Oral history interview with Hoy Deal, July 3 and 11, 1979
Subtitle: interview H-0117, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Dilley, Patty, 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: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Baptists; Lumbermen; Glove industry; Employees; Gospel music; Social life and customs; Families; Temple Baptist Church (Hickory, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview H-0117, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Hoy Deal, July 3 and 11, 1979; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Hoy Deal was born in Newton, NC. After completing the fifth grade, he set out to earn money. He did so in a variety of positions in North Carolina's growing industrial sphere, handling wood at a few lumber mills and turning gloves at a glove factory, as well as spending time with a Works Progress Administration crew. Deal spends a significant amount of time describing his life at the time of the interview, including his difficult family relationships and his devout Christianity, but his memories of his early life in the rural South can be vivid, especially when he recalls his adventurous childhood and his macho exploits as a young man. This interview is a good source of vibrant stories about male life in an industrializing southern state.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on May 30, 2008).

Interview participants: Hoy Deal, interviewee; Patty Dilley, interviewer.

Duration: 03:26:07.

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 Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, 1974-1980, interview H-0117, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 49 p.

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

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