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Oral history interview with Aaron and Jenny Cavenaugh, December 8, 1999 Interview K-0281, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview with Aaron and Jenny Cavenaugh, December 8, 1999 (portion title)
Interview K-0281, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)

Cavenaugh, Aaron. (Interviewee). Cavenaugh, Jenny (Interviewee). Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (Interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Aaron and Jenny Cavenaugh, long-time Duplin County residents, lost their antiques business and turkey farm in the flooding that accompanied Hurricane Floyd. They spend much of this interview describing their response to the flood and their efforts to rebuild afterwards. Damage to their home and businesses was so extensive that they have been consumed by it and have not had time to stand in line and request help from groups like the Red Cross. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been generally unhelpful, so they have relied on help from individuals and volunteer groups, but they seem to have done much of the recovery work on their own -- braving noxious mildew to clean their refrigerator with Q-tips and bleach, for example. This interview provides a picture of a poorly organized local and federal response as well as a devastated and fragile community held together by outsiders kind enough to volunteer.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005.

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General Note:	Duration: 01:26:24. Interview participants: Aaron Cavenaugh, interviewee; Jenny Cavenaugh, interviewee; Charles Thompson, interviewer. Text encoded by Natalia Smith. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Seth M. Kotch. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 8, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 214.5 kilobytes, ca. 158.2 megabytes.
Original Version Note:	Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern Communities, interview K-0281, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 56 p.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.