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Gracie Webb - Holiday Memories (clip)
Gracie Webb describes holiday cooking in her family.To hear more from Gracie Webb, listen to her full oral history "Gracie Webb - On her family, growing up in Northside, and changes in Northside."
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Gracie (Polly) Webb
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Gracie Webb - On her family, growing up in Northside, and changes in Northside
“On Sundays everybody would come after church and come there and eat, the pastors and all [of them]. We weren’t the wealthiest, but we were always full.”
- Gracie Webb
Throughout Gracie Webb’s life she has seemingly always been in the Northside and Cedar Groves area of Chapel Hill-Carrboro.…
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Gracie Webb - On changes to the neighborhood and the effects on senior community members
In the interview Mrs. Webb discusses her neighborhood and describes how the house that she grew up in was demolished by the state in order to build a road in its place. Her parents did not want to move but believed that if they refused the state’s offer their home would have been condemned; thus,…
Gracie Webb - On changes to the neighborhood and the effects on senior community members
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