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Title: Belton, Jonathan oral history interview, 2014 September 1
Creator: Belton, Jonathan P., 1956-2016
Date Created: 2014-09-01
Subjects--Topical: Rivers, Tadpoles, Swimming, Summer
Description: Jonathan Belton describes his childhood activities playing with his friends in Briar Creek adjacent to the neighborhood of Grier Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes catching tadpoles and digging out gray clay from the banks of the c...

Title: Cherry neighborhood group oral history interview with Doris Gibson Dennis, Ruthie Grier Hamlin, Charles L. Patton, Everett Taylor and Richard Perry, 2014 August 16
Creator: Dennis, Doris G. (Doris Gibson), 1944-
Date Created: 2014-08-06
Subjects--Topical: Drowning, Segregation, Rivers
Description: Five men and women describe growing up in the Cherry community in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. They recount their adventures with the creeks and their experiences with new technologies such as refrigerators and televisions...

Title: Grier Heights group oral history interview with Hawthorne Broadway, L.C. Clifton, Willie Davis, Marvin Price, and Porgie Wallace, 2014 September 1
Creator: Broadway, Hawthorn, 1937-
Date Created: 2014-09-01
Subjects--Topical: Fishing, Floods, Segregation, Swimming, Swimming pools, Rivers
Description: Five men, who grew up in the Grier Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s recall swimming in the local creeks. and specifically in a place that they called the "Big Boy Hole," on Briar Creek behind the Mint Mu...

Title: Haire, Wenonah oral history interview, 2015 February 13
Creator: Haire, Wenonah G. (Wenonah George)
Date Created: 2015-02-03
Subjects--Topical: Fishing, Rivers
Description: Dr. Haire describes some of the traditional uses that the creeks have been used for in the past and present by the Catawba Indians. She also discusses the concerns that come from being south of the creeks in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County. She stres...

Title: Hall, Curley and Laura Rankin oral history interview, 2014 May 27
Creator: Hall, Curley
Date Created: 2014-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Baptism, Bus travel, Transportation, Rivers
Description: Laura Rankin and Curley Hall discuss attending baptismal services while members of the Shiloh Baptist Church on Elmin Street in Reid Park, Charlotte, North Carolina. Curley Hall describes living in the old Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte and be...

Title: Hall, Rickey oral history interview, 2014 May 27
Creator: Hall, Rickey (Rickey Vaughn), 1957-
Date Created: 2014-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Floods, Swimming, Rivers
Description: Rickey Hall recalls his childhood adventures swimming in Irwin Creek and its tributaries in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He imparts the importance of creek greenways for the communities in Charlotte. He discusses the importanc...

Title: Hare, Ron oral history interview, 2014 July 16
Creator: Hare, Ron (Ronald C. Jr.), 1935-
Date Created: 2014-07-16
Subjects--Topical: Floods, Rivers
Description: Ronald Hare discusses his contributions to a flood mitigation project done by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He relates the process by which houses were acquired by the county and then torn down in order to turn the area into an ecological ga...

Title: Menhinick, Ed and Pozy Menhinick oral history interview, 2014 May 9
Creator: Menhinick, Edward F. (Edward Fulton), 1935-
Date Created: 2014-05-09
Subjects--Topical: Bluegill, Catfishes, Environmental impact statements, Gold, Largemouth bass, Silt, Sunfishes, Rivers
Description: Dr. Ed Menhinick discusses his history from the late 1960s until around 2010. He remembers how he got started in finding fish in the streams of North Carolina. He discusses doing environmental impact reports for the county and the state on the con...

Title: Rozzelle, Rusty oral history interview, 2014 February 5
Creator: Rozzelle, Rusty (Russell Sloan), 1956-
Date Created: 2014-02-05
Subjects--Topical: Greenways, Federal Water Pollution Control Act (United States), Stream channelization, Stream ecology, Water--Pollution, Rivers
Description: Rusty Rozzelle, manager of the Mecklenburg County Water Quality Program gives an historical background of the treatment of creeks and streams in Mecklenburg County. He discusses pollutants and methods to restore the creeks. He describes laws and o...

Title: Stith, Pat oral history interview, 2014 July 28
Creator: Stith, Pat (William F.), 1942-
Date Created: 2014-07-28
Subjects--Topical: Journalism, Newspapers, Reporters and reporting, Sewage, Water--Pollution, Rivers
Description: Pat Stith recalls his first investigative journalism report as a newspaper reporter for The Charlotte News. He discusses his investigation of pollution and the piping of waste by industry into Little Sugar Creek and other creeks in Charlotte, Nort...

Title: Stokes, Bill oral history interview, 2014 July 31
Creator: Stokes, Bill, 1949-
Date Created: 2014-07-31
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Kayaking, Rivers
Description: Bill Stokes of Lancaster, South Carolina discusses his hobby of kayaking up and down the Catawba River, and his hobby of collecting the balls that he has found floating down the river. He describes the condition and quantities of trash that come o...

Title: Todd, Les oral history interview, 2014 September 13
Creator: Todd, Les (Lester Claire III), 1952-
Date Created: 2014-09-13
Subjects--Topical: Rivers
Description: Lester Todd, father of interviewer Tenille Todd, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina near Freedom Park, remembers playing in Little Sugar Creek as a child. He refers to Little Sugar Creek as "Sugar Creek," which was common in Charlotte for mu...

Title: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta)--Denise Trauth, Provost
Creator (Corporate): University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Date Created: 1997
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--Administration, College administrators, Universities and colleges--Graduate work, Doctor of philosophy degree
Description: An interview with Denise Trauth, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She is responsible for all academic programs, six colleges, and academic support services. Dr. Trauth discusses how UNC Charlotte is an exciting place to wo...

Title: Walker, Grady oral history interview, 2014 February 4
Creator: Walker, Grady (Grady L.), 1957-
Date Created: 2014-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Rivers
Description: Grady Walker discusses his memories of living next to Irwin Creek throughout his entire life. He recalls never having used the creek for swimming because he always used swimming pools. He discusses how growing up near the creek affected his life.

Title: William J. McCoy oral history interview, 2013 January 31
Creator: McCoy, William J.
Date Created: 2017-02-22
Subjects--Topical: State bonds, College buildings, Campus planning, Doctor of philosophy degree, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Dr. William J. McCoy, Professor Emeritus and former Associate Vice Chancellor for Extended Academic Programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, talks about the tenure of Chancellor James H. Woodward. Dr. McCoy relates how he came to...