Oral history interview with Orlin P. Shuping, June 15, 1975
Subtitle: interview H-0290, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Glass, Brent D., 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; Millers; Mills and mill-work; Commerce; Country life; Social life and customs; Gristmills; Machinery
Other titles: Interview H-0290, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Orlin P. Shuping, June 15, 1975; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Orlin P. Shuping ran a mill in Rowan County, NC. Until roads allowed Rowan residents easy access to nearby towns, Shuping's mill was a major provider of goods and services. Not only did Shuping mill cotton and lumber, he also sold animal feed and ground corn and wheat, often keeping a portion of the goods as payment. In this interview, Shuping reflects briefly on the changes that have taken place in Rowan County since his birth in 1903 and the daily workings of the milling process. Shuping never shut the mill down--which was first run by his father--until shortly before this interview took place, but he describes it as a vestige of an older mode of life forever altered by the changes that have taken place, and continue to take place, in rural North Carolina.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed June 6, 2008).

Interview participants: Orlin P. Shuping, interviewee; Brent Glass, interviewer.

Duration: 01:00:29.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0290, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Frances Tamburro. Original transcript: 40 p.

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

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