Reference Books You May Borrow:

Ball, Bonnie. The Melungeons. Johnson City, TN: Overmountain P, 1992.

Beisswenger, Drew. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine. Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 2002.

Carawan, Guy, and Candy Carawan. Voices from the Mountains: The People of Appalachia--Their Faces, Their Words, Their Songs. 1975. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Carter, Janette. Living with Memories. Hiltons, VA: Carter Family Memorial Music Center, 1983.

Dyer, Joyce, ed. Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1998.

Fry, Gladys-Marie. Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Ante-Bellum South. Dutton Studio, 1990.

Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1990.

Kimbrough, David L. Taking up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995.

Levy, Builder. Images of Appalachian Coalfields. (Introduction by Helen Matthews Lewis)

Lilly, John. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999.

Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax. Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads. Ed. Ruth Crawford Seeger. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1941.

McClun, Diana, and Laura Nownes. Quilts Galore: Quiltmaking Styles and Techniques. Quilt Digest, 1990.

Murphy, Michael. The Appalachian Dulcimer Book. Folksey Press, 1976.

Plumley, William. Things Appalachian. Charleston: Morris Harvey College Publications, 1976.

Richie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands. U P of Kentucky, 1988.

Tobin, Jacqueline L., and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.

Waldvogel, Marikay. Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression. Rutledge, 1990.

Waldvogel, Marikay, and Barbara Brockman. Patchwork Souvenirs. Rutledge, 1993.

Wentworth, Judy. Quilts. Studio Editions, 1989.

Zwonitzer, Mark and Charles Hirsberg. Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

NOTE:

If you are working with song lyrics or researching songs, I have a wide variety of songbooks that I would be glad to share. In addition, I have many years of Goldenseal magazine.