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Interview with Nathan Dee Greene

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  • Nathan Dee Greene of Bryson City shares his memories of picking apples with his family at an orchard on Laurel Branch in the 1930s, and some of the varieties grown in the orchard. He talks about some of the equipment used by the orchard and discusses how his family used and preserved the apples, including drying and making cider, and he indicates that canning apples was not done frequently. He also talks about how his mother bleached apples, which involved packing apples in sulfur for preservation. His wife grafted many trees, and he talks about her work with grafting. His family had a small orchard that produced many kinds of apple throughout the year, and he shares how his mother and wife used those apples and he recounts how the apples that fell off the trees were used to feed pigs. He also talks about how his wife used crabapples and he closes the interview by discussing some of his favorite apples. The interview was part of a project--Heritage Apples--undertaken by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

These interviews document the communities and culture of Western North Carolina. Topics include the building of the Fontana Dam, the history of WCU, stories from local veterans, integration of the...

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