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In the mid-1980s, staff at the state’s electric cooperatives interviewed members to record their memories of when their cooperative brought electric power to their communities. The project helped mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the federal Rural Electrification Administration, which encouraged people in the latter 1930s and 1940s to form cooperatives. The oral history project was conducted in conjunction with the North Carolina Humanities Committee and historian Lu Ann Jones. The North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives collected the recordings and published some in a book, “Living History.” Here are excerpts from the collection, with photos from the REA archives.
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