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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...

Title: Sam Correll, Gloria Correll, and David Correll oral history interview, 2004 January 18
Creator: Correll, Sam, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-01-18
Subjects--Topical: Community organization, Country life, Family farms, Farm management, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Dairy cattle, Field crops, Foreign workers, No-tillage, Church history, Dairy cattle--Breeding, Christian stewardship
Description: Sam Correll was a 61-year-old man, Gloria Correll was a 60-year-old woman, and David Correll was a 29-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place in their home in Rowan County, North Carolina. Sam Correll and Gloria Correll are married...

Title: Wetmore and Watson families oral history interview, 2004 February 7
Creator: Watson, Artie
Date Created: 2004-02-07
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, Farm life, Farm management, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Dairy farming, Field crops, Local produce
Description: The Wetmore and Watson families--Artie Watson, Nancy Wetmore, Laura Watson, Jacob Watson, Libby Watson, and Bill Wetmore--recount the history of Wetmore Farms in the community of Woodleaf, North Carolina. Topics discussed include the field crops t...