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  • Subject is exactly "Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"

Ms1997_021_004.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_005.tif
Written on back: "A fast-vanishing art among mountain families in the appalachian mountains, hog-killing was once a way of life. Here they are getting the water hot to scald the hog so the hair will come off. Water temperature is about 155 degrees."

Ms1997_021_006.tif
Written on back: "Log building in Elliot Valley in Montgomery County, Va. was once used for a church."

Ms1997_021_007.tif
Joe Carter, son of A.P. and Sara Carter

Ms1997_021_008.tif
Written on back: "Mountain people grew all the grain they used on the farm. On every creek there was a water powered grist mill where they got their corn, wheat, and buckwheat ground into flour. Here is the snow-covered water race of a grist mill in…

Ms1997_021_009.tif
Written on back: "Nestled in a cove in Greenup County, Ky. is Sophia Stuarts log home. Sophia was the late sister of Jesse Stuart, well known Kentucky writer."

Ms1997_021_010.tif
Written on back: "The only way the farmer had to get his crops from the field to the farm was horse-drawn wagons or fled. Here is a 'Jolt' wagon in Floyd County, Va. They was called 'jolt' because they rode so rough."

Ms1997_021_011.tif
Jesse Stuart's home in West Hollow, Kentucky

Ms1997_021_012.tif
Written on back: "Landscape in the heart of the appalachian mountains of Kentucky. Willie Gibbons and his wife Nancy raised a family of 12 kids on this 85 acre farm and three room cabin."

Ms1997_021_013.tif
Written on back: "All of the mountain families grew they ate and built everything on their farm with strong hands and a willing heart. Here Hubert Hensley and his wife are getting ready to milk his cow."

Ms1997_021_014.tif
Written on back: Garden planting time in the Blue Ridge. Here Hubert Hensley, who still does his farm work by horses, is getting ready to plow his garden."

Ms1997_021_015.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_016.tif
Corn shocks in corn field

Ms1997_021_017.tif
1921 McCormick Deering Tractor

Ms1997_021_018.tif
Joyce Bowman's mother was raised in this cabin

Ms1997_021_019.tif
Written on back: "After working all day, the mountain man always found time for music. Here John N. Hylton from Floyd County, Va. finds time to play his homemade banjo."

Ms1997_021_020.tif
Wagon and wooden corn planter at Mabry Mill

Ms1997_021_021.tif
John Newton Hylton's mill

Ms1997_021_022.tif
John Newton Hylton grinding corn meal

Ms1997_021_023.tif
Written on back: "This was took when Earl Palmer & I was on one of our trips"

Ms1997_021_024.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_025.tif
Grandfather Mountain, N. C.

Ms1997_021_026.tif
Corn shocks in corn field

Ms1997_021_027.tif
Indian Creek covered bridge

Ms1997_021_028.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_029.tif
Turner Chapel near Keystone, W. Va.

Ms1997_021_030.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me" written on back.

Ms1997_021_031.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_032.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_033.tif
"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Ms1997_021_034.tif
Taken in Meadows of Dan, Patrick, Va.

Ms1997_021_035.tif
Bob White Covered Bridge in Woolwine, Va.

Ms2008-020_BerkleeCollegeOfMusic_video_2007_0419.mp4
Berklee College of Music tribute video created in response to the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech.

Ms2008-020_SavannahCollege_letter_undated036.pdf
Letter of condolence from Dustin Berry and Nicole Aguilar to Virginia Tech.

Ms2008-020_BerkleeCollegeOfMusic_letter_2007_0507028.pdf
Letter of condolence from Lawrence E. Bethune to Dean Jerry Niles, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.

blacksburg_map_1982.pdf
Street map of the town of Blacksburg, prepared for the Blacksburg Engineering Department in 1982.
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