Oral history interview with Florence Dillahunt, May 31, 2001 [electronic resource] : interview K-0580, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Florence Dillahunt grew up on a tobacco farm near Grifton, North Carolina, during the 1930s and 1940s. The youngest of six daughters, Dillahunt, along with her sisters, often helped her father with various aspects of tobacco harvesting and curing. In addition to offering a portrait of small-scale tobacco farming during this era, she also describes what it was like to grow up in a rural working community, and touches on such topics as religion and medical home remedies. Following their marriage in 1955, Dillahunt and her husband settled on her family farm, where they eventually took over the farming while raising five children and putting them through college. Dillahunt spends the rest of the interview discussing the impact of Hurricane Floyd and the extensive flooding it brought to eastern North Carolina in 1999. The Dillahunts did not have flood insurance, and they lost nearly everything in the flood. Facing the worst natural disaster in recent North Carolina history, Grifton residents banded together to help one another during the crisis. Dillahunt recalls being rescued from her flooded home by a fellow community member. It was more than a month before Dillahunt and her husband could return to their farm, and even then they did not receive temporary housing by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. At the time of the interview in 2001, the Dillahunts were living in a trailer provided and furnished by a local hunting club. Dillahunt concludes the interview by describing the extensive damage to the crops and their continuing struggle to rebuild their lives. The setbacks the Dillahunts faced were shared by many other North Carolinians.
Electronic resources
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Duration: 00:58:02.Interview participants: Florence Dillahunt, interviewee; Betty Howes, interviewee; Leda Hartman, interviewer.Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.Title from menu page (viewed on May 28, 2008).
- Type of Computer File or Data Note:
- Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 154.8 kilobytes, 106 megabytes.
- Original Version Note:
- Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0580, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 39 p.
- Funding Information Note:
- Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Dillahunt, Florence, 1935- > Interviews.
Crop losses > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Disaster relief > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Farm life > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Flood damage > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Floods > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Hurricane Floyd, 1999.
Tobacco farmers > North Carolina > Pitt County > Interviews.
Traditional medicine > North Carolina > Pitt County.
Pitt County (N.C.) > Social life and customs. - Genre:
- Oral histories.
Accessibility Features
| LDR | 05707cam a2200673 a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 12929680 | ||
| 003 | CARDINAL | ||
| 005 | 20200921124407.0 | ||
| 006 | innn t | ||
| 006 | m o d s | ||
| 007 | cr nna|||||||| | ||
| 007 | sz zznnnn|||eu | ||
| 008 | 080529s2007 ncu ot s000 0aeng c | ||
| 035 | . | ‡a(OCoLC)229420053 | |
| 040 | . | ‡aNOC ‡beng ‡cNOC ‡dWAU | |
| 042 | . | ‡apcc | |
| 043 | . | ‡an-us-nc | |
| 100 | 1 | . | ‡aDillahunt, Florence, ‡d1935- ‡einterviewee |
| 245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aOral history interview with Florence Dillahunt, May 31, 2001 ‡h[electronic resource] : ‡binterview K-0580, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). |
| 246 | 1 | . | ‡iAlso cited as: ‡aInterview K-0580, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) |
| 246 | 3 | 0. | ‡aInterview with Florence Dillahunt, May 31, 2001 |
| 250 | . | ‡aElectronic edition | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡a[Chapel Hill, N.C.] : ‡bUniversity Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, ‡c2007. | |
| 300 | . | ‡a1 online resource | |
| 336 | . | ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent | |
| 337 | . | ‡acomputer ‡bc ‡2rdamedia | |
| 338 | . | ‡aonline resource ‡bcr ‡2rdacarrier | |
| 347 | . | ‡atext file ‡2rdaft | |
| 347 | . | ‡bHTML | |
| 500 | . | ‡aDuration: 00:58:02. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aInterview participants: Florence Dillahunt, interviewee; Betty Howes, interviewee; Leda Hartman, interviewer. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aText encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aThis electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aTitle from menu page (viewed on May 28, 2008). | |
