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My 5-year-old nephew, Ezra, sits between his mother and grandmother on a porch-swing covered in old quilts. An expansive view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Madison County, N.C., spreads out before ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...

In the sweltering heat of the summer of 1916, a Madison County woman eight months pregnant with her 10th child sat on a porch and began to sing for a visiting Englishman and his assistant. Her voice ...

Some stories stand the test of time: Shakespeare's plays, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the Child ballads. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're not for children. They're Scottish and ...

Soon after I first listened to Bob Dylan’s intense new album, Tempest, a friend who’d also heard it wanted to know what a historian made of its line, early on, about the British burning down the White ...

Josh Copus in front of the Old Marshall Jail in the immediate aftermath of record flooding from Hurricane Helene Credit: Rob Amberg Two western North Carolina cultural groups are headed to Charleston ...

Three generations. Timeless ballads. One unforgettable story. From award-winning songwriter Finn Anderson (Islander) and visionary director Tania Azevedo (But I’m a Cheerleader), Ballad Lines is a ...