Carson, Clara T.
Date Created: 2002-09-27
Subjects--Topical: Day care centers, Early childhood education, Camp meetings, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, Country life, Family farms
Description: Clara Carson discusses her day care business, the Catawba Child Development Academy in Catawba, North Carolina. She talks about the origins of the academy, which first opened in Smyre's Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church then moved to a new building ten ye...

Title: Daisy Dunlap oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: Dunlap, Daisy, 1934-
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Race relations, Vegetable gardening, Segregation in education
Description: Daisy Mae Dunlap discusses how gardening influenced her life while growing up in York, South Carolina and later, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Dunlap describes how her family wasn't that negatively affected b...

Title: Eddie Yow oral history interview, 2019 April 9
Creator: Yow, Eddie
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Farmers’ markets, Country life, Beef cattle, Livestock, Family farms
Description: Mr. Eddie Yow raises livestock and sells beef in the North Carolina Piedmont region. He is a native of Stanly County, North Carolina and has lived in Stanfield, North Carolina for over thirty years. In this interview, he reflects on the many chang...

Title: Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
Creator: Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
Date Created: 1996-10-18
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
Description: Rutherford County native Elizabeth Biggerstaff describes her life and how she balances work and family. She describes her early life growing up in the country outside of Cliffside, North Carolina, with two older brothers and attending local school...

Title: Elizabeth Callaway oral history interview, 1993 March 11
Creator: Callaway, Elizabeth McCall, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1993-03-11
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Country life
Description: Elizabeth McCall Callaway talks about learning to play basketball and her memories of playing on school teams in Catawba County and Charlotte, North Carolina. She played basketball starting in the seventh grade in Catawba County and played for fou...

Title: Elizabeth Sadler oral history interview, 2004 April 24
Creator: Sadler, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Houston), 1917-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-24
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American churches, Community organization, Farm life, Country life, Manners and customs
Description: Elizabeth Sadler recounts her early life growing up on her family's farm in the small, rural section of northwestern Mecklenburg County known as Shuffletown during the 1920s-1940s. She shares memories of her mother cooking Sunday dinner and long d...

Title: Emma Peoples Smith oral history interview 1, 2019 May 23
Creator: Smith, Emma Peoples
Date Created: 2019-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Genealogy, Slavery, Nannies, Country life, Race relations--Social aspects, Working mothers, Enslavement
Description: Emma Peoples Smith, the great granddaughter of Richard Peoples who was a prominent citizen in the Providence township of Mecklenburg County during the 19th century, describes her life and her family history. [All times approximate]. Overview of Mr...

Title: Frances Blanton oral history interview, 1992 November 24
Creator: Blanton, Frances B.
Date Created: 1992-11-24
Subjects--Topical: Social values, Country life, Manners and customs, Dating (Social customs), Homemakers
Description: Longtime Charlotte resident Frances Blanton discusses her family, and her childhood and adolescence. She describes visiting her grandparents on their farm in Cabarrus County, where they made their own butter, cream, and sausage. Mrs. Blanton began...

Title: Herman Cunningham oral history interview, 1993 September 7
Creator: Cunningham, Herman, 1928-2018
Date Created: 1993-09-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Basketball teams, Basketball--Tournaments, School sports--Social aspects, Segregation in education, Sports for women, Country life, School discipline
Description: Herman Cunningham recounts playing on the basketball team during the 1940s at Winchester High School, a segregated school for African Americans in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. Cunningham describes how the school partially burned down in the 1930s a...

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: Jewell H. Saunders oral history interview, 2002 February 2
Creator: Saunders, Jewell H. (Jewell Hill), 1916-2015
Date Created: 2000-02-02
Subjects--Topical: Land use, Rural, Rural development, Country life, Farm life, Cash crops, Subsistence farming, Animals, Mills and mill-work, Rural electrification
Description: Jewell Saunders recounts life in a farming community in the Uwharrie Forest area, located in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Ms. Saunders discusses rural development, such as access to healthcare and transportation, electrification, and the con...

Title: Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
Creator: Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
Date Created: 2003-03-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
Description: Joseph E. Broughton shares what it was like to grow up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and why he joined World War II. Mr. Broughton was ten years old when the stock market crashed and he got his first job at an ice house to help supp...

Title: Lem Long oral history interview, 2007 March 15
Creator: Long, Lem, Jr., 1921-
Date Created: 2007-03-15
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, African American neighborhoods, African American business enterprises, Cities and towns--Growth, Country life, Funeral service, Race relations, City and town life
Description: Lem Long discusses growing up in Mint Hill, just east of Charlotte, North Carolina, and visiting the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, also known as Second Ward. Topics include founding his own funeral business, Long and Son Mortuary Services, h...

Title: Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
Creator: Lowder, Leon, 1906-
Date Created: 1999-03-06
Subjects--Topical: Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
Description: Leon Lowder recounts his life, family, and work in retail and farming in central South Carolina from the 1930s-1980s. Mr. Lowder describes being the seventh out of eleven children in a farming family and leaving home in 1926 to work in the grocery...

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