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Lou's front porch...,looking up at the sky? Lou was "interested in space." She even took a Univ. of Va. Astronomy course

Lou Crabtree Celebration and tribute

Lou on the steps leading up from Valley St. Her yard ornament was recently sighted in the back yard of the house her son Michael owns near Plumb Alley.

Photograph from "Porches in Paradise," Jeanne Johnson. RU Magazine: the magazine of Radford University

Picture of Lou taken on her porch on Valley St. in Abingdon, Virginia

Swinging bridge spanning the Holston River near the terminus of Smith Creek Rd. According to Quinn,
"Lou said the man whose land was on the other side was a nasty fellow who would come after trespassers with a gun."

Quinn Hawkesworth on the swinging bridge spanning the Holston River, near the terminus of Smith Creek Rd.

Holston River with a view of the Clinch Mountains in the distanc

Thursday morning. John Weaver... came in before I was up to have me determine some ore for him, and agreed to go with me to the Whitetop, an exceedingly high mountain, 3 miles north of the, say Northwestern most corner of N.Ca. of course in Virginia.…

Photograph of the three individuals responsible for programming and promotion of the White Top Folk Festival, which took place in the 1930s in Grayson County, Virginia on property owned by John Blakemore. Annabel Morris Buchanan, who was credited as…