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1. Fiddler at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026268
Title:
Fiddler at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
'Quilts and handsome coverlids [sic] on display.'

2. Quilts on Display at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026269
Title:
Quilts on Display at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'Quilts and handsome coverlids [sic] on display.'

3. Patrick Gainer Playing Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026270
Title:
Patrick Gainer Playing Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
'One of the display tables at the festival showing some of the domestic items common to a mountain home two generations ago.'

4. Old Domestic Items on Display at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026271
Title:
Old Domestic Items on Display at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'One of the display tables at the festival showing some of the domestic items common to a mountain home two generations ago.'

5. Fiddler at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026272
Title:
Fiddler at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
'Youngsters catch a glimpse of a vanished art. The spinning wheel hums busily before a background of hand-made quilts, representing a variety of designs once familiar to the folk.'

6. Crowd Gathered Around a Spinning Wheel at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026273
Title:
Crowd Gathered Around a Spinning Wheel at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'Youngsters catch a glimpse of a vanished art. The spinning wheel hums busily before a background of hand-made quilts, representing a variety of designs once familiar to the folk.'
'Keith Simmons performing an old song variously titled 'The Devil's Quickstep,' and 'Old Aunt Jenny with the Nightcap On.' The instrument, a true dulcimer, is a family heirloom which was damaged during a Civil War skirmish. Simmons plays it with two mallets made of wool yarn wrapped on corset staies.'

7. Keith Simmons Performing on a Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026274
Title:
Keith Simmons Performing on a Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'Keith Simmons performing an old song variously titled 'The Devil's Quickstep,' and 'Old Aunt Jenny with the Nightcap On.' The instrument, a true dulcimer, is a family heirloom which was damaged during a Civil War skirmish. Simmons plays it with two mallets made of wool yarn wrapped on corset staies.'
'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings. The music has a vaguely oriental flavor, but the tune 'Hell up Cold Holler' is as occidental as Bourbon and branch water.'

8. Fiddlers at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026275
Title:
Fiddlers at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings. The music has a vaguely oriental flavor, but the tune 'Hell up Cold Holler' is as occidental as Bourbon and branch water.'
'Mr. H.B. Bryant, Canvas (Nicholas County). Mr. Bryant is playing the 'dulcimer' which he made. He makes an excellent instrument and sells it for $12.50. It is actually a rebec, an oriental instrument which was brought to England during the Crusades.'

9. Mr. Bryant Playing Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026276
Title:
Mr. Bryant Playing Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'Mr. H.B. Bryant, Canvas (Nicholas County). Mr. Bryant is playing the 'dulcimer' which he made. He makes an excellent instrument and sells it for $12.50. It is actually a rebec, an oriental instrument which was brought to England during the Crusades.'
'Mary Belle Workman singing songs taught to her by her mother; playing an autoharp.'

10. Woman Playing Autoharp at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026277
Title:
Woman Playing Autoharp at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'Mary Belle Workman singing songs taught to her by her mother; playing an autoharp.'
'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings.'

11. Fiddlers at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026278
Title:
Fiddlers at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
Description:
'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings.'

12. Fiddler and Old Man at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.

IDNO:
026279
Title:
Fiddler and Old Man at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.