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Interview no. | K-1097 |
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 | 25 July 2012 |
Interviewee | Strother, Bob. |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Van Scoyoc, Peggy. Carmichael, Kris. |
Abstract | Mr. Strother’s family has been in the area for generations. He became a florist fifty years ago in Cary, and he taught floral design for twenty-five years. He bought the Matthews house in 1962, converting the ground floor into his florist shop and living upstairs. He then bought the Page-Walker Hotel in 1972 and moved into it to live, leaving the florist shop at the Matthews house. In 1982, he sold the Page-Walker to the town of Cary, and lost the Matthews house. His florist shop is now on East Chatham Street. He gave us a good history of both properties. |
Citation | Interview with Bob Strother by Kris Carmichael and Peggy Van Scoyoc, 25 July 2012 K-1097, 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. | K1097_Audio_1 |