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- Pikeville College Diary of a Flood
- newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
- This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
- University of Pikeville
- Hatcher Hotel 14/20
- hotels; sayings; rural areas
- Mr. Hatcher spent time writing sayings and stories about local history and folk lore on the walls of his hotel. The Hatcher Hotel was located on Main St. in Pikeville, KY.
- University of Pikeville
- Union in revolt 4:04
- Coal mining; Coal miners; Labor unions;
- Narration by Tim Meyers. David & John Morris (brothers from Ivy Dale WV) - speak to a gathering and begin to play the Campaign Song, to the tune of Coal Tattoo.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Alan Jabbour Question 4
- Fiddle music;
- Alan Jabbour answers questions of an audience in Warren Wilson College's Canon Lounge. This recording is from an annual Harwood-Cole Memorial Lecture. Alan considers Henry Reed (1884-1968) of Glen Lyn, Virginia to be his foremost fiddle mentor.
- Warren Wilson College
- Dedication of the Pikeville College Marker on the By-Pass
- dedications; groups of people; education
- Left Side: (left to right) 1. Georgia Dils Forsyth; 2. Lillian Hatcher; 3. ; 4. Anna L. Dils Call -- Right Side: 1. ; 2. Carolyn Stone Justice; 3. Stella Elkins; 4. ; 5. ; 6. ; 7. ; 8. Hope Dils Wellman
- University of Pikeville
- Our Carolina Highlanders
- Education
- Text of an address to the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 29, 1916, regarding education and economic development in Western North Carolina.
- Lees-McRae College
- tunings, Little Woman, You're So Sweet
- Guitars; Blues music; ; Interviews;
- Marvin and Turner Foddrell talk about vestapool tuning and Blind Boy Fuller songs. The brothers are sons of Posey Foddrell and a residents of Patrick County, where this interview takes place.
- Ferrum College
- Hosana #351
- Shape Note Singing;
- Members of Pikes Mennonite Church and visiting singers celebrate Ascension Day with singing from the Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832.
- Ferrum College
- Divine Compassion #148 metre 4
- Shape Note Singing;
- Mennonites sing at an annual event at Weaver's Mennonite Church near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This is the 75th anniversary of the event. They are singing out of a book called Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832. This event...
- Ferrum College
- Bethlehem #149 metre 4
- Shape Note Singing;
- Mennonites sing at an annual event at Weaver's Mennonite Church near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This is the 75th anniversary of the event. They are singing out of a book called Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832. This event...
- Ferrum College
- best fiddler, playing in houses (talking)
- Fiddle music;
- Kyle Creed, Whit Sizemore, and others talk with Kip Lornell about favorite fiddlers, playing in houses, and fiddles. Kyle plays and makes banjos. Whit fiddled for the Shady Mountain Ramblers. This interview takes place in Kyle's house, near...
- Ferrum College
- house parties, minstrel and medicine shows (talking)
- Blues music; Guitars; Singing; Interviews;
- Cowboy "T" Burks talks with interviewer, Vaughan Webb, about playing music for house parties, a medicine show, and a minstrel show. This takes place in his home in Low Moor, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- morals, accident (talking)
- Interviews; Storytelling;
- Mattie Oakes Jacobs talks about her youth, religious beliefs, and a near fatal accident without doctors in her home in Red Valley, Virginia, for interviewer, Vaughan Webb.
- Ferrum College
- recording during depression, performing (talking)
- ; Interviews;
- Janette Carter talks about her family's recording and performing through the early 1930's despite the hard times during an interview with Kip Lornell. Janette is the daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter.
- Ferrum College
- Hard Luck Blues
- Banjos; Singing; Blues music;
- Big Sweet Lewis Hairston sings and plays the banjo. He was born in McDowell County, West Virginia, and moved to Henry county, Virginia in 1955.
- Ferrum College
- I Can Not Find the Way Alone
- Singing; Spirituals; Radio;
- The Gospel Trio of Concord, North Carolina, sings a Christian gospel song. This was possibly broadcast on Dewey Hill's radio program on WPAQ (Mt. Airy) or WBOB (Galax).
- Ferrum College
- Rocky Road Blues
- Bluegrass music; Bands; Singing; Mandolins;
- Bill Monroe and his band perform at the Roanoke Bluegrass Festival, at Cantrells Horse Farm in Fincastle, Virginia. Bill is from Rosine, Kentucky. He is singing and playing the mandolin with Peter Rowan (guitar), Lamar Grier (banjo), Gene...
- Ferrum College
- Spike Jones Show (4)
- Radio; Humor; Singing;
- Professor Bettlebaum sings a comedic song live over Roanoke Country Radio station WDBJ.
- Ferrum College
- Jar 1969.001.0077.Q01 (QTVR Object Movie)
- Jar with lid, handles on shoulder, glazed stoneware. 8" height, 5.4" top diameter, 4.4" bottom diameter. Simms inventory indicates "hanlon blue" may be glaze color or maker's name. ca. 1920 to ca. 1955 displayed at...
- Berea College
- Jar 1969.001.0077.A02 (Overall View)
- Jar with lid, handles on shoulder, glazed stoneware. 8" height, 5.4" top diameter, 4.4" bottom diameter. Simms inventory indicates "hanlon blue" may be glaze color or maker's name. ca. 1920 to ca. 1955 displayed at...
- Berea College