Wheeling Spoken History Project

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In April, 1994, Carrie and Michael Nobel Kline were awarded a contract to conduct Wheeling's Ethnographic Survey. Over the course of the next year and a half, the Klines conducted more than 150 interviews, launching "The Wheeling Spoken History Project." ▶ Read more about the origins of the Wheeling Spoken History Project

▼ Transcripts from a few select interviews from the extensive collection can be accessed below.

A full list of all interviews conducted, as well as a comprehensive overview of all the work conducted by the Klines for the Wheeling Spoken History Project, can be found at http://www.folktalk.org/ 
   ▶ View full list of interviews conducted by Carrie and Michael Kline 
   ▶ View the comprehensive overview of the entire project at folktalk.org 

Copies of "As They Say in Wheeling, West Virginia: a conversational trip into the city's cultural, industrial and underworld past" and "Wheeling's spoken history: an interim report on the Wheeling cultural heritage survey prepared for the Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation and the National Park Service," — also compiled by the Klines for the Wheeling Spoken History Project — are available for viewing in the Wheeling Room at the Ohio County Public Library (Service provided by the staff of the Ohio County Public Library in partnership with and partially funded by Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation).

Complete collections of the recordings are held by Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation and Berea College. 

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▼ Spoken Histories Index

(The following are 22 of over 150 interviews conducted by Dr. Michael and Carrie Kline) 

#	Date	Interviewee	Title
94-001	06/07/94	Chip West	An Early Love of History
96-002	06/01/94	Ann Norton	Wheeling in the 1920’s - 30’s
94-003	11/17/94	Bonnie Ellis	West Virginia Northern Community College
96-004	06/23/95	Elvira Corvino	Italian Family Life in Benwood, WV
96-005	06/03/94	Frances Cerrone	Growing up Italian in Fulton
96-006	06/23/94	John "Jack" Fahey	40 years on the B&O
96-007	07/05/94	Bill Hogan	Wheeling's Wide-Open Days
96-008	10/11/94	John B. Hunter II	Marine Memories
96-009	06/19/95	Michael Sinicropi	Executive Speaks on Italian Immigrant History
96-010	05/05/95	Allen "Butch" Walker	Job Retraining, and the Clean Air Act
96-011	07/31/95	A.E. "Doc" Hennen	The Boys of Biak
96-012	06/27/94	David Javersak	An Historical Perspective
96-013	05/30/95	Robert Victor Marchlenski	Job Retraining Through The Clean Air Act
96-014	07/05/94	Mary Lou Henderson	Germans in Center Wheeling
96-015	06/21/94	Michael A Nau	The Price of Progress
96-016	07/15/95	Alphonse Ruggieri	Italian Culture and the "Neapolitan Serenade"
96-017	05/16/94	Darlene Stradwick	13 Kids: Entrenched Values
96-018	06/28/94	George H. Thomas	From 21st and Main on South
96-019	05/05/95	Mark Uraco	Interview With Mark Uraco
96-021	10/31/94	Various Local Voices	Pierogi Making at St. Lad's
96-022	09/27/94	Rosalind "Buddy" Rybeck	Rosalind "Buddy" Rybeck

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