Stories of mountain folk broadcast: 2009-01-17

Stories of mountain folk broadcast: 2009-01-17

Arts

Autobiography

Farm life

Floods

Handicraft

History

Music

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Amy introduces the new Stories of Mountain Folk blog. Doreyl talks with Susan Morgan Leveille of Dillsboro, who tells the story of her historic family who started the Penland School of Crafts. Amy’s guest is Jack Brown Wiggins from Robbinsville, who talks about his father Walter, a farm agent in Graham County in the 1930s and ’40s. He also discusses the flood of 1940 in Jackson County. The show ends with “Down to the River to Pray” by the Muses.

Stories of Mountain Folk - Radio Programs

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

2009-01-17

Cain, Doreyl Ammons

Garza, Amy Ammons

Leveille, Susan Morgan

Muses (Musical group)

Wiggins, Jack Brown

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Graham County (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

North Carolina, Western

30 minutes(duration)

Stories of Mountain Folk