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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…

Lou Crabtree in her home on Valley Street in Abingdon

Program (3 pages) that describes the production.

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…

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…

Photograph of Jesse Stuart

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

"The present text was collected June 28, 1936 by Richard Chase and Annabel Morris Buchanan from Mrs. Maud Gentry Long, Hot Springs, North Carolina." [Southern Folk Ballads, vol. II, p 119-120]

Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, his second wife, traveled through Western North Carolina in the 20s and 30s, playing to entertain themselves and others but also listening and learning from local musicians.

Festival-goers participating in a folk dance