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Oral history interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000 Interview K-0249, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000 [electronic resource] : Interview K-0249, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview K-0249, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000 (portion title)
Hyatt, Stan. (interviewee). Amberg, Rob. (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary:

Although Stan Hyatt, the Department of Transportation's resident engineer on the I-26 project, has helped open Madison County to new residents and industry, he is worried about the effect of opening the area to change. Nostalgia and balance dominate this interview: Hyatt remembers growing up in idyllic rural Madison County, but while he misses the past, he sees the corridor construction as a painful but necessary cure for the county's economic ills. He hopes that the environmental damage I-26 brings will not alter too drastically the environment tourists will drive there to see. This interview, like many of Rob Amberg's interviews, is more of a conversation than a question-and-answer session. Later in the interview, however, Hyatt speaks at length about the I-26 project in Madison County. Researchers interested in this subject should look to this interview for essential background on the project as well as construction details.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005.

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General Note:
Duration: 02:20:51.
Interview participants: Stan Hyatt, interviewee; Rob Amberg, interviewer.
Text encoded by Natalia Smith. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Seth M. Kotch.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on Sept. 25, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: 205.6 kilobytes, ca. 257.9 megabytes).
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series Series K. Southern Communities, interview K-0249, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by S. Shuckman June, 2001. Original transcript: 59 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Subject:
Hyatt, Stan > Interviews.
Country life > North Carolina > Madison County.
Highway engineers > North Carolina > Madison County > Interviews.
Roads > Environmental aspects > North Carolina > Madison County.
Roads > North Carolina > Madison County > Design and construction.
Rural development > North Carolina > Madison County.
Rural roads > North Carolina > Madison County.
Self-reliant living > North Carolina > Madison County.
Interstate 26.
Madison County (N.C.) > Social conditions.
Genre:
Oral histories.