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| 10:30 - 11:45 am |
SUNDAY MEETING; MOUNTAIN MUSIC; SNAKE TALES. Mrs. Bonnie Trentham Myers, Mr. Harvey Oakley, Ms. Theresa Williams, Mrs. Janavee Ownby |
| 10:30 - 11:45 am |
MOUNTAIN BASKET WEAVING Class taught by Mr.
Connie Clabo. Learn how white oak splits are made and how to weave them into baskets the way earliest settlers practiced the art. |
| Noon - 1:15 pm |
'YARBS' OR HERBS; FARM LIVING; SITTIN' WITH THE
SICK TALES. Mr. Herb Clabo, Mrs. Mattie Belle Trentham, Mr. Von Ogle |
| 1:30 - 2:20 pm |
HOG CALLING CONTEST - Area music show comedians
and comediennes are invited to join festival goers in a bone fide hog calling contest. Arnold, The Comedy Barn mascot pig, will appear for the competition and all the laughs. |
| 2:30 - 3:20 pm |
Class in making CORN SHUCK CHAIR BOTTOMS - Mrs. Janavee Ownby twists and weaves corn shucks into sturdy chair seats the way her Grandma Nancy McCarter did in the early part of last century. |
| 2:30 - 3:45 pm |
FOCUS ON COMMUNITY: MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS, STORES & CHURCHES. Mr. Glenn Cardwell talks with Rev. Melvin Carr, Mrs. Archie Ray McMahan, Mr. A.C. Myers, and Mrs. Wilma Proffitt |
| 4:00 - 5:15 pm |
THE FORGE'S EARLY YEARS, CHILDHOOD MEMORIES,
COURTIN ' TALES. Mr. Bill Allen, Mrs. Martha Graham, Mr. English McCarter |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 am |
WHISTLE OVER THE MOUNTAINS slide show
presentation by Bill Hooks, co-author of the book by that same name. The presentation is a thorough look at the Little River Lumber Company operations in the Great Smoky Mountains |
| Noon - 12:50 pm |
SPELLING BEE - Ms. Robin Goddard learned from
the best: Miss Elsie Burrell. Miss Burrell, until she was 95, taught visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains how to spell the old-time way, from an aged blue back speller. Ms. Goddard continued the tradition. She and Ms. Kari Lucas Garrison's Honors English Class demonstrate the method used in Smoky Mountain one-room schoolhouses. - Terri Lucas Garrison's teacher fill-in will bring her class - call her at school to schedule |
| 1:00 - 1:50 pm |
THE OLD MILL - Mrs. Kathy Simmons and Mrs. Emma
Huskey - Mrs. Simmons's father purchased The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge in the 1930's. Hear her family stories of this historic treasure. Mrs. Emma Huskey tells how the great millstones made it to this rugged mountain region all the way from France before there was even a real road across the Great Smoky Mountains. |
| 2:00 - 2:50 pm |
OLD HARP SINGING SCHOOL - Come and learn how to
sing the shape notes in four part harmony the way our ancestors learned in these mountains years ago. Old Harp music has a poetry that is uplifting in spirit and provides great instruction for life. Ms. Kathleen Mavournin, a harp singer of many years, will teach the music class; books will be provided. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm |
MOUNTAIN BASKET WEAVING CLASS taught by Mr. Connie Clabo. Learn how white oak splits are made and how to weave them into baskets the way earliest settlers practiced the art. |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 am |
OLD HARP SINGING - East Tennessee singers worship in song - with traditional singing of shaped notes (seven note style: do, ra, mi, fa, sol, la, ti). Come ready to borrow a songbook and join in.
Martha Franklin Graham's mother put an old harp songbook in her lap when she was only a child and told her to sit still in church. Learning the music kept her quiet, and she is still singing shaped notes today, along with her sister Henrietta Sharp, a handful of other mountain folks, and others from around the region.
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| 11:30 am - 12:20 pm |
FOXFIRE: FROM CLASSROOM PROJECT TO APPALACHIAN PHENOMENON - Mrs. Margie Bennett, co-editor of Foxfire Eight and Nine and two Foxfire magazine students of Georgia's Rabun County High School talk about the creation of the Foxfire Book Series. |
| 12:30 - 1:20 pm |
BUNKIE LYNN: "THE USE OF DIALECT AND HUMOR IN
SOUTHERN COMEDY" Bunkie Lynn, of Hendersonville, TN, is author of a 488 page novel that tells a raucous tale of stolen inheritance, murder and mayhem in the fictitious Tennessee town of Chestnut Ridge. "I know the American South, and I think I know how to make people laugh," Lynn writes. Her latest book, "The Big Girls' Guide to Life" is praised by reviewers for its 'laugh-out-loud style.' |
| 1:30 - 2:20 pm |
FRANCES FOX SHAMBAUGH: THE STORY OF THE COTTAAGE WEAVING INDUSTRY AND THE PI BETA PHI SETTLEMENT SCHOOL is told by one of the school's former students, Frances Fox Shambaugh. Mrs. Shambaugh holds a degree in history and religion. She served as assistant designer in the cottage weaving industry under Nella Hill - Arrowcraft Shop's designer of 30 years. The artist currently is a fiber artist and studio weaver with her own line of art to wear clothing. |
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| All Schedules Subject To Change. |
