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Interview with Zelma Wood
Zelma Wood
OH 474
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Catherine Wycoff
Catherine Wycoff
OH 491
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Nellie Yost
Nellie Yost
OH 431
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Saundra Zook
Saundra Zook
OH 430
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Flonnie Shaw Bell - OH 269
Florence Irene Shaw Bell
OH 269
This interview discusses the Shaw family, especially the life of Florence Irene “Flonnie” Shaw Bell (1908-1986). Flonnie Shaw Bell mostly tells stories from her childhood in the Indian Land area of South Carolina. Through these stories she describes how she grew up and her family, including births in the family, deaths in the family, and her marriage. She also talks about her family at the time of the interview and all of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that she has.
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Interview with Agatha Burgess
Agatha Burgess
OH 160
IN PROCESSING
Owner and proprietor of a home-style restaurant in Union, South Carolina, Burgess talks about how her business started, her customers, her meals-on-wheels programs, and her being interviewed by Charles Kuralt who originated the “On the Road” and “CBS Sunday Morning” series for CBS News Television.
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Interview with Edward W. Clark
Edward W. Clark
OH 159
IN PROCESSING
Dr. Edward Clark, professor of English at Winthrop College, discusses his hobby of gravestone rubbing.
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Interview with Grace B. Freeman - OH 161
Grace Beacham Freeman
OH 161
Grace Beacham Freeman (1916-2002) was a writer, poet, and educator and was the fourth South Carolina Poet Laureate (1985 to 1986). She was married to Winthrop Biology Professor John Alderman Freeman. In this interview, Mrs. Freeman discusses her early interest in poetry, her first published poem, her experience as an undergraduate student at Converse College with her friend Poppy Birch, awards she won at Converse, Archibald Rutledge as her mentor, her most popular poem, her hiatus from writing and publishing poetry, writing feature articles for the New Orleans Times, her work on a radio show, raising a family, her experience in the James Dickey poetry workshop at the University of South Carolina, her experience with teaching children to write poetry, poetry as therapy, writing for the “At Our House” Syndicated Newspaper Column by Kings Feature Incorporated from 1954 to 1964, her children’s experience with her poetry, her poetry book Children Are Poetry and her other published poetry books, her experience with publishing, her experience with coming to terms with the concept of death, and positive reviews of her poetry books. Mrs. Freeman concludes her interview by discussing her identity and style as a contemporary poet.
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Interview with John Freeman
John A. Freeman
OH 174
IN PROCESSING
This interview was conducted to gather information on Dr. Freeman and his book Survival Gardening for an article to be published. Dr. Freeman discusses the ideas, philosophy and research for his book on small plot gardening for optimum nutritional value.
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Interview with Alberta Tucker Grimes - OH 637
Alberta Tucker Grimes
OH 637
This interview was conducted with Alberta Tucker Grimes (1909-2002) by Ron Chepesiuk. Mrs. Grimes was an educator and counselor from Greenville, South Carolina. She started the Head Start program for the state of South Carolina in Greeneville, SC. Her work became the standard model for similar programs that sprouted throughout the state. Mrs. Grimes discusses her childhood and background. She discusses her experiences with racism during her childhood and young adult years. She also discusses her education career and work to improve education opportunities in the black community. She details some of her experiences as the first full-time black councilor in Greenville, SC as well as a few of her students. Mrs. Grimes discusses her efforts to expand educational opportunities into the black community and the difficulties she faced in those efforts.
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Interview with Lillie Edens Herndon
Lillie Edens Herndon
OH 163
Lillie Edens Herndon (1916-2009) was the former president of the South Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers (1962-1965), the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (1973-1975), and former member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Topics of the interview include her early childhood, education, work experiences, family life, and public service activities, such as her involvement with the PTA, South Carolina Board of Education, National Action for Foster Children, and the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Draughn’s Business College.
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Interview with Susan Gayle Ludvigson
Susan Ludvigson
OH 165
IN PROCESSING
South Carolina poet and Winthrop professor of English, Ludvigson discusses biographical information, her writing career and the Guggenheim Fellowship Award.
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Interview with Carole McIver and Laurance Mitlin
Carole R. McIver and Laurance Mitlin
OH 173
IN PROCESSING
This interview was conducted in preparation for an article for the Wilson Library Bulletin entitled “SOLINET: Impact on a Member Library.” The discussion centers on changes in public and technical services that were brought on by the computer system SOLINET and CLSI.
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Interview with Martha F. Pursley
Martha Faulconer Persley
OH 266
IN PROCESSING
Ms. Persley discusses her relationship with the presidents of Winthrop that she worked with and gives a brief sketch of each one.
