Oral history interview with Sherwood Smith, March 23, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0079, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, 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: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Chief executive officers; Politics and government; Electric utilities; History; Nuclear industry; Carolina Power and Light Company; North Carolina Global TransPark Authority
Other titles: Interview I-0079, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Sherwood Smith, March 23, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Sherwood Smith, Chairman of the Board of Carolina Power and Light (CP&L) reflects on the energy business, and business in general, in North Carolina from the 1960s to the late 1990s. As he moves from describing his role at CP&L to reflections on the wider economic life of North Carolina, Smith produces a picture of a state dedicated to economic growth and the intellectual and physical infrastructure to encourage it.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 9, 2007).

Interview participants: Sherwood Smith, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:42:07.

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 Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 148.8 kilobytes, 187 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0079, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 63 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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