Title: Oral history interview with Sherwood Smith, March 23, 1999
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.
Subjects: Interviews, Chief executive officers, Politics and government, Electric utilities, History, Nuclear industry, Carolina Power and Light Company, North Carolina Global TransPark Authority
Places: North Carolina, Research Triangle Park (N.C.)
People: Sherwood H. Smith (1934-)
Time periods: 1951-, 20th century