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Appalachia, Ashland, Bobby Taylor, Ed Haley, Ed Haley Memorial Fiddle Contest, fiddle, fiddle contest, fiddling, history, J.P. Fraley, John Harrod, Kentucky, Poage Landing Days
Ed Haley Fiddle Contest (2000)
20 Thursday May 2021
OtterTales
Writings from my travels and experiences. High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. Mark Twain
Our Appalachia: A Blog Created by Students of Brandon Kirk
This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and promotion of history and culture in Appalachia.
Piedmont Trails
Genealogy and History in North Carolina and Beyond
Truman Capote
A site about one of the most beautiful, interesting, tallented, outrageous and colorful personalities of the 20th Century
Brandon Ray Kirk 
Hi Brandon, is there any chance that the biography of Ed Haley will ever be published?
In its current form, as John wanted it, I don’t think so. He gave a written document to me that gave me the rights to publish the book—and told me to publish it while on his death bed—but his daughter, who had little contact with him in life and knew nothing about our Haley research, challenged my claim after he died. So we remain at a stalemate. Sad. He would be disappointed. In fact, he warned me about his family, which is why he gave the document to me in front of his wife and step-grandson.