Word: caney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumba Rhapsody (Cuarteto Caney, Decca). The Cuarteto's pianist, Rafael Audinot, improvises impressively on a rumba theme. A Latin-American record collector's item...
...Caney Junior College is a professional, not simply a vocational school. Although most of its graduates go out with teachers' certificates, its staff of 18 college-trained instructors give full premedical, -engineering and -dental courses, as well as the customary arts curriculum. The library (a converted barn) has 22,000 volumes...
...Little Theatre nights oldsters come down from their hillside cabins to watch the Caney Players put on Shakespeare, Everyman, Gilbert & Sullivan, original mountain plays like Feudin' and Larnin'. Last week ten softspoken, fresh-scrubbed Caney Players were in Boston on an annual 5,000-mile, seven-week crusade to spread the gospel of Caney Creek Community Center...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...
...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...