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![["Frank George (October 6, 1928 November 15, 2017), a Bluefield native, was a banjo player, fiddler, and piper, who also played piano, organ, hammer and lap dulcimer, and was a walking compendium of West Virginia traditional music history and jokes. He was the recipient of the 1994 Vandalia Award, West Virginias highest folklife honor. Jane George (November 11, 1922 February 19, 2018) helped launch the craft revival in the Mountain State through extensive fieldwork with traditional artists, educational programming, and by co-founding the Mountain State Art & Craft Fair at Cedar Lakes. She also hosted Mountain Heritage weekends and Kanawha County Parks Mountaineer Day Camps to teach young mountaineers about their cultural heritage, founded two Scottish dance troupes, and served as a 4-H agent in multiple counties. She was the 1993 Vandalia Award recipient."]](/thumb/4224GeorgeFrankGeorgeJanePhoto00841916 "Basket belonging to Frank and Jane George, made by West Virginia artisan Claude Danville")
- Identifier:
- 4224.GeorgeFrankGeorgeJane.Photo.008.4.19.16
- Title:
- Basket belonging to Frank and Jane George, made by West Virginia artisan Claude Danville
- Date:
- 2016-04-19
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Basket making
- Location:
- Roane County (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.HarlessMarionVaneckKara.AudioInt.8.28.18
- Title:
- Oral history of Marion Harless and Kara Vaneck
- Date:
- 2018-08-28
- Creator:
- Harless, Marion and Vaneck, Kara
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Herb gardening, Apprenticeship programs, Herbs--Utilization, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Gardening, Herb products, Basket making, Irish Americans, Food habits, Dye plants, foodways, Willow baskets, Wine and wine making--United States, Weirton (W. Va.), Herbalists, Canning and preserving, and Traditional medicine
- Location:
- Randolph County (W. Va.)
![["Marion Harless of Kerens led a 2018 apprenticeship in green traditions with Kara Vaneck of Weston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Harless is a co-founder of the Mountain State Organic Growers and Buyers Association and the West Virginia Herb Association, and has taught widely on medicinal herbs, edible landscaping, and native plants. Vaneck is the owner of Smoke Camp Crafts and has served as vice president and treasurer of the West Virginia Herb Association.Read our feature on Harless apprenticeship with Vaneck here: https://wvfolklife.org/2018/12/20/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-marion-harless-kara-vaneck-green-traditions/Read Emily Hilliards article on Marion Harless here and in the Spring 2019 issue of Goldenseal Magazine: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/03/22/the-state-folklorists-notebook-people-need-to-know-about-plants-herbarist-marion-harless/"]](/thumb/4224HarlessMarionVaneckKaraIntTranscript82818 "Transcript of oral history of Marion Harless and Kara Vaneck")
- Identifier:
- 4224.HarlessMarionVaneckKara.IntTranscript.8.28.18
- Title:
- Transcript of oral history of Marion Harless and Kara Vaneck
- Date:
- 2018-08-28
- Creator:
- Harless, Marion and Vaneck, Kara
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Herb gardening, Herbs--Utilization, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Wine and wine making--United States, Gardening, Basket making, Dye plants, Food habits, Willow baskets, Irish Americans, foodways, Herbalists, Canning and preserving, Herb products, Traditional medicine, Apprenticeship programs, and Weirton (W. Va.)
- Location:
- Randolph County (W. Va.)
![["Aaron (Ike) Yakim (b. 1949, Charleroi, PA) and Cynthia W. Taylor (b. 1950, Virginia) are traditional white oak basket makers living in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Yakim learned the art form in the late 70s from 5th generation West Virginia basket maker, Oral \"Nick\" Nicholson of Doddridge County. Yakim and Taylor, who work from live tree-to-basket, are not regularly making baskets currently due to the intense labor required as well as the scarcity of suitable white oak trees. Yakim has produced over 2,500 baskets, several of which are included in the Smithsonian Museum of American Arts collection. Learn more via the Smithsonian Museum of American Art: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/aaron-yakim-27916And via Cedar Creek Gallery: http://cedarcreekgallery.com/album/yakim_taylor.html"]](/thumb/4224YakimAaronTaylorCynthiaPhoto00113117 "White oak baskets made by Aaron (Ike) Yakim and Cynthia W. Taylor of Parkersburg, 1 of 2")
- Identifier:
- 4224.YakimAaronTaylorCynthia.Photo.001.1.31.17
- Title:
- White oak baskets made by Aaron (Ike) Yakim and Cynthia W. Taylor of Parkersburg, 1 of 2
- Date:
- 2017-01-31
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Taylor, Cynthia W. (Cynthia Wieboldt), 1950-, Basket makers--United States, Baskets--United States, and Basket making
- Location:
- Parkersburg (W. Va.)
![["Aaron (Ike) Yakim (b. 1949, Charleroi, PA) and Cynthia W. Taylor (b. 1950, Virginia) are traditional white oak basket makers living in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Yakim learned the art form in the late 70s from 5th generation West Virginia basket maker, Oral \"Nick\" Nicholson of Doddridge County. Yakim and Taylor, who work from live tree-to-basket, are not regularly making baskets currently due to the intense labor required as well as the scarcity of suitable white oak trees. Yakim has produced over 2,500 baskets, several of which are included in the Smithsonian Museum of American Arts collection. Learn more via the Smithsonian Museum of American Art: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/aaron-yakim-27916And via Cedar Creek Gallery: http://cedarcreekgallery.com/album/yakim_taylor.html"]](/thumb/4224YakimAaronTaylorCynthiaPhoto00213117 "White oak baskets made by Aaron (Ike) Yakim and Cynthia W. Taylor of Parkersburg, 2 of 2")
- Identifier:
- 4224.YakimAaronTaylorCynthia.Photo.002.1.31.17
- Title:
- White oak baskets made by Aaron (Ike) Yakim and Cynthia W. Taylor of Parkersburg, 2 of 2
- Date:
- 2017-01-31
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Baskets--United States, Basket making, Taylor, Cynthia W. (Cynthia Wieboldt), 1950-, and Basket makers--United States
- Location:
- Parkersburg (W. Va.)
