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Old Fort Resident Remembers the Self-Reliant Life, a Cross-Country Adventure, and the Friendship of a Lifetime

Posted in Depression Years, Everyday life, Farming, Old Fort, _Interviewee: Binkie Adams (transcript), _Interviewee: Jessica Gibbs, tagged , on August 15, 2009 |

Jessica “Jep” Gibbs was born in 1913.  The majority of her life has been lived in the Old Fort area, and she currently resides just minutes from where she grew up. In addition to her other stories, in this clip she talks quite a bit about her friend Binkie Adams, daughter of the visionary Col. Daniel W. [...]

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Montage

Posted in Everyday life, Overview, Revolutionary War, _Interviewee: Dean Branch, _Interviewee: Jeanette Harris, _Interviewee: Jessica Gibbs, _Interviewee: Jessie May Roper Groves, _Interviewee: Joe Williams, _Interviewee: Mark Hall, _Interviewee: Pete Gibbs, _Interviewee: Rick Acrivos, tagged , , , , on July 2, 2009 |

This audio montage is a small sampling of the great stories and remembrances we are currently collecting from residents all over McDowell County. We’ve heard stories of the Cherokee, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the building of the railroad, the Great Depression and other historical events. But mostly, we’ve heard stories of how real people lived [...]

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