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When Rusty Williams Came to Town

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8168
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During the 1930s and early 1940s, Rusty Williams took his traveling tent show along the east coast. A native of Durham, Williams started each year in Florida and traveled north following the harvest season. His shows included his wife Dot and their two daughters. Usually playing to a packed audience, the Williams family mixed comedy with singing and dancing. Before television's popularity, towns waited all year for the traveling tent show. The Williams family closed the traveling tent show in the late 1940s and settled in Wilson. Rusty Williams became a sheriff deputy and later a court bailiff.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 5, Oct 1984, p2, il
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