Country Doctor Museum Oral History Day Collection
2018-2023
Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, CD01.128- Creator(s)
- Country Doctor Museum (Bailey, Nash County, N.C.); Southern Nash High School (Bailey, N.C.)
- Physical description
- 48.051 Gigabytes, All material in this collection is born digital.
- Preferred Citation
- Country Doctor Museum Oral History Day Collection (CD01.128), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Science Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Access
- This collection is open for research. Access to original audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Laupus Library for more information.
This collection contains audio recordings of interviews created during Oral History Day at the Country Doctor Museum.
Biographical/historical information
In May 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023, students from Southern Nash High School's AP US History class offered community oral history days at The Country Doctor Museum. The students prepared for the day under the tutelage of Mr. Brian Hendricks and the Country Doctor Museum staff to draft the questions. For the years 2018, 2019, and 2022, students worked in teams to meet and interview community members about their experiences and memories with illness and home remedies while growing up in a small town. Participants recalled common practices such as cod liver oil as a preventative and unusual treatments such as packing a wound with cobwebs. In 2023, students asked the community members about a major calamity they faced in life and who they looked to in the community for support.
Scope and arrangement
The audio files in this collection are all student conducted interviews from Oral History Day at the Country Doctor Museum in 2018, 2019, and 2022. The files are born-digital and in the MP3 format. Each interview was conducted by a team of students who posed questions to the community members about their memories of illness and home remedies while growing up in a small town. The interviews are named for the interviewee(s).
The video files in this collection are all student conducted interviews from Oral History Day at the Country Doctor Museum in 2023. The files are born-digtial and in the MOV format. Each interview was conducted by a team of students with videography help from Laupus Library Archivist Layne Carpenter. The students asked community members about a calamity they faced in their life and which people in their local community they turned to for support.
Administrative information
Custodial History
2018, 2019, 2022, 2023: Oral history audio files, video files, and summaries. Gift of Brian Hendricks.
Source of acquisition
Gift of Brian Hendricks.
Processing information
Processed by Layne Carpenter, 2021; updated 2022.
Processed by John Dunning 2023.
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Metadata Rights Declaration
Language of material
English