Interviewed by Mike Moncus on June 18, 2003 at the Troup County Archives.

Julia Traylor Dyer recalls the Harwell Avenue Elementary School, the Main Street fire of 1931, and a cotton parade in 1933, where she and her classmates were asked to participate, wearing outfits entirely of cotton. She notes that father moved the family from Troup County during the Depression when she was ten, selling his Ford dealership to take a job with the Settlement Administration under Roosevelt. She returned to attend LaGrange College, graduating in 1946. In 1948 she married Hubert Dyar and lived in Royston, Ga. for ten years where Hubert was the editor of The Western Record; she also mentions seeing Ty Cobb frequently (his hometown was Royston). In 1958, the Dyers moved to Atlanta for Hubert to accept a position at the State Capitol as secretary of the Georgia Literature Commission; Julia worked for the Georgia Press Association. Hubert died in 1973; Julia returned to LaGrange in 1978 to work at LaGrange College as director of public relations. At the time of the interview, she is a member of the Troup County Historical Society, the LaGrange Preservation Commission, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Roundtable Book Club, and the First Baptist Church. Since 1993, she has written a historical column called "Memoried Glances" in the LaGrange Daily News; each article is based on a Troup County newspaper story, (some written up to one hundred years before), that took place during the same week. She credits her parents with encouraging her appreciation for history.