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This is a recording of Bobby McMillon by Rodney Sutton and Jim Taylor, c. 2013, singing the folk song " The Old Churchyard" (Roud 3386).

This is a recording of Bobby McMillon by Rodney Sutton, c. 2013, singing a fragment of the folk song/ballad "Mary of the Wild Moor" (Roud 155).

This is a recording of Bobby McMillon by Rodney Sutton, c. 2013, singing the song "Faded Coat" originally by J. H. McNaughton, (Roud, 4293).

This is a podcast hosted by William Ritter and Sheila Kay Adams. In this episode, Adams discusses her memories of being with Bobby McMillon at the 1976 Festival of American Folklife in Washington DC, directed by Ralph Rinzler. Ritter and Adams also…

This is a finding aid for the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection, created by Paul G. Newton in 1979.

This is a typed transcription of a diary kept by Squire Osborne Deaver and James Osborne McElroy from 1886-1896 in Forks of Ivy, North Carolina.

This is an account of Mrs. Edna Moore, wife of R.L. Moore, who became president of Mars Hill College in 1897. The piece talks about the fact that the school had no system of refrigeration, so Mrs. Moore canned, dried, and otherwise preserved food to…

R.L. Moore describes his first visit to Mars Hill, before he became president of Mars Hill College in 1897.

A transcription of the ballad "The Three Little Babes" (Child 79, Round 196, also known as "The Wife of Usher's Well"), handwritten by seventh grader Bonnie Meadows in Spring Creek in Madison County, North Carolina.

This is a view of Bailey Mountain with Mars Hill College in the foreground.