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Tags: 0324, 1/7/01, 324, Apple Trees, Apricot Trees, Barley, Beef Cattle, Biographical, Bluefield, canned food, Carroll, chickens, Church, Conley’s, cows, Farming, Ferguson, Fire Wood, garden, Grayson Turnpike, Hillside Farm, hogs, Holiness Church, Honaker, Honaker Chapel, horses, Interstate 77, Johnny Bogle Honaker, Jonathan Winters, Killings, Life in Bland County, Mc Dowell County, Methodist, Molasses, Mollie Neal, Mr. Wilson Belcher, Narrows, New Deal, North Gap, Oakie French, oats, outhouse, POW, Puckett, Raleigh, Rock Quarry, Rocky Gap, Root Cellar, Round Bottom, Sawmill, Sheriff, sorghum, spring house, Sutphin, This is an interview with Wilson W. Belcher about his life in Bland County., TV, wheat, Wilson Place, Wilson W. Belcher, WWII, Wytheville

Tags: 258, 9/11/99, AFC office, and working for the Post Office., bars, Bastian, Big Walker, Bland, Bland County Fair, Bland Messanger, Bland Post Office, Bluefield, Bob Davis, Bobby Newberry, Brushy, Cawana’s Club, Clearfork, clerk for Draft Board, Cloyd’s Mountain, Colonial Fields, courthouse, deferment, discrimination against blacks, Dr. Kegley, Draft Board, East River, Ed, Elmo Silo, exhibits, FFA, fights, Frankie Newberry, grouse, Henry Ratcliff, horses, Hunting, John Dodson, John Dodson and Robbie Morehead, Koren War, Life and the Bland County Fair, Mig Hoges, Miss. Repass, Moorehead’s, Mr. Gilley, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Roy Kidd, Nancy Tate, NAPA, Ohio, Pierce Kegley, Post Master, quail, Richardsons, rides, Roanoke, Robbie Morehead, Social Services, Suzanne, Tech, Ted, This is an inteview with Nancy Tate. She talks about life in Bland, Vietnam War, Washington County, West Virginia, working for the Draft Board, Wright’s, Wytheville, Yonce’s

Tags: 12/5/98, 236, Bland, Bland County, Caterpillar, chain saws, Charlie Taylor, D.E. Conley, Doug Harless, dozers, English Ott, English Ott Mill, Ether, Everett Harless, Franklin, horses, International, Jeremy Harless, John Deere, Jr., L. M. Harless, L.M. Harless, Logging, Marion Harless, Martinsville, Massey Ferguson, McCulloch, mill, mines, Poplar, R.H.H.O.E., Railroads, Remington, Rocky Gap, Route 42, saws, skidders, Smiths, South Gap, Swedish, Timber, track loader, trees, trucks, Virginia, Virginia Hardwood, Virginia Hardwood Lumber Company

Tags: 12/16/98, 231, animals, Armond’s Branch, banks, books, Bruce Cook, candy, canned food, cattle, clothes, coalmines, corn, cornbread, cows, Doris Steele, Dryfork, dumplings., English, farm, Godfry’s store, Great Depression, Henry Bishop, hogs, horses, Iaegar, Lakie Rice, milk, mountain, mules, New Year’s Eve, potatoes, President Roosevelt, Snowbirds, state roads, Stephanie Rice, stores, The Great Depression, winter

Tags: 227, 3/28/98, 42, angels, apple wine, Army, Athens, Augusta, Baptist Church, barbershop, baskets, beans, blackberry wine, Bland, blood root, buckets, bunny, burning child, canning, Carla Ferguson, Carol’s, carpenter, CCC Camps, Charlie Roberts, Cherokee, chickens, children, chinquipins, chores, Christian, Christmas programs, Church, Conley’s, cook, cooking, corn wine, costumes, cot, courting, creek, Dandelion wine, dead people, Dismal Creek, Dry Fork, electricity, Evaline Charleton and Violea(Charleton)Ferguson, Family/People, farm, favorite food, ginseng, Gladys, Harriett Elizabeth Charleton, Hills, Hinton, Hoanaker House, Hoanaker’s, hogs, Hollybrook, horses, hospital, huckleberries, jazz, jelly, John and Bonnie Dodson, Johnny Williams, Joseph, Lane Ferguson, Lick Skillet, lighter knots, Log House, lumber, lye soap, Marvin, Marvin Carver, Mary, Methodist Church, mirrors, mountains, Mrs. Granny Woods, Mrs. Jones, Nate, No Business, Noah Charleton, Oliver William Charleton, Pal Saunders, pine knots, plane crash, ploughing, poke sallet, potatoe wine, powerline, pressure can, Priceton, quilting frames Mr. Robertson, radio, rhubard, Richmond, Rocky Gap, Santa Clause, sasafrass, Saunders, School, shepherds, slave, stores, strawberries, strawberry wine, T model four, tea berries, This is an interview with Nate Charleton and his 3 sisters in their home up Dry Fork., train, Tynes Chapel, Victrola, Wansley, water source, weather, Wilderness Road, wise men, Wolf Creek

