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This is an early traditional fiddle tune from Kentucky named for a gap in the Cumberland Mountains, played here on clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar. This is the old time version of Cumberland Gap. It’s the one you usually hear with vocals. The banjo is in special Cumberland Gap tuning. “Anybody can do it and that is the beauty of
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Mary Breckinridge rode through the mountains in the summer of 1928, visiting lonely cabins and riding up steep mountain canyons. She gave nursing care to men, women, and especially children. Word spread that she was a nurse and mothers flocked to her with their sick babies. For the next 40 years, Mary Breckinridge served the Kentucky mountain people as a
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South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties — probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America — Leonard W. Roberts recorded this
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About this ItemTitleMountain woman by her home up Stinking Creek, Pine Mountain, KentuckyContributor NamesWolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographerCreated / Published1940 Aug.Subject Headings United States–Kentucky–Knox County–Stinking CreekHeadingsNitrate negatives.GenreNitrate negativesNotes Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Temp. note:
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Check out these Black Mountain, Kentucky images: Black Mountain Image by cindy47452With the heavy rain we had the night we stayed in Perry County, Kentucky, there were thousands of these little streams pouring large amounts of water. The water comes from the top of the mountains and runs all the way to the road. I love the black color of
Keep reading“A Stool for Me” is here: www.youtube.com “New Shoe for Bill” is here: www.youtube.com Film segment from 1974 about a rural mailman who delivers mail on horseback in the mountains of Kentucky. This is a song about kids growing up in the mountains of Kentucky and my perception of how a Mentally handicapped person was treated because of our lack
Keep readingRegistration is now open for our June 6 – 11, 2010 Appalachian Mission Trip at www.stfonline.org Spirit & Truth Fellowship International is announcing a mission trip in the hills of the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Have you ever wanted to go on a mission trip to serve and help the underprivileged? Here is your opportunity right here in the USA
Keep readingAwesome blues tune released on Federal in 1962. The plug side is Way Up In The Mountains Of Kentucky. I believe it’s Freddy King on lead guitar. Audio is transfered from original vinyl 45. Video Rating: 5 / 5
Keep readingMacel Ely, the great-nephew of Brother Claude Ely, spent years conducting oral-history interviews with more than 1000 people in the Appalachian Mountains. The result is a 360-page hardback biography with 290 sepia photographs. The accompanying CD has rare and electrifying audio recordings of Pentecostal worship services in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia accompanied by a nearly-40-minute fiery sermon entitled
Keep readingWeird stuff? Are there straight edgers deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky? We learn the meaning of Temperance near the Robinson Forest. Ping =^.^= For Complete Playlists & Full Episodes GoBigBlue.com VideoFreeLexington.com Video Rating: 5 / 5 Billy Hill & the Hillbillies quintet, live at Disneyland, in the great outdoors, on the streets of Frontierland, in front of the
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