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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 | |
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 | |
William Crosby | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Mr. Crosby was an African-American raconteur, a Lancaster County legend, who founded a snack shop just north of White Stone on Rt. 3. A veteran of the fishing industry, he knew every aspect of boating and sold seafood in Richmond over a forty-five year period. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
William John Cowart, Jr. | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
With a father and grandfather who ran a cannery at the steamboat wharf, John Cowart's telling brought to life the Adams Floating Theatre, the rich singing of the Black men in his family’s oyster house, and the dynamic interaction at the country store. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives | |
Charles J. "Chuck" Harney | Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project |
Charles J. "Chuck" Harney (1922-2004). At the time of the interview he had been retired to Lancaster County fifteen years. He said he had videotaped over 150 interviews with local people on boats, in homes and shops, in fields and marshes throughout the region. |
Carrie Kline, Michael Kline | Unknown | Talking Across the Lines, Berea College Special Collections & Archives |