Add to ORKGRecords a group interview with David M. Taylor, who lived in an area known as Joliet Hollow, in Page County, Virginia, until his family was moved to a resettlement area in nearby Ida, Virginia with the opening of the park in the early 1930s. Describes daily life in the mountains, touching on the work of growing and preserving food, herbal remedies, etc., as well as how his family and neighboring mountain families adjusted to their new lives in the Ida Valley. Mr. Taylor recalls his conversations with local entrepreneur George Freeman Pollock, owner of Skyland resort and an early promoter of the plans to create Shenandoah National Park.https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/1102/thumbnail.jp
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Records the reminiscences of Harold Baugher who grew up in Swift Run, Virginia, in the 1930s, on a f...
Records the reminiscences of Loula Judd, who lived near the Big Meadows area of Shenandoah National ...
Records an interview with Virginia Taylor, (née Haney), who grew up the Blue Ridge Mountains, near G...
Records an interview with Carl Shifflett and his wife, Gertrude, (née Shifflett), who discuss their ...
Records an interview with Davis Twyman, who lived for more than eighty years in Syria, Va., in Madis...
Records an interview with Edith Samuels, (née Alger), who lived in Joliet Hollow, within the future ...
Records an interview with Myrtle Woodward, (née Broyles), who lived in the mountains near Syria, Vir...
Records an interview with Lorraine Tompkins, who was born on Old Rag Mountain, in Madison County, Vi...
Records an interview with Cecil Graves, who taught in the Page County school system in the mid-1930s...
Records the reminiscences of Randal Dean, who was born and raised on Dean Mountain, near Elkton, Vir...
Records the reminiscences of Lola Deane, who moved to the Pine Grove area, bordering Shenandoah Nati...
Records the reminiscences of Vallie Cave, (née Thomas), and her brother, Floyd Thomas, who were born...
Records an interview with Edward Nicholson, who lived in the mountains of Madison County, Virginia u...
Records the reminiscences of Miley Frazier, who was born in 1900 near Patterson Ridge, in what would...
Records an interview with Zada Lam, who grew up on the Rockingham County side of Swift Run Gap. Desc...
Records the reminiscences of Harold Baugher who grew up in Swift Run, Virginia, in the 1930s, on a f...
Records the reminiscences of Loula Judd, who lived near the Big Meadows area of Shenandoah National ...