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Jonathan Belton describes his childhood activities playing with his friends in Briar Creek adjacent to the neighborhood of Grier Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina. He [...]
2014-09-01 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Five men, who grew up in the Grier Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s recall swimming in the local creeks. and specifically in a[...]
2014-09-01 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Five men and women describe growing up in the Cherry community in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. They recount their adventures with the creeks and [...]
2014-08-06 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Dr. Haire describes some of the traditional uses that the creeks have been used for in the past and present by the Catawba Indians. She also discusses the concerns that c[...]
2015-02-03 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Laura Rankin and Curley Hall discuss attending baptismal services while members of the Shiloh Baptist Church on Elmin Street in Reid Park, Charlotte, North Carolina. Curl[...]
2014-05-27 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Rickey Hall recalls his childhood adventures swimming in Irwin Creek and its tributaries in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He imparts the importance of[...]
2014-05-27 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Ronald Hare discusses his contributions to a flood mitigation project done by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He relates the process by which houses were acquired by [...]
2014-07-16 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Dr. Ed Menhinick discusses his history from the late 1960s until around 2010. He remembers how he got started in finding fish in the streams of North Carolina. He discuss[...]
2014-05-09 | Audio | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Rusty Rozzelle, manager of the Mecklenburg County Water Quality Program gives an historical background of the treatment of creeks and streams in Mecklenburg County. He di[...]
2014-02-05 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Pat Stith recalls his first investigative journalism report as a newspaper reporter for The Charlotte News. He discusses his investigation of pollution and the piping of [...]
2014-07-28 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Bill Stokes of Lancaster, South Carolina discusses his hobby of kayaking up and down the Catawba River, and his hobby of collecting the balls that he has found floating d[...]
2014-07-31 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Lester Todd, father of interviewer Tenille Todd, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina near Freedom Park, remembers playing in Little Sugar Creek as a child. He refers[...]
2014-09-13 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Grady Walker discusses his memories of living next to Irwin Creek throughout his entire life. He recalls never having used the creek for swimming because he always used s[...]
2014-02-04 | Moving image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Still image | Keeping Watch: City of Creeks |
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Keeping Watch: City of Creeks includes video interviews with individuals, pairs, and groups of people about their experiences with Charlotte Mecklenburg creeks and rivers. The interviews were conducted by history graduate student Tenille Todd in cooperation with Mary Newsom, Associate Director of Urban and Regional Affairs at the Urban Institute.