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Interview no. | K-1095 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.6. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1985-2014, conducted by Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel members as part of the Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project. Interviewees include members of prominent families, a former mayor, former sharecropping families, long-time community merchants, a retired chief of police and a fire chief, and former Page-Walker Hotel owners, all of whom discuss topics relating to the character and development of the town. |
Date | 5 April 2012 |
Interviewee | Maynard, Robert. |
Interviewee occupation |
Managers Sales personnel |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Van Scoyoc, Peggy. |
Abstract | Robert’s family has been in Cary since the mid-1800s and owned a large farm that his father inherited and added land. Eventually he sold parcels of land, first for the new Cary High School on Walnut Street, then for a church, and then to developers who eventually built the Cary Town mall. Robert talked about working the land when he was a child, about tenant farmers his family employed, and what crops they raised. He said what happened to the last of the farm when his father died. And he remembered going to Cary High School when it was on Academy Street, and then going to East Carolina with classmates Charlie Adams and Guy Mendenhall. |
Citation | Interview with Robert Maynard by Peggy Van Scoyoc, 5 April 2012 K-1095, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collections, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K1095_Audio_1 |