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["Thurmond is a former boom town on the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. The town is on the National Register of Historic Places, is part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and is an Amtrak stop. In 1986, the John Sayles film Matewan was filmed in Thurmond. Learn more about Thurmond on the New River National Park and Preserve website: https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/thurmond.htmAnd via e-WV: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721"]%

1909. Coal tipple and railroad tracks in Thurmond

Identifier:
4224.Thurmond.Photo.009.3.9.16
Title:
Coal tipple and railroad tracks in Thurmond
Date:
2016-03-09
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Railroads, Thurmond Passenger Depot and Offices (Thurmond, W. Va.), New River Gorge National River (W. Va.)
Location:
Thurmond (W. Va.)
["Thurmond is a former boom town on the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. The town is on the National Register of Historic Places, is part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and is an Amtrak stop. In 1986, the John Sayles film Matewan was filmed in Thurmond. Learn more about Thurmond on the New River National Park and Preserve website: https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/thurmond.htmAnd via e-WV: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721"]%

1910. Railroad tracks in Thurmond

Identifier:
4224.Thurmond.Photo.010.3.9.16
Title:
Railroad tracks in Thurmond
Date:
2016-03-09
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Thurmond Passenger Depot and Offices (Thurmond, W. Va.), New River Gorge National River (W. Va.), Railroads
Location:
Thurmond (W. Va.)
["Thurmond is a former boom town on the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. The town is on the National Register of Historic Places, is part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and is an Amtrak stop. In 1986, the John Sayles film Matewan was filmed in Thurmond. Learn more about Thurmond on the New River National Park and Preserve website: https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/thurmond.htmAnd via e-WV: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721"]%

1911. Thurmond town hall

Identifier:
4224.Thurmond.Photo.011.3.9.16
Title:
Thurmond town hall
Date:
2016-03-09
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
City halls, Railroads, New River Gorge National River (W. Va.)
Location:
Thurmond (W. Va.)
["Thurmond is a former boom town on the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. The town is on the National Register of Historic Places, is part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and is an Amtrak stop. In 1986, the John Sayles film Matewan was filmed in Thurmond. Learn more about Thurmond on the New River National Park and Preserve website: https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/thurmond.htmAnd via e-WV: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721"]%

1912. Hillside and houses in Thurmond

Identifier:
4224.Thurmond.Photo.012.3.9.16
Title:
Hillside and houses in Thurmond
Date:
2016-03-09
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
New River Gorge National River (W. Va.)
Location:
Thurmond (W. Va.)
["Thomas Toliver, 87, at the time of the interview, is an urban gardener of the West Side of Charleston. He works in prisons as a mentor, and has taken in children of incarcerated people through his organization Family Youth in Development Service, Men and Children of Prisoners. In his urban garden, he is particularly interested in working with unhoused people. Toliver grew up working on a plantation-like estate in the Charleston neighborhood of South Hills, where his father was a gardener and chauffeur and his mother was a maid. Toliver was interviewed by producer Aaron Henkin with Emily Hilliard as part of the Out of the Blocks podcasts two episodes on Charlestons West Side. Learn more: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/01/17/out-of-the-blocks-podcast-highlights-charlestons-west-side-west-virginia-folklife-hosts-listening-party-february-12/"]%

1913. Portrait of Thomas Toliver

Identifier:
4224.ToliverThomas.Photo.11.22.19
Title:
Portrait of Thomas Toliver
Date:
2019-11-22
Creator:
Patrick, Wendel
Subject:
African Americans--Appalachian Region, Urban gardens, Gardening
Location:
Charleston (W. Va.)
["Doug Van Gundy of Elkins led an apprenticeship in old-time fiddle of the Greenbrier Valley with Annie Stroud of Charleston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Doug Van Gundy is an eighth-generation West Virginian who learned old-time fiddle from Greenbrier County fiddler Mose Coffman through the 1993 Augusta Heritage Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Annie Stroud, of Charleston, is a Greenbrier County native who began playing violin at an early age, and through the apprenticeship, is now learning old-time fiddle tunes local to her home county. She plays fiddle with the Allegheny Hellbenders string band and is a member of the Morgantown Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance.See our feature on Van Gundys apprenticeship with Stroud here: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/01/23/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-doug-van-gundy-annie-stroud-old-time-fiddling-of-the-greenbrier-valley/"]%

