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Along Smith Creek. Lou would walk here on her way to teach school.

This was the school where Lou taught in her early married life.

This is where Lou spent most of her married life. She called it the "Black-eyed house."

Fault Line in far southwest Washington County, Virginia. Lou would search for fossils here with her children.

This was Lou's childhood home.

Photograph of Lou Crabtree taken in her "office" at her home on Valley St. in Abingdon, VA.

Photograph of Lou from RU Magazine (Radford University), 1999. She was a graduate of Radford (class of '32)

"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia, created a Southern Appalachian Collection of over 500 titles in the categories of general works, philosophy,…

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…