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Mountain Cooking by John Parris
by Audrey Sage John Parris was born in Sylva, North Carolina and began writing for the local weekly paper, The Jackson County Journal, at the age of thirteen. He later went on to write as a feature writer in New York, then later in London during World War II for the United Press. He continued […]
Oral History year in review 2021-UNCG Institutional Memory Collection documents pandemic experience at UNCG
– Scott Hinshaw For the year 2021, the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection interviewed two UNCG administrators and one staff member to document their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Julia Jackson-Newsom was the Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategy and Policy at UNCG until she left to work at her alma mater, Wake Forest University, in […]
University Archives Completes Grant to Enhance Oral History Interview Access
University Archives recently completed work on a grant-funded project to provide enhanced access to many of our oral history interviews with African American students who attended Woman’s College/UNCG in the 1960s. These oral history interviews, which are part of SCUA’s African American Institutional Memory Project, were previously available online only as a PDF transcription. Even […]
Enhancing Access to Oral History Interviews
Thanks to a 2014-2015 award through the University Libraries’ Innovation and Program Enrichment Program, we are currently working on providing access to audio and enhanced transcripts for the oral history interviews conducted as part of our African American Institutional Memory Project. These interviews with African American alumni from the 1960s and 1970s, which typically are […]
University Archives Awarded University Libraries’ 2015 Innovation and Enrichment Grant
University Archivist Erin Lawrimore has been awarded the UNCG University Libraries’ Innovation and Enrichment Grant for 2014-2015. Her project will focus on enhancing access to oral history recordings conducted by staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) as part of the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection. SCUA has a long tradition […]
