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Oral history interview with Mattie Bell, Earl, Artis and Thomas Cavenaugh and Betsy Easter, December 7, 1999 interview K-0282, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Mattie Bell, Earl, Artis and Thomas Cavenaugh and Betsy Easter, December 7, 1999 interview K-0282, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview K-0282, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Mattie Bell, Earl, Artis and Thomas Cavenaugh and Betsy Easter, December 7, 1999 (portion title)
Cavenaugh, Mattie Bell 1925-2007 (interviewee). Amberg, Rob (interviewer). Cavenaugh, Artis (interviewee). Cavenaugh, Earl 1919- (interviewee). Cavenaugh, Thomas, 1917- (interviewee). Easter, Betsy (interviewee). Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (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 interview, Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, who are joined by family and friends, remember their experiences with Hurricane Floyd. Multiple interviewees may have detracted from this interview's value, as their responses to Thompson's questions are sometimes disjointed and unspecific. But they do offer an on-the-ground perspective on the flood and its aftermath. Like many affected North Carolinians, they are frustrated with inadequate compensation and are facing the prospect of trying to rebuild without help from insurance or the government, a prospect which seems difficult for a pair of octogenarians. Earl also offers some thoughts on the general erosion of moral values, prompted by the ban on school prayer, sex education, and social security among other factors.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005.

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General Note:
Duration: 01:34:03.
Interview participants: Earl Cavenaugh, interviewee; Mattie Bell Cavenaugh, interviewee; Betsy Easter, interviewee; Artis Cavenaugh, interviewee; Thomas Cavenaugh, interviewee; Charlie Thompson, interviewer; Rob Amberg.
Text encoded by Natalia Smith and Mike Millner. 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.
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Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 216.9 kilobytes, 172.2 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0282, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 53 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.
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Subject:
Cavenaugh, Artis Interviews
Cavenaugh, Earl 1919- Interviews
Cavenaugh, Mattie Bell 1925-2007 Interviews
Cavenaugh, Thomas 1917?- Interviews
Easter, Betsy Interviews
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Disaster relief North Carolina Duplin County
Flood damage North Carolina Duplin County
Floods North Carolina Duplin County
Hurricane Floyd, 1999
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