Music in the Mountains: Bessie Eldreth and the Mayor's Report
 


Citation

“Music in the Mountains: Bessie Eldreth and the Mayor's Report,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/40723.


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Title

Music in the Mountains: Bessie Eldreth and the Mayor's Report

Description

Video contains an episode of Music in the Mountains featuring storyteller and singer Bessie Eldreth who recounts her personal experience with the area's devastating 1940's flood. The video also contains The Mayor's Report with Boone mayor Velma Burnley.

Subject

Folk music
Appalachian Region, Southern
North Carolina, Western
Shannon, Joe Wayne, 1949-2014
Floods
Storytelling

Date

1994-05-11

Format

Video recordings
MP4
Cultural television programs

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

869_UMATIC_13_MusicinMtns_BessieEldreth_1994_0511_MA

Coverage

Boone (N.C.)

Temporal Coverage

1990s

Duration

0:45:47