Jerry Wayne Williamson papers 1913-2001.

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Jerry Wayne Williamson papers 1913-2001.

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Papers consist of Williamson's scholarly work. Materials include research notes for Hillbillyland, photographs, newspaper articles, moviesynopses and scripts, 167 videotapes of movies and television programs, videotapes of interviews, and scrapbooks. Interviewees include Dwight Billings, Marie Cirillo, Loyal Jones, Helen Lewis, and David Whisnant. Scrapbook subjects include country music and yard art.

8.5 linear feet.

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Billings, Dwight B., 1948-...

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James, Jesse, 1847-1882

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Whisnant, David E., 1938-

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David Whisnant is an author and professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gathered the material in this collection in the course of his research on James Boyd and Susan Chester. James Boyd (1888-1944), author, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his life in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Three of his five novels, Drums (1925), Marching On (1927), and Long Hunt (1930), are set in North Carolina. Boyd ow...

Williamson, J. W. (Jerry Wayne), 1944-

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Jerry Wayne Williamson (1944- ) worked as an English professor at Appalachian State University from 1970-2000. He taught classes in Appalachian literature and film as well as an Appalachian Studies Colloquium. He also edited the Appalachian Journal, An Appalachian symposium: essays written in honor of Cratis D. Williams (1977), and Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal interviews. He wrote The myth of the conqueror: Prince Henry Stuart (1978), Southern mountaineers in silent films (19...

Appalachian State University. Center for Appalachian Studies

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Lewis, Helen Matthews.

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Dr. Helen Matthews Lewis is considered to be one of the founders of Appalachian Studies. Participated in interracial civil rights activities in the 1940s. Lectured at several institutions of higher education in the Appalachian region. Worked as an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University, the Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center and as the interim director of Berea College's Appalachian Center. From 1977 to 1997, she worked at the Highlander Research and Educational C...

Cirillo, Marie.

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Jones, Loyal, 1928-....

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Lunsford was particularly noted for his memory collection of 300 ballads, tunes and tales and the establishment in 1927, of the Ashville, North Carolina based Mountain Dance and Folk Festival which has continued to the present time. During his long career, Lunsford practiced law, published a song collection, and made several documentary recordings, while continuing to perform (vocal, banjo, and fiddle), collect songs, and write a few of his own, including "That Good Old Mountain Dew". He travele...