Wheeling, West Virginia National Heritage Area Spoken History Project Audio Recordings

This series consists of original cassettes, DAT, and video interview, event and radio program recordings. They resulted as part of the Klines' 1994-1995 work documenting Wheeling, West Virginia culture, arts, work, and history in connection with the establisment of the Wheeling National Heritage Area by the National Park Service.

One hundred sixty interviews were conducted representing neighborhoods, religious congregations, downtown businesses, factories, breweries, mills, mines, ethnic social clubs, singing societies, jazz bands and old Wheeling Jamboree radio musicians. The interviews were drawn upon to produce thirty-three Wheeling News Register newspaper features and a twenty-two part radio series, Talking Across the Lines, broadcast on station WWVA.

This preservation and access effort is the result of a collaboration between the Ohio County, West Virginia Public Library and the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Berea College’s Hutchins Library.

Digital preservation of these interviews was made possible by a Recordings-At-Risk grant from the Council On Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The CLIR grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

See Boxes 51 Through 56-A For CD and DVD Listening / Viewing Copies

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