Skip to Main Content National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History & Culture Fabric of the Past: Weaving the Twentieth Century at the Beaumont Mill & Village in South Carolina Summer 2021 program

"Fabric of the Past" - NEH Landmarks Grant, USC Upstate

Summer 2022

Copyright - Beaumont Mill Oral Histories

All oral history audio recordings presented here are provided by the University of South Carolina Upstate Archives and Special Collections under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.  See the specific Creative Commons page for a full description of what is allowed under this type of license.  

Beaumont Mill Oral Histories

Photograph of Gene Adams

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This oral history interview was recorded on 08/01/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:16:28 in length.  The full PDF transcript of the interview is linked below.  

Photograph of Jay Adams

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This oral history interview was recorded on 7/18/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:19:12 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.

Photograph of Kathleen "Kitta" Cates

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This oral history interview was recorded on 10/27/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:13:13 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.

The following links relate to several places of interest referenced in the Cates oral history interview.  

Photograph of Chris Crowley

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This oral history interview was recorded on 7/25/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:08:11 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.

Photograph of Steve Dallas

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This oral history interview was recorded on 10/27/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 50:50 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.  

Photograph of Frederick "Rick" Dent, Jr.

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This oral history interview was recorded on 10/06/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:00:34 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.  

Photograph of Arthur "Mickey" Fisher

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This oral history interview was recorded on 10/20/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:13:59 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.  

Photograph of Jimmy Gibbs

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This oral history interview was recorded on 08/20/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:00:39 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Mary Heatherly

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This oral history interview was recorded on 08/01/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 59:55 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Walter Montgomery, III

Photograph of Betty Montgomery

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This oral history interview was recorded on 08/29/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:45:42 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Ronald Poole

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This oral history interview was recorded on 07/25/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 59:38 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Sara Robinson

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This oral history interview was recorded on 11/10/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 55:00 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Tom Russell

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This oral history interview was recorded on 10/13/2021 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 1:15:00 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below. 

Photograph of Malinda Willard

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This oral history interview was recorded on 07/18/2019 in the ETV Studios on the campus of USC Upstate.  It is 56:58 in length.  The full transcript of the interview is linked below.