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    • Snow Creek ghost story

    • Snow Creek ghost story

    • Storytelling;

    • Margarie Quinlin tells a story about her mother encountering the ghost of Grandpa Wingfield, at Snow Creek, Franklin County. This takes place at Patrick Henry Community College.
    • Ferrum College
    • Figsboro Mill story

    • Figsboro Mill story

    • Storytelling; Moonshine;

    • Margarie Quinlin tells a story about a miller's ghost who haunted a stream. This takes place at Patrick Henry Community College.
    • Ferrum College
    • Pan American Blues

    • Pan American Blues

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Singing;

    • Fred Galliher plays blues on the harmonica and sings a few verses. He learned this tune from De Ford Bailey's playing. Fred also plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with...
    • Ferrum College
    • Henrytown community (talking)

    • Henrytown community (talking)

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about the community in which he was raised, and the absence of harmonica players. Fred plays harmonica, guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with...
    • Ferrum College
    • family, harmonica (talking)

    • family, harmonica (talking)

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about his siblings and children, and their musical ability. His mother played harmonica. Fred plays harmonica, guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was...
    • Ferrum College
    • lyrics, radios (talking)

    • lyrics, radios (talking)

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about the song he just played on the harmonica, and the early days of radio. He learned the tune from De Ford Bailey and used Blind Boy Fuller's voices. Fred plays harmonica, guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is...
    • Ferrum College
    • guitar tunings (talking)

    • guitar tunings (talking)

    • Blues music; Guitars; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about different guitar tunings. Fred also plays harmonica, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with fourteen siblings near Saltville, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
    • working, Black Fiddler (talking)

    • working, Black Fiddler (talking)

    • Blues music; Interviews; Mouth organs; Fiddle music;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about his work, playing for dances with King Edward Smith, and John Henderson, a black fiddle player. Fred plays harmonica, guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith, King Edward Smith,...
    • Ferrum College
    • learning music, records (talking)

    • learning music, records (talking)

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about listening to De Ford Bailey's records. Fred plays harmonica, guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with fourteen siblings near Saltville,...
    • Ferrum College
    • banjo players in Saltville (talking)

    • banjo players in Saltville (talking)

    • Banjos; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks about people he knew in his youth that played the banjo, including his father. Fred also plays harmonica, fiddle, and guitar. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with fourteen siblings near...
    • Ferrum College
    • waltz, tunings (talking)

    • waltz, tunings (talking)

    • Guitars; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about different guitar tunings, and waltz timing. Fred also plays harmonica, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with fourteen siblings near Saltville,...
    • Ferrum College
    • Pan American Blues, De Ford Bailey (talking)

    • Pan American Blues, De Ford Bailey (talking)

    • Blues music; Mouth organs; Interviews;

    • Fred Galliher talks with Vaughan Webb about the harmonica tune he just played. He learned this tune from De Ford Bailey's playing. Fred also plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised...
    • Ferrum College
    • Pan American Blues

    • Pan American Blues

    • Blues music; Mouth organs;

    • Fred Galliher plays blues on the harmonica. He learned this tune from De Ford Bailey's playing. Fred also plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He is a first cousin of Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden, and was raised with fourteen siblings near...
    • Ferrum College
    • Reno Factory

    • Reno Factory

    • Blues music; Guitars; Singing;

    • Marvin Foddrell plays electric guitar and sings a song about a local factory burning down with his brother, Turner, on acoustic guitar. They are sons of Posey Foddrell, and residents of Patrick County, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
    • 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
    • Holston Conference Camp Meeting Report, 1870

    • Holston Conference Camp Meeting Report, 1870

    • Camp meetings; Evangelistic work; Holston Conference; Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Holston Conference

    • Report of the Holston Conference committee on camp meetings, describing the successes of earlier camp meetings within Holston and encouraging the Conference to establish additional camp meetings.
    • Emory & Henry College
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