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Object Description
Interview no. | I-0094 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | I.2. Business History: North Carolina Business History |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1999, with leaders of traditional and emergent North Carolina industries, such as furniture, banking, tobacco products, textiles, poultry, food and food services, tourism, pharmaceuticals, computers, and steel. Interviewees describe the origins and evolution of their companies; changes and problems they confront; the impact of businesses on the communities in which they operate; and regional, national, and global developments that will affect future prospects. |
Date | 10 June 1997 |
Interviewee | Cecil, William A. V., Jr. |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Cecil discusses growing up on the Biltmore Dairy Farm, his early interest in conservation during college, conservation and agribusiness at Biltmore, the winery, the tourism industry, historic preservation, the film industry in relation to Biltmore as a location, and management. |
Subject Topical |
Business--History. Tourism--North Carolina. Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--North Carolina--Asheville. |
Subject Name | Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with William A. V. Cecil by Dorothy Darr, 10 June 1997 I-0094, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | I-0094 |