Cuthbert, John A.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John Cuthbert, Compiler, Folk Music Recordings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4702
Scope and Contents
Assorted folk music recordings from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, featuring the following performers:Arnold "Boodge" Monk, recorded by John Cuthbert and Paul Yeaton. Guitar played in a three-finger (thumb, index, middle) style, two selections accompanied with fiddle. Recorded in Athens, WV, April 14, 1981.Florena Evans Duling, unaccompanied ballads and two spoken ghost stories. Recorded in Scherr, WV, September 7, 1978.Annie G. Evans, recorded in...
Dates:
circa 1978-1983 and undated
Louis Watson Chappell (1890-1981), Folklorist, Research Papers, Sound Recordings, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2480
Overview
Research papers and sound recordings compiled by Louis Watson Chappell, an English Professor and folklorist at West Virginia University who collected, documented, and preserved West Virginia's folk music and folk traditions. He was born in Belvidere, North Carolina and educated in English Language and Literature at Wake Forest University (B.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.A.). Receiving a faculty appointment at West Virginia University in 1922, Chappell embarked upon a career...
Dates:
1815-1980
West Virginia University, 125th Anniversary, Resolution No. 17
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3119
Overview
Original copy of West Virginia Senate Resolution # 17, adopted February 7, 1992, honoring West Virginia University on its 125th anniversary. The document is signed by all 34 state senators. Included is a memorandum entrusting the document to the West Virginia Collection which came to it via Edwin F. Flowers of WVU Office of Institutional Advancement.
Dates:
1992
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