Interview with Martha Hammond

Martha Hammond is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 27, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Hammond was born in 1914 in Sunburst and grew up in Swain County. She talks about the school system including attending the Cherokee Indian boarding school. Her family was poor and she started work at a very young age. Hammond talks about a flood in Bryson City and other weather events. She also shares the story of travelling by train to visit her husband who was stationed near the Ozarks