Anna Burns and Ray Burns
Recorded
March 29, 2024
43:12 minutes
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Id:
mbv000017
Description
Anna Burns (34) interviews her dad Ray Burns [no age given] about growing up in Appalachia, working at the cotton mill, and being the first in his family to go to college.Subject Log / Time Code
Anna Burns (A) and Ray Burns (R) talk about where R grew up and R's family.
A asks R about working in and living near the cotton mill.
R tells A about his parents' feelings about living in this community.
A asks R about being a "mischievous" child.
R tells A about his many odd jobs.
R remembers being encouraged to go to college, the first in his family.
R tells A about his two tours in Vietnam and traveling.
R talks a bit about his parents and the life history his mother wrote for him.
A talks about how much her childhood contrasted her father's; how education was an expectation.
R and A talk about A's traumatic brain injury and the support R gave that helped A's recovery.
A reads a letter she wrote for R when they were in Henry River.
Participants
- Anna Burns
- Ray Burns