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Photo, Print, Drawing Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing over one of Quentin's stories

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Title

  • Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing over one of Quentin's stories

Names

  • Jarrell, Vicky (Depicted)
  • Wills, Jim Michael (Depicted)
  • Barrett, Quentin (Depicted)
  • Barrett, Anne (Depicted)
  • Hufford, Mary, 1952- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • June 25, 1996

Headings

  • -  Storytelling
  • -  Summer
  • -  June
  • -  Laughter
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Beckley

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Event: Interview with Quentin and Ann Barrett.
  • -  Quentin Barrett is descended from R.E. Barrett, who opened Raleigh County's oldest general store at the mouth of Dry Creek in the 1800s. Both Quentin and his wife, Anne (who is from Mingo County), taught for many years in the schools on Marsh Fork, and Quentin also served as a school principal.
  • -  In the 1940s and '50s, Quentin worked with Rock Creek musicians Gilbert Massey and Andrew Burnside to develop an act for presentation at statewide folk festivals put together by Patrick Garner.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-MH-C053-03

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Online Format

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Credit line

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

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Jarrell, Vicky, Jim Michael Wills, Quentin Barrett, Anne Barrett, and Mary Hufford. Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing over one of Quentin's stories. Beckley Raleigh County West Virginia, 1996. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns001115/.

APA citation style:

Jarrell, V., Wills, J. M., Barrett, Q., Barrett, A. & Hufford, M. (1996) Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing over one of Quentin's stories. Beckley Raleigh County West Virginia, 1996. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns001115/.

MLA citation style:

Jarrell, Vicky, et al. Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing over one of Quentin's stories. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns001115/>.