American Chestnut Oral History Project.

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ADDITIONAL MATERIALS

 

ADDITIONAL AUDIO
Audio clips edited specific to the following subjects:

Abundance of Chestnut (1.5MB) Chestnut & Tanning (1.5MB)
Chestnut as Firewood (2.0MB) Chestnut Wood & Building (2.7MB)
Trading Chestnuts (2.0MB) Community & Familial Importance (5.4MB)
Gathering & Storing Chestnuts (2.5MB) Chestnut Blight (4.4MB)
Eating Chestnuts (2.7MB) Thoughts on Restoration (2.6MB)
Livestock & Wildlife Importance (3.2MB) Motivation for Involvement in Restoration from TACF Members (2.1MB)

 

RADIO

 'Radiogram' including pieces from The American Chestnut Oral History Collection. 

Editors: Mia Fredrick at WMMT, Iliza Myers, Bethany Baxter
American Chestnut Radiogram (30MB)

 

 'Around and About' Interview with Dr. J Hill Craddock,
 concerning the story of the American chestnut and chestnut blight pandemic.
Editor: Rabbit at WUTC
Part 1
(12MB)                Part 2 (11MB)

 

 'Around and About' Interview with Bethany Baxter,
concerning the American Chestnut Oral History Project

Editor: Rabbit at WUTC
Part 1                 Part 2

 

PRESENTATIONS

'The American Chestnut Oral History Project(9MB)

Presented at the 2009 Appalachian Studies Conference
Download zip with Audio File (14MB)
 

'An Oral History of the American Chestnut in Southern Appalachia (25MB)
Presented by Bethany Baxter for Oral Defense, July 2009
Download zip with Audio Files (39MB)

 

WRITTEN MATERIALS

'An Oral History of the American Chestnut in Southern Appalachia'  (5.5MB)
 
MS Thesis, Bethany Baxter

 

LINKS

The American Chestnut Foundation

Tennessee Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation

Craddock's Chestnut Page

UTC Library Special Collections

UTC Department of Environmental & Biological Sciences

Jim Pfitzer, Chattanooga's Story Teller

Appalshop

 

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All rights and title to material available on this website, including audio files and transcripts, belongs to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Original audio recordings, transcripts, and additional materials are archived and preserved at UTC's Lupton Library Special Collections. 

Permission to publish, exhibit, or broadcast materials owned by Special Collections at Lupton Library must be requested and granted in writing. 

For more information contact the University Special Collections archivist at (423) 425-2186 or email archives@utc.edu

For more information about the American Chestnut Oral History Project contact Bethany Baxter, bethanybaxter@gmail.com