Interview with Doris McCray

Cultural Narrative: 

Doris McCray’s family originally lived with her grandparents on their 1,000-acre dairy farm in the Green Springs area until they moved into one of the tenant houses for a local Louisa farm. Mrs. McCray’s family raised and grew most of their own food. Things they did not grow but still needed they got through a trade. Mrs. McCray attended Green Springs Elementary and remembers when local “celebrity” Sunshine Sue performed in the auditorium. After graduating from Louisa County High School, She went to Lynchburg College and after a few years of teaching, she got her master's degree at the University of Virginia.