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Title: Amy Foster oral history interview, 2019
Creator: Foster, Amy, 1965-
Date Created: 2019-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Livestock, Farms, Cattle, Chickens, Farmers' markets, Social media, Urbanization
Description: Amy Foster discusses her twelve years as a livestock farmer and co-owner of Gilcrest Natural Farm in Iron Station, North Carolina. Mrs. Foster describes how her desire to control her food and develop her land were factors that led her to become a ...

Title: Anson Eaves oral history interview, 2019 March 28
Creator: Eaves, Anson E. (Anson Eugene), 1970-
Date Created: 2019-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Feed mills, Livestock, Farms
Description: Anson Eaves, owner and operator of Bethel Feed & Farm in Midland, North Carolina, discusses the past, current, and future operations of the feed mill, a third generation business originally owned by his grandfather. The interview covers a variety ...

Title: Chantel V. Johnson oral history interview, 2019 April 3
Creator: Johnson, Chantel, 1987-
Date Created: 2019-04-3
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Racism--Political aspects, Women farmers, Farms, Livestock, Social media
Description: Chantel Johnson, owner of Off the Grid in Color farm in Salisbury, North Carolina, recounts how she first entered agriculture and homesteading in 2016 as a way of healing after the tragic death of her youngest brother to gun violence in Chicago. S...

Title: Charles R. Collie oral history interview, 2004 November 11
Creator: Collie, Charles R., Sr., 1924-
Date Created: 2004-11-11
Subjects--Topical: Cable cars (Streetcars), Livestock, Hunting, Household appliances, Electric, City and town life
Description: Charles Collie describes his boyhood memories of accompanying his father, supervisor Alexander G. Collie, on his job with the Charlotte streetcars during the 1920s and 1930s. He describes his father's work in particular and his own involvement as ...

Title: Eddie Yow oral history interview, 2019 April 9
Creator: Yow, Eddie
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Farmers’ markets, Country life, Beef cattle, Livestock, Family farms
Description: Mr. Eddie Yow raises livestock and sells beef in the North Carolina Piedmont region. He is a native of Stanly County, North Carolina and has lived in Stanfield, North Carolina for over thirty years. In this interview, he reflects on the many chang...

Title: Ida Hoover oral history interview, 2003 June 25
Creator: Hoover, Ida M. (Ida Mauney), 1908-2011
Date Created: 2003-06-25
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Farm life, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Field crops, Livestock, Turkeys, Animals, Sewage
Description: Ida Hoover discusses her family and their relationship to the land in Gaston County, North Carolina throughout the twentieth century. Mrs. Hoover talks about her in-laws' creamery business, the crops her family raised, the neighbors in the communi...

Title: James C. Ferebee oral history interview, 2019 March 19
Creator: Ferebee, James C.
Date Created: 2019-03-19
Subjects--Topical: Farms, Livestock, Sheep, Chickens, Goats, Farmers' markets, Farms, Small
Description: In this interview, livestock farmer James Ferebee discusses the animals he raises and the rotational grazing methods he employs on his farm in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Ferebee Farm is five acres and Mr. Ferebee leases another twenty to twenty-fi...

Title: Joyce Burt and Roger Burt oral history interview, 2003 February 1
Creator: Burt, Joyce W. (Joyce Wallace)
Date Created: 2003-02-01
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Sewerage, Rural, Animals, Natural areas, Rural development, Hunting, Wildlife conservation, Deforestation, Livestock, Rivers, Trails
Description: Joyce Burt, Roger Burt, and Joyce's brother, Danny Wallace, recount the history of the land and the community in Gaston County, North Carolina. They broadly talk about the land and natural environment in their region, including wildlife within the...

Title: Sherry Long oral history interview, 2003 August 19
Creator: Long, Sherry B. (Sherry Benfield), 1945-2018
Date Created: 2003-08-19
Subjects--Topical: Agritourism, Agriculture, Subsistence farming, Family farms, Field crops, Livestock, Animals, Horses, Trails, Farm life, Landscape changes, Rural development, Land use, Rural
Description: Sherry Long discusses her business owning and managing Hillside View Stables, built in 1991 and located in Mooresville, North Carolina. Ms. Long talks of her passion for horses and bringing that enjoyment to the public through agritourism. She rec...

Title: William T. Alexander oral history interview 1, 1992 Spring
Creator: Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
Date Created: 1992
Subjects--Topical: Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Carriages and carts, Christian life, Plantations, Family farms, Cotton, Freedmen, Farm life, Education, Livestock, African Americans--Segregation, Sharecropping
Description: In this first of three interviews, William T. Alexander describes growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina in the Mallard Creek Church region during the early twentieth century and how the area changed over time. Mr. Alexander's ancestors were some...