Finding Aid for the Chappell-Kinard Interviews, 1987-1997
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Tapes and transcripts of local television host Lee Kinard interviewing poet and UNCG professor Fred Chappell, dated between 1987 and 1997.
MSS 204
9 Beta tapes, 3 VHS tapes, 2 copies of typed transcript, and 2 discs.
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[Identification of item], Chappell-Kinard Interviews (MSS 204), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Given by Lee Kinard, March 2003.
Fred Chappell is a poet and was a long-time professor of creative writing in the English department at UNCG, where he taught advanced composition, poetry, and fiction. Chappell has won numerous awards and served a 5-year term as poet laureate of North Carolina.
Lee Kinard is the creator and host of the long-running local television program, The Good Morning Show on WFMY-TV. During his career, Kinard also served as a weatherman and news anchor. Kinard received his BA, MA and EdD degrees from UNCG.
This collection is a series of interviews of Fred Chappell conducted by Lee Kinard over a 10-year period. All aired in Greensboro on The Good Morning Show. Some of the interviews were conducted on the air while others were conducted at other locations and broadcast later.
Kinard transcribed and edited the tapes, and two copies of the transcription are included.
Box 1
Four Beta tapes
Box 2
Five Beta tapes, three VHS tapes, two disks
Box 3
Transcript (2 copies)
See more literary manuscript collections held by UNCG.
See also the Fred Chappell papers at Duke University.