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Betty Morgan oral history interview, 2006 March 26
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Creator
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Morgan, Betty, 1932-
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Date Created
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2006-03-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Rural families, Education, Rural, Education, Elementary, College students, Rural electrification
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Betty Morgan recounts her life growing up in rural Rowan County, North Carolina. One of nine children, Mrs. Morgan discusses growing up on her family's small farm and how they grew the majority of their own food, as well as cotton. The farm lacked...
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Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
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Creator
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Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
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Date Created
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2006-10-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
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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...
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Christine Miller oral history interview, 2006 November 19
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Creator
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Miller, Christine P., 1927-
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Date Created
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2006-11-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Working mothers, Small business, Hardware stores, Tithes
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Description
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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...
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Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
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Creator
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Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
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Date Created
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1996-10-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
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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...
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Frances Blanton oral history interview, 1992 November 24
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Creator
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Blanton, Frances B.
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Date Created
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1992-11-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Social values, Country life, Manners and customs, Dating (Social customs), Homemakers
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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...
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Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
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Creator
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Lowder, Leon, 1906-
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Date Created
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1999-03-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
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Description
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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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Mary Alice Wright oral history interview, 1993 October 31
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Creator
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Wright, Mary Alice, 1930-2003
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Date Created
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1993-10-31
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Subjects--Topical
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Mills and mill-work, Parents--Death, Grief, Housing, Rural, Country life
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Mary Alice Wright discusses growing up in the mill village in Waxhaw, North Carolina. In particular, she describes how she worked in the mill village as a concession stand operator and actively participated in social activities, such as square dan...
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Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
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Case, Virginia, 1918-
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Date Created
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1996-09-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
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Description
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Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...
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Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
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Creator
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Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
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Date Created
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2006-03-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
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Textiles industry manager Waitsell Ensley discusses his life and his family. He describes his unexpected birth and his childhood growing up in small mill towns in Gaston County, North Carolina. In particular, Mr. Ensley talks about rationing durin...