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Oral history interview with Sam Parker, December 5, 2000 Interview K-0252, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Sam Parker, December 5, 2000 [electronic resource] : Interview K-0252, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview K-0252, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Sam Parker, December 5, 2000 (portion title)
Parker, Sam, 1941- (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:

This interview is more about a lack of industrialization in North Carolina than the state's development, but offers an interesting perspective on growth. Sam Parker, Madison County Probation/Parole Officer, praises rural life in the interview. Parker left a job at an insurance agency in the 1960s to settle in the hills of Madison County, where he lived for a while without electricity and grew his own food. In this interview, he discusses his decision to leave the comforts of suburbia and the appeal of living a somewhat ascetic lifestyle, where community connections take the place of Internet connections. Parker sees this lifestyle declining, but does not condemn development or mourn its passing.

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  • Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

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General Note:
Duration: 01:28:57.
Interview participants: Sam Parker, interviewee; Rob Amberg, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.
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. 24, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 85.5 kilobytes, ca. 162 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, Interview K-0252, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 34 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services 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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