Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project
Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Harvey Morgan | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Harvey Morgan interview; Luncheon talk following interview with mother. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline, Dianne Jordan | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Henry Gwyn Edwards | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Interview with Henry Gwyn Edwards |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Hudgins, VA | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
John Lee Callis | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Interview with John Lee Callis |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
John Norwood McCarty | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
John Norwood McCarty (1916-2012) was born to a farming family outside of Lively in Lancaster County, Virginia. His boyhood interplay with steamboats involved raising produce that he and his family then delivered to the bustling steamboat wharf to board the vessels for sale. McCarty provided vivid accounts of a rural steamboat wharf community, from a cooperative grower’s packinghouse to the local Speakeasy. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Judith Haynes | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
A local newspaper reporter, Haynes is owner of historic Hudgins House adjacent to the Crickett Hill Steamboat Wharf on the Piankitank River near the Gwynn’s Island bridge. She discusses the handwritten boarding house ledger dating from 1916 and overnight guests who came from far and wide. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Hudgins, VA | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Larry Chowning | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Larry Chowning (Age 54 at the time) with Michael Kline and Dianne Jordan in Larry's Mother's living room in Urbanna. Sprung from generations of family in Urbanna, Chowning displays a flair for uncovering intriguing details of the Chesapeake region through first person accounts. He is prolific author and knows every detail of making a living on the water over the past century. |
Dianne Jordan , Michael Kline | Urbanna, VA | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Mariam W. Haynie | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
The first part of Mrs. Olivia Mariam Williams Haynie's (1917-2006) interview is spent in bitter recollection of the atrocities committed by the Yankees during the Civil War, tales of great incivility passed down from her grandparents who witnessed affairs firsthand. From here Miriam Haynie takes listeners from her Reedville home to and through the Baltimore. Steamboats occasioned close relations between the Northern Neck and this cosmopolitan city. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Mary Louise Morgan | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
At 100 years old Mrs. Morgan, with the help of her son, legislator Harvey Morgan, recalled her honeymoon voyage aboard a side-wheeler in the 1920s. The Morgan family has operated a pharmacy in Gloucester Court House for generations. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Gloucester, VA | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Robert Stewart Edwards | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Interview with Robert Stewart Edwards |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Hudgins, VA | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Ruby Lee Norris | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Rubie Lee Norris (1916-2012). Then still living in a pre-Civil War house built by her great uncle near Topping on the Rappahannock River, Norris remembered riding the steamers to college in Fredericksburg and told vivid stories of clerking in her father’s store, which was supplied by steamers. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives |