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  Oral History Interview: Wesley Lynch

  Wesley Lynch

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The subject of this interview is Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop, WV. Mr. Lynch discusses: his personal history; his family; his education; a brief discussion of his experiences in Vietnam; how he came to attend and work at the camp; his experiences at the camp; individuals such as Carl Harriston, Roland Manthey, Prince Woodard, and Johnny Smith & his family; racial integration at the camp; the history of the camp; activities at the camp; coal miners; home economic workshops at the camp; someone dynamiting the camp; the camp during the off- season; the Civilian Conservation Corp; getting a speeding ticket; sports and recreation at the camp; a friend working at the company store for a coal mine; ROTC; as well as his experiences in World War II (& Vietnam?) and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Paulette Mabry

  Paulette Mabry

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The subject of this interview is Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop, WV. Paulette Mabry attended the camp as a child and was later a camp counselor. She discusses: her childhood and an influential woman she knew (Lena Williams); her education; racial integration at school and at the camp; teachers she knew; her experiences at the camp; some stories about the camp; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Eve Mahone

  Eve Mahone

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Eve Mahone discusses her memories of the Point Pleasant Silver Bridge collapse on December 15, 1967, when she was about 12 years old. She also discusses her father's work in the National Guard recovery efforts, and the effects of the bridge's collapse on her and the community of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Other topics include: a brief mention of her views on the Mothman and the Chief Cornstalk Curse, which some people blamed for the accident; the construction and wreckage of the bridge; a brief section on what a diver saw under the water; some victims she personally knew; a few vivid Christmas- related memories; and other topics.

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  Oral History Interview: Eleanor Mailloux

  Eleanor Mailloux

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia town histories. This interview focuses on Helvetia, West Virginia. Born in Virginia, Ms. Mailloux is the daughter of a Swiss father and Virginian mother. She discusses her life on the farm, work, and school. She relates her concern for the environment to conclude the interview.

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  Oral History Interview: Kate Mandin

  Kate Mandin

  This document is a transcript of a statement given by Kate Mandin at a public hearing conducted by the West Virginia Department of Energy on June 28, 1988, in Lincoln County. The purpose of the hearing was to give residents a chance to voice their opinions concerning an application by two coal companies to strip-mine at Six Mile Creek in Lincoln County. Kate Mandin argues against the permit, citing numerous problems with health, property value, quality of life, and violations of procedures and law.

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  Oral History Interview: Opal Mann

  Opal Mann

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Opal Mann was an employee at Owens-Illinois, Inc. She discusses: brief mentions of her personal background, education, and family; her employment history and how she came to work at the glass plant during the Great Depression; her duties at the plant; descriptions of working with the glass; insurance; her marriages; filing grievances; labor unions & organizations such as the AFL (American Federation of Labor); individuals such as Ken Heckler & Jane McComas; sex discrimination; anecdotes about her work experiences; her relationships with co-workers; some discussion of D-Day and World War II; people she knew attending college; and her employment after the glass plant.

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  Oral History Interview: Julian Martin

  Julian Martin

  This document is a transcript of a statement given by Julian Martin at a public hearing conducted by the West Virginia Department of Energy on June 28, 1988, in Lincoln County. The purpose of the hearing was to give residents a chance to voice their opinions concerning an application by two coal companies to strip-mine at Six Mile Creek in Lincoln County. Julian Martin argues against the permit, saying it would cause environmental damage and destroy the beauty of the land.

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  Oral History Interview: Selma Gale Martin

  Selma Gale Martin

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Selma Gale Martin discusses her childhood, her education at Marshall University, and also gives a detailed description of the Huntington flood of 1937.

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  Oral History Interview: Sidney Morgan Martin

  Sidney Morgan Martin

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning the experiences of West Virginian war veterans. Mr. Morgan picked cotton and worked in lumber until he was twenty-two. He then joined the United States Army and fought in the Spanish-American War. In 1973, he was a candidate for sheriff of Lyon County, Kentucky, where he was residing at the time of the interview. The interview concerns life on the farm and his war experiences.

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  Oral History Interview: V. L. Martin

  V. L. Martin

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning rural life in West Virginia. Reared in Raleigh County, West Virginia, Mr. Martin was living in Mt. Hope at the time of the interview. He talks about his schooling, religion, politics, World War I, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Martin also discusses his inventions and his life as a scoutmaster.

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  Oral History Interview: James G. Matthews

  James G. Matthews

  James G. Matthews was a jack-of-all-trades. He worked as a coal miner for James C. Coal Company, worked for United Fuel Gas Company, the Nickel Plant, and as a mail courier. He also performed as part of a singing quartet. Mr. Matthews was born on May 30, 1902. He grew up on a farm near East Lynn, WV. After the death of his mother, Mr. Matthews attended elementary school on a part-time basis in order to work on the family farm. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Matthews discusses alcohol consumption and moonshine stills in East Lynn. During his interview, Mr. Matthews focuses on farming and hunting through providing details of planting and processing crops, the descriptions of his hunting weapons, and his tactics while hunting.

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  Oral History Interview: James G. Matthews

  James G. Matthews

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Mr. Brown discusses his family (including his parents, who were slaves), growing up in the Kanawha Valley, and numerous other experiences in his life. The interviewer not named.

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  Oral History Interview: James G. Matthews

  James G. Matthews

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The interviewer is not named, but has the initials LAE. An open discussion with three guests (Carolyne Brown, Huey Perry, and Sam Moore) which deals with race relations in the southern Coal fields, including the topics of education, religion, and desegregation.

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  Oral History Interview: Frank Mattie

  Frank Mattie

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia Vietnam veterans. At the time of the interview, Mr. Mattie was working at the Regional Veterans Center. He was in the infantry in Vietnam and served in B Company, 2nd & 3rd Infantry from 1968 to 1970. He discusses: why he enlisted in the military; reasons people chose not to serve in Vietnam and his feelings towards people who didn't serve; returning to America and society's treatment of veterans; Vietnam in the entertainment media; his job as a counselor and head of a psychiatric ward at a hospital; his experiences working with Vietnam veterans; problems he sees with American society (especially the Baby Boomer generation); patriotism; masculinity and male stereotypes; and other topics as well.

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  Oral History Interview: Carl Maynard

  Carl Maynard

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Maynard begins this interview with the recounting of his work history at Owens, where he was employed for thirty-two years. He left the plant at the time of the December 1993 shut-down, unwillingly, as he had intended to stay employed at Owens until the course of his duties as president of the local Glass Bottle Blower's union was finished. Maynard describes the relationship between workers and management in the factory, as well as the "decline" of the plant in its last few years of operation.

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  Oral History Interview: Newman Maynard

  Newman Maynard

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mr. Maynard began working at Owens in 1942, when his brother, who was already employed at the plant as a furnace crew leader, helped him land a position in the plant. In this interview, Maynard gives an account of the evolution of the batch and furnace department, where he worked for most of his career at Owens. In fact, most of this interview is concerned with the technical details of Maynard's job and the jobs of those working with him in his department. Mr. Maynard retied from Owens at the age of 62. Toward the end of the interview he discusses the activities of his retirement years and his theories on the causes of the shut-down of the Huntington Owens plant.

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  Oral History Interview: Anna McCright

  Anna McCright

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Anna McCright began teaching in 1942 at a one-room school and later become principal of a school in Monongah, West Virginia. She gives us detailed information about her family and her childhood throughout the interview, including information on her sister Catherine's children, discrimination she faced as a child at integrated schools, an anecdote about another student who gave her trouble at a segregated school, and a brief section on Christmas during her childhood. She also tells us detailed information about her education, which included Dunbar School, West Virginia State, and Columbia University. She describes activities at school, a minister who helped her get into college (Reverend C. M. F. Wylie), teachers she knew, and the Delta (Delta Sigma Theta?) sorority. Her career is a very important subject, and she describes: detailed information about the schools she taught at; her first job at a one-room school; teaching in Dunbar, Barracksville, and Fairmont; a brief section about working on the Hunt Honor Scholarship Board from the Fairmont State College; students she knew; race- relation incidents at school; the desegregation of schools and what things were like before and after; how she became school principal; parental complaints and teachers' fears of lawsuits from parents; how technology has affected learning; child- discipline at home and at school; differences she sees between black children and white children; and also special education. She also started the McCright Library and Learning Center and provides us with detailed information about it and how she handles children at her library. Race relations are also discussed, such as her living in a white neighborhood, prejudices (including prejudices among African-Americans); African-Americans trying to get jobs, and the double burden black women face from racism and sexism--she also discusses women's rights. There are numerous other discussion points as well, such as: church and religion; her achievements in life; organizations she belonged to; an award she won from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People); her self-perceptions; things in her life she's proud of; her thoughts on her life in general; her house; her social life; letters, and many other topics. The interview ends with more awards she has won and a brief note about her master's degree from West Virginia University. She also reads us a poem she wrote.

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  Oral History Interview: Artie McCulgon

  Artie McCulgon

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning rural life in West Virginia. Born near Ironton, Ohio, Mr. McCulgon lived in Huntington, West Virginia, at the time of the interview. Topics discussed include his family, church, school, food preservation, his marriage, and his father's work on the railroad.

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  Oral History Interview: Thelma White McDaniel

  Thelma White McDaniel

  This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Thelma White McDaniel began teaching in Chesapeake (Ohio) at a one-room school. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including family members who were slaves, her family's employment history, her family's view on the importance of education, Christmas during her childhood, her husband and her marriage, the house she grew up in, her daughter, her relationships with family members, as well as information about her mother and siblings. There is also a section on tobacco farming. She attended a one room school and West Virginia State College, and discusses her education--she also tells us about her sorority (Alpha Kappa Alpha). Her employment history is also discussed in detail, and she tells us about coming to work in Boyd (Kentucky). Race relations is a very important topic, and this includes race relations during her childhood, discrimination at schools, segregation and discrimination in other places, the desegregation of schools and her thoughts on it, her thoughts on interracial marriages, as well as black women facing a double burden from racism and sexism. There is also an anecdote about traveling on a train. Women's rights and the Women's Improvement League are also discussed. There are numerous other discussion points as well, such as: church and religion; her church; child discipline; organizations she joined; other people she knew; youth organizations such as the League Teens; information about Charleston, WV; role models she had; her self-perceptions and her thoughts on her life; her current activities; her thoughts on modern youth; a few thoughts on her graduate degree (from Marshall University); and many other subjects.

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  Oral History Interview: Ric McDowell

  Ric McDowell

  This document is a transcript of a statement given by Ric McDowell at a public hearing conducted by the West Virginia Department of Energy on June 28, 1988, in Lincoln County. The purpose of the hearing was to give residents a chance to voice their opinions concerning an application by two coal companies to strip-mine at Six Mile Creek in Lincoln County. Ric McDowell argues against the permit, citing legal problems and environmental damage it would cause.

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  Oral History Interview: Gladys McGinnis

  Gladys McGinnis

  In this interview, Mrs. McGinnes is drawn into a discussion of her parents and the things she can remember about family life and farm-working from when she was a young girl, living in rural Wayne county. Later in the interview, Mrs. McGinnis talks about living in Huntington, rearing her children, and other of her various domestic responsibilities. She also speaks of the way several national events, such as the 1929 depression and WWII, affected her life and the lives of her family.

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  Oral History Interview: Emma Lou McGuiness

  Emma Lou McGuiness

  This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Emma Lou McGuiness was 70 at the time of the interview, and discusses her experience working at the Owens-Illinois glass plant, getting into topics such as women in businesses, discrimination against women, labor unions, company social clubs and organizations, and retraining for job skills at Marshall University.

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  Oral History Interview: Litz McGuire

  Litz McGuire

  A retired Logan County Sheriff, Mr. McGuire was reared in Tazewell County, Virginia. At the time of the interview, Mr. McGuire was living in Logan, West Virginia. This interview is in the form of a prepared statement concerning his life. He also reflects on the past and future of Logan County.

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  Oral History Interview: Beulah McKeand

  Beulah McKeand

  Beulah McKeand grew up in the Ceredo-Kenova area of West Virginia. During her interview, she focuses on her childhood experiences and family history. She discusses working at Abbotts, a store in Huntington, West Virginia. She also focuses on folk medicine, specifically uses for yellow root and ginseng. In the audio clip provided, Mrs. McKeand discusses growing ginseng and the market value for the plant.

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  Oral History Interview: Anna McNeal

  Anna McNeal

  This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia town histories. This interview focuses on Helvetia, West Virginia. The daughter of German speaking Swiss immigrants, Mrs. McNeal was born in Helvetia, West Virginia. She relates her life on the farm in Helvetia, her father's work as a carpenter, her experience teaching school and the celebration of FASNACHT by the family.