02 Tuesday Apr 2019
Posted in John Hartford, Lincoln County Feud, Music
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art, Bonaparte's Retreat, Brandon Kirk, Brownlow's Dream, Dixie, fiddling, history, John Hartford, Museum of Appalachia, music, The Lincoln County Crew
An artist presented this framed drawing to John at the Museum of Appalachia in the late 1990s…and he gave it to me.
I asked John to make a tape of these tunes for me, and he did.
Writings from my travels and experiences. High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. Mark Twain
This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and promotion of history and culture in Appalachia.
Genealogy and History in North Carolina and Beyond
A site about one of the most beautiful, interesting, tallented, outrageous and colorful personalities of the 20th Century
Brandon Ray Kirk 
Those are treasures. The Ed Haley manuscript, which I’ve read more than once, is a treasure as well. If you make any copies of that tape I would surely like to have one.
The posts about local news stories reminds me so much of rural Alabama where I come from…everybody knew everybody’s business!
Every county in America should have a historian such as you. Those stories tell us as as much or more about us than the “big” stories.
Thanks and regards, Terry Anderson Garland, Texas
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Thanks, Terry! I’m working on creating a website/blog that allows me to share the 200+ Ed Haley project (and other projects) cassette interviews conducted by John and I between 1991 and 2000. I have digitized the interviews, which also feature plenty of music. I really appreciate your kind words. I miss John every day. Hopefully, the Haley manuscript will be available in print form someday.