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Object Description
Interview no. | K-0250 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.11. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Tradition and Development in Madison County's I-26 Corridor |
Project description | Interviews, 2000-2001, conducted by Rob Amberg, that document the construction of a nine-mile section of Interstate 26 in once isolated eastern Madison County, N.C. Interviewees, who include the county sheriff, a probation officer, an environmental activist, the resident highway engineer of the I-26 Corridor project, self-described hippies who moved to Madison County in the early 1970s to live off the land, and the mayor and town manager of Mars Hill, N.C., discuss the consequences of highway development on community life. |
Date | 10 January 2001 |
Interviewee |
Jenkins, Howard. Jenkins, Yuvonda. |
Interviewee occupation |
Business owners Business owners |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown; Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Amberg, Rob. |
Abstract | Both Jenkinses talk about growing up in the area -- family and friends, school, entertainment for young people; how they met and married; differences between then and now; Howard discusses how wasteful this society is; effects of I-26 on their greenhouse business (it was closed because of the project); effects of the new highway on the county. |
Subject Topical |
Madison County (N.C.) Express highways--North Carolina. Madison County (N.C.)--Social life and customs. |
Subject Name |
Jenkins, Howard. Jenkins, Yuvonda. |
Citation | Interview with Howard Jenkins and Yuvonda Jenkins by Rob Amberg, 10 January 2001 K-0250, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | K-0250 |