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Oral history interview with Taylor Barnhill, November 29, 2000 Interview K-0245, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Taylor Barnhill, November 29, 2000 [electronic resource] : Interview K-0245, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview with Taylor Barnhill, November 29, 2000 (portion title)
Interview K-0245, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Barnhill, Taylor. (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:

In this rich interview, Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition member (his precise role is unclear) Taylor Barnhill describes his rural childhood and its impact on his adult life. He is an environmental activist who decries the deleterious effects of development on rural North Carolina communities and wilderness. Barnhill aims his frustrations at road building and roadpaving -- in particular those projects related to the I-26 corridor in Madison County, NC -- which he thinks open rural communities to a soulless world of consumption and interfere with natural evolution. He hopes to inspire communities to rally around conservation issues, not only for the sake of the state's air and water, but also to give community members a renewed sense of place.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:32:46.
Interview participants: Taylor Barnhill, interviewee; Rob Amberg, interviewer.
Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and 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: 129.3 kilobytes, ca. 169.9 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0245, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 36 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Subject:
Barnhill, Taylor > Interviews.
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition.
Country life > North Carolina.
Rural development > North Carolina > Madison County.
Rural roads > North Carolina > Madison County.
Interstate 26.
Madison County (N.C.) > Rural conditions.
Madison County (N.C.) > Social conditions.
North Carolina > Rural conditions.
Genre:
Oral histories.