Record #:

14728

Author(s):

Pearson, James Larkin

Abstract:

The murder of Laura Foster was supposed to be a very secret affair, but a mountain poet, Thomas C. Land, wrote a song about it, and people in North Carolina and Virginia have been singing about it ever since.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 12 Issue 21, Oct 1944, p11, 19

Subject(s):

Ballads; Murder