Hudgins, VA

Interviewee Collection Sort descending Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Ella Wanda "Teenie" Edwards Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project

Interview at Gwynn's Island Museum with Ms. Gazelle Moore (Tootie) (Age 95), Uncle Henry Gwynn Edwards (Age 99), Ella Wanda "Teeniest" Edwards (Age 83), and Robert Stewart Edwards (Age 89). These life-long Gwynn’s Islanders together remembered nearly 350 years of vivid details of community and natural events. Their criss-crossing experiences helped jog each other’s memories of the steamboat era, including the Adams Floating Theater.

Carrie Kline, Michael Kline Hudgins, VA Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives
Gazelle Moore Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project

Interview with Gazelle Moore

Carrie Kline, Michael Kline Hudgins, VA 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
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
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