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    • Bunker Hill Camp Meeting

    • Bunker Hill Camp Meeting

    • Camp meetings; Evangelistic work; Methodist Episcopal Church South-Holston Conference; Methodist Church-Tennessee-History; Methodist Church-Southern States-History

    • A Methodist camp meeting that took place at Bunker Hill in Hawkins County, Tennessee
    • Emory & Henry College
    • Brevard College concert choir

    • Brevard College concert choir

    • Music; Singers; Students; Universities & colleges; Historic buildings;

    • This photograph shows a portrait of members of the Brevard College concert choir. The students are standing in front of Spencer Hall. Spencer Hall served as the Administration building at that time, named after Mr. J.C. Spencer, a donor for the...
    • Brevard College
    • Reply to John Mitchell

    • Reply to John Mitchell

    • Coal miners; Coal miners; Labor unions; Labor unions; Coal miners

    • Contains letters by Eugene V. Debs and John Mitchell published in the Social Democratic Herald concerning the averted strike in 1904 of the United Mine Workers of America.
    • West Virginia Wesleyan College
    • Alan Jabbour Question 6

    • Alan Jabbour Question 6

    • 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
    • Hatcher Hotel 15/20

    • Hatcher Hotel 15/20

    • 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
    • Blue Moon of Kentucky

    • Blue Moon of Kentucky

    • Bluegrass music; Bands; Singing;

    • 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
    • Richmond Rag

    • Richmond Rag

    • Guitars;

    • Norman Blake plays guitar and sings with his wife, Nancy (cello) and James Bryan (fiddle). This performance takes place at the Asheville Junction, a coffeeshop performance hall founded by Andy Cohen. This is the second night of a three concert...
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Ships are Sailing

    • Ships are Sailing

    • ; Fiddle music; Flutes;

    • Touchstone performs for Asheville's Earth Day celebration. The band includes Zan McLeod (striding guitar, mandocello and bouzouki), Triona NiDhomhnaill (keyboards and vocals), Claudine Langille (mandolin, tenor banjo and vocals), Mark Roberts...
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Queen's Reel

    • Queen's Reel

    • ; Fiddle music; Flutes;

    • Touchstone performs for Asheville's Earth Day celebration. The band includes Zan McLeod (striding guitar, mandocello and bouzouki), Triona NiDhomhnaill (keyboards and vocals), Claudine Langille (mandolin, tenor banjo and vocals), Mark Roberts...
    • Warren Wilson College
    • John and miracles (talking)

    • John and miracles (talking)

    • Interviews; Missionaries; Moonshine;

    • Patsy B. Turner, born 1875 in Bath County, Virginia talks with Janis Stamper about her ministry work during an interview in her home in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Patsy came to Kentucky as a missionary in 1913.
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Lindsay

    • Lindsay

    • ; Ballads;

    • The Flying Cloud plays Scottish music at the Asheville Junction, founded by Andy Cohen. This is the first part of a four-part medley. Listen to the other parts: ww11310, ww11311, ww11312. This tune was written by Archie Fisher.
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Winding Stream, The

    • Winding Stream, The

    • Autoharps; Guitars; Singing;

    • Janette Carter plays the autoharp and sings with John McCutcheon accompanying on guitar for a music class at Warren Wilson College. Janette is the daughter of Sara and A.P. Carter.
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Black is the Color

    • Black is the Color

    • Ballads;

    • Sheila Kay Adams sings to a ballad singing class at Warren Wilson College. Sheila learned these ballads from her relatives, primarily from her great-aunt, Dellie Chandler Norton. This song she learned from Evelyn Ramsey. Sheila is from Madison...
    • Warren Wilson College
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