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Music and interview with Jean Ritchie

George Pickow working on a stringed instrument. Jean Ritchie plays Evergreen Shore, Pretty Saro, ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Interview with Jean Ritchie about her life and music

Jean Ritchie discusses her family history, preservation of traditional songs, play parties and da...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: misc. footage; Mike Seeger at Roscoe Holcomb's nursing home

Includes footage of false starts and of Mike Seeger performing for Roscoe Holcomb and other senio...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters - extra footage of Mike Seeger at Hazard Nursing Home

Footage of Mike Seeger performing at Roscoe Holcomb's nursing home in Hazard, KY. 

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
[Old Time Radio Reunion]
Audio Visual Material

This program is about the annual Old Time Radio Reunion in Jonesborough, TN, featuring performers...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Portsmouth Airs: Music of John Lozier

This program is about John Lozier of Portsmouth, Ohio. Includes footage of Lozier playing the har...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
[Rye Cove Cloggers]
Audio Visual Material

This program is about the cloggers in Rye Cove, Scott County, VA, and Floyd Sloan, Jr., principal...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: The War Within
Audio Visual Material

This program is about Appalachian veterans of the Vietnam War. Includes interviews with veterans ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Camp 18
Audio Visual Material

1984 Headwaters Television production about the Virginia Department of Corrections facility "Camp...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Frank Majority: Italian Stone Mason

Profile of Frank Majority, a stone mason of Italian descent living in Eastern Kentucky. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters:  Reel World String Band

This program features the Reel World String Band, live in studio in Hazard, KY. Includes footage ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: A Tribute to Roscoe Holcomb

Hosted by Jack Wright. This item includes footage from John Cohen's "High Lonesome Sound" and foo...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Amoneeta Sequoyah & Kate Sturgill

This program contains two segments: 1) Portrait of a Native American man who is one of the last p...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Back to Biscuits
Audio Visual Material

Documentary on People Incorporated, a Community Action Agency which implemented a school breakfas...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Bill Blanton
Audio Visual Material

This program is a profile of Bill Blanton, staff photographer for the Coalfield Prog...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Into the Shelter - Buckhorn Children’s Center

This program is about the Buckhorn Children’s Center in East KY, a home for children who are eith...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Bybee Pottery; Charles Engle at Dock Boggs Memorial Festival

This program contains two parts: the first is about the Bybee Pottery studio, operated by the Cor...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Cratis Williams
Audio Visual Material

Appalachian Studies scholar and historian Dr. Cratis Williams discusses the immigration of Scotch...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Dock Boggs
Audio Visual Material

This program is about banjoist and singer Dock Boggs. Includes interviews with various people who...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Five Conversations about Violence

This program is comprised of five different conversations about violence in East Kentucky and Sou...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Gurney Norman
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This program is a profile of writer, professor, and documentarian Gurney Norman, from Grundy, VA....

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Intro Show, 2nd season

Introduction to / overview of season 2 of Headwaters, hosted by Michael Stamper. 

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Jean Ritchie
Audio Visual Material

This program is about Jean Ritchie, singer and dulcimer player from Viper, KY. Ritchie discusses ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Kennedy Hearings
Audio Visual Material

This program is about Senator Ted Kennedy's visit to East Kentucky in 1983. Includes footage of K...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Lane/Henson
Audio Visual Material

This program contains two segments: the first is about the young traditional musicians Shawn Lane...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Lee Sexton
Audio Visual Material

This program is about banjoist, fiddler, and singer Lee Sexton from Letcher County, KY. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Local Poets
Audio Visual Material

A group of local (East Kentucky) poets reads from their work at the Appalshop building in Whitesb...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Marion Sumner
Audio Visual Material

Opens with a surviving outtake of Jack Wright playing St. Nick; The main program features Marion ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Mother Goose
Audio Visual Material

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

Headwaters: Phebel and Flora Wright with Marion Sumner

In this program, musicians Phebel and Flora Wright are joined in their home in Elkhorn City, KY b...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Pregnant But Equal
Audio Visual Material

This program is about a labor movement that sought fair treatment of pregnant women by employers....

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Ron Short
Audio Visual Material

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

Headwaters: Roy Webb - White Man Singing The Blues

This program is about blues musician Roy Webb and his wife Dot. The two of them perform songs in ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: State of the Union
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Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

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