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Bennie Cupp, with Lula Roach and Hazel Marshall Roach interviewed by Dorothy Noble Smith, transcribed by Sharon G. Marston

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Interviewee:
Cupp, Bennie,
Title:
Bennie Cupp, with Lula Roach and Hazel Marshall Roach interviewed by Dorothy Noble Smith, transcribed by Sharon G. Marston
Identifier:
SNP038
Format:
1 audio file (running time: 1:11:49) :
Interview Number:
SNP-38
Location/Date:
Recorded on April 15, 1979
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 the reminiscences of Bennie Cupp, his grandmother, Lula Roach, and his aunt, Hazel Marshall Roach, who lived near Rocky Bar, Virginia, an area that became part of Shenandoah National Park. Much of the interview centers around the reminiscences of Lula Roach, who was 95 years old at the time and who recalled many details of everyday life in the Blue Ridge Mountains around the turn of the 20th century. Describes home and family life, school days, farm chores, livestock, wild game and folk remedies. Discusses family gatherings, such as holidays, apple butter boilings, hog butchering and funerals"
Description:
"Other topics include the various means of earning a living available to the local residents, such as bark peeling, cutting poles and ties for the railroads, the apple, chestnut and ginseng harvests and the production of moonshine"
Description:
Records the reminiscences of Bennie Cupp, his grandmother, Lula Roach, and his aunt, Hazel Marshall Roach, who lived near Rocky Bar, Virginia, an area that became part of Shenandoah National Park. Much of the interview centers around the reminiscences of Lula Roach, who was 95 years old at the time and who recalled many details of everyday life in the Blue Ridge Mountains around the turn of the 20th century. Describes home and family life, school days, farm chores, livestock, wild game and folk remedies. Discusses family gatherings, such as holidays, apple butter boilings, hog butchering and funerals
Description:
"Other topics include the various means of earning a living available to the local residents, such as bark peeling, cutting poles and ties for the railroads, the apple, chestnut and ginseng harvests and the production of moonshine"
Citation:
SdArch no. SNP-38, 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:
Cupp, Bennie Interviews
Personal Names:
"Roach, Lula W., 1883-1983 Interviews"
Personal Names:
"Roach, Hazel Marshall Interviews"
Family Names:
Cupp family
Family Names:
"Marshall family"
Family Names:
"Roach 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:
"Agriculture -- Appalachian Region, Southern"
Subject:
"Food habits -- Appalachian Region, Southern"
Subject:
"Droughts -- Virginia"
Subject:
"Folklore -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History"
Subject:
"Holidays -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History"
Subject:
"Traditional medicine -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)"
Subject:
"American chestnut"
Subject:
"Livestock"
Subject:
"Apples -- Virginia"
Subject:
"Distilling, Illicit -- Virginia"
Subject:
"Bark peeling -- Virginia -- Rockingham County -- History"
Subject:
"Forest products industry -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History"
Subject:
"Land use -- Government policy -- United States"
Place Names:
Rocky Bar (Va.)
Place Names:
"Rockingham 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:
b21942341
Collection:
Shenandoah National Park
Record created:
Aug. 27, 2010
Last modified:
Feb. 27, 2012


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