B0018_Audio_1 |
Previous | 1 of 3 | Next |
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
|
Object Description
Interview no. | B-0018 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Project description | Biographical interviews, 1962-1983, aimed at balancing the lack of personal letters and diaries, which are becoming increasingly scarce in the public record. Interviewees include educators, business leaders, political activists, professional workers, authors, artists, homemakers, tobacco workers, domestic servants, and others in North Carolina and the southern region. |
Date | January 30, 1976 |
Interviewee | Duty, Elaine Tiller. |
Interviewee occupation | Miners |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Eller, Ronald D., 1948- |
Abstract | Description of grandparents' property (farmland, timber forests, and coal seam); inheritance of the land; sale of timber to lumber company; sale of family land to coal company and effects of sale; changes in community from 1880-1950; her father as a politician; role of her mother in the family; father's campaign style (election day in the county); family relationships (compared with "The Waltons" TV program); how development of coal changed the community in the 1950's. |
Subject Topical |
Community development--Virginia--Russell County. Families--Social life and customs. |
Citation | Interview with Elaine Tiller Duty by Ronald D. Eller, 30 January 1976. B-0018 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B0018_Audio_1 |