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Object Description
Interview no. | K-0247 |
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 | November 15, 2000 |
Interviewee |
Filiss, Lionel. Filiss, Mary. Filiss, Jemima. |
Interviewee occupation |
Unknown Unknown Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown; Unknown; Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Amberg, Rob. |
Abstract | The Filiss family's move to Foster Creek as "back-to-landers"; homesteading on their land (Lionel birthed all nine of his and Mary's children, including the youngest, Jemima), gardening and raising all their food, caring for his 87 year old mother; importance of music in the family; impressions of the community; changes in the community since they came; impact of the I-26 Corridor on the community. |
Subject Topical |
Madison County (N.C.) Express highways--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Filiss, Lionel. Filiss, Mary. Filiss, Jemima. Filiss family. |
Citation | Interview with Lionel Filiss, Mary Filiss, and Jemima Filiss by Rob Amberg, 15 November 2000 K-0247, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | K-0247 |