Lucy Cherry Crisp Oral History Interview, March 26, 1973

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Lucy Cherry Crisp Oral History Interview, March 26, 1973

1973

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0013

In this interview Miss Crisp reads the dialectal verse which makes up Spring Fever. The poems are in Negro dialect and reflect life in the Falkland community of rural Pitt County during the early twentieth century.

0.015 Cubic feet, 3 audiocasette, 3 hours

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11620063

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Crisp, Lucy Cherry, 1899-1977

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Lucy Cherry Crisp (March 4, 1899-November 25, 1977), daughter of Sellers Mark and Annie (Gorham) Crisp, was born in Crisp, Edgecombe County, though her family moved soon after her birth to Falkland in Pitt County. Miss Crisp received a B.S. degree in music from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1919 and later studied at Columbia University, Boston University, and Radcliffe College. For ten years following her graduation from Woman's College, Crisp taught piano and su...