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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Elsie Hooper, 'Chubby' Dorris, Arnold Adams Tell Carteret History

Elsie Hooper of Salvo talks about food rationing during World War II, mail delivery by boat, and moving her home with bedways and rollers.  Mrs. Hooper was interviewed in 2003 by Barbara Garrity-Blake.  Photographs by James Charlet for Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station show Mrs. Hooper demonstrating how she was taught to cook.

To see the video and hear Mrs. Hooper talk about her life, go to https://carolinacoastalvoices.wordpress.com/test/

The site has other interviews:
--Douglas "Chubby" Dorris, Frisco, N.C., talking about the section of a Hatteras village called Sticky Bottom.
--Arnold Adams talks about Rosie Griffin, who was East Carteret High School Marching Mariner's mascot.
--In a second interview, Arnold Adams, long-time band director at East Carteret High School in Beaufort, talks about getting the Marching Mariner’s to the Tournament of Roses parade in California and the Macy’s Day Parade in New York.

The online video and audio is part of Coastal Voices: An Oral History of the Outer Banks and Down East, N.C.


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