Word: ashlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
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Last week mountain folk from near & far gathered on the hills near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman...
...sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard three miles on a tranquil day, but Gust's trees are known...