Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Oral History Interview with William Pruitt, June 14, 1996
Transcript (13 p.) | |
Complete Audio File (MP3 format / ca. 103 MB, 56:27) | MP3 |
Abstract | William Pruitt talks about his time working on the Blue Ridge Parkway as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He talks about the living arrangements and activities of those in the CCC. He was a truck driver, hauling crews to work sites, and did some landscaping. After service in the Navy, Pruitt joined the Park Service in the late 1940s and did maintenance work at Cumberland Knob. He describes being a caretaker – repair work, painting, mowing, snow plowing – in the Sparta area and talks about his interactions with tourists on the parkway. |
Date | June 14, 1996 |
Interviewee | Pruitt, William |
Interviewee occupation | Caretaker, truck driver |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewer | Gallant, Alicia |
Subject | Civilian Conservation Corps Maintenance Landscape development |