Robert "Georgia Slim" Rutland plays solo fiddle. He learned most of his repetoir from listening to 78's of Clark Kessinger's fiddle playing. He was born near Tifton, Georgia in 1916.
Text of an address to the Conference of Southern Mountain
Workers, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 29, 1916, regarding
education and economic development in Western North
Carolina.
Mennonites sing at an annual event at Weaver's Mennonite Church near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This is the 75th anniversary of the event. They are singing out of a book called Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832. This event...
A self-published autobiography of John C. Shaw, educator and former president of West Liberty Normal School (now West Liberty State College) from 1908-1919.
Bessie Jones sings with a group of high school students from Paideia school in Atlanta, while visiting the home of Guy and Candie Carawan. The group is led by John Sundale. Listen to Have Courage Young Boys to Say No: ww14614.
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.
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.
Three leaves, handwritten in black ink on the front sides. The document is in fairly good physical condition. There are staple holes in the upper left corners of each leaf and a small hole in the center of the top of each leaf. There has been a...
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.
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."