Tags: 226, 4/20/98, Akers, atomic bomb, ball, Batan, Batan Death March, battery radio, beer, bingo, Bland County, Bluefield, brother, candy, Capefield Battle Hospital, Carbaugh, cattle, CCC, chewing gum, children, chores, Christmas, cigarettes, cook stove, corn, cost, country house, creek, cut wood, Depression, dope, Doug Harless, Egleston, Elbert Minnick, electricity, Everett Harless, feed chickens, Field Theatre, fish, fought, Franklin D. Roosevelt, games, garden, Gary Cooper, Gary Harless, gasoline, George Harless, Germans, Glen Harless, Guam, Halloween, hide and seek, High Point, high school, hogs, holidays, home, horses, housewife, hunt, industry, Iris Harless, Japaneese, Japanesse Concentration Camp, Jeremy Harless, Karen Harless, Korean War, L. M. Harless, Lena Rivers Harless, Luther Harless, Marion Harless, married, meal, meats, miner, movie, movie star, New Deal, Nixon, North Carolina, Novis, Okanawa, Orville Harless, paddles, paling fence, paralyzed, Paul Harless, Pearl Harbor, Philipines, play cards, pop corn balls, president, President Eisenhower, President Johnson, President Kennedy, President Truman, PWA, radio, restaurant, Rocky Gap, Roy Harless, Saw Mill, School, school bus, service, set back, Shirley Ann Harless, shoes, shot marbles, sleds, South Gap, Spinner McGhee, Sprucerun, Staffordsville, stock market crash, storms, Sunset Restaurant, switches, teachers, telephone, television, Tilitha Harless, toys, trade., tree, Troutville, Vietnam, Violet Harless, Virginia, wagons, War, Ward Harless, wash dishes, Watergate, wheelchair, Wilburs, winter, wood, World War II, WPA

Tags: 225, 3/7/98, ABC’s, Ada, AEP, Appalachian, apple pies, Arnett, bank, barn, barnyard, baseball, Bastian, bed, bedroom, Belcher, Belcher Furniture, Belcher Lumber Company, Biographical / Dry Fork, Bishop, Blanche Ferguson, Bland, Bland County, Bluefield, bonnet, Bonnie Dodson, brach, Bramwell, Brazil, bread, brick oven, brothers, Buckhorn Mountain, cabbages, cabinets, cakes, carpenter, Cashew Hill, cast iron, cemeteries, chain saw, Charlie Taylor, cheesecloth, chimney, China, Christmas, Church, cloak room, cloth, coal miner, Columbia French, cookies, corn, cover, crane, Creole, D.C., desks, devotion, diningroom, dishes, doctor, dresser, Earth, Eisenhouer, families, Family/People, farm, farm equipment, farmed, farmer, Farming, Fort Chiswell, Franklin County, Fred, French, furniture, games, garden, Georgia, GlenLynn, God, Gordons, government, grades, graduation ceremony, grandma’s, grandpa, Halloween, hay, hearth, Hector, Hill Top, hogs, Honaker’s Store, horse, horses, hospital, house, Howard Stowers, Howard’s Store, Hubert Gordon, Jack Tynes, James, Jefferson National Forest, John and Bonnie Dodson, John Dodson, Junie, kids, kitchen, kraut, land, Lee, Lee’s, Lewis Ferguson, livingroom, log barn, logs, Lord, lunch, M. H. Ferguson, Mac, Mac Ferguson, MacDaniel Ferguson, Mack Harfney Ferguson, mahogany wood, Martha Cobb, Marvin Tynes, Maryland, mattresses, May, May Charles, meat, meat house, mechanic, Mervetta, mild, militia, milk, mill, Miss Black, Miss Morehead, Miss Whitney, Monday, mother, mountain, mountains, movies, Mr. Charles, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Gray, Mr. Honaker, Mr. Honaker., Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tynes, Mr. Will Gray, mules, Murray, New Orleans, North Carolina, note, nurse, Ohio, one room school, open heart surgery, path, Pearl Gordon, Pennsylvania, Pete Ferguson, pies, pipe, pneumonia, ponies, porch, Post Office, potatoes, pots, pound cake, Prices, Princeton, property, props, punish, recess, record, Reuben Ferguson, Roberta, Rocky Gap, Rocky Gap School, Roosevelt, Ruben Edward, Santa Clause, saw mill, Saw Mill, School, scraper, seed, shanties, Simpson, sink, sisters, slate rock, slave, slavery government, sled, Social Security, songs, South Carolina, spring, spring box, spring house, spring water, stove, straw, substitute teachers, sulpher spring, taxi cab, Tazewell, Tazewell County, teacher, Thelma Smith, This interview is biographical in nature and focuses on life on Dry Fork., tic mattress, Timber, time, trailer, trailers, trees, trench, trough, truck, VA, vegetables, Vernon Cobb, Virginia, Virginia Hardwood, Wagners, wagons, Washington, water, weeds, well water, wheat straw, Willie, winter, wood stove, Work, WV

