American Chestnut Oral History Project.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Documented memories of native chestnuts' economic and cultural importance in the years

preceding and following the blight pandemic. 

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 Lee Sexton
June 21st, 2008
Ulvah, Kentucky

Transcript    Audio (35MB)
Mining & Rabbit Hunting (6MB)
Tennessee Stud (1MB)

Harold Glenn Thomas
July 1st, 2008
Chestnut Ridge,
 Tennessee

Transcript   Audio (43MB) 
 Video  (13MB)

Ella Preston
August 29
th, 2008
Little Cowan, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (23MB)

C.E. Blevins
July 23rd, 2008
Apison, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio (35MB)

Edwin Manchester
July 21
st, 2008
Murphy, North Carolina

Transcript   Audio-1 (34MB)
Audio-2 (5MB)

Frank Messer
December 10th,2008
Gallatin, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio  (33MB)

Sara & Clarence Ison
June 16
th, 2008
Ice, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio-1 (47MB)
Audio-2 (7MB)   Video (10MB)

Hill Craddock
May 29th, 2008
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Audio-1  (16MB)  Audio-2 (60MB)

Bob Mosby
June 19th, 2008
Gainseville, Georgia

Transcript   Audio-1 (36MB)
Audio-2 (26MB)

Arles Weaver
May 12th, 2008
Scottsville, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio-1  (56MB)
Audio-2 (14MB)   Audio-3 (17MB)

Eugene Day
June 22nd, 2008
Cowan, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (26MB)

Sam & Linda McInturff,
Ross & Elberta Broadway
June 16th, 2008
Ten Mile, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio-1 (52MB)
Audio-2 (6MB)

Eulice Walker
July 24th, 2008
Greasy Cove, Alabama

Transcript   Audio (18MB)

Geneva Ison
June 16th, 2008
Kingdom Come Creek, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (13MB)

Bud Range
May 30th, 2008
Johnson City, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio (79MB)

George Ramseur
July 29th, 2008
Sewanee, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio (70MB)

Harding Ison
June 22nd, 2008
Kingdom Come Creek, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio  (29MB)
Time has made a Change (2MB)

Anderson & Joann Dye
May 16th, 2008
Madisonville, Tennessee

Transcript 
 Joann on Witching (2MB)

James Mullins
June 3rd, 2008
Meadowview, Virginia

Transcript   Audio (45MB)
   Video (66MB)

Wallace Coffey
June 6th, 2008
Bristol, Tennessee

Transcript    Audio (74MB)

Jim & Emily Wright
May 29th, 2008
Sequatchie Cove, Tennesse
e

Transcript     Audio-1 (6MB)
Audio-2 (76MB)

Rex Mann
May 22nd, 2008
Mt. Sterling, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (93MB)

Verlin Williams
August 5th, 2008
Cleveland, Tennessee

Transcript   Audio (46MB)

David Patterson
July 22nd, 2008
Rising Fawn, Georgia

Transcript   Audio (36MB)

The following have no picture available or have requested that their picture not be posted.

Elsie Boggs
August 29th, 2008
Little Cowan, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (12MB)

Bob Cornett
May 24th, 2008
Midway, Kentucky

Transcript   Audio (50MB)

Marie Smith Washburn
December 3rd, 2008
Greasy Cove, Alabama

Transcript   Audio-1 (3MB)
Audio-2 (26MB)

Robert Watts
June 23rd, 2008
Line Fork, Kentucky

Transcript    Audio (35MB)

 

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