Word: hoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Six British mountaineers top the Old Man of Hoy, a windswept. 450-ft. sandstone pinnacle in the Orkney Islands of Scotland...
...being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll. We throwed them out on their ears...
...convention was started by Van Hoy's father, H. P. Van Hoy, as a means of raising funds for the school Over the years, half of the gate receipts, which now total $60,000, has gone to the school, while the other half has been divided among the competing bands to pay their travel expenses...
...fact that the convention has become a famous oasis for folk buffs, talent scouts, and people who just like to hear some fancy bowin' and pickin'. In fact, Union Grovers are beginning to believe that a special providence watches over the event. Founder H. P. Van Hoy, now 81, recalls that it rained on the opening session 44 years ago, but "there hasn't been a drop of rain on any convention since. If that doesn't mean the Lord is with us, well, I don't know what...
...JOHN C. HOY Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn...