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- Founding of Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- Hatcher Hotel 19/20
- 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
- Stories of Superstition: the Old Dugger Place
- Folklorists
- Ghost story from Johnson County, Tennessee.
- Lees-McRae College
- Hoplight Ladies
- Fiddle music;
- Roger Howell fiddles to Phil Jamison's guitar accompaniment during a concert at Warren Wilson College's Sage Cafe. This concert features three local fiddlers. Roger grew up in Madison County, North Carolina. Phil teaches math at Warren Wilson. ...
- Warren Wilson College
- Alan Jabbour Question 2
- 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
- McCloud's Reel
- Fiddle music;
- This is a recording from a 'Picking Party' at Chub Parham's house in Leicester, North Carolina.
- Warren Wilson College
- Uncle Jake Carpenter's Anthology of Death
- Death
- Selection from the notebooks of "Uncle Jake Carpenter," a resident of Avery County, North Carolina, who kept records of each death in his community from 1845 to 1920.
- Lees-McRae College
- The Missionary to Banner Elk
- Missionaries
- Tha author's humorous account of a community's attitude toward a visiting preacher.
- Lees-McRae College
- Sally Ann
- Banjos; Fiddle music;
- Jerry Dewitt plays a banjo tune he learned from his uncle with Jim Robertson on fiddle during an interview with Kip Lornell. The banjo is dominant, with the fiddle sound barely perceptable.
- Ferrum College
- Hop Light Ladies
- Banjos;
- W. Scott Boatwright plays a tune on the banjo. He was raised in Coeburn, Virginia, and lives in Kingsport, Tennessee, where this was recorded.
- Ferrum College
- Miss McCloud's Reel
- Square dancing; Fiddle music; Radio;
- Eddie Arnold fiddles with the Golden West Cowboys performing a live square dance over Roanoke Country Radio station WDBJ. This is an example of the western swing, and cowboy music influence in the Appalachian region.
- Ferrum College
- Veteran's Cane
- Methodist churches; Clergy;
- History of WV Methodists who have received the Conference Cane, "awarded to men of age and long years of service ... almost always awarded to the oldest man who has given his life for a worthy cause."
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Lost River Community
- Mimeograph description of settlement of West Virginia community.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Dear Sister (Oct. 14, 1862)
- Civil War; Correspondence
- A letter from Watson Bunten to his sister, purportedly Sirene Bunten, written from Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tennessee.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Vice-Admiral Lovette
- Alumni & alumnae; Military officers;
- Vice-Admiral Leland P. Lovette at an Alumni Event. Leland Lovette did not attend TC, but his father Oscar Lovette did.
- Tusculum College
- Minutes of the Eighty-Third Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptist
- Religion; Religious events
- 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...
- University of Pikeville
- Early Mountain Schools
- Schools
- Roan Mountain resident's description of the first schools in the area.
- Lees-McRae College
- Workin'
- Social life
- Roan Mountain resident's account of working on a farm and in various mines as a young man.
- 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
- Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe
- Fiddle music; McNew, Walter; Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe;
- Fiddle tune played by Walter McNew with Bruce Greene and Steve Green on banjo and guitar in varrious combinations. Recorded by Steve Green in Rockcastle County, Kentucky 10-6-90.
- Berea College