Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-

Lowder, Pat

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1998-10-06

1 audio file (1:35:12) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (53 pages : PDF)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Norris Dearmon was a 76-year-old man at the time of interview. He was born in Statesville, North Carolina in 1922. He was educated at Cannon High School and completed two years of college, and was employed as an Army dental technician and as a tabulator and manager at Cannon Mills.

Norris Dearmon recounts his life in Kannapolis, North Carolina and his sixty-year long relationship with Cannon Mills as an employee and amateur historian. Topics discussed include his childhood growing up during the Great Depression, his experiences as an Army dental technician in Iceland during World War II, his career as a computer programmer at Cannon Mills, and his work preserving the history of Kannapolis and Cannon Mills through his role as local historian in the GI Memorial House Museum and the Kannapolis History Room.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.

Computer programmers
Textile workers
Dental technicians

Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-
Cannon, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1892-1971

United States. Army Air Forces
Cannon Mills Company
Kannapolis History Associates (Kannapolis, N.C.)

World War (1939-1945)

Dentistry, Military
Mills and mill-work
Local history
Company towns
Textile industry--Technological innovations

North Carolina--Kannapolis
Iceland

Interviews
Oral histories

1920-2000

David Goldfield student project on change in the Charlotte region

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