Imagine the world of the late 1920’s and every country store in America houses a series of necessities; feed and farm supplies, milk, cheese and other trade goods, perhaps even the mail and local newspaper. …
BY KINNEY RORRER— Charles Cleveland Poole (March 22, 1892- MAY 21, 1931) — Born into a family of North Carolina cotton mill workers, Charlie and his family moved from Iredell County to Randolph County finally …
BY KINNEY RORRER— When the highly influential Anthology of American Folk Music was released in 1952, the acclaimed producer Harry Smith selected what he considered the best representations of commercially recorded folk music that appeared …
