20 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Ed Haley, Music
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Appalachia, fiddlers, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, life, Lincoln County, music, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia, Wog Dalton
Moses “Wog” Dalton (1845-1933), an old fiddler from Big Branch of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV
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Hi, J. Glad to hear from you. Regarding copyrights, I only use them to protect my copy of the image given to me by original sources from those folks who may “steal” it from an online source (such as my blog) and misuse it. (This has actually happened quite a bit in the past.) For 25 years, I’ve collected photographs of my local people on Harts Creek and I have a few thousand images with understandings and agreements from the lenders that I use or don’t use the images in certain ways. In other words, I don’t just post them online for folks to grab and use them however they choose. These images were entrusted to me with understandings by the original owners. Honestly, most folks get what I’m doing and fully support it. When/if I publish the images, I always credit my original source as a tribute to them for keeping the original photos and sharing them with me (many researchers do not do this). If you have seen any of my work, whether in articles or books or elsewhere, you will know this to be true. Regarding Wog’s photo, Tootsie Tomblin, Wog’s granddaughter, allowed me to copy her original in 1995. Tootsie was a good friend of mine. If someone else would like to publish their copy of this photo of Wog Dalton, they are free to do so. My copy, however, is not available to all researchers. Tootsie and I had an agreement and I won’t break my promise to her. It’s peculiar to me that of all the photos I have posted, I have had more complaints from Wog Dalton’s family about this. What I am doing here at the blog is actually commonly done by researchers and professors, such as myself. If you examine historic photos published in books (i.e., Devil Anse Hatfield, Billy the Kid), you will see that they are often credited to libraries, archives, and collections. It’s also worthwhile to note that I almost daily “give” away information on this site that no one else has published or shared in any format. Hope this provides some clarity. Thanks.
I’m not sure if you’re interested, but I wanted to also add that Wog Dalton briefly appears as a character in my book, “Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy.” Mr. Dalton is a very interesting character. It’s one of the reasons I wrote a grant in 2001 and partially used it to purchase his wife a modern tombstone. Prior to my writing of this grant, she had a rock to mark her grave. Perhaps you and other family members would like to pool money together and purchase a headstone for the old gentleman shown in this photo?