Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
...hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose family feuded bitterly for 57 years with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded...
Harlow to Lack McCoy...
...this year's Freshmen who will become Sophomores in February, 1943, a Junior Varsity football team is planned, to be coached by Floyd Stahl. Dick Harlow's Varsity staff is going to be minus the aid of backfield coach Al McCoy, who is working at Annapolis...
After coaching at Colby College in Maine for eight years and Northeastern University for four, McCoy came here in March, 1941. He was very enthusiastic about his position at Harvard, which he regretfully resigned because he felt his responsibility to his country was too great to let him remain here...