Oral Histories
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Oral Histories
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Telling stories: a collection of transcribed interviews of Quander family members
2 Volume Set of 29 Transcribed interviews performed July 1984- January 1994 with Lewis Lear Quander, Gladys Quander Tancil, Roberta H. Quander and others.
Snake Hill to Spring Bank: The Groveton Community
“Snake Hill to Spring Bank” was an oral history project conducted by students at Groveton High School in the mid-1970s. The interviews were transcribed.
All three volumes of the book are also available online.
All three volumes of the book are also available online.
Oral Histories with Descendants of the Enslaved Community
This video appeared in the exhibit, “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon” (Oct 1, 2016 - July 11, 2021).
Bound to the Land Enslaved and Free: The History of the Hollands at Mount Vernon
This was a livestream presentation on Thursday, January 14, 2021, from George Washington’s Mount Vernon. It was a live discussion between William Holland and Brenda Parker, Mount Vernon Character Interpreter & African American Interpretation &…
Oral History Interview with Judith Saunders Burton
Judith Saunders Burton grew up in Gum Springs, Virginia and lived in Prince Edward County and Farmville, Virginia during the years of school desegregation.
Between the lines: Free Blacks Living on Mason's Neck during the Civil War
Dramatic reading from historical documents performed by Bob Hartman, Janis Harless, Jerry Lyons, Gary Knipling, and Anne Barnes. Produced ... in order to document a small antebellum settlement of free Blacks clustered along Neck Road, now known as…
Oral History Interview - The Pines
Both Helen Haight and Aileen Wright were raised in the Pines, a segregated community near today’s location of Pine Ridge Park. They grew up with no telephone, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, a wood stove, and an ice box. They had to haul water…
Dennis Howard Interview
African American Dennis Howard describes his family who lived in Merrifield, Tremont, Falls Church and Ilda. He describes how his great grandfather Horace Gibson, who purchased his freedom from slavery, and with another former enslaved person Moses…
Robert Frye Interview
Robert Frye moved to Fairfax in 1967. Three times a member of the Fairfax County School Board-- both appointed and elected--Bob Frye worked for equal opportunity in the county as the area emerged from the era of segregation. He was the first minority…
Carter & Minor Family Interview
This interview brought together James & Gloria Carter, Ronald Honesty, Jean Minor, Ted & Lorraine Thomas, and Daniel Bunaugh. The group discussed a wide array of subjects, including attending Louise Archer (formerly known as the Vienna Colored…
Gloria Runyon Interview
Gloria Runyon and her family have lived in Vienna, Virginia, as she puts it, since “before it became Vienna.” Her roots in the town grow at least as far back as her great-grandfather, a Cherokee Indian, who built the home in which she still lives.…
Preston Blackwell Interview
Oral History taken in February 2021 by Sylvia Taylor, Historic Vienna, Inc. Board Member. They discussed Preston’s growing up in Vienna, his career as a Fairfax County Police Commander, being the first African American Commander at the Mount Vernon…
Billy West Interview
1970s interview on audio tape in the office that has not been digitized.: Mr West died in 1978 at age 104.
Dranesville Oral Histories
Archie Henry Borgus, Jr. – Additional Recollections of McLean & Great Falls, Virginia; Virginia Room
Vienna Oral Histories at GMU Special Collections
GMU Special Collections, The Northern Virginia Oral History Project Collection http://scrc.gmu.edu/collections-subject.php#LOCHIST