Tags: 218, 3/15/98, A. D. Burton, A. J. Tynes, Acme, Adair, AME Zion Church, armies, Army, army stuff, baby, Baptist Church, beans, Bell Spring, Bill Charleton, Biography, Bland, Bland County, Blankenship, Bluefield, Bluefield State College, boat, Bonnie Dodson, book, books, bootlegger, brakeman, brass buttons, Brewer family, brick houses, bull, Burgesses, camp, candy, car, Carla, cattle, Charletons, chestnuts, chickens, Christiansburg Institute, Church, churned butter, Cleveland, corn, cost of land, covered wagon, cows, Dana Mitchell, Delores (Minnie) Saunders, Delores Harris, Dick Tracey, diploma, doctor Rob, Dolores, Dry Fork, East River Mountain, Emma Tynes, employees., Estella Saunders, Estellia Saunders, Evelyn Charleton, Family/People, farm, farmed, farmer, farming techniques, Ferguson land, Fergusons, festival, Florida, flour, Floyd County, Football, forest, Franklin County, Fred Saunders, G. I. Bill, General Lee, Gladice Gore, gold, governor, grain mill, Grist mill, Hershey Bars, Hill House, history, history book, Hogans, hogs, horse, horses, house, ice cream, Indian Valley, Jersey, Jews, Jim Hill House, John & Bonnie Dodson, John Dodson, John Harris, Kimberling, Korean War, Laddie ????, Laurel Fork, lighter knot, Lillly’s, liquer, Lloyd Charleton, loader, log school, Lonnie Saunders, lumber, Mac Ferguson, Mac H. Ferguson, MacDaniel, MacDaniel Ferguson, Maggie, Margie, Marion, marriage, Marvin ????, mattresses, milk, mines, Minnesota, Mire Branch, Molly Tynes, Molly Tynes ride, moonshine, mountains, Mr. Henry Gray, Mr. Hogan, Mr. Humphrey Hogan, Mr. MacDaniel, Mrs. MacDaniel, Mudfork, Nat Ferguson, Nate Charleton, New River, New York, nursing, nursing school, oats, Ohio, Oil lighter, outhouse, oxen, Pal Saunders, pastor, Phil Lilly, pigs, Pinch Creek, pond, pop, Powell Saunders, powerline, president, Princeton, Pulaski, Railroad, Ramsey farm, Reed Creek, reunion, Reverend J. --G.W. Wells, Richlands, Richmond, rock houses, Rocky Gap, rodeo, Roney Nunn, Rosenthal, Round Bottom, Ruben Ferguson, saddle, Saunder’s farm, Saunders, Sawmill, sawmill construction, School, schoolhouse, Scruggs, Sealy mattress, Secretary, service, shanty, sheep, Silas Greene Show, Smyth County, soldiers, South Carolina, St. Paul, steam engine, store, stram engine, sugar, Taylor’s Mill, Tazewell, Tazewell County, Tazewell County High School, teaching, tick beds, ticks, Timber, tin cans, Tom, Tom Lilly, train, treasurer, Trustees, TV, Tynes, Tynes Chapel, Tynes house, Uncle Ned, Virginia, Vocational School, Wagners, wagon, War, Wert Harris, Wesley ????, West Virginia, wheats, whiskey, wife, William Ferguson, Willis, winter, Wolf Creek, wood stove, Woods, Woodysville Spring, Wytheville, Yankees