Steve Culp and Emily Culp
Recorded
February 4, 2012
36:07 minutes
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Id:
atl001220
Description
Emily Culp, 30, interviews her father Steve Culp, 62 and invites him to tell her some of the many stories from his boyhood, that he shared with her while she was growing up.Subject Log / Time Code
Steve was raised in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a mill town.
He lived in a row of three homes which each housed a boy named "Steve." One of them started an accidental fire.
He describes the "Possum Float" surrounded by hunters and hunting dogs in the town's Christmas parade.
When he was initiated into the Key Club in high school, the whole town participated in fooling them into thinking they were being arrested for grave robbery.
He shares a few memories of school integration in 1964, when he was in high school.
Steve and Emily talk about the value of storytelling in helping them appreciate their lives.
Participants
- Steve Culp
- Emily Culp