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

Photograph of Jesse Stuart

Includes links to the Henry McCarthy Collection, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at Louis Round Wilson Special Collection Library at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and to an archive of Henry's Poets and Writers radio program…

Lou Crabtree Lou V. Crabtree (1913-2006)- "Lou Crabtree...lived most of her life in Washington County, VA. Her career...included school teaching, farming, directing a band, and lecturing. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Sweet…

Program (3 pages) that describes the production.

Lou Crabtree in her home on Valley Street in Abingdon

Lee Smith is the author of 17 works of fiction including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and recent novel, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from…

Lee Smith and Lou Crabtree met in 1980 at a literary event in Abingdon during the Virginia Highlands Festival, a meeting which was humorously detailed in Lee Smith's reflection on her writing life, Dimestore. It was a portentuous meeting, as they…

“Nature, undisturbed and pure, as God would put in that other paradise. (New York critic said I let the birds and trees take over.) With living in Price Hollow, taking an astronomy course I was able to locate the heavenly paradise.”
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When she died in 2008, Mrs. Hall’s children, Jack Hall, Eleanor Hutton and Marilou Preston, donated her papers and other effects to the library to be used as an archive for those interested in her life and the life of the community she loved and…