1914. Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud perform at a West Virginia Humanities Council fundraiser at West Virginia University's Blaney House in Morgantown

Identifier:
4224.VanGundyStroudAnnie.Photo.001.5.2.19
Title:
Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud perform at a West Virginia Humanities Council fundraiser at West Virginia University's Blaney House in Morgantown
Date:
2019-05-02
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Contributor:
Stroud, Annie, Van Gundy, Doug
Subject:
Fiddling, Folk music--West Virginia, Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.), Apprenticeship programs, Fiddle tunes, Old-time music
Location:
Morgantown (W. Va.)
["Doug Van Gundy of Elkins led an apprenticeship in old-time fiddle of the Greenbrier Valley with Annie Stroud of Charleston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Doug Van Gundy is an eighth-generation West Virginian who learned old-time fiddle from Greenbrier County fiddler Mose Coffman through the 1993 Augusta Heritage Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Annie Stroud, of Charleston, is a Greenbrier County native who began playing violin at an early age, and through the apprenticeship, is now learning old-time fiddle tunes local to her home county. She plays fiddle with the Allegheny Hellbenders string band and is a member of the Morgantown Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance.See our feature on Van Gundys apprenticeship with Stroud here: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/01/23/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-doug-van-gundy-annie-stroud-old-time-fiddling-of-the-greenbrier-valley/"]%

1915. Portrait of 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship participants Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud

Identifier:
4224.VanGundyStroudAnnie.Photo.001.6.12.18
Title:
Portrait of 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship participants Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud
Date:
2018-06-12
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Folk music--West Virginia, Fiddle tunes, Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.), Old-time music, Fiddling, Apprenticeship programs
Location:
Elkins (W. Va.)
["Documentation of folklore and material culture on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg."]%

1916. West Virginia state capitol cake on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair

Identifier:
4224.WVStateFair.Photo.001.8.17.16
Title:
West Virginia state capitol cake on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair
Date:
2016-08-17
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Cake decorating, West Virginia Capitol Complex (Charleston, W. Va.), Agricultural exhibitions, Bakers, Cake
Location:
Lewisburg (W. Va.)
["Documentation of folklore and material culture on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg."]%

1917. Prizewinning 4-H chair caning project at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair

Identifier:
4224.WVStateFair.Photo.002.8.17.16
Title:
Prizewinning 4-H chair caning project at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair
Date:
2016-08-17
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Weaving, Agricultural exhibitions, 4-H clubs, Chair caning
Location:
Lewisburg (W. Va.)
["Documentation of folklore and material culture on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg."]%

1918. Prizewinning 4-H egg entries in the 2016 West Virginia State Fair

Identifier:
4224.WVStateFair.Photo.003.8.17.16
Title:
Prizewinning 4-H egg entries in the 2016 West Virginia State Fair
Date:
2016-08-17
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Eggs, foodways, Poultry farms, Chicken industry, 4-H clubs, Agricultural exhibitions
Location:
Lewisburg (W. Va.)
["Documentation of folklore and material culture on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg."]%

1919. 4-H pickle entries in the 2016 West Virginia State Fair

Identifier:
4224.WVStateFair.Photo.004.8.17.16
Title:
4-H pickle entries in the 2016 West Virginia State Fair
Date:
2016-08-17
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Agricultural exhibitions, 4-H clubs, foodways, Food habits, Canning and preserving, Pickling
Location:
Lewisburg (W. Va.)
["Documentation of folklore, foodways, and material culture on display at the 2016 West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg."]%

1920. Handmade sign in the rabbit barn of the 2016 West Virginia State Fair

Identifier:
4224.WVStateFair.Photo.005.8.17.16
Title:
Handmade sign in the rabbit barn of the 2016 West Virginia State Fair
Date:
2016-08-17
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Agricultural exhibitions, Rabbits, 4-H clubs
Location:
Lewisburg (W. Va.)