Home of Jerry & Donna Correll Elk Creek, VA
Home of Jerry & Donna Correll Elk Creek, VA
The gathering where I first heard the “Old Reel” played by Ellen Vigour
As transcribed in “Hill Country Tunes”
Harry Bolick’s T-Shirt Design
Todd standing on the unmarked grave of Sarah Armstrong. Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA
Latrobe Bulletin – Aug 12, 1957
Samuel P. Bayard
Bayard’s Field Recordings
Sarah Armstrong’s Children Left to Right - Bertha, Mary, Robert
“Sadie” holding her dog
Sarah Armstrong’s uncle, Davis Gray (holding fiddle) and family
Ruthie says in her letter: “As a child, I barely can remember hearing “Sadie” (Sarah Armstrong’s nickname) and my Grandpap’s family play when they got together. My sister, who is a good bit older than I, can remember quite well. She said there was a ton of food and they would play for hours… just for the fun… entertainment of it. Always good times, no matter how bad things were.”
A Gray family reunion
Davis & Katherine Gray
Sarah Armstrong’s brother, Israel, died in 1936
Kist’s Grove
Sarah Armstrong CD released 2004
Sarah’s relatives join us at the Derry Railroad Days Festival 2013
Sarah’s Legacy Preserved by the DAHS
Bookplate in my copy of HCT
Dream Song
Research Sources • Hill Country Tunes, Samuel Preston Bayard, 1945,
The American Folklore Society • Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, Samuel
Preston Bayard, 1982, The Pennsylvania State University
• Town & Gown Magazine, March 1976 • Derry Area Historical Society • Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA • Ruthie Henigin, Gray’s Station, PA • Carl Rahkonen, Music Librarian, IUP
Download a PDF of “Hill Country Tunes”
http://www.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/hct/index.htm
Thanks to John Lamancusa of State College, PA