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Willie Coleman recounts her lifelong involvement with gardening and her memories of her family. She discusses growing up in Matthews, North Carolina, attending school in [...]
2001-11-01 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Pauline Cox describes growing up on a farm in rural Anson County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore community in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past thirty-two yea[...]
2002-01-23 | Audio | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Annie Mae Diggs recalls growing up in the country in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, helping to found the Wilmore Community Garden in the Wilmore neighborhood of Char[...]
2001-10-30 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Daisy Mae Dunlap discusses how gardening influenced her life while growing up in York, South Carolina and later, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Ca[...]
2001-10-27 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Hassie Ervin recounts growing up on her family's farm in Greenwood, South Carolina during the 1920s-1930s, moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, and living in the Wilmore [...]
2002-01-10 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Carrie Gaddy recounts growing up in rural Union County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in 1970, and gardening t[...]
2001-10-29 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Katie Grier shares information about growing up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina for over thirty yea[...]
2001-10-27 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Native Charlottean Donna Anthony McGee recalls growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her childhoo[...]
2001-10-27 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Katie McGill discusses her childhood growing up in rural Mint Hill, North Carolina and her involvement in the Wilmore Community Garden. Mrs. McGill was raised by her gran[...]
2001-11-01 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Mary Nash recounts her childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and her thirty-two years living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte. Mrs. Nash describes[...]
2001-11-03 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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Isaiah Smith describes his experience as a recreational gardener at Wilmore Community Garden located in Charlotte, North Carolina starting in the early 1990s. He shares t[...]
2001-11-03 | Moving image | Cultivating Common Ground |
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For the Cultivating Common Ground project, middle and high school youth from the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, NC interviewed the senior citizens who work in their neighborhood's community garden. The teens documented the seniors' life stories and their interest in gardening on video and audio and also through photography. Additional materials available in J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte include a book, a student-produced video and promotional material. The project was funded by a grant from the Community Cultural Connections Program of the Arts & Science Council, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc. and the Grassroots Grant Program of the North Carolina Arts Council. Additional support came from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Enterprise Foundation, the Junior League of Charlotte, Wing Haven Gardens and private donors. June Blotnick, currently Executive Director of Clean Air Carolina, was the [...] Read more