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7290
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Earl and Max Carawan are third generation musicians from rural Hyde County. Rufus Carawan, their grandfather, encouraged all his family members to learn to play the banjo, fiddle, and guitar for square dances and local gatherings. For years the brothers played old-time music, bluegrass, and early country music. They received a 2004 Brown-Hudson award for traditional artists for continuing a musical legacy in their part of the state.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p55-57, por
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7291
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Connie Mason has been on the staff of the North Carolina Maritime Museum for fifteen years as a curator of history. Her numerous responsibilities include folklorist, historian, musician, songwriter, and the producer of folklife programs, such as Traditional Trades and Pastimes and Coastal Folkways Day. She was nominated for a Brown-Hudson Award by the Maritime Museum and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum. She received the award “for her generous and imaginative efforts in collecting, interpreting, and exhibiting Down East folklife for the people of North Carolina.â€
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p58-61, por
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7292
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The North Carolina Folklore Society's Community Traditions Award is given to organizations and individuals that make valuable contributions to the state's folklife. Karen Willis Amspacher received the award in 2004 for her publication, THE MAILBOAT, that takes its name from Down East mailboats which brought freight, produce, mail, news, and visiting friends to coastal and island communities in the 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p62-63, il
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7293
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On May 3, 2004, President and Mrs. George W. Bush presented the Preserve America Presidential Award to the staff of the North Carolina Arts Council. The award recognizes agencies, non-profit organizations, and individuals in the Appalachian region of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia who collaborated on a project called the Blue Ridge Heritage Initiative. Since 1996, those involved in the project have worked to develop heritage tourism as a way of preserving the region's cultural traditions.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p4-6, il
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7294
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Hurricane Isabel did more than flood and destroy homes in the Down East section of North Carolina in 2003. It wreaked havoc upon family heirlooms and community treasures, including family Bibles, photo albums, musical instruments, and ancient quilts. While volunteers from across the state responded to the community needs of food, water and shelter, Vogel called in a team of conservators from the National Park Service Harpers Ferry Center Conservation Lab to evaluate, restore, and repair family treasures. Vogel received the award for “his leadership and example in the rescue of artifacts of Down East culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, and for his dedication to preserving, appreciating, and celebrating the human accomplishments of our traditional maritime communities.â€
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p64-66, il
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Record #:
8385
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The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Eugenia Cecelia Conway a 2005 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award for her forty-five years of work “exploring and promoting the special excellences of folk musicians, important regional traditions, and the African American influences on the development of Southern and mountain banjo traditions.†She has produced a body of scholarly works, audio recordings, videos, and films that preserve and document notable performances and interviews with important traditional artists.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005,
p55-59, por, bibl
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Record #:
8386
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Although born in New York City, Paul Brown developed his love of traditional Southern music from exposure to it by his mother, who was from an old Virginia family. He taught himself to play the banjo and received a National Endowment of the Arts grant to study banjo with one of North Carolina's great banjo players. In 1980, he moved to Mt. Airy permanently. He worked on the local radio station and at NPR in Washington, D.C. Both places gave him a platform from which to share his love of traditional music and the people who perform it. Brown received a 2005 Brown-Hudson Award for a lifetime of devotion to the people who create and keep alive Southern string-band music.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005,
p59-63, por, bibl
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8388
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The Capital City Five formed in 1944. Two of the founding members are still with the group, and there has been very little turnover in the sixty-two years they have sung together. The “newest†singing member joined in 1966. Musically, they are firmly rooted in tradition, drawing from old hymns and spirituals, early recordings, and songs learned at home during childhood. The group maintains a busy schedule, performing across North Carolina and from Atlanta to Boston. The Capital City Five received a 2005 Brown-Hudson Award for “their musical excellence, artistic integrity, traditional base, dedication to faith, activity as performers, community involvement, and longevity as a group.â€
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005,
p64-66, por
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8390
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The North Carolina Folklore Society's Community Traditions Award is given to organizations and individuals that make valuable contributions to the state's folklife. The first award was given in 1992. The Terry family received the 2005 Community Traditions Award for contributions they have made to the heritage and music of the state over the past one hundred years. The family's origin in the Little River Valley date back earlier than 1750. The family comprises the heart of the Doc Branch Band, and they are well-grounded in old-time fiddle and country tunes they learned from their father's generation.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005,
p67-69, por
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8500
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The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970, and Dorothea and Janette Moser are the first folklorists who come from two generations of the same family to receive the award. Their father, Artus Moser, received the award in 1972. Like their father, the daughters went to college, taught college courses about the Appalachian traditions, and collected, preserved, and performed the material of their Appalachian heritage.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p4-7, il
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8538
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The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Gary Carden a 2006 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award. Over the years Carden has become a spokesperson for the Appalachian region where he was raised. Growing up in the home of his grandparents, he was steeped from his earliest years in the Appalachian mountain lore, culture, and language. Carden received the award for evoking his native region in drama and storytelling.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p7-10, por
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8539
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The North Carolina Folklore Society's Community Traditions Award is given to organizations and individuals that make valuable contributions to the state's folk life. The first award was given in 1992. The 2006 Award was presented to Mrs. Nelia Hyatt of Asheville, who has hosted a traditional music jam on her property for more than fifty years. The jam, which is held every Thursday night year-round, features bluegrass, old time, and early country music. Her husband, a talented musician and instrument maker, started the gathering. After his death, she continued it. What is remarkable is that Mrs. Hyatt is not a musician, but continues the tradition because of her love of the music and the people who perform it.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p11-12, il, por
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9426
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Shag dancing originated over sixty years ago in the Carolinas and has become a permanent part of Southern culture. In the early days only a small number of people had the desire to learn the intricate steps of the dance. Today, there are over one hundred shag clubs, located primarily in the Carolinas, and shag books, periodicals, radio stations, and websites. Brown traces the history of this style of dancing.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2007,
p18-32, il, bibl
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9427
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Princeville, founded in 1865, is the oldest town in the United States incorporated by African Americans. The flooding that followed Hurricane Floyd in 1999 destroyed the town. The was not the first time the town had experienced flooding, but it was the first time that national attention was turned on this small, rural community. Princeville was acknowledged as a place of great historical culture and significance. Refusing a FEMA buyout of their damaged or destroyed homes, the citizens chose to remain and rebuild their community.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2007,
p33-53, il, bibl, f
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9428
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Benson in Johnston County is an example of a small agricultural community that once depended on the mule for farming and mule-trading business for economic sustenance. Those days have long since passed, but each September for the past fifty-eight years, Benson has celebrated its mule history with a festival called Mule Days. The festival attracts between 50,000 to 70,000 people from all over the country.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2007,
p54-67, il, bibl
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