Roane State Community College: “Early Oak Ridge”
Audio Cassette Tape 1 of 3
Tapes Donated by Mick Weist
Speakers include: Reba Holmberg, Bonita Iwrin, Joe Magill. Bessie Fox Smith,
Don Watson, and Roaul Wright
Facilitated by Joan-Ellen Zucker
July 11, 2001
Place: Unknown
Transcribed by Jordan Reed
Mrs. Zucker: … some of us came. So the first person I would like to, well what I would like to do first is go right around the table and have everybody introduce themselves briefly, tell you where their land was, and a little bit about themselves. And then we’ll go from there. So, would you start, Raoul? This is Raoul Wright.
Mr. Wright: I’m Raoul Wright. And our farm was over behind X-10 on the river, as we called it. It wasn’t a lake then, it was just the Clinch River, and we were, had a farm over there. It was 960 acres.
Mrs. Holmberg: I’m Reba Holmberg. We lived in the Robertsville Community and moved right back into Oak Ridge after the government took over and have
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