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Title: Annie Diggs oral history interview, 2001 October 30
Creator: Diggs, Annie Mae, 1926-2008
Date Created: 2001-10-30
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Chores, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, Cooking, American
Description: Annie Mae Diggs recalls growing up in the country in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, helping to found the Wilmore Community Garden in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her relationship with gardening. She discusses cho...

Title: Betty Morgan oral history interview, 2006 March 26
Creator: Morgan, Betty, 1932-
Date Created: 2006-03-26
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Rural families, Education, Rural, Education, Elementary, College students, Rural electrification
Description: 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...

Title: Carrie Gaddy oral history interview, 2001 October 29
Creator: Gaddy, Carrie H., 1930-
Date Created: 2001-10-29
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Gardening--Social aspects, Cotton, Canning and preserving, Almanacs, American
Description: Carrie Gaddy recounts growing up in rural Union County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in 1970, and gardening throughout her life. She describes life growing up with her family, attending ...

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: Katie Grier oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: Grier, Katie, 1925-2010
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, African American families, Country life, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Depressions, Canning and preserving, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation, Race discrimination, School integration, Family farms, Domestic animals
Description: Katie Grier shares information about growing up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina for over thirty years, and her involvement with gardening throughout her life. She describes her...

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: Mary Alice Wright oral history interview, 1993 October 31
Creator: Wright, Mary Alice, 1930-2003
Date Created: 1993-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Mills and mill-work, Parents--Death, Grief, Housing, Rural, Country life
Description: 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...

Title: Mary E. Nash oral history interview, 2001 November 3
Creator: Nash, Mary Ellen, 1931-2014
Date Created: 2001-11-03
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Gardening, Family farms, Farms, Small, Neighborhoods--Social aspects, Family reunions
Description: Mary Nash recounts her childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and her thirty-two years living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte. Mrs. Nash describes going up on her family's small farm and discusses the various things her par...

Title: Pauline Cox oral history interview, 2002 January 23
Creator: Cox, Pauline L.
Date Created: 2002-01-23
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Canning and preserving
Description: Pauline Cox describes growing up on a farm in rural Anson County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore community in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past thirty-two years, and gardening at the Wilmore Community Garden. Ms. Cox describes chores s...