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Interview no. | K-1100 |
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, 1985-2015, 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 | 11 February 2015 |
Interviewee | Grissom, Joe, 1928- |
Interviewee occupation |
Human resources personnel Government employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Van Scoyoc, Peggy. |
Abstract | Mr. Grissom’s great grandfather and his father ran the Company Mill in Umstead Park in North Carolina in the early 1900s. Mr. Grissom knows a great deal about the history of the park and the families who lived there, some going back to King George III land grants there. Mr. Grissom also has lived in Cary since 1950 and went all through Cary Elementary and High School, graduating in 1945. |
Citation | Interview with Joe Grissom by Peggy Van Scoyoc, 11 February 2015 K-1100, 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. | K1100_Audio |