North Carolina, Asheville, United States
· 1938-08-12
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Hicks, Lucille, I.l.m.
faheville Cotton Mill Asheville, N. C. ugust 12, 1938 1. L. LUCILLX flICK4 Lucille ificks art on her porch one hot triftrrnoon lrat week drenned in n rb black winter drese which 4nrrite hr d Joneted. he held in her erms her year. old brby rho wre clothed in r niagle octrlet grrment frehioned from r rryon enrt. he arid, mCf e evenin, they don't teem to be nothin' to do but set tnd writ, and body dontt h.1f :no whet he's writin, for.' looked old when she arid tht old with list— lese rge. Her…
North Carolina, Spindale, United States
· 1938-09-26
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Boone, Nina, I.l.m.
4encer gill Village Spindrift, N. O. 6,eptember 28, 1938 I. L. U. NINA BOON They live right on the rim of Heppy Hollow. Their smell three-room house looks out over e strip of woods in which pre located ell hogpens belonging to residents of Happy Hollow. Happy Hollow is thpt part of the apencer uill Villrge which rembles greduelly over three streets, down into e valley -space covered by green, sheds -giving trees. The day in late September when I went to see Nine Boone, I rent past the little…
United States, Wake Forest, North Carolina
· 1938-07-27
· 8 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Wall, Elsie
*eke Forest Cotton Ail *eke Forest N. C. July 27, 19 I. L. 14. Usio e11 site on her porch between dinner end supper end rocks in her ohair with r compleoenos that nothing is able to undermine. Her hatband, Jim, makes six dollars t week on t pert.time ob in the Aare Forest cotton mill. un thtt amount he, hie wife, end their four W-,ildren mast live. On off drys JIn tends his grrden in which he hos tometoes, cabbages, ber4ls, onions, and oorn. 71sie stys the does not know how to chop in P…
North Carolina, United States, West Durham
· 1938-07-19
· 9 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Renn, Wesley
1923 Pettigrew St. West Durham, N. C. July 19, 1938 I. L. M. THE REfiNS Wesley Renn lives in the mill village in one of the better houses which has a comfortable stretch of lawn shaded by two or three trees. He likes to sit in his swing on the porch in the springtime and watch day by day as the tree buds grow into leaves and the grass shoots up into a newer, pleasanter green. His first twenty—one years were spent in the country and the sight of growing things still awakens in him an urge to…
North Carolina, United States, West Durham
· 1938-07-12
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Dunnes, Sally, I.l.m.
1001 Broad St. West Durham, N. 0. July 12, 1938 I. L. M. THE DUNNES Sally Dunne is the mother of thirteen children, three of whom are dead and three married. Seven of the children ranging from two and a half to eighteen live with their mother and father in an old, four -room, loosely -built house located a short distance from the houses belonging to the company which owns the mill where John Dunne works. Some of the people in the mill village will tell you that the Dunnes were asked to move…
North Carolina, Wake Forest, United States
· 1938-07-29
· 4 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Wall, Stella
Wake Forest Cotton Mill Wake Forest, N. O. July 29, 1938 I. L. U. STELLA WALL She was in the kitchen mopping her floor. Her ten year old son an scraped in the yard with his scrubby brush broom and threw out a remark now and then to the tiny calf in the shed near by. The two girls, seven and three, lay on a pallet in the living room and looked at the pictures in a second grade reader. The oldest one hopped up to a sitting position and turned in the direction of the kitchen. "Mama, here comes…
Spindale, United States, North Carolina
· 1938-09-28
· 5 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Robertson, Ellie
Spencer Mill Village Spindele, N. C. September 28, 1938 I. L. M. ELLIE ROBERTSON She lives in one of the better -kept mill houses located on Spindale St. Her yard is clean, her porch lined with flower boxes. A lacy, luxuriously -fronded fern graces the front entrance. Not fel' from it an enormous begonia droops with waxy red blooms. There are petunias end marigolds blooming about her doorstep. A big -leafed vine shades half of her porch. The vine makes o cool nook for the swing in which she…
North Carolina, East Durham, United States
· 1938-09-07
· 4 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Parks, Nannie Ruth
-10 Reservoir St. Lest Durham, N. O. September 7, 1938 I. L. 1.1. NANNIS RUTH PARKS Her eyes are weary and underlined with dark, pouchy circles. There is a grave passivity about her face which brings up thaughte of age. Her stomach bulges as with middle-cge neglect while the hunches over in her chair and rocks in her lap her pale, scrawny, nine -months old baby. In the cummertime her bare feet are usually grimy with sand. She loves the feel of the rough earth against her feet and several times…
North Carolina, United States, West Durham
· 1938-09-14
· 6 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Jackson, James
715 15th St. West Durham, N. C. September 141 1938 I. L. M. THE JACKSON FAMILY The last of the summer petunias lent a splash of bright color to the small, smoothly -mown yard of No. 715, 15th St. On the porch, a lazy black cat curled himself against the leather cushion of the porch glider. The front door stood ajar end through it a mild breeze carried the refreshing coolness of an early September day into the living room to the right of the small entrance ball. The fresh scrim curtains at the…
United States, West Durham, North Carolina
· 1938-09-09
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Allen, Ida, I.l.m.
