23 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted in Ed Haley, Ferrellsburg, Native American History, Women's History
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Appalachia, culture, Ferrellsburg, history, life, Lincoln County, Native American History, photos, Stella Mullins, West Virginia
Stella (Abbott) Mullins of Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, West Virginia
22 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Harts, Pearl Adkins Diary, Women's History
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Appalachia, culture, genealogy, Harts, history, life, Lincoln County, Pearl Adkins, photos, West Virginia, writers, writing
Pearl Adkins (left), Harts, Lincoln County, WV
20 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Harts
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Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, genealogy, Harts, life, Lincoln County, Mae Brumfield, photos, West Virginia
Your humble author with his absolute dearest friend, Mae Brumfield, Harts, Lincoln County, WV, c.1995.
18 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in Ed Haley, Harts, Women's History
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Appalachia, culture, Garnet Adkins, Harts, history, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Garnet Dingess Adkins of Harts, Lincoln County, WV, c. 1995.
17 Monday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Sandy Valley, Ed Haley, Ferrellsburg
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Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, feud, history, Inez, Kentucky, Lawrence Kirk, life, Martin County, photos
Lawrence Kirk, Inez, Martin County, KY, 4 March 1995.
16 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Harts
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Appalachia, Charley Davis, Elizabeth Davis, genealogy, Harts, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Charley and Elizabeth Davis, Harts, Lincoln County, West Virginia, 1988
14 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek
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Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, Emmett Dingess, genealogy, Harts Creek, life, Logan County, photos, Shively, West Virginia
Cousin Emmett Dingess and myself, Shively, Logan County, WV, 2011
13 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Dollie, Ed Haley, Women's History
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Appalachia, Big Ugly Creek, culture, Eunice Ferrell, history, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Eunice Peyton Ferrell of Big Ugly Creek, Lincoln County, WV, 1995
12 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek
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Appalachia, culture, education, Harts Creek, history, life, Logan County, photos, Piney, Piney School, West Virginia
The old Piney School on West Fork, Logan County, West Virginia, 2008
11 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Ed Haley, Women's History
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Appalachia, Big Ugly Creek, culture, Doska Adkins, genealogy, history, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Doska Duty Adkins and her stuffed squirrel, Big Ugly Creek, Lincoln County, WV, August 1995
10 Monday Feb 2014
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Blackberry Blossom, Cacklin Hen, Charleston, Ed Haley, fiddler, Forked Deer, Great Depression, Hell Among the Yearlings, history, Huntington, life, music, photos, Ragged John, WOBU
Ed Haley records offered for sale during the Depression, Charleston, WV
09 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted in Civil War, Logan, Music, Women's History
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Appalachia, banjo, Cathy Grant, Chief Logan State Park, civil war, fiddler, fiddling, life, Logan, Logan County, music, photos, Union Army, West Virginia
A Civil War re-enactor plays the banjo while Cathy Grant plays the fiddle at Chief Logan State Park in Logan County, WV, September 2002.07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Ed Haley, John Hartford
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Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, history, Huntington, John Hartford, life, Marshall University, music, photos, West Virginia
My first meeting with John Hartford, Morrow Library, Huntington, West Virginia, 1 March 1995
06 Thursday Feb 2014
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Appalachia, Bill Adkins, culture, genealogy, Harts, history, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Bill Adkins of Harts, Lincoln County, West Virginia, c.1992
05 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Ed Haley
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Appalachia, culture, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, life, Logan County, Peter Mullins, photos, West Virginia
Peter Mullins with unknown woman, circa 1890s
05 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Big Sandy Valley, Coal, Matewan
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Baldwin-Felts Agency, Bluefield, Cabell Testerman, coal, crime, culture, life, Matewan, photos, Sid Hatfield, United Mine Workers of America, West Virginia
Historical marker at Matewan, Mingo County, West Virginia, 2008.
22 Wednesday Jan 2014
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Appalachia, culture, genealogy, Harts, Johnny Golden Adkins, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Johnny Golden Adkins of Harts, Lincoln County, WV
22 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in John Hartford, Music
22 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in Ed Haley, John Hartford, Music
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Carol Hardway, Cliff Top, culture, fiddlers, fiddling, history, John Hartford, life, music, photos, West Virginia, Wilson Douglas
Carol Hardway, Wilson Douglas, and John Hartford at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Cliff Top, West Virginia, 1995
19 Sunday Jan 2014
Posted in Harts
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Appalachia, Bob Brumfield, culture, Ethel Brumfield, genealogy, Harts, history, Jessie Brumfield, life, Lincoln County, Nora Brumfield, photos, West Virginia
Nora Pack Brumfield, Bob “Jaker” Brumfield, Ethel Brumfield, and Jessie Brumfield, standing by the Charley Brumfield house in Harts, Lincoln County, WV, 1920s
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