From the Courthouse to the Allen House

Categories

Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive

Subject

Appalachia

Oral histories--Appalachia

Folklore--Appalachia

Allen, Sidna, 1866-1941

Allen, Floyd, 1857-1913

Carroll County (Va)

Creator

Melton, Lloyd

Melton, Misty Fowler

Motsinger, Gary William

Type

text and audio

Coverage - Temporal

2003

Date

2003-12-04

2020-07-14

Identifier

FA203.446.14.pdf

Language

english

Publisher

Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University

Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University

Description

In this project, about the Carrol County Courthouse Tragedy, and the Allen Family court trials, Lloyd Melton interviewed his wife, Misty Fowler Melton who is from Carrol County and had a personal family experience with the courthouse tragedy, and Gary William Motsinger who moved to Carrol County as ad adult but also had personal experience with the Sidna Allen house, and knowledge of the trial. The purpose of this project was to find out if people in the county actually talk and know about the tragedy and if the county is actually promoting the various sites important to the story as historic sites. This interview is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.

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