- Collection:
- Foxfire Oral Histories, 2014
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Beanie Ramey, 2014
- Creator:
- Ramey, Beanie
- Date of Original:
- 2014
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians
Crawford family
Motels--Georgia--Rabun County
Motion picture locations--Georgia--Rabun County
Four seasons (Motion picture : 1981)
Wagon trains
Nightclubs--Georgia--Clayton
African Americans--Georgia--Rabun County
Fires--Georgia--Tiger
Real property--Georgia--Rabun County
Rabun County (Ga.)--Race relations
Mayors--Georgia--Rabun County
Parker, Fess
Piano Red, 1911-1985 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Clayton, 34.87815, -83.40099
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Tiger, 34.84704, -83.43294 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Rabun County resident of Cherokee descent, born August 16, 1939 in Tiger, Georgia.
Interviewed in Rabun County, Georgia, 2014
Interview with Beanie Ramey of Rabun County, Georgia, c. 2014, for Foxfire magazine. She discusses her family history, Cherokee heritage, and growing up in Tiger, Georgia. She talks about her parents, M. L. and Eva Crawford, and how they used to raise and sell dogs. Ramey recalls working at the historic Bynum House (Clayton, Ga.) and running a gas station and motel with her husband. She talks about the filming of the 1956 Disney movie, The Great Locomotive Chase, and other films in Rabun County, and meeting some of the film stars. She was also Carol Burnett's stand-in in the film Four Seasons. She discusses going on wagon trains and travelling the country in her motor home. She talks about the Clayton Club and musician Piano Red, the burning of the looper factory in Tiger, and how the towns of Tiger and Clayton have changed over the years. She also discusses race relations in Rabun County and talks about her husband, Tom Ramey, a former mayor of Rabun County. This interview appeared in Foxfire's Fall/Winter 2014 issue. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:foxfire_ffcoll_beanie-ramey
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/foxfire/do-mp3:beanie-ramey
- Rights Holder:
- ©2015 Foxfire Fund, Inc.
This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Licensing agreement may be required. - Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [item identification], [collection name], Foxfire Museum Heritage Center, Mountain City, Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 interview (circa 126 mins.)
- Holding Institution:
- Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center
- Rights:
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