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

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: electronic resource
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    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.
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
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