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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: Esther Young oral history interview, 2003 March 1
Creator: Young, Esther B., 1923-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Rural families, Depressions, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Rural, Families--Social life and customs, Politics and government, Sharecropping, Amusements
Description: Esther Young recalls her childhood in rural Cabarrus County, North Carolina during the early 1930s and summarizes her family's experiences during the Great Depression. Ms. Young explains that her family farmed throughout the Great Depression and w...

Title: Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
Creator: Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
Date Created: 1997-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
Description: Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...

Title: Simmons Jones oral history interview, 1993 February 28
Creator: Jones, Simmons, 1920-
Date Created: 1993-02-28
Subjects--Topical: Social classes, Race relations, Race discrimination, Segregation, Religion, Sexual ethics, Homosexuality, Families--Social life and customs
Description: Fashion photographer and author Simmons Baker Jones discusses his eventful life, beginning with his formative years growing up in a prominent Charlotte family and continuing through his service as a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Second Worl...