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| Title | Sandy Mush Chronicles Oral History Collection - Faye Ferguson | |||||||||||||
| Creator | Stephen Cain, in preparation for master's degree in "Social Science and American Culture" from Eastern Michigan University, 2004. | |||||||||||||
| Alt. Creator | Interviewer: Stephen Cain | |||||||||||||
| Subject | LCSH: Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs Working class -- United States -- History -- Personal narratives Appalachian Region, Southern -- History Mountain life -- North Carolina Molasses Farm life -- North Carolina -- Tobacco farms -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County Tobacco farmers -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County Tobacco farmers -- United States -- Economic conditions Rural churches -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County Oral history -- Appalachian Region Appalachian Region -- Religion | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Keyword: rural life ; Southern Appalachia ; Sandy Mush ; Leicester, NC ; molasses ; tobacco farming ; Little Cataloochie ; Big Cataloochie ; Great Smoky Mountains National Park ; Western North Carolina ; quilting ; Appalachian arts and crafts ; religion ; moonshine stills ; nuclear waste | |||||||||||||
| Description | Interview with a member of the Sandy Mush community in Leicester, North Carolina about the Civil War, growing up in the region, farming, community barn raising, cultural continuity, and protesting the designation of Sandy Mush as a possible nuclear waste dump. | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804 | |||||||||||||
| Contributor | Stephen Cain | |||||||||||||
| Date | Electronic Record Issued: 2006-09-28 | |||||||||||||
| Type | Sound ; Text | |||||||||||||
| Format | One folder, containing a full interview transcript and two photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SMC/ferguson_faye/ferguson_jones_finding_aid.htm | |||||||||||||
| Source | Sandy Mush Chronicles Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 | |||||||||||||
| Language | English | |||||||||||||
| Relation | Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection; Tobaco Bag Stringing in North Carolina and Virginia, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/tbs/index.html ; "Mountain Voices" [K1.5], Southern Oral History Program Collection [#4007], Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, University Of North Carolina Library. | |||||||||||||
| Coverage | 1900's -1998 ; Leicester, NC | |||||||||||||
| Rights | No restrictions. Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. | |||||||||||||
| Acquisition | Donor number: 273; Date of acquisition: 2006-03 | |||||||||||||
| Processed By | Special Collections staff , Jamie Patterson 2006-10 | |||||||||||||
| Interview Date | 1998-08-05 | |||||||||||||
| List of Names |
Ball, Carl | |||||||||||||
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