Swannanoa Valley Museum
Interview Archives
Audio
(Tape
and/or
Digital)
Transcript
Photo
Deed of Gift
Interviewee
Interviewer
Date
1 Abbott, Sefton
Kelly, Donna
11/14/2006
None
No
No
Yes
2 Aiken. Utha
Kimberly Worthington
3/30/2012
Digital
Yes
no
Yes
3 Alex.Janet
Elizabeth Acree
10/16/2012
Digital
no
no
no
2 Alexander, Bill
Kelly, Donna
1/3/2004
Tape;
Digital
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gwyneth Creightmore
12/1/2011
Tape;Digital
Yes
Yes (Digital)
Yes
Karlyn Hunt
Eva Westheimer
Jamie Schlichtang
3/22/2012
3/1/2012
4/30/2012
digital
Digital
Digital
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Alexander, Bill
3 Alexander, Bill
4 Alexander, Bill
5 Alexander, Bill/Watkins, Mike
5 Allison, Junius
Campbell, Mike
4/8/2003
Other
Donna Kelly Notes In the Oaks
scrapbook and
term paper
6 Andrews, Andy
7 Barnwell, Joan
Kelly, Donna
Emma Topor
1/7/2004
4/10/2012
7 Bartlett, Carl
Donna Kelly
8/30/2004
8 Bartlett, Gary
N/A
6/17/2006
Donna Kelly
N/A
3/3/2003
Donna Kelly
11 Begley, Wendell
12 Biddix, Vandetta
Childhood in Swannanoa
Black Mountain College Student
Photocopied
Photos
term paper
typed biography
Tape;
Digital
Digitial
Tape;
Digital
Subjects
Styles Family; Alexander Family; Alexander Inn;
Alexander Farm; Grovemont; Swannanoa
Chemtronics Superfund Site, History of Land and
Community
Chemtronics Superfund Site, History of Land and
Community
Childhood, The Swannanoa Bank & Trust Co.
Grovemount and Kent Laws
Teacher and lawyer, Director of NLADA, retired 1971.
Established program at Vanderbilt University that allowed
students to practice law while getting degree.
yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
None
No
No
Yes
Tape/Digital
Yes
Yes
Yes
10/14/2004
Digital
Yes
NO
YES
J.Pope & R. Willow
Donna Kelly
8/30/2006
Spring 05
Tape/Digital
Tape
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
13 Blankenship Family
Jill Jones
4/19/2006
Yes
No
Yes
14 Brown, Bert
Heritage Round Table
6/21/2007
No
No
No
Heritage Round Table at BM savings bank.
15 Buckner, Bruce
Donna Kelly
4/24/2004
No
No
Yes
1930s/40s Swannanoa; Father was a doctor
16 Buckner, Daisy
Bill Alexander
9/1/2009
No
No
Yes
Swan. HS, Dr. Clapp, Moore General Hospital
17 Buckner, James A.
Donna Kelly
2/17/2005
Tape/Digital
Tape/
Digital
Tape/
Digital
Tape/
Digital
Tape/
Digital
No
No
Yes
Cash's Dairy, TB Center; Ingles Warehouse/Airport
18 Buckner, James E.
Donna Kelly
2/8/2006
Tape/ Dgital
No
No
Yes
North Fork; Post Office
19 Buckner, John & Peggy
Donna Kelly
4/26/2004
Tape/Digital
No
Yes
Yes
Father built house 1925, 12 AC near SV Medical Center
9 Bass, Sydney
10 Begley, Ruby
Begly, Wendell
Genalogical Info
term paper
Old Montreat; He was mayor of Montreat
Memories of Beacon and Swannanoa
Family Origins; Farm Life; Depression; Mayor of Black
Mountain; Racial Tension HR Council 60s
Written "book" on Bee Tree upbringing; U.S Air Force; Bee Tree gang; Girls;
Bee Tree
Cars; Gravel Company; Lake
Absent Father, Life with Grandparents, Beacon, Marine
Corps
Treasured Recipes from Swananoa Valley
Family History: Davidson Oil, history of second sherriff in
Buncomb County
Family Origin/Daniel Boone; Sunset Mountain; Banking;
Vietnam; Big Tom Wilson, Racism 60's
Ridgecrest; Camp Rockmont; Black Mtn College
Beacon; Builders; I-40; own language; J.W postal clerk;
