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["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

325. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright,1 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.001.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright,1 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Families--Folklore, Diaries
Location:
Webster County (W. Va.), Weston (W. Va.)
["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

326. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 2 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.002.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 2 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Families--Folklore, Diaries
Location:
Webster County (W. Va.), Weston (W. Va.)
["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

327. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 3 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.003.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 3 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Diaries, Families--Folklore
Location:
Webster County (W. Va.), Weston (W. Va.)
["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

328. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 4 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.004.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 4 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Diaries, Families--Folklore
Location:
Webster County (W. Va.), Weston (W. Va.)
["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

329. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 5 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.005.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 5 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Families--Folklore, Diaries
Location:
Weston (W. Va.), Webster County (W. Va.)
["Jenny Smith is an old-time fiddler, dulcimer player, banjo musician and clog dancer from Lost Creek, West Virginia. I interviewed her with her mother, Dee Cogar Bright, from Sutton, West Virginia. When she was young, Smith apprenticed with fiddler Melvin Wine through the former Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program. In this interview, they speak about their family lore, and the old-time music and square dance traditions, mainly in Braxton and Webster counties."]%

330. Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 6 of 6

Identifier:
4224.BrightDeeSmithJenny.Photo.006.12.19.17
Title:
Journal pages of family stories written by Dee Cogar Bright, 6 of 6
Date:
2017-12-19
Creator:
Bright, Dee Cogar
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Diaries, Families--Folklore
Location:
Webster County (W. Va.), Weston (W. Va.)
["Master salt rising bread baker Genevieve (Jenny) Bardwell holds an A.S. in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America, and a B.S. and M.S. in plant pathology from the University of Massachusetts. Jenny is the co-author of Salt Rising Bread: Recipes and Heartfelt Stories of a Nearly Lost Appalachian Tradition and was the co-founder of Rising Creek Bakery in Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, both with Susan Ray Brown. Jenny has engaged in a deep, decades-long study of the unique labor-intensive Appalachian bread, focusing particularly on the scientific process and researching analog breads in other cultures. In 2017, she was awarded a Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts to lead a salt rising bread apprenticeship with baker Antonio Archer and in 2018, she was awarded an Folklife Apprenticeship Grant from the West Virginia Folklife Program with fellow baker Susan Ray Brown and apprentice Amy Dawson.Master salt rising bread baker Susan Ray Brown grew up in southern West Virginia, and her family roots go back nearly 300 years in her beloved Mountain State. She holds a B.A. in sociology/anthropology from West Virginia University. Susan is the co-author of Salt Rising Bread: Recipes and Heartfelt Stories of a Nearly Lost Appalachian Tradition and was the co-founder of Rising Creek Bakery in Mount Morris, PA, both with Jenny Bardwell. Susan has engaged in a deep, decades-long study of the unique labor-intensive Appalachian bread, recording oral histories, gathering recipes, conducting scientific studies, and constantly experimenting through her own baking. Find more on her website at www.saltrisingbread.net."]%

331. Artist profile of Susan Ray Brown

Identifier:
4224.BrownSusan.ArtistProfile.6.13.18
Title:
Artist profile of Susan Ray Brown
Date:
2018-06-13
Creator:
Brown, Susan Ray
Subject:
Bakers, Apprenticeship programs, Bread--history, foodways, Bread
Location:
Mount Morris (Pa.), Morgantown (W. Va.)
["Kathy Evans (b. July 8, 1962, Morgantown, WV) of Bruceton Mills and Margaret Bruning of Elkins are participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, in an apprenticeship titled, Sheep to Shawl: The Art of Raising Sheep and Creating Fiber Arts. Evans is a fifth-generation farmer and co-owner with her husband Reid of Evans Knob Farm in Preston County where she cultivates Certified Naturally Grown vegetables and raises sheep and poultry. She teaches and exhibits her fiber arts both in West Virginia and across the country and has been featured in Modern Farmer and Morgantown Magazine. Bruning grew up on a goat farm in upstate New York and has been a lifelong fiber artist. She and her husband David raise sheep at their homestead in Randolph County.Read a profile of Evans and Bruning on the West Virginia Folklife blog:https://wvfolklife.org/2020/11/04/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-kathy-evans-margaret-bruning-sheep-to-shawl/Evans Knob Farm website: https://www.evansknobfarm.com/Poe Run Craft and Provisions: http://www.poerun.org/"]%

332. Artist profile of Margaret Bruning

Identifier:
4224.BruningMargaret.ArtistProfile.3.20.20
Title:
Artist profile of Margaret Bruning
Date:
2020-03-20
Creator:
Bruning, Margaret
Subject:
Sheep farming, Apprenticeship programs, Textile crafts, Farms--West Virginia, Weaving, Spinning-wheel, Spinning, Fiberwork, Woolen and worsted spinning
Location:
Randolph County (W. Va.), Elkins (W. Va.)

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333. Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 1 of 3

Identifier:
4224.BrunsNancy.AudioInt.001.3.1.16
Title:
Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 1 of 3
Date:
2016-03-01
Creator:
Bruns, Nancy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Malden (W. Va.), Charleston (W. Va.), Salt workers, foodways, Salt mines and mining
Location:
Malden (W. Va.)

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334. Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 2 of 3

Identifier:
4224.BrunsNancy.AudioInt.002.3.1.16
Title:
Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 2 of 3
Date:
2016-03-01
Creator:
Bruns, Nancy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Malden (W. Va.), Charleston (W. Va.), Salt mines and mining, foodways, Salt workers
Location:
Malden (W. Va.)

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335. Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 3 of 3

Identifier:
4224.BrunsNancy.AudioInt.003.3.1.16
Title:
Oral history of Nancy Bruns, 3 of 3
Date:
2016-03-01
Creator:
Bruns, Nancy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Salt workers, Charleston (W. Va.), Malden (W. Va.), foodways, Salt mines and mining
Location:
Malden (W. Va.)
["Nancy Bruns is a chef, former restaurant owner, and the co-owner of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-works. Her family, the Dickinsons, have operated salt mines in the Kanawha Valley for five generations, since 1817. This interview was conducted in conjunction with the Malden Salt Fest."]%

336. Transcript of oral history of Nancy Bruns

Identifier:
4224.BrunsNancy.IntTranscript.3.1.17
Title:
Transcript of oral history of Nancy Bruns
Date:
2017-03-01
Creator:
Bruns, Nancy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Salt mines and mining, foodways, Malden (W. Va.), Salt workers, Charleston (W. Va.), Food habits
Location:
Malden (W. Va.)