15th. St. West Durham, N. C. September 9, 1938 I. L. M. IDA ALLT She seems hewn from rough granite, this woman who sits in her front room and talks while her slowly changing expression brings at long intervals a kindly, creeping smile to her ruddy face. Her features though definite and firm in outline have a roughness which makes one think the chiseler laid down his tools before the surface had been smoothed. Change and time have moved about her and brought ege to her body, but her mind has…
North Carolina, East Durham, United States
· 1938-09-12
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Hinson, Jaunita, I.l.m.
test Eurhems L C. September 12, 1938 I. L. M. EAST =RHO AILL VILLAGE °You'd like for re to show you over the rill villsge? Well, it won't take long end Acme won't mind, I'm sure. 1 helped tag bulls for two hours after I got home from school, rnd I wen taking little time off to rest. Whnt do I mean by tagging bulls? Putting the tog on the little tobrcoo sacko that they use for Bull Durham smoking tobrcoo. When my shoulders get tired bending over so long I elweys get up end welk c little. Ay…
United States, Wake Forest, North Carolina
· 1938-07-25
· 11 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Wall, Sarah
Wake Forest Cotton Mill Wake Forest, N. C. July 25, 1928 I. L. M. SARAH WALL About a mile from Wake Forest College and s quarter of a vile west from Faculty Drive there is a ramshackle eight -room house which serves as a home for four families. The house is the only one in its row which belongs to the nearby cotton mill. A railroad track bordered on each side by overgrown weed patches separates it from kindred houses which furnish homes for other mill workers. Cheap curtains of varied design…
United States, West Durham, North Carolina
· 1938-07-05
· 7 pages
Recorded by: I.l.m., Wallace, Josephine
Josephine Wallace July 5, 1938 If you should meet Josephine Wallace you would more than likely say to yourself "With a little more 'finish' she'd be a good-looking woman." She has a high forehead, well -shaped nose and mouth, and nice blue eyes. She keeps abreast of the styles perhaps a little too well and she is never without a permanent wave. Although she has worked in a cotton mill a good part of her life she does not look more than her forty years. The ambition of Josephine's life is to…
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
· 1939-01-17
· 19 pages
Recorded by: Bowers, Thurman F., North, Albert
Federal Writers, Project Room 36, Federal Building Greensboro, North Carolina January 17, 1939 Reverend Thurman F. Bowers (white) P.O. Box 93 Greensboro, North Carolina Pastor, Central Church of the Nazarene Albert North, writer reviser arunRaD TH...-AIN FA Y.14 One notices Therin Bayer. itogardloss of the place or the six() of the gathering, ons notices him. Although handsoms and standing six- foot -two, well proportioned with his two -hundred twelve pounds, it is the peaceful repose seen…
North Carolina, United States, Greensboro
· 1935
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Fisher, Miss, Palmer, Katherine
Notes gathered in 1935 Reviad December, 1938 Miss Fisher Boone, N. C. District Nurse Katherine Palmer, writer E. Bj. reviser FederalWriters' Project Room 36, Federal Building Greensboro, North Carolina A DAY WITH THE BOOLE DISTRICT NURSE The mists of early morning still wreathe the mountains when Miss Lester canes for me. She is the district nurse, and I have often asked to be allowed to accompany her on one of her journeys to the remote hill regions. Her mis- sion today is to notify the…
United States, North Carolina, Guilford
· 1939-10-02
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Jones, Alice, Pearson, James Larkin, Pinnix, Esther Searle
TH 3T IA CA" SOLai HOLTON" Date of writiags Oetober 2, 1959 Name: Alias ;ones Address: Guilford, N.C. Oeoupations S Teacher and Cateress Written and told by: ;mos Larkin Pearson Revised by: Nether Searle Pinnix "TH:13 STORY OF SUDIE HO TON" Sudie Holton came over to the house last Sunday morning to help the wife with a company dinner. It was very special company and we were anxious to have everything just right. We didn't know anything about Eiudie except that she was a very neat, light…
North Carolina, United States, Boomer
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Pearson, James Larkin
James Larkin Pearson, Boomer, N. C. TEE LIFE STORY' OF GEORGE IORTD14, COLORED. This story is not entirely factual. It is partly on fact, but a considerable portion of it is drawn fram imagination. The black mother and the mulatto son did in fact exist, though they are now dead; but the son did not drown himself as the present story has it. There was something of the boy's problem —his mental and spiritual struggle against fate --but it has been heightened and played up for dramatic effect. …
North Carolina, United States, Durham
· 1938-09-19
· 8 pages
Recorded by: L.r., Rogers, John
Durham* N. C. September 19* 1938 L. R. JOHN ROGERS, FRODUCE TRUCKER John Rogers had had seven hours sleep in the past two nights. He would get about four more hours when he got to Durham after midnight. Then he would get up early to deliver his vegetables and fruits to the Durham grocers. This done he would start the hundred and sixty miles beck to Richmond where he would arrive early in the afternoon* buy another load, end get beck to Durham in time for four or five hours sleep if everything…
North Carolina, Charlotte, United States
· 1939-10-10
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Paradis, Alexander J., Rupert, Frank B.
October 10, 1939 Alexander J. Paradis High School Student Charlotte, N. C. Frank B. Rupert, Writer Dudley W. Crawford, Reviser No Names Changed Alexander X. Pardalis, a student in the 1940 graduation Class of Harding High School in Charlotte, N. C., was born in Morgantown, W. Va., April 23, 1920 of Greek parents. He Is a decondant of some of the most distinguished men and women among the Greek nobility, and inherited from them many ideals and traditions of Greoian aristocracy, and is…
North Carolina, Elizabeth City, United States
· 1938-11-10
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Pool, A.d., Saunders, W. O.
:iorker: W. O. Saunders, Elizabeth City Person interviewed: A. D. Pool, Elizabeth City, N. C., R.F.D. 2 First version written Nov. 10, 1938 HE NETER -:AN'rED LAND TILL NOW His house sat back from the road a distance of about a hundred yards. Only it wasn't his house; it was his landlord's house, for Mose Sutton is a tenant farmer. On the way up to the house, which was a drab, unpainted wooden frame building sadly in need of repairs, one passes a oollard patch, behind which may be seen (and…