Interviews and References

Interviews

Jerry Crossno, lifelong resident (77 years old at time of interview) and former mayor of Norris, TN, telephone interview on September 17, 2012

John Rice Irwin, lifelong resident (82 years old at time of interview) of area and founder of the Museum of Appalachia, telephone interview on February 28, 2013

Tommy Mariner, local resident and Vice Mayor of Norris, TN, telephone interview on September 13, 2012

 

References

Ezzell, Patricia Bernard.  2003. TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley.  Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

Ezzell, Patricia Bernard.  2010.  “Norris” Website entry, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, version 2.0 (updated January 1, 2010). https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1001  Accessed February 10, 2016.

Erikson, Kai. 1978. Everything in Its Path.  New York: Simon and Schuster.

Bob Fowler. 2012.  “Norris Dam: families uprooted, jobs created.” [Knoxville] News-Sentinel. April 29. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/norris-dam-families-uprooted-jobs-created-ep-360893968-357045541.html

Julie Graham.  No date. “Loyston Sea” Entry on East Tennessee River Valley Geotourism MapGuide.  Website.  http://www.tennesseerivervalleygeotourism.org/content/loyston-sea/ten83791b0dc6a6bc4ae   Accessed February 10, 2016.

McDonald, Michael J. and John Muldowny.  1982. TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

National Archives. National Archives Catalog, Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933-1933.  “The home of Harriet Hankins in the area of the proposed town of Norris Dam.”  Photo. Item dated October 25, 1933.   https://research.archives.gov/id/532658.  Accessed February 10, 2016.

National Archives. National Archives Catalog, Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933-1933.  “Interior view of Oakdale School near Loyston, Tennessee.  From 30 to 40 pupils usually attend.”  Photo.  Item dated October 23, 1933.  https://research.archives.gov/id/532648?q=hine  Accessed February 10, 2016.

National Archives. National Archives Catalog, Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933-1933.  "Washday at the Stooksberry homestead near Andersonville, Tennessee. This old estate of 350 acres dates back to the Civil War. It will be submerged when the Norris Dam reservoir fills. This family is very versatile and carries on all kinds of activities and construction."  Photo.  Item dated October 23, 1933.  https://research.archives.gov/id/532642.  Accessed February 13, 2016.

National Archives, National Archives Catalog, Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933-1933. "Interior of the home of Mrs. Jacob Stooksbury, Loyston, Tennessee. This homestead is in the region which will be inundated by the waters of the Norris Dam reservoir.” Photo. Photograph taken November 23, 1933.  https://research.archives.gov/id/532790. Accessed February 13, 2016.

National Archives, National Archives Catalog, Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933-1933.  Record Group 142: Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918 - 2000.  Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933 - 1933.  "A little country church, Sharps Station M.E. Church, near Loyston, Tennessee. Congregation leaving at close of the service. This church will be submerged by the waters of the Norris Dam reservoir." Photo.  Photograph taken October 29, 1933.  https://research.archives.gov/id/532681?q=*:*  Accessed February 10, 2016. 

New Deal Network.  2015. “Tennessee Valley Authority Act” in “TVA Electricity for All” Website: http://newdeal.feri.org/acts/us07.htm#24.  Accessed February 6, 2016.

New Deal Network.  2015. “The Displaced People of Norris Basin,” in “TVA Electricity for All” Website: http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva26.htm.  Accessed February 6, 2016.

New Deal Network.  2015. “The Planned Community of Norris,” in “TVA Electricity for All” Website:  http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva08.htm.  Accessed February 6, 2016.

New Deal Network, 2015. “Letters from the Field: Lorena Hickok Reports on the State of the Nation” in “TVA Electricity for All.” http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/lorena1.htm.   Accessed February 13, 2016.

Norris, Tennessee.  No Date. Website.  www.cityofnorris.com   Accessed February 10, 2016.

Pyle, Ernie.  1935. “Object of TVA is to ‘Fix Up’ Tennessee Area,” El Paso Herald-Post (December 28, p. 12).

Selznick, Philip. TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study in the Sociology of Formal Organization.  New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966. [Originally published by: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949.]

Tennessee Valley Authority.  No Date. “Norris” Website.  https://www.tva.gov/Energy/Our-Power-System/Hydroelectric/Norris-Reservoir.  Accessed February 13, 2016.