Oral history interview with Steve Holland, December 16, 1999
Subtitle: interview K-0510, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Hurricane Floyd, 1999; Floods; Flood damage; Disaster relief; Emergency management; Hurricane Fran, 1996; Swine; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States
Other titles: Interview K-0510, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Steve Holland, December 16, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: In this interview, Steve Holland, Republican county commissioner and businessman in Pender County, NC, describes the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd. His business, a store and restaurant, was destroyed, and although the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied his application for aid money, he is still waiting for adequate compensation from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Holland seems angry about the red tape he and other Pender County residents encountered as they tried to piece their lives back together, and rampant fraud supplemented his frustration. He speaks at great length in the interview about his irritation with big government, property taxes, and freeloaders.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 12, 2007).

Interview participants: Steve Holland, interviewee; Charles Thompson, interviewer; unidentified speaker.

Duration: 01:55:35.

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.

Text encoded by Natalia Smith and Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Seth M. Kotch.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0510, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Charles Thompson. Original transcript: 61 p.

Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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