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| Banjo Ringing Loud and Clear, Mountain Music in the Air | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "People will forget our past if it isn't recorded." | |
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| Foxfire's History | |
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| A Beautiful Life | |
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| In the Good Ol' Days | |
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| "Praise the Lord, Sammy's quit smoking!" | |
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| An interview with Sammy Green | |
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| "Don't you ever stop by my house again asking for whiskey!" | |
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| An interview with Madge Merrell | |
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| "So that's pretty well my eight-nine years." | |
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| Jack P. Nix tells us about his career | |
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| "But he was a stinker, that boy of mine." | |
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| An interview with Lillie Billingsley | |
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| "He had his head stuck up, and Mama shot him." | |
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| Memories from David "Lightnin'" Callenback | |
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| "I don't feel like I'm Republican; I know I am." | |
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| An interview with Carlee Heaton | |
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| "Most of the toys I had was homemade." | |
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| Coyl Justice shares childhood memories | |
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| "The first airplane … we thought is was the Lord a-comin'." | |
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| An interview with Vaughn Billingsley | |
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| "You either moonshined or you sold corn to moonshiners." | |
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| Memories from Allen English | |
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| "Castro, he invited me to come see him." | |
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| Tommy Irvin on forty years as ag commissioner | |
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| Knoxville Girl | |
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| Crime Close to Home | |
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| "A ripple of dramatic emotion swept over the courtroom." | |
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| The 1939 murder of Grace Bingham Brock | |
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| Hell-Bent and Whiskey Bound: A Scaly Mountain Murder | |
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| As told by Lillie Billingsley | |
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| "Well, now, this is a true story." | |
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| A story of birth and death from Melissa Rogers | |
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| Last words, in a choked voice: "Good-bye, men." | |
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| The hanging of Will Brown | |
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| "Yeah, that stuff's a-growin' wild up there." | |
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| Life and times of former sheriff Marley Cannon | |
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| "Machine Gun Bandits Hold Up Bank of Clayton" | |
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| 1934 bank robbery as recalled by Huell Bramlett | |
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| "I ain't made no liquor in a long time." | |
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| Bass Dickery, "the Wild Russian" | |
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| "Let me tell you about Bass." | |
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| Bill White says, "We hit it off good" | |
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| "Oh, Lord, if you won't help me, don't help them." | |
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| The legend of the Moccasin gang | |
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| A Legacy Lives On | |
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| Sam McMahan on the loss of the Woodards | |
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| Barbara Allen | |
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| Tales and Legends | |
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| "This happened on a cold, windy winter night." | |
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| Family ghost stories from Melissa Rogers | |
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| "Our cemetery is haunted. Did you know it?" | |
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| Louise Tabor relates a tale for Halloween | |
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| "If you believe in spirits at all, like I do …" | |
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| Bob Justus talks about the "little people" | |
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| The Legend of the Deer and the Witch | |
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| Lillie Billingsley's "talk that my daddy told me" | |
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| "You may not believe this, but they say …" | |
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| Numerous Rabun legends from several people | |
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| "These old mountains have lots of magic." | |
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| Fairy tales and folklore from Clyde Hollifield | |
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| "I wasn't hallucinating." | |
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| Greg Stancil's true encounter with the devil | |
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| Echoes | |
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| Mountain Music Fills the Air | |
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| "We went to the Grand Ole Opry in 1960." | |
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| Curtis Blackwell | |
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| "I like the ol' brother-style duet stuff." | |
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| Wallace "Josh" Crowe | |
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| A Story and a Song | |
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| David Holt | |
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| "It's been real, and it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun!" | |
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| LV and Mary Mathis | |
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| A Family Tradition | |
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| Mountain Faith | |
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| Fishers of Men | |
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| The Primitive Quartet | |
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| A Band Is Born | |
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| George Reynolds and The Foxfire Boys | |
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| "Because He Loved Me" | |
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| Morris Stancil and his son, Greg Stancil | |
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| The Banjo Can Also Touch the Heart | |
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| Dale Tilley | |
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| "I'm a musician." | |
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| Gary Waldrep | |
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| "Emergency services pronounced me dead at the scane." | |
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| Young Harmony | |
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| Daddy Was a Farmer | |
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| School Farm Families | |
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| Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School Farm Family Program | |
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| Dr. Karl Anderson | |
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| "I think it was the people that made it so special." | |
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| Frances Fry Deal | |
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| "Jack Acree … washed my mouth out with soap!" | |
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| Jimmy Deal | |
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| "What I've got now, I picked up from Rabun Gap School." | |
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| James Adams | |
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| Farmer's Daughter | |
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| Jo-Anne Stiles Hubbs | |
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| "You just enjoyed living." | |
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| J. T. Coleman | |
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| "Mama ordered one hundred little biddy chickens." | |
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| William Thurmond | |
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| "Life was hard, but there were fun times also." | |
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| Harold Thurmond | |
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| "Being on the school farm was a wonderful thing!" | |
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| Doug Nix | |
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| "I knowed there wasn't nobody else for me." | |
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| Lucy Webb and her daughter Mary Webb Kitchens | |
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| "Raise 'em, feed 'em, and kill 'em." | |
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| Doris Carpenter and here son Jim Carpenter | |
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| "I can remember in the fall of the year …" | |
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| Bobbie Dills Carter | |
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| "They provided the house, and we provided the labor." | |
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| Marjorie Robinson and here son Morris Robinson | |
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| "It was really a blessing for us." | |
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| Tommy and Emma Chastain | |
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| Cotton Gins and Sawmills | |
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| The Jordan Family | |
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| With His own Two Hands | |
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| We'll Tell You How | |
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| Tying a True Lover's Knot | |
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| Research by Lee Carpenter | |
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| The Adaptable Five-in-One Sled | |
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| Kyle Bolen | |
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| Building an Oak Shaving Horse | |
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| With Claud Connell | |
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| Chair Bottoming with Poplar Bark | |
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| Harriet Echols, Elvin Cabe, and Nelson Cabe | |
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| Raising Native Azaleas from Seed | |
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| Coyl Justive | |
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| Forging a Traditional Drawknife | |
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| Barry Stiles | |
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| Braiding a Leather Bullwhip | |
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| Frank Vinson | |
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| The Past Meets the Present | |
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| A Closing Letter from Foxfire President Ann Moore | |
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| Experiencing Traditional Music | |
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| Southeastern Bluegrass and Gospel Festivals | |
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| Editors and Staff | |
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| Contributors | |