“That bus line, we started on July 28, 1938, and we operated it for thirty-five years. Most of the people
that went off the island went with us, rode with us.”
Anderson Midgett, 1988. Photo courtesy of the Midgett family.
COASTAL VOICES: LINKING GENERATIONS ORAL HISTORIES NOW AVAILABLE
ONLINE
Buxton, NC (September 1, 2015) - Saltwater Connections is pleased to announce that Coastal Voices:
Linking Generations, an oral history collection, is now available for free online viewing.
The collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of thirty oral history interviews conducted with
Hatteras Island and Ocracoke residents between 1978 and 2003 for the Southern Oral History Project
and the National Park Service Cape Hatteras National Seashore Ethnohistory Project.
The collection can be accessed through the Collections tab in the menu bar on the Coastal Voices
website (www.carolinacoastalvoices.com ).
The Outer Banks Community Foundation provided funds to digitize the recordings. Audio clips from the
interviews have been featured on the Coastal Voices website, Radio Hatteras, and the Outer Banks
Heritage Trails website and will be used in Port Light, a project tracing connections between Outer Banks
communities and mainland ports when boats were the primary mode of transportation.
“That bus line, we started on July 28, 1938, and we operated it for thirty-five years. Most of the people
that went off the island went with us, rode with us”. Anderson Midgett, 1988. Photo courtesy of the
Midgett family.
The Outer Banks History Center and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore loaned tapes of the interviews
to facilitate digitization.
The collection is housed in the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center’s online oral history
archive that also includes Cape Lookout: The Connie Mason Collection funded by Cape Lookout National
Seashore and Raising the Story: Menhaden Fishing funded by the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Coastal Voices is an oral history project about the marine heritage of the Outer Banks and Down East
region of North Carolina. As coastal North Carolina undergoes rapid change, residents want to ensure
that their community’s legacy of resiliency and strength is documented for future generations.
For more information, please contact Karen Amspacher, Saltwater Connections coordinator and Core
Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center director, at kwamspacher@ec.rr.com or 252-723-0982.