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Interview with Lloyd Braxton "Bud" Shaw and Ruby Shaw Moore - OH 267
Lloyd Braxton Shaw and Ruby Shaw Moore
OH 267
This interview discusses the Shaw family and interviews both Lloyd Braxton “Bud” Shaw (1913-1993) and Ruby Ellena Shaw Moore (b. 1910). Bud and Ruby Shaw were born in Pineville, North Carolina and later moved with family to the upstate of South Carolina. Bud and Ruby discuss their parents (Thomas Palmer Shaw and Lois L. Little Shaw) and grandparents, where they lived and how they moved around a lot during their childhood, what their parents did for hobbies and for work, and their family bible. They also share different memories from their childhood.
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Interview with Bertha Olive Smith - OH 167
Bertha Olive Smith
OH 167
Bertha Smith from Spartanburg County, South Carolina (1888-1988) graduated from Winthrop College in 1913 and served as a Baptist missionary in China for 42 years (1917-1959). She is also the author of several inspirational books, and is credited for her work as a part of the “Shantung revival” in China in the late 1920s. In this interview, Ms. Smith discusses her teaching career after graduating from Winthrop, attending seminary in Kentucky in 1914, getting into the mission field, church services and activities, teaching night school in her community, and leaving for China. She discusses her 42 years in China as a Baptist missionary, having to retire at 70 years old, the Foreign Mission Board, learning the language, training for missions work, working in China and Taiwan, and teaching English to the children. Ms. Smith also discusses her first book, Go Home and Tell (1965), which was used as a study book and became a best seller. She also briefly mentions her second and third books. Ms. Smith discusses her class pin, her involvement with religious groups at Winthrop College, her homesickness while in China, Chiang Kai-shek, her personal relationship with God, small religious communities from the past, cooking Chinese food, her travels to speak at different churches after retirement, her memories of Dr. David B. Johnson, and Dr. Glen Thomas.
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Interview with Paul White Drennan - OH 157
Paul White Drennan and World War I
OH 157
This interview is with Paul White Drennan, Sr. who was a WWI veteran. Mr. Drennan was born in York, South Carolina on February 13, 1896 and passed away on April 3, 1992. In this interview, Mr. Drennan reminisces about his life and experiences from 1918 and 1919, including such topics as training at Camp Watson in Spartanburg, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a battleship, his time in France, his work as a member of the 131st Engineers, witnessing the Saint-Miheil Operation and General Summerall on October 8th and 9th and the “Watch on the Rhine” done by the 1st Division, being sick with the mumps, signing the payroll, and more.
*audio is poor after 00:14:40 mark
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Interview with Vernon Gettys, Callie Gettys, and Fravor Miller
Vernon Gettys, Callie M. Gettys, Fravor Miller, Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, Springs Industries, and Nancy Biggs Thomas Wofford
OH 175
This interview with Vernon Gettys, Callie Gettys, and Fravor Miller was conducted by Nancy Thomas Wofford for her 1984 Winthrop thesis titled, Fort Mill: Transition From A Farming To A Textile Community, 1880-1920. Subjects include Fort Mill Manufacturing Co., Springs Industries, Ivey’s Mill in Fort Mill, Catawba Power Company, and the Evolution of the Early Cotton Textile Mills in York County, SC
Vernon Gettys (1900- 1985) was born near Santee, SC and came to Fort Mill after the flood of 1916 washed away the land he farmed. Mr. Gettys with his parents lived for a time near Red River Road and talks about the Carhartt Mansion and the area around it. He talks about his father drowning near the Carhartt mansion and talks a lot about the 1916 flood that devastated the area and prompted him to move to Fort Mill where he farmed for A. O. Jones before going to work for the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company. He discusses cotton farming, sharecropping, education, working on a dock, black and white relations especially in regards farms and working at the mill, life working at the mill, and pay.
Callie M. Gettys (1906-1985) was Vernon’s second wife and she worked for a brief time in the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company but spent most of her time working days as a cleaning woman in Fort Mill, SC. She discusses many aspects of her job as a cleaning woman and generally what life was like living in the area. She discusses a lot of her day-to-day concerns and experiences including during the Great Depression.
Fravor Miller (1906-1986) worked in the supply room at the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company for 27 years. He discusses his experiences at the mill and growing up. He talks about his father farmed at Gold Hill. He talks about the hungry and the poor and tells a story about a white man and his wife starving to death in 1919.
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Interview with Ruth Meacham
Ruth Meacham; Fort Mill Manufacturing Company; Springs Industries; Fort Mill, SC; and Nancy Biggs Thomas Wofford
OH 369
This interview with Elizabeth Moody Wilson was conducted by Nancy Thomas Wofford for her 1984 Winthrop thesis titled, Fort Mill: Transition From A Farming To A Textile Community, 1880-1920. Subjects include Fort Mill Manufacturing Co., Springs Industries, Ivey’s Mill in Fort Mill, Catawba Power Company. The Evolution of the Early Cotton Textile Mills in York County, SC.
