Lance Holland discusses moving to Fontana Village and researching on the history of the Fontana dam, Dam Kids -- a group of children whose parents built the dam and who continue to hold reunions--and the North Shore group made up of residents who were forced off their land to allow for the construction of the dam. Holland also talks about the changes the Village had undergone over the years as it changed from a construction village to a resort and the reception to his book on Fontana. ; TRANSCRIPT: LANCE HOLLAND Interviewee: LH LANCE HOLLAND Interviewer: DN Dustin Norris Interview Date: October 31, 2014 Location: Bryson City, NC Length: 24:56 START OF INTERVIEW Dustin Norris: Alright if you wouldn't mind starting off stating your name and give us your verbal consent to use the interview? Lance Holland: I'm Lance Holland, and yes you can use the interview. DN: Thank you. I think to start off it might be best to-if you would, tell when you were born, where you grew up, and that kind ofthing just to get some background on you. LH: I was born in 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia. I moved to north Georgia when I was fifteen years old, and moved here to North Carolina in 1978. DN: Is that when you started your work on Fontana? LH: Yeah. DN: 1978? How did that start? LH: I grew up in a part of Atlanta that a lot of the Civil War was fought in. So history was just as much a part of our childhood as our bicycles were. And so when I got to Fontana it was just obvious that this was a very historically interesting area and I should look in to it. Lance Holland DN: The first thing that struck you about Fon-is that where you moved to when you came to North Carolina? LH: No actually I moved up to Banner Elk for one winter. And then- [Phone Rings] we came back to Fontana in the spring. [Interruption, Recorder Turned Off-2:01] 2 DN: So you moved to Banner Elk for a winter and then you just visited Fontana? LH: Well we had already talked to Fontana about working there but the job wasn't available till the spring. So we went up to Banner ...