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The Ramble Rack

Posted in Everyday life, Marion, _Interviewee: Ellen Brown, tagged , on August 11, 2009 |

Nowadays, outlet stores and discount centers are common features of any town’s retail landscape. But in the 1960s, the concept was still a novel one, especially in a small town like Marion. In 1963, after years of dreams, delays, and being required to jump through hoops to get a bank loan, Ellen Brown and her sister-in-law [...]

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Neither rain nor sleet nor snow…

Posted in Civil War, Everyday life, Marion, _Interviewee: Robert Hawkins, tagged , , on July 29, 2009 |

Robert Hawkins has deep family roots in McDowell County and was a mailman from 1954 to 1990. He sat down in his rocker by the fireplace in his Marion home to tell us about  his father’s eyewitness account of the 1894 fire that destroyed nearly all of downtown, his grandmother’s story of Union raiders passing through her family’s farm [...]

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Memories of the Great Depression

Posted in Depression Years, Everyday life, _Interviewee: Nona Rhinehardt, tagged , on July 16, 2009 |

  Mrs. Nona Justice Rhinehardt of Marion graciously shared her impeccable archive of family photos, stories and geneology with the Oral History Project. Here, she reads an excerpt from C.J. Justice’s book,  The Story of My Life and Family Tree describing life for her family in the western North Carolina mountains during the Depression.       [...]

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Billy Graham Makes a Surprise Stop in Old Fort

Posted in Everyday life, Old Fort, _Interviewee: Richard Stanley, tagged , on July 13, 2009 |

It seems you never know who you’re going to find standing out in the snow in front of the gas station at the I-40 interchange in Old Fort! From 1966 to 1972, Reverend Richard Stanley Jr. was the pastor at the Wesleyan Church just up the street from the station. Here, he shares the story of [...]

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The Story of a McDowell Farm Family

Posted in Everyday life, Farming, _Interviewee: Donald Anderson, tagged , , on July 13, 2009 |

Donald Anderson recalls that “Most of my time as a youngster was spent hoeing corn”, and he comes from a long line of farmers.  His grandfather farmed land in the community that is now covered by Lake James and his father was a tenant farmer just north of Marion until, as the recipient of the first [...]

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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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