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["W.I. Bill Hairston, 71, is a storyteller, old-time musician, and pastor (Westminster Presbyterian Church) living in Charleston, West Virginia. He was born in Phenix City, Alabama, and his family moved to Saint Albans, West Virginia in 1960 when he was 11. Through his storytelling, Hairston, as he says in the interview, combines the Appalachian culture that he was exposed to on the Coal River, to the African-American culture that he is a part of. For 35 years, he served as music coordinator at the Stonewall Jackson Jubilee, and is currently the coordinator of the Vandalia Gatherings West Virginia Liars Contest. Hairston is an active member of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild, the Kentucky Storytelling Association, and the Ohio Storytelling Network, the National Association of Black Storytellers, and serves as the West Virginia liaison to the National Storytelling Network. He has performed in concerts, festivals, libraries, corporate meetings, conventions and schools throughout the region and the country. This interview is a follow-up to Emily Hilliards September 10, 2019 interview with Hairston. In this interview, Hairston discusses his participation in the last segregated Black 4-H Camp at Camp Washington-Carver, and the first integrated 4-H Camp at Jacksons Mill. He also speaks about his summer job with the Department of Natural Resources and his involvement in the United Methodist Youth Fellowship when he was young."]

1. Transcript of oral history of W.I. Bill Hairston

Identifier:: 4224.HairstonBill.AudioInt.12.15.20
Title:: Transcript of oral history of W.I. Bill Hairston
Date:: 2020-12-15
Creator:: Hairston, Bill
Contributor:: Hilliard, Emily
Subject:: Racism, Storytelling, African Americans--Appalachian Region, Segregation in education, Folklore, 4-H clubs, and School integration
Location:: Charleston (W. Va.)

["W.I. Bill Hairston, 71, is a storyteller, old-time musician, and pastor (Westminster Presbyterian Church) living in Charleston, West Virginia. He was born in Phenix City, Alabama, and his family moved to Saint Albans, West Virginia in 1960 when he was 11. Through his storytelling, Hairston, as he says in the interview, combines the Appalachian culture that he was exposed to on the Coal River, to the African-American culture that he is a part of. For 35 years, he served as music coordinator at the Stonewall Jackson Jubilee, and is currently the coordinator of the Vandalia Gatherings West Virginia Liars Contest. Hairston is an active member of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild, the Kentucky Storytelling Association, and the Ohio Storytelling Network, the National Association of Black Storytellers, and serves as the West Virginia liaison to the National Storytelling Network. He has performed in concerts, festivals, libraries, corporate meetings, conventions and schools throughout the region and the country. In this interview, Hairston speaks about growing up in one of three Black families in the Lick Skillet area of Saint Albans along the Coal River, his interest in and work with rural West Virginia old-time musicians and 4-H camps, his friendship with Frank and Jane George, experiences with racism in West Virginia, and his work and mission as an Appalachian storyteller."]

2. Transcript of oral history of W.I. Bill Hairston

Identifier:: 4224.HairstonBillIntTranscript9.10.19
Title:: Transcript of oral history of W.I. Bill Hairston
Date:: 2019-09-10
Creator:: Hairston, Bill
Contributor:: Hilliard, Emily
Subject:: Racism, Old-time music, School integration, Hairston, Bill, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp music, Folk music--West Virginia, 4-H clubs, Storytelling, Folklore, African Americans--Appalachian Region, and Walker, John Homer
Location:: Charleston (W. Va.)

["Cora Lee (Phillips) Hairston (b. 1942, Sarah Anne, WV) is a musician and writer from Logan County, West Virginia. She and her husband Fred, also a musician, currently live in Omar, West Virginia. Cora Hairston is the author of two novels, Faces Behind the Dust and Hello World Here Comes Claraby Rose, both fictionalized accounts based on her childhood growing up in a Black coal camp. She spoke about her childhood, her music, and her writing practice."]

3. Transcript of oral history of Cora Hairston

Identifier:: 4224.HairstonCora.IntTranscript.5.3.16
Title:: Transcript of oral history of Cora Hairston
Date:: 2016-05-03
Creator:: Hairston, Cora
Contributor:: Hilliard, Emily
Subject:: West Virginia--Fiction, Food habits, Hairston, Cora, Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991, Coal mines and mining, African Americans--Appalachian Region, and foodways
Location:: Chief Logan State Park (W. Va.) and Logan County (W. Va.)