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- Alabama Gals
- Fiddle music;
- Pender Rector (1893-1979) plays fiddle with Stanley Masters accompanying on guitar during a concert in Warren Wilson College's Kittredge Theater. The concert featured local old time bands and was arranged by David Holt.
- Warren Wilson College
- Hatcher Hotel 12/20
- 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
- Hatcher Hotel 16/20
- 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
- Working Tan Bark
- Social life
- Roan Mountain resident's account of working with tanning bark as a young man.
- Lees-McRae College
- 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
- Founding of Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- First Fire
- Indians of North America; Myths
- Telling of a Cherokee myth.
- Lees-McRae College
- Get Out and Get Under the Moon
- Fiddle music; Gilbert, Kelly; Get Out and Get Under the Moon;
- Fiddle tune played by Kelly Gilbert and recorded by John Harrod in Franklin County, Kentucky 06-27-78.
- Berea College
- Well I'm Going to Get Drunk..
- Singing;
- Poor Howard sings at the Asheville Junction, founded by Andy Cohen. Jimmy Dickens wrote this song. Listen to Poor Howard talking before this song: ww11106.
- Warren Wilson College
- Oh Little Girl, You Better Get Home
- Singing;
- Leonard Westmoreland sings in his home in Canton, North Carolina, for an interview by David Holt. Leonard worked as a cowboy in the 1920's.
- Warren Wilson College
- Hatcher Hotel 11/20
- 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
- Hatcher Hotel 20/20
- 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
- When the Roses Bloom
- Banjos; Singing;
- Mattie Oakes Jacobs plays the banjo and sings in her home in Red Valley, Virginia, for interviewer, Vaughan Webb. She talks about her banjo style and sings a drunkard's song after playing the banjo tune.
- Ferrum College
- Get Along Liza
- Singing; Fiddle music
- J.W. or Peg Hatcher sings a song for Herbert Halpert and his recording machine. This takes place in Ferrum, Virginia. Raymond Sloan organized this meeting, as a fellow musician of Peg, and employee of the WPA writer's project.
- Ferrum College
- History of Talbott Community (Barbour County, W. Va.)
- Early history of a West Virginia community. Content appears to have been written in early 20th century.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Get on Board Little Children (talking)
- Spirituals;
- Zeke (mandolin) and Wiley (guitar) Morris talk during a concert that features gospel singing from the Asheville area. The concert was arranged by David Holt and takes place in Warren Wilson College's Kittredge Theater. These brothers are from...
- Warren Wilson College
- Barbara Allen
- Ballads;
- Five leaves of lined paper, handwritten in pencil on the front sides and on the reverse side of the fifth leaf. The document is in fair physical condition, with uneven edges at the top, some minor tears, creases, and tape repairs, as well as holes...
- Mars Hill College
- Investigating Conditions
- Missions
- Describes the author's travels in Western North Carolina, on behalf of the Asheville Presbytery, for the purpose of investigating living conditions.
- Lees-McRae College
- Women of the Mountains
- Education
- Text of a brochure written by Rev. Edgar Tufts, Principle of the Girls Department of Lees-McRae Institute, Banner Elk, North Carolina, describing the plight of young women in the mountains of Western North Carolina and requesting scholarship...
- Lees-McRae College
- Enforcement of the School Law
- Child labor
- Description of a visit to the Asheville, North Carolina, area to investigate compliance with child labor laws.
- Lees-McRae College