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| # Interview with Annie May Diggs,
2001-10-30 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Annie May Diggs recalls growing up and working on a farm with some of her family members. She tells about her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and how times have changed since she was growing up. She describes her job working for a dry cleaning business and how she now enjoys working in her garden in Wilmore Neighborhood. Mrs. Diggs was one of the founders of Wilmore gardens so she explains the various locations of the garden and how it developed where it is today.
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| # Interview with Pauline Cox,
2002-01-23 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Pauline Cox describes her childhood being brought up by her father who was a farmer and her mother who worked as a homemaker. Paula Cox was born in Anson County, but has spent the last thirty-two years of her life living in the Wilmore Neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Paula describes the chores she performed in the house, which included taking care of her younger siblings and milking the cows before school. Paula talks about her first job working at the Carolina Medical Center and describes the existing segregation of the time. In discussing her love for gardening, Paula provides insight into the importance of gardening for the community and for the individuals of Wilmore. She describes her personal methods of gardening, canning, freezing, pest control and caring for the vegetables and herbs. Paula describes her great passion for gardening and her opinions of the importance of gardening for future generations.
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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 Katie Grier,
2001-10-27 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Mrs. Katie Grier discusses her life in an interview for Cultivating Common Ground Project. Mrs. Grier shares childhood stories of growing up on a farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She describes her farm experience as raising animals, growing vegetables, and doing a variety of household chores. As a result of growing up on a farm, Mrs. Grier still enjoys growing her own vegetables in the Wilmore Garden and uses them to cook her favorite meals. She also touches on growing up before the civil rights movement and describes the changes that took place after desegregation. Throughout the interview, Katie Grier shares various anecdotes of her life. These include: life during the Great Depression, fishing in a pond near her childhood home, walking to an all black school, feeding chickens, and her parents making butter and milk and canning various meats and vegetables.
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| # Interview with Donna Anthony McGee,
2001-10-27 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Donna Anthony McGee recalls growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. As a child she enjoyed going to school and playing sports with other children her age. She discusses the occupations of her parents and describes the various jobs she has held over the years. Mrs. McGee then talks about her love of the outdoors and gardening, especially at her home and in the Wilmore community garden.
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| # Interview with Katie McGill,
2001-11-01 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Katie McGill was raised in Mint Hill, NC by her grandparents, Samuel and Ester Stafford. She credits her grandparents with raising her to be a lady and to respect others. She also describes her childhood and how she worked with her family on a dairy farm. She recalls that she learned to garden at an early age and encourages young gardeners to remember that gardening could be used as a survival skill. Other topics discussed by Mrs. McGill are school desegregation, voting and her move to the Wilmore Neighborhood in 1971. Katie McGill tells about the history of Wilmore gardens and the revitalization of the Wilmore Neighborhood.
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| # Interview with Mary Ellen Caldwell Nash,
2001-11-03 | Cultivating Common Ground |
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- Mrs. Mary Ellen Caldwell Nash begins by describing the community she grew up in and the various schools she attended as a child. She comments on her family and recalls the various skills her parents taught her, such as cooking and gardening. She then describes some of the jobs she has held over the years and the duties that went along with working. Wilmore neighborhood is described as peaceful and quiet when Mrs. Nash and her family first moved there thirty years ago, but now, she says, things have changed for the worse. Other topics discussed by Mary Nash include segregation, her children and grandchildren, and family reunions.
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| # Interview with Dorothy Coplon,
1994-03-06 | Charlotte Jewish Historical Society Collection |
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- Dorothy Coplon discusses Jewish life while growing up in New Bern, North Carolina and her life once she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes going to Tuesday services in her temple in New Bern, and she expresses her appreciation of Clarence and Thelma Thacker who helped immensely at Temple Beth El in Charlotte. She expands on her involvement in the Charlotte Jewish community and her extensive volunteer work outside of the Jewish community. She shares information about her family, especially her husband, Carl and his role as president of Temple Beth El in Charlotte. She discusses her attempts to encourage Jewish participation in Charlotte's community and political affairs. Coplon also describes her experience running in a legislative campaign and the anti-Semitism that came with it.
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