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Illustrated from photographs, plates. Labor unrest in the south in 1929, with chapters devoted to each of the strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Gastonia and Marion, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia.

"Broadcast of some of the fourth annual White Top Fiddlers' Convention (sic), John Blakemore master of cermonies

Broadsheet announcing details of the 1932 WTFF originally distributed as a tri-fold brocure(two sided)

Broadsheet announcing details of the 1932 WTFF originally distributed as a tri-fold brocure(two sided)

The White Top Folk Festival grew out of a suggestion made to Abingdon attorney John Blakemore that a fiddler’s contest be held on White Top on the 4th of July. 13 In addition to being an attorney, Blakemore was a well-connected politician and an…

"The town of Whitetop, nestled at the foot of White Top Mountain, was incorporated in 1913, the year the railroad arrived. Before the train, the main industry was farming: families eked out a living raising cattle, hogs, sheep, corn and other crops.…

"Aerial view of Wolf Creek and the Abingdon Muster Grounds"