Construction Stories; Depression
Notes
20 Bucy, Virginia
N/A
3/15/2004
Tape/Digital
Yes
Yes
Yes
21 Burnette, Dorris & Sisters
22 Burnett, Talmadge
Donna Kelly
J. Rope & R. Williams
5/21/2004
9/26/2001
Tape/Digital
Tape
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
23 Burnett, Van
Donna Kelly
9/1-14/2004
Tape/Digital
No
No
Yes
24 Byrd, Eugene Rev.
25 Clevenger, Mary Ann & Harvey Jo
Jill Jones
Bill Alexander
5/24/2007
5/11/2009
Tape/Digital
Tape
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
26 Colvard, Dean W.
27 Coman, J. Herbert
28 Conner, Jason
Jill Jones
Donna Kelly
Donna Kelly
9/14/2005
1/15/2004
Spring 05
Tape
Tape
Tape
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
29 Cook, Maxine
Corkran, John
30 Crisp, Thelma
J. Pope & R. Williams
N/A
Kailey Larson
10/2/2001
8/13/2012
11/2/2011
Tape
Digital
Tape/Digit
No
NO
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
31 Cucinella, Joyce
32 Daniel, Anna (Swannanoa)
Ana Lara
Donna Kelly
12/6/2011
5/6/2005
Tape;Digital
Tape
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
33 Daugherty, Inez & Copeland, Caroline
J. Rope & K. Debrow
3/17/2004
Yes
Yes
Yes
34 Daugherty, Inez & Copeland, Caroline
Donna Kelly
4/28/2005
Tape
Tape/
Digital
Yes
No
Yes
35
36
37
38
39
George LeRoy
N/A
Stacy Edmond
Andrew Barry
N/A
3/8/2003
10/1/2002
3/7/2012
12/7/2011
7/13/2006
Tape
Tape
Digital
Tape/Digit
Tape
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tape
Tape
Tape
N/A
Tape/
Digital
Tape
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
NO
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Davidson, Will Nell & Alexander, Betty
Debrow, Katherine
Debrow, Katherine and Feldon
DeBruhl, Bruce
Deese, Lynn & Lysa
40 Duckett, Fred A.
J.Pope & R. Willow, Donna Kelly
10/15/2001
41 Eppes, Jack
N/A
7/13/2006
42 Fortune, Edith
Tanya Robertson & Lynn Pace2/13/2003
Glenn Family (Ruth, Lennie, Phil, Esther, Mary, June
N/A
8/11/1974
43
44
45
46
Glenn, June Jr.
Goodson, Robert Berton
Gouge, Ev Jr.
Gregory, Billie & Nancy
Heidi Blozan
N/A
Donna Kelly
N/A
3/7/2003
10/2/2001
6/22/2004
11/5/2001
47 Hall, Kevin
48 Hambright, Kelso Carrie
49 Headley, Willie
Eva Westheimer
N/A
N/A
3/31/2012
11/22/2001
11/6/2001
50
51
52
53
Jill Jones
N/A
Jill Jones
Donna Kelly
10/19/2001
11/13-20/2001
1/22/2009
6/29/2004
54 Kelley, Joyce Creasman Webb
55 Kindley, Ken
56 Knoefel, Eugene
Donna Kelly
J. Pope, R. Williams
Donna Kelly
57 Landers, Eleanor Padgett
Kelly, Donna
Hemphill, Mary & Arthur Joe
Hope, Sam
Ingles, Bob
Johnson, Nancy Mo
Digital
Tape
Tape
Tape/
Digital
Tape
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
4/28/2004
7/27/2006
7/14/2004
Tape
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
6/11/2006
Tape/Digital
No
No
No
News Clippings,
Letters, Poem,
Hist. Sketch
Swan. Pres Church; Swannanoa Davidson family; 1940
Flood; Black Mtn College.
Montreat/Gate; Depression.
DVD
Interviews By
Colvard/ DVD
Teacher; Mountain View Baptist; North Fork Church; Blck
Mtn News; Green Family
Clevenger Socks; Beacon.
Swannanoa Moore General Hospital/Test Farm BMC Roy
Taylor; Dr. Clapp; Sheriff Brown; WWC.
Beacon; Owen family; Swan. Comm. Council.
Grovemont; geology
Growing up in Black Mountain-changes; Pt Lookout; Pip
theater.
Black history Swannanoa; RR.
Geneology; Moreheads; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; The
Oaks; Carver School; Race Relations
Black History
Davidson family; Swannanoa Beacon; GS/BS Roseland
Gardens.
Railroad; integration; Blck Mtn Events; Change
Mag Ad
Stories
Mag Ad
Civil War; school; stories(pranks, car, banking, etc.)
WWII; Ridgecrest; camp.
RMHS; Route 9; Broad River; stage coach.
Houses; growing up; photography; family
recipes/Christmas
North Fork.
1993 Centenial Commissioner interview.
School (Sunshine)
News
Clippings,/term
paper
Floppy
DVD
floppy
Article
The Store, Moving to Swannanoa
North Fork; Burnetts; Montreat; German POWs
Founder and CEO Ingles Markets interview.
