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| # Interview with Daisy Dunlap,
2001-10-27 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Daisy Mae Lowrey Dunlap discusses growing up in York, South Carolina and living in Charlotte and Wilmore, North Carolina. Ms. Dunlap describes growing up during the depression. Her family was not affected by the depression because her father had a job with the government. When she was young, her family had a garden in which every member of the family helped. Helping with this garden influenced her to continue gardening throughout her life and was a source of great pleasure. She attended Jefferson High School, which was a large, all black school with grades 1 through 12. She started a family in her late teens and worked as a housekeeper, a maid, and worked in a cafeteria. She describes how she was affect by segregation and the civil rights movement while living in South Carolina.
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| # Interview with Hassie Roulette Williams Ervin,
2002-01-10 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Hassie Ervin was raised in Greenwood, SC on her parents' farm. Her mother died when she was 10 and her father died when she was 16. Her older brother then moved her to Charlotte. After she married, she stayed in Charlotte, living in the Southside and then Wilmore neighborhoods. She describes her childhood, early gardening experiences and how she worked with her family on their farm. Since her father always kept livestock and grew vegetables, her family always had plenty to eat, and consequently was not affected by the Great Depression. She shares some of her favorite vegetables to grow.
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| # Interview with Carry Harrison Gaddy,
2001-10-29 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Carry Gaddy grew up in Union County, NC in what she describes as a small rural community. She discusses her daily life and chores, growing up without any running water or electricity. Mrs. Gaddy's passion for gardening began at a very early age through the influence of her mother, who she describes as a homemaker with great skill in cooking and gardening all the food they needed. Mrs. Gaddy describes her first job working as a maid, and how much she was paid in those years. She recalls how the community of Wilmore has changed greatly since she moved there twenty-nine years ago. In discussing the importance of gardening in her life, Carry comments on the fellowship the Wilmore Community Center.
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| # Interview with Elissa Adams,
1998-12-09 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Elissa Adams talks about her miraculous recovery from leukemia, which is a favorite story her family enjoys telling.
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| # Conversation with Bertila Argueta,
2001-12-02 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Bertila Argueta talks about her encounters with El Salvadorian guerrillas.
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| # Multi-party conversation with Raymond Hyde Borel, II,
1999-11-27 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Raymond Borel II talks about his childhood in Pennsylvania and about work experiences.
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| # Conversation with Cullen Case,
2000-04-18 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Cullen Case recalls childhood memories visiting his grandparents in Asheville, NC, and how his grandmother did not like his mother until his mother had children.
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| # Interview with Jan Campbell,
2001-11-15 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Jan Campbell speaks about her move to the United States, her family, her life in Brazil, and her life in the US
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| # Interview with Gloria Cotton,
2000-04-11 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Gloria Cotton is a motivational speaker who recites the biblical story "Suffer the Little Children", as her grandmother told it to her as a child. She speaks of the lessons it has taught her, as well as how her son has used it in his life.
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| # Interview with Sharvari Desai,
2000-04-10 | Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection |
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- Sharvari Desai tells a history of the partitioning of India, as it was told to her by her father, and how it effected society as a whole and her family in particular.
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