In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Dr. George Williams. Dr. Williams has played rook somewhere you would never guess. And he manages Williams Angus, which began in 1921 when his father bought a heifer and a few bulls for a 4-H project. Growing up, Dr. Williams always had to break even, at around $150, if he wanted to keep showing cattle. The cattle business as a grown up hasn't been much different. Now Williams Angus is one of the few farms remaining along Boones Creek Road in Jonesborough. Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it as a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia. StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.
In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Dr. George Williams. Dr. Williams has played rook somewhere you would never guess. And he manages Williams Angus, which began in 1921 when his father bought a heifer and a few bulls for a 4-H project. Now it is one of the few farms remaining on Boones Creek Road in Jonesborough.
Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it as a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.
StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.
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Storyteller: Dr. George Williams
Story Collector: Isaac Wood
Editors: Isaac Wood, Anne G'Fellers-Mason, Bre Walker-Schadler, Theresa Hammons
Narrator: Isaac Wood
Music:
Sponsors:
Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)
Trivia with Budds
The Silver Raven
Mountain Empire Cremation and Burial Service
The Wild Women of Jonesborough
McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)