Ruth Meacham (1895-1987) discusses her experiences growing up and living in Fort Mill, SC. Ruth owned most of the copies of photographs Nancy Thomas used in her thesis and they discuss each one. The photographs depict downtown Fort Mill, businesses, houses, the Fort Mill well pump, train depot, Fort Mill Academy, Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, 1916 flood, train tracks, cars, fire engine, bridges, Catawba Power Company, and many other Fort Mill scenes. (see Acc. 1786 for more about Ms. Meacham’s photographs). Ruth and Nancy talk about the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, but spend most of the interview discussing the growth of Fort Mill, businesses and houses in the area, downtown Fort Mill, and what life was like in those days. Ruth’s grandfather, Dr. Thomas Boyd Meacham (1836-1908), owned the Meacham Drug Store on Trade Street in downtown Fort Mill and her father, Walter Banks Meacham (1864-1938), owned Meacham and Epps.
* The audio has an echo of the same interview in the background.
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Interview with Dora Elizabeth Bailey Neal - OH 158
Dora Elizabeth Bailey Neal
OH 158
This interview was conducted by Susan Ghent who interviewed her grandmother Dora Neal for her Gerontology 504 class project. The contents of the interview centers around the life of Mrs. Dora Elizabeth Bailey Neal (1890-1984) who grew up on a farm in Lancaster, SC. In the interview, Mrs. Neal talks about her parents, her three brothers and two sisters, her childhood, her husband who died of cancer, her three daughters, and how things were when she was growing up and what she thinks about things now.
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Interview with Daniel Newton Pettus
Daniel Newton Pettus, Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, Springs Industries, and Nancy Biggs Thomas Wofford
OH 259
This interview with Daniel Newton Pettus was conducted by Nancy Thomas Wofford for her 1984 Winthrop thesis titled, Fort Mill: Transition From A Farming To A Textile Community, 1880-1920. Subjects include Fort Mill Manufacturing Co., Springs Industries, Ivey’s Mill in Fort Mill, Catawba Power Company, and the Evolution of the Early Cotton Textile Mills in York County, SC.
Daniel Newton Pettus (1902-1998) left his father’s (Newton Thomas Pettus (1876-1954) farm in Belair, SC in Lancaster County and went to work for the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company in 1919. He filled batteries for 3 to 4 years, and “drawed ends” for 44 years, retiring in 1966 at the age of 62. He and his wife, Margaret Frances Lancaster Holcomb Pettus (1923-2017), lived in the mill village. Mr. Pettus discusses childhood and family who owned a three-room farm house in Belair, SC (which is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County near Indian Land today), cotton farm life, native Americans, 1916 flood, child labor, and much on the life working in the factory. Daniel Newton Pettus was a first cousin once removed of Louise Pettus (1926-2021) (namesake of the Winthrop Archives) and a first cousin of her father, Calvin Hall Pettus (1901-1949).
*Audio has an echo of the same interview in background of the recording.
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Interview with Amelia Potts, Janie Crocker, and Myrtle Starnes
Amelia Knight Potts, Janie Phillips Crocker, Myrtle Chapman Starnes, Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, Springs Industries, and Nancy Biggs Thomas Wofford
OH 370
This interview with Amelia Knight Potts, Janie Philips Crocker, and Myrtle Chapman Starnes was conducted by Nancy Thomas Wofford for her 1984 Winthrop thesis titled, Fort Mill: Transition From A Farming To A Textile Community, 1880-1920. Subjects include Fort Mill Manufacturing Co., Ivey’s Mill in Fort Mill, Springs Industries, Catawba Power Company. The Evolution of the Early Cotton Textile Mills in York County, SC.
Amelia Knight Potts (1890-1984) worked for one of the original mills in Lancaster, SC beginning in 1902 at 12 years old. Her family were mostly famers from the Lancaster area. She talks about her early childhood days in Lancaster, cotton farming, memories of Mr. Leroy Springs, and Life in the Mill Village.
Janie Phillips Crocker (1910-1996) worked with Myrtle Starnes in the weave room at the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company. She discusses her experiences in the weave room, living in the Mill village, and s blow pipe incident that killed an employee in 1929.
Myrtle Chapman Starnes (1904-1999) worked with Janie Crocker in the weave room at the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company. She talks about Fort Mills’ population, Mr. Leroy Springs, migration of northern workers, the 1916 flood that devastated the area, the old mill that washed away, camp meetings at Oak Grove Arbor, and her mother who also worked at the mill.
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Interview with Calvin Stallings
Calvin Stallings
OH 096
IN PROCESSING
Topics include background and family life, work attitudes and experience, J. P. Stevens Cotton Mills, Springs Cotton Mills in Fort Mill, mill villages, race relations, unionization and mill prospects for the future.
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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson
OH 155
This is a series of interviews focusing on mill life in York County, South Carolina. Topics include background and family life, work attitudes and experience, J. P. Stevens Cotton Mills, Springs Cotton Mills in Fort Mill, mill villages, race relations, unionization and mill prospects for the future.