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"Holy folk" settin' there? Not a bit of it. The holy folk are standing outside the ropes while a handful of city folk sit... According to Dave Whisnant, Charles Seeger was not as impressed with the White Top Folk Festival, which he attended in 1936…

"James Fields, a building contractor who also operated a brick kiln and factory, built this house for his own residence in 1858."
Nanci King, "Places in Time" p. 35

"Before 1900 there was only one store in Damascus, a general store opened about 1893 by Mack Wright on the lot where the N.S.Wright store stands now."

"In 1902 the Thayer Company Dimension Plant was established by T.W.Thayer, head of the Thayer Company in New York state. Mr. Thayer never lived in Damascus and the Damascus plant was a branch plant manufacturing material for sashes, doors, and table…

Lewis and the editors knit together oral history interviews, excerpts from essays, speeches, reports and proposals, reflections from former students and colleagues, and poetry and recipes to create a tapestry of Lewis's extraordinary personal and…

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…

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

This was Lou's childhood home.

Photograph of Jesse Stuart