home of jerry & donna correll elk creek, va · preston bayard, 1982, the pennsylvania state...
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Home of Jerry & Donna Correll Elk Creek, VA
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The gathering where I first heard the “Old Reel” played by Ellen Vigour
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As transcribed in “Hill Country Tunes”
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Harry Bolick’s T-Shirt Design
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Todd standing on the unmarked grave of Sarah Armstrong. Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA
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Latrobe Bulletin – Aug 12, 1957
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Samuel P. Bayard
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Bayard’s Field Recordings
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Sarah Armstrong’s Children Left to Right - Bertha, Mary, Robert
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“Sadie” holding her dog
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Sarah Armstrong’s uncle, Davis Gray (holding fiddle) and family
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Ruthie says in her letter: “As a child, I barely can remember hearing “Sadie” (Sarah Armstrong’s nickname) and my Grandpap’s family play when they got together. My sister, who is a good bit older than I, can remember quite well. She said there was a ton of food and they would play for hours… just for the fun… entertainment of it. Always good times, no matter how bad things were.”
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A Gray family reunion
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Davis & Katherine Gray
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Sarah Armstrong’s brother, Israel, died in 1936
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Kist’s Grove
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Sarah Armstrong CD released 2004
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Sarah’s relatives join us at the Derry Railroad Days Festival 2013
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Sarah’s Legacy Preserved by the DAHS
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Bookplate in my copy of HCT
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Dream Song
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Research Sources • Hill Country Tunes, Samuel Preston Bayard, 1945,
The American Folklore Society • Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, Samuel
Preston Bayard, 1982, The Pennsylvania State University
• Town & Gown Magazine, March 1976 • Derry Area Historical Society • Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA • Ruthie Henigin, Gray’s Station, PA • Carl Rahkonen, Music Librarian, IUP
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Download a PDF of “Hill Country Tunes”
http://www.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/hct/index.htm
Thanks to John Lamancusa of State College, PA