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Photo, Print, Drawing John Bowman performing country music with the owner of the Miner's Inn at Eccles

About this Item

Title

  • John Bowman performing country music with the owner of the Miner's Inn at Eccles

Names

  • Bowman, John (Depicted)
  • Flynn, John (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • January 31, 1996

Headings

  • -  Music
  • -  Public space
  • -  Winter
  • -  January
  • -  Eccles (W. Va.)
  • -  Miner's Inn
  • -  Taverns
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Eccles

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  John Bowman no longer makes moonshine, but he assembled an old family still in order to talk with John Flynn, Lyntha Eiler, and I about the history of moonshining on Coal River. John Bowman learned from his brother, "Duck", how to make moonshine in high school, when his father was injured in the mines. As an alternative to entering the mines, making moonshine became a way for Bowman to stay in high school while contributing to the support of the household. Among his best customers were the school bus driver, the high school principal, and a state trooper or two. Bowman's comments on the moonshiner's finely-tuned knowledge of forest species, waterways and water quality, and cove topography may be heard in the audio portion of this collection.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C072-12

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Bowman, John, John Flynn, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. John Bowman performing country music with the owner of the Miner's Inn at Eccles. West Virginia Raleigh County Eccles, 1996. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000187/.

APA citation style:

Bowman, J., Flynn, J. & Eiler, L. S. (1996) John Bowman performing country music with the owner of the Miner's Inn at Eccles. West Virginia Raleigh County Eccles, 1996. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000187/.

MLA citation style:

Bowman, John, John Flynn, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. John Bowman performing country music with the owner of the Miner's Inn at Eccles. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000187/>.