BM Watershed.
Summer Haven; Creasman; Fuller Cabin; Coggins Family
Swan 4H Club/Camp.
Doctor.
North Fork Valley and Watershed; Burnette Family;
Harriet Styles tells story of Bee Tree Flood in 1918
Tape was labeled
Sefton Abbott
Donna Kelly
Carly Reynolds
10/26/2007
12/7/2011
Tape/digital
Tape/Digit
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
60 Laurson, Ernst and Lytle, Rodney
Lavender, Eula Mae
61 Lebron, Doug
62 Lewellen, William
Rebecca Truitt
Jill and Jordan
Yosuke Nakano
Morgan Martin
12/7/2011
7/16/2008
N/A
11/30/2011
Tape/Digit
N/a
Digital
Tape/Digit
Yes
NO
NO
Yes
No
NO
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Donna Kelly
N/A
Jill Jones
N/A
Shirley Raines
1/22/2004
11/8/2001
8/2/2007
12/13/2001
7/31/2002
Tape
Tape
Tape
Tape
Tape
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
incomplete
No
Printouts
DVD
Geneology; Ancestor emmigrated on Mayflower; Moved
to Bee Tree area 1911
Music.
Local musical traditions;
BM car dealership.
Nanney Family Cemetery;
68 Miller, Violet Hooper
69 Monday, Chris
Jill Jones & Marge Latta
Jerry & Rebecca Pope
11/1/2005
12/10/2001
Tape
Tape
speech ?
No
No
No
Yes
No
Card
Speech; Black History; Black Mountain and Swannanoa
70 Moore, Dr. David
Salley Biggers
2005
None
Yes
No
No
DVD
71 Moser, Joan
Orr, Doug
Donna Kelly
Madeline Wadley
4/28/2003
3/27/2012
Tape
Digital
Yes
Yes
No
nO
Yes
Yes
Songs
History of Swannonoa Valley; Native American history;
Wilson Cove; Swannanoa History; Schools; Church;
Changes over time;
72 Overton, Anne Coggins
73 Parker, Mary
Donna Kelly
Jerry Pope
9/2-3/06
9/24/2001
Tape
Tape
Yes (incomplete)
No
NO
No
Yes
No
Floppy
74 Parks, Marie S.
75 Peele, David
Donna Kelly
George LeRoy
3/4/2002
10/25/2003
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
76 Perley, Margaret (Peggy)
77 Phillips, Rosalie
Jill Jones
Donna Kelly
1/3/2003
8/9/2004
Tape
Tape
?floppy
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
78 Pitman, Ken
79 Poteat, Eunice
Rafter, Sara Marcia Perley
80 Rice, Katherine
J. Pope & R. Williams
Donna Kelly
Donna Kelly
Plemmons Worley
8/2/2006
10/17/2004
4/28/2005
1/28/2004
Tape
Tape
Digital
None
No
No
Yes
no
No
No
No
yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
yes
63
64
65
66
67
Marano, Earlene McCall
Martin, Wade
McCool, Jay C.
McMurray, Bill & Bob
Miller, Bob
Floppy
newspaper copy
Life in Bee Tree area;
Music teacher 1950s-1960s.
Swannanoa in 1940's; Swnannanoa Women's Club;
Tourism
Music; McDibbs
Railroad, lumbering, Bella Luna Inn, In the Oaks/Terry
Family.
Monte Vista Inn
In the Oaks, Montreat Gate; Lookout Mtn; boyscouter,
BRA.
Alexander Inn
Grew up on Terry Estate,
newspaper
clippings, floor
plans, term paper
Kate Page
4/10/2012
J. Pope & B. Brown
3/19/2003
Donna Kelly
9/17/2002
Donna Kelly
3/19/2005
R. Williams
7/10/2006
Donna Kelly, R. Williams, J. Pope
9/27/2001
Jerry Pope
2/22/2003
digital
Tape
Tape
Tape
None
Tape
Tape
yes
Yes
floppy
No
No
No
No
no
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
87 Styles, Harriet
N/A
5/6/2004
Tape
No
No
yes
88 Styles, Harriet
Talley, Don
89 Torrence, Ed & Mary
N/A
Madeline Wadley
N/A
7/31/2006
4/20/2012
7/31/2006
Tape/digital
Digital
Tape
Yes
Yes
No
No
no
No
Yes
Yes
No
Swan Tunnel; Swannanoa stories
music and personal history of Swannanoa
90 Tyson, Mary Elizabeth "Betty"
91 Vanover, Luther
Jill Jones & Donna Kelly
Donna Kelly
3/4/2004
3/7/2005
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tea and Topics. Dougherty Heights Inn; Tyson furniture.
Worked with city watershed.
