1 50 1 https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/53ef985416b33b5bb4850280d375c9c2.pdf d196b7c682192631af0a32b383694334 PDF Text Text AOH #29 & #30 Page 1, This is an interview with Ed Cullers for the Appalachian State University Oral History Project by Tanya Shook and Karen Weaver in Boone on February 12, 1973. Q: What did you used to hear about the Welfare Program? A: I,'ve heard about Welfare ever since I was a kid I guess, But I'm awful happy to tell you one thing child, that the Lord's blessed my wife and I that we have never had for to be assisted by it and we're so thankful for that. But it's a good thing if it that a lot of times why a lot of people abuses it you know misrepresenting themselves, they get it when they could a got along without it. Now we didn't hear that and I don't know how true that is, I don't know nobody that's a getting that. I mean I see 'em hunt up folks that's using these food stamps but I don't know. I do know a few people that's getting 'em. Q: Were any of your relatives hit very hard by the Depression? A: Yes, I had a brother that, he's dead now, that lived on a farm, why he was hit hard. He couldn't sell his tobacco And he was the only one, the only brother I had at that time, I had two but the other wasn't hit that hard. Now he never did sell very much stuff, cabbage and potatoes and stuff like that. Now he couldn't sell them either, but he wasn't hit, because he had a lot more farm and �AOH #29 & #30 Page 2, stuff than the other'n had. Q: Was there anything good about the Depression? A: I really don't know. Sometimes I think probably that it may help us to have It'd be terrible, for all the good years we've had since the Depression, if we's to have another one, why it'd be terrible because they's a lot more folks, they's a lot more people in debt now than there was then because there's been a lot of jobs and they get good pay for 'em and there's a lot of people that does that and just go in debt a whole lot. They haven't got anymore than they had to start with but they got too much of it, but they buy automobiles and they buy a lot of things, colored televisions and a lot of things that they owe for and if there'd be another Depression now, that other Depression lot of people didn't have the convenience and didn't have the x things that you got now, so a Depression would hurt those people now worse than it hurt us then, 'cause it would take their homes away from them, and take their television away from them, and take their automobiles away from them, but we didn't have any like that to be taken away from us. Now we had an old radio, but television was never heard of during the Depression, I mean not in this section of the country, 'course it were in cities, big cities and towns but of course it wasn't here. Q: What was your job during the Depression? �AOH #29 & #30 Page 3. A: Oh, I's working over here at the college. Q: Did it hurt your wages that you were paid? A: Yes, yes it did. We were getting a dollar a day at that time and they cut us down to eighty cents. Q: What do you like best about the way things have changed today? A: You know, for the last, since I have, call it retired, I have seen the worst time since I have retired than I seen in those days when I was a workin'. Now I've got more money, I'm drawing more than I ever made. My retirement is much more than my salary was, but still yet I enjoyed what I was doing more than I'm enjoying what I'm doing today. I guess when you've had to do it all your life there if I'd had money way back there I wouldn't have worked like I worked, but I had to work for to make a living. That is the honest truth, I enjoyed what I was doing back there when I was a workin' than I'm enjoying what I'm a doin' today. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews Description An account of the resource In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region. The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students. Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU. An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school. This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965-1989 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Scanned by Wetmore, Dana Equipment Hp Scanjet 8200 Scan date 2014-02-11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Ed Culer, February 12, 1973 Description An account of the resource The brief interview with Mr. Culler is mainly about the Great Depression and the Welfare Programs going on during that time. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shook,Tanya Culler, Ed Weaver, Karen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/12/1973 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Language A language of the resource English English Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 111_tape29-30_EdCuller_1973_02_12M001 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Boone, NC Subject The topic of the resource Depression--1929--North Carolina--Watauga County New Deal, 1933-1939 Great Depression welfare program