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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: Bottomless pools
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1948-07
Subjects--Topical: Rivers, Trees, Nature, Women
Description: A woman looking away from camera toward the Bottomless Pools near Lake Lure and Chimney Rock, North Carolina.

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: 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: 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: Robert Eades oral history interview, 2002 October 20
Creator: Eades, Robert (Robert O.)
Date Created: 2002-10-20
Subjects--Topical: Land use, Rural, Mills and mill-work, Hunting, Fishing, Community development, Urban, Cotton growing, Ponds, Rivers, Camp meetings, County government, Zoning, Animals
Description: Robert Eades discusses the history of the land in Catawba County and Long Island, North Carolina, along with how the area has changed in recent years. Mr. Eades talks about cotton mills, which had closed by the time of interview; cotton farming, n...

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: 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.