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This collection contains eleven cassette tapes of interviews with various Smoky Mountains locals conducted by Bill Lea, a former U.S. Forest Service forester and wildlife photographer. Excepting tape #3, dates are written on the tapes and span from April 1984 to July 5, 2005.

This collection contains oral histories about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park through interviews of people who lived in the area in the early twentieth century. These interviews were conducted by students from the University of Tennessee in Anthropology and Appalachian Folklore classes.