This is a copy of the original Minutes of the Eighty-Third Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptist held with the Enterprise Church, Pike County, Kentucky, on Friday and Saturday, September 25, 26 and 27, 1908. Includes...
This is a copy of the original Minutes of the Twenty-Second Annual Session of the Mud River Primitive Baptist Association, held with the Mount Zion Church, Logan County, W. Va., on September 1, 2, and 3, 1911. Includes meeting minutes, obituaries,...
This is a newspaper printed by the Old Regular Baptists at Millstone, Kentucky. This is volume 2, whole number 20, number 8, and was printed in September 1925. It has letters, editorial, and obituaries.
This tune is from a cassette labelled 'Bascom Lamar Lunsford', a song collecter and organizer of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville. This was probably recorded at the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Festival, held at Mars Hill College each...
Three women and one man stand around a rectangular vat used to boil sorghum juice into molasses. Two women are bent over, running their fingers along the bottom and sides of the vat. The other woman licks one of her fingers to taste the just-made...
Tommy Magness fiddles with a band, performing live over a radio station in Roanoke, Virginia. Tommy was a member of Roy Hall's Blue Ridge Entertainers and also led the Orange Blossom Boys. Clayton Hall and Jay Hugh Hall were also in both of these...
Tommy Millard (born May 19, 1911) talks with Wayne Erbsen in Tommy's home in Asheville about his history of comedy and music. Tommy was an early medicine show comedian, one of the first entertainers on the Grand Ole Opry, and performed with Bill...
Two men sit on chairs on either side of a long, low, rectangular vat of cooking sorghum juice. One man stirs the liquid while the other man holds up his stirring utensil, a flat, square, metal head with a wooden handle that resembles a shovel. ...
Two women kneel on the ground around a stone crock. A burlap sack lines the inside of the crock, held in place by the women's hands. One woman ladles molasses from the cooking vat into the crock with a saucepan. Other crocks and metal tubs sit...
Two women kneel on the ground with a large crock between them. The women hold a burlap sack over the edges of the crock. One woman moves a saucepan full of molasses from a rectangular vat to the crock. Other women stand in the background, with...