Browse Items (58 total)

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  Mountain Music Traditions title

  graphic title Mountain Music Traditions

  Tags Bluegrass, Buck Dancing, Clogging, Highlands, Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Mountain Music, Mountain Music Traditions, Old Time, Square Dansing
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  Stories title

  graphic design stories

  Tags Highlands Historical Society, Highlands Musical Stories, Mountain Music, Oral history
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  German Scheitholtz

  The mountain Dulcimer is thought to have been modeled after the German Scheitholtz.

  Tags Dulcimer, Folk Art Instruments, German Roots, Mountain Music Traditions, proto-dulcimer, Schietholtz
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  Highlands Mountain Quartet

  The Highlands String Quartet, ca. 1887 with (L to R) Frank Sheldon, Prof. Louis Zoellner, Truman Kelsey J., and Harlan Kelsey (the latter two are sons of town founder, Samuel Kelsey). The picture was taken in front of the Kelsey home.

  Tags Founding family, Highlands Mountain Music, Highlands Mountain Quartet
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  Mountain Landscape, Highlands, NC

  Oil Painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Mountain Landscape." Tanner was an African American painter who visited and was inspired by Highlands, NC.

  Tags African American Art, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Highlands Mountain Music, Mountain Landscape Highlands, Oil Painting, Stories
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  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Photo of African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner taken by Fredrick Gutekunst.

  Tags African American Art, Artist, Hanry Ossawa Tanner, Stories
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  Live music at Helen's Barn

  Tags Helen's Barn, Highlands Mountain Music, Live music
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  Scenes from Helen's Barn 50th Anniversary

  Tags Helen's Barn, Mountain Music, Venues
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  Clogging at Helen's Barn

  Adults clogging at Helen's Barn in the 1980s. Image part of Susasn Clarkson family photos

  Tags Helen's Barn, Mountain Music, Venues