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Lou Crabtree Celebration and tribute

The Sinking Spring Cemetery marks the site of the first church building bearing the Sinking Spring name. Built as a front-log structure in the early 1700’s, it was supplanted by a larger building sometime in the 1780’s. This continued as the church…

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.

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

Lou Crabtree in her home on Valley Street in Abingdon

Program (3 pages) that describes the production.

Saltville native Robert Porterfield was an out-of-work actor in New York City when he decided to return to southwestern "Virginia in 1932. He brought with him twenty-two other unemployed actors, and together they founded Barter Theatre, allowing…

Illustrated from photographs, plates. Labor unrest in the south in 1929, with chapters devoted to each of the strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Gastonia and Marion, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia.

"The festival thrived. In 1932 an estimated 6,000 people were present on the second day. At the opening in 1933, there were 800 folk musicians and 10,000 people were expected. Many rare tunes and ballads had been heard during the two previous…

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