Wheeling Spoken History Project
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.
▼ Spoken Histories Index
(The following are 22 of over 150 interviews conducted by Dr. Michael and Carrie Kline)
| 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 |
