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Charles Chapman interviewed by Dorothy Noble Smith, transcribed by Sharon G. Marston

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Interviewee:

Chapman, Charles T.,

Title:

Identifier:

SNP027

Format:

1 audio file (running time: 0:24:07) :

Interview Number:

SNP-27

Location/Date:

Recorded in Luray, Virginia, January 30, 1980

Description:

The Shenandoah National Park oral history collection, SdArch SNP, (SC# 4030), consists of 135 interviews of people who were living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia prior to the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. Most of the interviewees resided on land that was claimed by eminent domain by the commonwealth of Virginia and subsequently turned over to the US government in the 1930s. For a description of the entire collection see the Finding Aid

Description:

"Records a brief interview with Charles Chapman, a life-long resident of Luray, Virginia, and a carillonneur of international renown. Mr. Chapman's father owned a grocery store in Luray that served many of the local mountain families from 1904 until the 1940s. Recalls his earliest memories of the mountain people and their transactions with his father. Includes references to the annual chestnut harvest and seasonal mountain wildfires. Mr. Chapman also reminisces about local entrepreneur, George Pollock, owner of nearby Skyland resort"

Description:

Records a brief interview with Charles Chapman, a life-long resident of Luray, Virginia, and a carillonneur of international renown. Mr. Chapman's father owned a grocery store in Luray that served many of the local mountain families from 1904 until the 1940s. Recalls his earliest memories of the mountain people and their transactions with his father. Includes references to the annual chestnut harvest and seasonal mountain wildfires. Mr. Chapman also reminisces about local entrepreneur, George Pollock, owner of nearby Skyland resort

Citation:

SdArch no. SNP-27, Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection, SdArch SNP, (SC# 4030), Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

Rights:

Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of James Madison University's Libraries & Educational Technologies' Special Collections (540) 568-3612, library-special@jmu.edu

Personal Names:

Chapman, Charles T., 1904-1986, Interviews

Personal Names:

"Pollock, George Freeman, 1869-1949"

Family Names:

Chapman family

Subject:

Mountain people -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Social life and customs

Subject:

"Mountain life -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History"

Subject:

"Mountain people -- Virginia -- Shenandoah National Park -- Social life and customs"

Subject:

"Rural poor -- Virginia"

Subject:

"Country life -- Appalachian Region, Southern"

Subject:

"Carillonneurs -- Virginia -- Interviews"

Subject:

"Wildfires -- Virginia -- History"

Subject:

"Forest fires -- Virginia -- History"

Place Names:

Skyland (Va.)

Place Names:

"Luray (Va.) -- History"

Place Names:

"Page County (Va.) -- History"

Place Names:

"Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- Manners and customs"

Place Names:

"Shenandoah National Park (Va.) -- History, Local"

Interviewer/Transcriber:

Smith, Dorothy Noble, 1915-1999 Interviewer.

Interviewer/Transcriber:

"Marston, Sharon G, Transcriber."

Collection Title:

Shenandoah National Park oral history collection

Bib record:

b21922767

Collection:

Shenandoah National Park

Record created:

Aug. 27, 2010

Last modified:

Feb. 27, 2012

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