American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection

American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection

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Item Title

Oral history with 91 year old white male, Tennessee

Author/Creator

Collector: Manscill, Kathleen
Speaker: Ownby, "Uncle Lem"

Created/Published

February 1980

Notes

Collector's institution: Great Smoky Mountain National Park Museum. Gatlinburg, TN
91 year old white southern Appalachian male. The last "life-right resident" remaining in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Subject died in 1984.
Talks about his personal history and history of the area; revival meetings; plants and crops; and grist mills.

Subjects

United States--Tennessee
English language--Dialects--Tennessee
Men, White--Language--Tennessee--Elkmont
Vision disorders
Revivals--Appalachian Region
Genealogy
Appalachian Region--Climate
Gristmills--Appalachian Region
Older men--Tennessee--Elkmont--Language
Appalachian Region--Social life and customs
Interpersonal relations--Tennesee
Oral histories
Interviews

Medium

Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 15:29

Call Number

AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,339 a03

Part of

Center for Applied Linguistics Collection

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afc1986022 sr41a03
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1986022.sr41a03