Oral history interview with Sam Parker, December 5, 2000 [electronic resource] : Interview K-0252, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
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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Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.
Content descriptions
- 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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- Subject:
- Parker, Sam, 1941- > Interviews.
Country life > North Carolina > Madison County.
Home > North Carolina > Madison County.
Rural development > North Carolina > Madison County.
Self-reliant living > North Carolina > Madison County.
Social change > North Carolina > Madison County.
Interstate 26.
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