92 Watson, Alma & Bob
Donna Kelly
10/4/2007
Tape
No
No
Yes
93 Weatherford, Anne
R. Williams
7/6/2006
Tape/digital
Yes
No
Yes
81
82
83
84
85
86
Rice,Ray
Robertson, Jake
Sawyer, Jack & Reva
Shelton, Dr. Rev Ronald
Shuford, Judy
Styles, Harriet
Styles, Harriet
DVD
Photo on Cd
1/2 of interview
transcribed by
Carly Reynolds
Warren Wilson College; High School; Boarding School;
Swannanoa area
58 Laursen, Ernest & Patricia
59 Larson, Ernst/Laursen, Ernest
Floppy
Sermon Papers
Martin family music stills/sheriff.
Tool Co, Old Dawn Swannanoa Bee trea.
1st Pres Church at Swannanoa
Sam Hope; WWII; POWS
Swannanoa; BMS; WWII; POW, VEC
Moore General; BM; Beacon
school oral history
book
Floods Moonshine; Davy Crockett
DVDs
Alfred Tyson
Included
Missing Alma's
Deed
Emily Lower
4/10/2003
Tape
Yes
95 Werle, Chuck
Fern Hoffman
11/3/2011
Tape/Digit
Yes
Yes
Yes
Pics of flood taken
by leslie Simon
Madeline Wadley
3/29/2012
Digital
yes
no
yes
term paper
Jill Jones
N/A
11/9/2004
7/29/2006
Tape
Tape
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Jill Jones
4/14/2007
Digital
No
No
No
J. Pope
7/14/2006
Tape
No
No
Yes
8/2/2006
Tape/digital
no
No
Yes
tape?
No
No
Yes
Wheeler,Billy Edd
96 Whitaker, Dempsey & Lores
97 Wrenn, Nancy
yes
Brochures,
Coorespondence Blue Ridge Assembly
94 Weatherford, Anne
warren wilson and Berea College, music/playwright
career
Newspaper Articles BM; Moose General; WWII; BM Methodist
Riceville; Jones cove; Camp Awaniko
Groups
Black Mountain Center for the Arts (Irene
Moser, Joan Moser, Lewis Crain, David Peele,
1 Laura Boosinger, Phil Jamison)
Camp Dorothy Walls (Fidelina W. Jackson, J.
Carolyn Hubbard, Joyce A. Zimmerman,
2 Maggie K. Jackson)
Camp Merrimac/Story Circle (Ann Hall, Gayden
3 Jones, Jane Barnette, Mamie Davis Hilliard)
Rebecca Williams
Camp Rockmont (Barry Taylor, Ben
McGibbons, Bill Webb, Bobby Shows, Gridge
Taylor, John D. Brooks, Matt Montasi, R. David
Bruce, Robert Boone, Sloan Howard, Chris
4 Stewart)
Dan McFatter
Montreat Summer Club (Sam Sloan, Lila Ray,
Mary Jo Wright, Perrin Wright, Glenn
5 Bannerman, Henry Wilde, Bill, Carlton Wilde)
O.H. Interview (Bill Alexander, Joan Hyatt, Paul
6 Foster)
OHS Reunion (Lynne Blankenship Caldwell, J.W
7 Blankenship, Bud Roses)
8 Story Circle
Story Circle (John H. Gallbreath, Mary L. Sobol,
9 Ruby J. Knight)
Story Circle (Charllote Arrendell, Fred A.
10 Duckett, Sally Pack Thomas, Will Kennedy)
7/6-28/2006,
8/6/2006
N/A
7/17/2006
Tape/digital
Yes
No
No
Rebecca Williams
3/30/2005
Tape
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Jerry Pope
8/20/2005
10/23/2001
Tape
Tape
No
No
No
No
No
No
J. Pope & R. Williams
12/4/2001
Tape
No
No
Yes
N/A
11/2/2002
Tape/digital
Yes
No
Yes
10/4/2003
Tape
Yes
Yes
Yes
4/1/2005
1979
Tape
Tape
no
No
No
No
Yes
No
Story Circle (Demetria Davidson Cox, Herbert L.
11 Richey, Jeanie Alexander Wilkerson)
Jill Jones
Story Circle (Hazel Burnett, Helen T. Hall, Joan
12 Hyatt, Joyce Parris, Nancy Frady)
N/A
12 Swannanoa Old Times
N/A
2 CDs
Heritage Day
Black history
VHS, CD/DVD,
Notes, Letters
BMC; Grove; history of camp.
CD
Different stories
Newspaper
Articles, Alexander
story
Government; Alexander Inn, Grovestone integration
Note
Blue Ridge Assembly.
Hearth and Home
E-mail, Decals
Family History
Newspaper Articles