University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute
Interviewee | Collection Sort descending | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Gerald William Bosarge | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Gerald William Bosarge was born on November 13, 1934, in Pecan, Mississippi, to Mr. Charles Bosarge and Mrs. Bosarge (born Saksa, in Finland). He is married to Mrs. Harriet Janice Zirlott (born in Coden, Alabama on June 27, 1945). They have two children, Gerald William Bosarge Jr. and Lori Ann Bosarge. At the time of this interview, Mr. Bosarge was retired from commercial fishing, and after forty years of fishing for a living, he currently fishes for fun and sustenance. He is from a multi-generational fishing family, with ancestors who fished on both sides of his family. |
Barbara Hester | Moss Point, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Cuc Huynh | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Cuc Huynh is a Vietnamese-American shrimper and tuna fisherman, living in New Orleans East. Mr. Cuc Huynh was born in 1964, one of nine children, near Phu Hai in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam. His father’s name was Tich Huynh and his mother’s name was Em Thi Phan. Tich Huynh served as a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army). Mr. Huynh learned to fish from his father when he was thirteen years old. His mother bought and sold fish in town. |
Linda VanZandt, Khai Nguyen | New Orleans, LA | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Suong Ngoc Nguyen | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Reverend Suong Ngoc Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American living in Biloxi, Mississippi, serving the Vietnamese community, there, many of whom work in the fisheries system. Nguyen was born, one of four children, in 1944 in Cambodia (to Vietnamese parents), but was raised in Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam. Her grandfather was a leader of the Cao Dai religious group in Tay Ninh Province. Her father sold goods in a market and disappeared one day in 1946 during the French-Viet Minh war. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | Biloxi, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Irvin Eugene “Gene” Stork | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Irvin Eugene Stork is a retired commercial fisherman. Stork was born on April 23, 1932, in Moss Point, Mississippi, to Mr. Henry W. Stork, a commercial fisherman, and Mrs. Hattie B. Clark Stork. At the time of this interview, Mr. Stork had retired from Dow Chemical Plant and from commercial fishing. He was graduated from high school, after making the All State Basketball team, and he became a captain in the Army during his military service. He enjoys gardening and fishing in his retirement. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Pecan, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Edmund Anthony Boudreaux, Jr. | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Edmond Anthony Boudreaux Jr. was born in 1949 to Edmond Boudreaux Sr. and Nita Mae Thomas Boudreaux. He is the third of eight children. He is married to Virginia L. Bertucci Boudreaux, and they have three sons, Edmond Boudreaux III, Brandon Boudreaux, and Marcus Boudreaux. Boudreaux is a 1967 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was an AT&T service technician from 1973 until 2010, when he retired. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | , | Biloxi, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute |
George V. Jackson, III | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
George V. Jackson, III (b. 1957) is a third-generation commercial fisherman working out of St. Bernard, Louisiana. He was born on February 13, 1957, in New Orleans, Louisiana to George Jackson Jr. (born September 28, 1934, in New Orleans) and Odurna Jackson (born December 12, 1937, in New Orleans). His father was a part-time commercial fisherman, concurrently with being a baker and a millwright. In the late 1960s, his father became a full-time commercial fisherman. His father’s family worked at Jackson Brewery in New Orleans and fished. |
Barbara Hester | St. Bernard Parish, LA | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Thang "Peter" Nguyen | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Thang "Peter" Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American, former shrimper, now community liaison for Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center. He was born in 1967 in Vung Tau, South Vietnam. His parents were fisherfolk and told him the story of escaping Vietnam in the family boat two weeks before the Communists took over South Vietnam, when Mr. Nguyen was just eight years old. |
Linda VanZandt | Biloxi, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Wesley Howard Stork | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Wesley Howard Stork is a retired commercial fisherman on Gulf Coast. Stork was born on December 12, 1926, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Mr. Henry Wilson Stork (born in Leavenworth, Kansas) and Mrs. Hattie Belle Clark Stork (born in Pascagoula, Mississippi). His father was a commercial fisherman and the owner of a merchandise store. His mother was a housewife, who worked in the family store. Stork’s father’s name was Hinklemeyer (sp?), and he changed his surname to Stork, which was his mother’s maiden name. |
Barbara Hester | Moss Point, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Clyde Leslie Brown | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Clyde Leslie Brown was born July 1, 1932, in Pecan, Mississippi, to Nathaniel Richard Brown (born November 22, 1901, in Canoe, Alabama) and Mary Edna Stork Brown (born February 28, 1906, in Pecan, Mississippi). His father was a farmer who ran a general store in Canoe, Alabama, and his mother was a housewife. His mother’s father was a commercial fisherman in Jackson County, Mississippi, who ran a general store in Pecan, Mississippi. On September 4, 1955, he married Annie Marie Jones. |
Barbara Hester | Biloxi, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Joey Keller | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Joey Keller is a crab fisherman living in Fernier, Louisiana. Scope and Content Note: |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Fernier, LA | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute |