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December 17, 2009 Appalachian music / Ballad singers / Kentucky

Old time musician Jean Ritchie recently suffered a stroke, and is in the hospital

Not all of us CAN live to be old, or WANT to, and so arrive earlier at that entrance into the next world. Lord, I’ll stay long as you need me.

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November 15, 2009 Podcast

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We open today’s show with an excerpt from “Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow’s History of His Appalachian Jesus’ Name Tradition.”

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November 7, 2009 Podcast

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We open today’s show with a look at FDR’s 1939 proclamation changing Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November.

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November 6, 2009 Appalachian music / Ballad singers

‘On the Banks of the Ohio’—an old murder ballad

‘Willie’ invites his lover for a walk, during which she rejects his marriage proposal. Once they are alone on the river bank, he murders her.

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October 30, 2009 North Carolina / Writers

She’s like the great eagle she trains to hunt snakes–beautiful, terrible, & utterly unafraid

Ron Rash’s Serena follows the fortunes of the eponymous central character and her husband as they create a timber barony in 1930’s America.

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