| 516 | . | ‡aText (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 154.8 kilobytes, 106 megabytes. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aFlorence Dillahunt grew up on a tobacco farm near Grifton, North Carolina, during the 1930s and 1940s. The youngest of six daughters, Dillahunt, along with her sisters, often helped her father with various aspects of tobacco harvesting and curing. In addition to offering a portrait of small-scale tobacco farming during this era, she also describes what it was like to grow up in a rural working community, and touches on such topics as religion and medical home remedies. Following their marriage in 1955, Dillahunt and her husband settled on her family farm, where they eventually took over the farming while raising five children and putting them through college. Dillahunt spends the rest of the interview discussing the impact of Hurricane Floyd and the extensive flooding it brought to eastern North Carolina in 1999. The Dillahunts did not have flood insurance, and they lost nearly everything in the flood. Facing the worst natural disaster in recent North Carolina history, Grifton residents banded together to help one another during the crisis. Dillahunt recalls being rescued from her flooded home by a fellow community member. It was more than a month before Dillahunt and her husband could return to their farm, and even then they did not receive temporary housing by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. At the time of the interview in 2001, the Dillahunts were living in a trailer provided and furnished by a local hunting club. Dillahunt concludes the interview by describing the extensive damage to the crops and their continuing struggle to rebuild their lives. The setbacks the Dillahunts faced were shared by many other North Carolinians. | |
| 534 | . | ‡pOriginal version: ‡tSouthern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0580, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‡nOriginal transcript: 39 p. | |
| 536 | . | ‡aFunding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview. | |
| 538 | . | ‡aMode of access: World Wide Web. | |
| 538 | . | ‡aSystem requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0. | ‡aDillahunt, Florence, ‡d1935- ‡vInterviews. |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aCrop losses ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aDisaster relief ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFarm life ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFlood damage ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFloods ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aHurricane Floyd, 1999. ‡0(CARDINAL)264329 | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aTobacco farmers ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County ‡vInterviews. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aTraditional medicine ‡zNorth Carolina ‡zPitt County. | |
| 651 | 0. | ‡aPitt County (N.C.) ‡xSocial life and customs. | |
| 655 | 7. | ‡aOral histories. ‡2lcgft ‡0(CARDINAL)349551 | |
| 700 | 1 | . | ‡aHartman, Leda. ‡einterviewer |
| 700 | 1 | . | ‡aHowes, Betty B., ‡d1933- ‡einterviewee |
| 710 | 2 | . | ‡aSouthern Oral History Program. ‡0(CARDINAL)315877 |
| 710 | 2 | . | ‡aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‡bDocumenting the American South (Project) ‡0(CARDINAL)530366 |
| 710 | 2 | . | ‡aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‡bLibrary. ‡0(CARDINAL)155444 |
| 740 | 0 | . | ‡aOral histories of the American South. |
| 856 | 4 | 0. | ‡uhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0580/menu.html ‡7ncgov ‡yClick for online content. ‡9BHM ‡9BLADEN ‡9BRASWELL ‡9BROWN ‡9BRUNSWICK ‡9BUNCOMBE ‡9BURKE ‡9CALDWELL ‡9CARTERET ‡9CASWELL ‡9CLEVELAND ‡9DAVIE ‡9DUPLIN ‡9FARMVILLE ‡9FORSYTH ‡9FRANKLIN ‡9GRANVILLE ‡9HARNETT ‡9HAYWOOD ‡9HENDERSON ‡9IREDELL ‡9JOHNSTON ‡9LEE ‡9MADISON ‡9MAUNEY ‡9NANTAHALA ‡9NORTHWESTERN ‡9ONSLOW ‡9PERRY ‡9PERSON ‡9POLK ‡9ROBESON ‡9ROCKINGHAM ‡9RUTHERFORD ‡9SAMPSON ‡9SANDHILL ‡9SCOTLAND ‡9STANLY ‡9TRV ‡9WARREN ‡9YANCEY ‡9DEQ_ELC ‡9GHL ‡9GOV_MANSION ‡9HIGH_POINT ‡9NC_ARCHIVES ‡9NC_ART ‡9NC_DOL ‡9NC_DOT ‡9NC_LEG ‡9NC_NATSCI ‡9NC_SHS ‡9CAMDEN ‡9CURRITUCK ‡9DARE ‡9JACKSON ‡9PASQUOTANK |
| 901 | . | ‡a12929680 ‡bncgov-script 8f24855ae25d6ee2878900d4f7f582cb7727d2eb 1b9f831fbc5d1453828cfd02496771339b9688b7 ‡c12929680 ‡tbiblio ‡selectronic | |
