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Interviewee | Collection Sort ascending | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Bing Phillips | Oral History of Georgia Fisheries | Cathy Sakas | Unknown | NOAA's Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary | ||
Mary Aspinall | Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal |
Mary Aspinall, a farmer, has lived in the Stonewall Jackson Lake area for forty years. Originally from the Roanoke area, she and her husband moved to their current farm after the dam was proposed on the West Fork River. Prior to their current farming endeavors, the Aspinalls owned a farm in the Roanoke area. Their decision to relocate was influenced by the proposed construction of a dam on the West Fork River, which promised new opportunities and challenges for the local agricultural community. |
Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Matthew Snyder, Francine Snyder, and Ron Simmons | Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal |
Matthew Snyder, Francine Snyder, and Ron Simmons 2-6-85 interviewed by M. KlinE |
Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Eva Braxton and Joyce Xennia Long | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
At 101 Mrs. Braxton was articulate and good humored. A native of Middlesex County, she described her tenure teaching at African-American schoolhouses and earlier, working in the dairy at her childhood home. She graphically depicted the sounds and excitement that ensued with the coming of the steamboats. Her daughter Xennia Long rounded out the interview with her poetry on local life and culture. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Thomas A. Williams | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Thomas A. Williams (1925-2006). Son of an innovative Menhaden fishing boat captain, Williams provided an inventory of steamboat landings and lighthouses. He described the wide range of goods delivered to and from Northumberland County by steamers. |
Carrie Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines |