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This recording is of Mae Phillips (Maw Maw Phillips) singing a fragment of the folk song "Drunkard's Dream". It was recorded by Bobby McMillon c. August, 1974, in Lower Creek, Lenoir, North Carolina.

This is a recording of Mae Phillips (Maw Maw Phillips) singing a fragment of the folk song "Drunkard's Dream". It was recorded by Bobby McMillon c. August, 1974, in Lower Creek, Lenoir, North Carolina.

This is a recording of Mae Phillips (Maw Maw Phillips) singing the folk song "Companion Draw Nigh." It was recorded c. August, 1974, by Bobby McMillon in Lower Creek, Lenoir, North Carolina.

This is a recording of Bobby McMillon telling about 'Maw Maw' Mae Phillips' early life and Mae's mother, Becky Shule. Bobby recorded this in Lower Creek, Lenoir, North Carolina.

This is a photograph of Roger Howell teaching elementary school students on Bailey Mountain in Mars Hill, North Carolina

This is a newspaper clipping saved by Bascom Lamar Lunsford about a mountain music festival in Canton, NC

This is a photograph of Bascom Lamar Lunsford holding a fiddle.

This is a photograph of Samantha Bumgarner holding a banjo. Bumgarner was a musician from Jackson County, North Carolina, born in the late 19th century.

Students in AS 344: Creative Traditions in Southern Appalachia made cornmeal from Hickory king corn grown in Mars Hill University's Heritage Garden. They then used this cornmeal to make cornbread using a variety of written and oral recipes.

Hickory king corn, grown in the Mars Hill University Heritage Garden in 2023