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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 | |