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...bluegrass. Nancy Tallbot, who seems to singlehandedly run the Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music, which is sponsoring Stover's appearance, calls Stover "one of the four or five best banjo players in the world. "According to Tallbot, Stover first came to Boston from Clear Creek, W. Va. in the early 50s. After getting in good with the locals, Stover maintained an 18 year run at Hillbilly Ranch, a somewhat seedy country-music Boston nightclub. Tiring of the cold winters, Stover moved to his wife's farm in Virginia, where he drinks water from the well...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...cent of its workers are union members. Harlan mines are among the most unsafe in the world--in 1970, one day before the first anniversary of the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, 38 miners died in an explosion at a nonunion mine at Hurricane Creek, only a half-hour away. The miners were to remain out on strike for 13 months...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Seek Not Your Fortune Way Down In The Mines | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...pulls into a Holiday Inn in Battle Creek, Mich. It has been traveling all night from Peoria, 111. Several band members drag themselves into the clean sheets of the hotel. Dolly sleeps on the bus until 2:30 p.m. She appears in the hotel dining room looking perfect and is promptly mobbed. A woman named Ruby asks for Dolly's autograph. Dolly signs. An hour and many autographs later, Ruby gets up to leave. Dolly yells, "Bye, Ruby. Have a nice day." Ruby is radiant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Rock Road with Dolly Parton | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...heart of the Augusta National lies in the 11th through 13th holes, the so-called Amen Corner, which is crisscrossed by meandering Rae's Creek. No one knows who coined the name Amen Corner, but former pro Dave Marr remarked, "It's called that because if you get around it in par, you believe a little bit more...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Bobby Jones And The Ghost of Masters Past | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

Over the years, the lethal 12th has been the site of countless tragedies. In the 1937 Masters, Ralph Guldahl, a stolid Norwegian, had a four stroke lead coming up to the 12th. His tee shot rolled into Rae's Creek for a double bogey and Byron Nelson went on to win by shooting a birdie on the same hole and an eagle on the 13th. In 1959, Arnold Palmer also met a watery grave as Art Wall birdied six of the final seven holes to catch him from behind...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Bobby Jones And The Ghost of Masters Past | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

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