Stories

Collection Items

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  The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, completed in 1893. It is believed that Tanner painted this image after visiting Highlands, NC, and may have been inspired by the area.

  Tags African American music, Banjo, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Highlands, History, Mountain Music
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  Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer by Judge Felix E. Alley

  Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer by Judge Felix E. Alley.

  Tags Felix Alley, Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Mountain Music, History, Kinder Cole, Old Time Songs
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  "Lunsford Records Kidder Cole" (1929)

  "'Kidder Cole', Mountain Song, Recorded By Firm
  Composed by Felix Eugene Alley and sung by B.L. Lunsford"
  
  Article written in the Asheville Citizen-Times about Bascom L. Lunsford recording the Felix Alley song "Kidder Cole" about unrequited love in Cashiers valley, NC with the Brunswick company. Lunsford sings and plays banjo on the recording.

  Tags B.L. Lunsford, Banjo, Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Mountain Music, Kidder Cole, Old Time music, record
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  graphic design stories

  Tags Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Musical Stories, Mountain Music, Oral history
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  Mountain Landscape, Highlands, NC

  Oil Painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Mountain Landscape." Tanner was an African American painter who visited and was inspired by Highlands, NC.

  Tags African American Art, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Highlands Mountain Music, Mountain Landscape Highlands, Oil Painting, Stories
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  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Photo of African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner taken by Fredrick Gutekunst.

  Tags African American Art, Artist, Hanry Ossawa Tanner, Stories
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  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Photographic image by Frederick Gutekunst of Henry Ossawa Tanner part of the Smithsonian Institute.

  Tags African American Art, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Stories
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  "Hunt is on for Original 'Kidder Cole' Tune" pt 1

  Parris, John, "Hunt is on for Original 'Kidder Cole' Tune," Asheville Citizen-Times, Sunday, March 19, 1972. https://www.newspapers.com/image/195570185
  

  Tags Felix Alley, Kidder Cole, Mountain Music, Stories
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  "The Search is on for the Original Tune of 'Kidder Cole'" pt 2

  Parris, John. "The Search is on for the Original Tune of 'Kidder Cole,'" Asheville Citizen-Times, Sunday, March 19, 1972.
  https://www.newspapers.com/image/195570233

  Tags Felix Alley, Kidder Cole, Mountain Music, Stories
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  Sylvia Sammons

  Sylvia Sammons high school yearbook photo from Wade Hampton High School class of 1962.

  Tags Balcony concerts, Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Mountain Music, Stories, Sylvia Sammons