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Start Over Date range 1994 Creator Dalbey, Matthew, 1965-

Virginia H. Taylor interviewed by Matthew Dalbey, 1994

Records an interview with Virginia Taylor, (née Haney), who grew up the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Greene County, Va. Describes daily life in the mountains, where her family operated a general store. Gives her recollections of the mountain people and describes in detail her family's experience resettling in Wolftown, Virginia, after the opening of Shenandoah National Park. Mrs. Taylor's family soon relocated to Stanardsville, where she attended high school in the late 1930s. Describes the uneasy social interactions between the local population and the sudden influx of rural mountain people into their community. There is no audio recording for this interview; interview consists of transcript only.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Shenandoah National Park oral histories, 1964/1999

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