Interview Questions

Hi, we are here with Chuck Perdue, he has worked a lot with eminent domain. He works at the University here in Virginia. He is going to explain about what happened with Shenandoah National Park.

What job do you have at UVA?

Why have you studied eminent domain?

How long have you studied it?

What are your feelings on eminent domain?

What have you done to learn about the Shenandoah National Park?

Could you tell us some of the stories you heard doing this research?

What was the saddest story you heard when you were researching?

How did people fight their eviction?

How did people react when you asked for their stories and opinions about moving?

What part did the CCC boys have in the creation of Shenandoah National park?

Have you interviewed any CCC boys? How did they explain (feel about) what they did?

What did people say about the CCC boys when you interviewed them?How do you feel about the people having to move to make the Park?

If the park was definitely going to happen, no matter what, what do you think should have been done with the people?

How many people wanted to stay and how many people wanted to move in the creation of the Shenandoah National Park?

Were you happy with the movie, “The Iris Still Blooms?” Why or why not?

What did you find out about the characteristics and actions of the park rangers?

Have you ever read the book Hollow Folk? Could you tell us about it?

When you met people who were called mountain folk, what were they like?

Is there anything else you’d like to tell us?

 

 

Carolyn Reeder

 

Why do you write so much about Virginia?

How did you first hear about the displacement at Shenandoah and H. M. Cliser?

How do you feel about the displacements?

What do you think should have been done about the people who lived where the Shenandoah National Park is?

Do you think they should have made the Park somewhere else to save the people’s homes?

How long have you been interested in S.N.P.?

What did you teach when you where a teacher?

When you were teaching did you ever teach your students about the displacement of people in the Shenandoah area?

What is your opinion on Reed Engle?

Do you think Charles Perdue should have had a chance, after Reed Engle, to tell his point of view in the Iris Still Blooms?

Were you happy with the movie, The Iris Still Blooms? Why or why not?

Do you think H.M. Cliser did the right thing by refusing to leave?

Are your kids interested in Shenandoah National Park or Eminent Domain?

Do you have any words of wisdom?

 

Lambert

1. Have you ever met Reed Engle?

2. What do you think of him?

3. What other books have you written besides the The Undying Past of the Shenandoah National Park?

4. What inspired you to write The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park?

5. How do you collect all your information for your books?

6. Do you know anyone that was displaced?

7. Talk to us about if you think the land prices that people got were fair?

8. Why did you choose to be an author?

9. Are all your books about National Parks?

10. Are all your books factual?

11. Do you think that FDR was a good guy or a bad guy?

12. Do you think the New Deal was a good idea? Why or Why not?

13. Do you think that if the Great Depression had not happened would there be a park?