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Congrats to you for giving a hand to Jean Thomas and her Singin' Gatherin' [TIME, June 22]. Miss Thomas has worked untiringly and unceasingly in behalf of this annual event, and she has made a permanent contribution to the best in American folk music. Moreover, in her books, particularly The Traipsin' Woman, she has made outstanding contributions to American regional literature...
...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 the festival to perpetuate a "singin' gatherin'" she once heard...
Heroic highlight of this year's singin' gatherin' was the Ballad of Sergeant York, celebrating the deeds of Tennessee's World War I hero. It was composed by the late Jilson Setters, bristle-bearded fiddler who once sang mountain songs for the King and Queen of England. Sample stanzas...
...This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan to make some money. We figured we could sing as good as some of those people on the radio, so we started singin' on street corners. We did purty good. Then we got the idea of singin' at banquets, like the Chamber of Commerce and the gas company and all them other companies that give big feeds for the people who work for 'em. We put Sonny [her younger brother...
...back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature Golf Course in Florida. Liberal weeklies were referring to John L. Lewis as an autocratic reactionary of Labor. Singin' in the Rain was a popular tune. The average price of a radio set was $135. Disney's first Silly Symphony was just out (Allen does not name it; it was The Skeleton Dance}. President Herbert Clark Hoover returned from the weekend at his camp on the Rapidan...