Jennifer Wilson represents her cousin Julie Boone, a woman who carried the songs and ballads of the Appalachian Mountains that had been handed down through generations. This story tells of the time in 1918 that the famed ethnographer, musician, teacher, and song catcher, Cecil Sharp, came to Yancey County and collected traditional songs, the majority of which came from Julie Boone.
Written and Hosted by Dylan Wilson
Performed by Jennifer Wilson
Music performed by Nicholas Rash
Edited and Produced by Jules Corriere
Our Mountain Speaks Season One is funded by a grant from the Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library System.
Special thanks to the Yancey History Association and Millie's Mountain.
Stories for this podcast were inspired from an oral history collection found in The Heritage of the Toe River Valley by Dr. Lloyd Bailey (1994)