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Interview no. | K-0248 |
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 | 2 January 2001 |
Interviewee | Hendricks, Tom. |
Interviewee occupation | Architects and builders |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Amberg, Rob. |
Abstract | Early life growing up in a small town in Rockford, Illinois; time the Army and experiences in Viet Nam; move to Madison County to get away from the pace of modern life; he discusses his relationship with his neighbors and his spirituality; growing up Catholic and becoming disillusioned with organized religion; his abilities at healing and offering spiritually guidance to people; importance of keeping his time free and spending (and thus making) as little money as possible; changes in himself and the community since he moved to Hamburg Mountain (in Madison County); what the I-26 Corridor will do to the community; what time means to him and to the community. |
Subject Topical |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American. Madison County (N.C.) Express highways--North Carolina. Madison County (N.C.)--Religious life and customs. |
Subject Name | Hendricks, Tom. |
Citation | Interview with Tom Hendricks by Rob Amberg, 2 January 2001 K-0248, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K-0248 |