The People of Clearfork
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive
- Subject
- Appalachia
- Oral histories--Appalachia
- Folklore--Appalachia
- Creator
- Neel, Sarah
- Higginbotham, L. Elizabeth
- Neel, Anna Lee
- Neel, William F.
- Pruett, Mary
- Pruett, Joe
- Type
- text and audio
- Coverage - Temporal
- 2005
- Date
- 2005-11-28
- 2020-07-02
- Identifier
- 205.446.13.pdf
- Language
- english
- Publisher
- Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University
- Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University
- Description
- In this Sarah Neel interviewed several people from the town of Clearfork, Virginia with the intent of learning more about the town and the people who live there. Ms. Neel focused on two types of people: farmers who are still farming the land that has been in their family for generations, and on the school teachers. In Cleafork the men are farmers and the women are teachers, there is no general store but Shawvers Mill is a local business where people mill lumber and grind grains- in addition, people frequently trade amongst themselves for items they need but don’t have. The town of Clearfork is composed of many members of the same family, and of people who are like family. This interview is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
- Rights
- All rights are reserved by the original creators and their informants, excepting those expressly provided in a permission form on file in the Archives offices. Content is available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of Radford University, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.