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Ghosts of Southwest Virginia: Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Giles County
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- Bycoski, Jennifer
- Dowdy, Brenda
- Adkins, Penny
Ghosts of Southwest Virginia: Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Giles County
In this project Jennifer Bycoski interviewed Brenda Dowdy and Penny Adkins to learn more about a local ghost story involving “The Black Sisters”. Ms. Adkins attended the same school as the Black sisters and knew a lot about them, Ms. Dowdy grew up in the next town but did not know much of anything about them but related other ghost stories for the project. 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.- Creator
- Bycoski, Jennifer
- Dowdy, Brenda
- Adkins, Penny
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A Local Legend: The Sisters in Black, Audio
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- Hill, Jenny L.
- Middleton, Barbara
- Myers, Emily
- Porterfield, Cindy
A Local Legend: The Sisters in Black, Audio
In this project, Jenny L. Hill researched and interviewed people about the local legend of the Three Black Sisters, who at one time ran the Montgomery Female College in Christiansburg, Virginia. Stories about the three sisters include tales of murder, secret padlocked rooms, mysterious late night burials, strange visitors, charred bones, large insurance policies, and suspicious suicides. We may never know the truth about the sisters, but Ms. Hill researched and interviewed Christiansburg residents to find out what she could. This 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.- Creator
- Hill, Jenny L.
- Middleton, Barbara
- Myers, Emily
- Porterfield, Cindy
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A Local Legend: The Sisters in Black
- Creator
- Hill, Jenny L.
- Middleton, Barbara
- Myers, Emily
- Porterfield, Cindy
A Local Legend: The Sisters in Black
In this project, Jenny L. Hill researched and interviewed people about the local legend of the Three Black Sisters, who at one time ran the Montgomery Female College in Christiansburg, Virginia. Stories about the three sisters include tales of murder, secret padlocked rooms, mysterious late night burials, strange visitors, charred bones, large insurance policies, and suspicious suicides. We may never know the truth about the sisters, but Ms. Hill researched and interviewed Christiansburg residents to find out what she could. This 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.- Creator
- Hill, Jenny L.
- Middleton, Barbara
- Myers, Emily
- Porterfield, Cindy
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The Black Sisters
- Creator
- Micielli, Shannon
- Porterfield, Cindy
- Cloe, James
- Edwards, Jacob
- Romero, Christal
- White, Alisha
The Black Sisters
In this project, Shannon Micielli interviewed various people who attend or attended a school in Christiansburg, Virginia that is associated with an infamous trio of teachers known as The Black Sisters. Stories and mysteries surround the Black Sisters that include tales of murder, midnight burials, large insurance policies, suicide, oddly padlocked doors and more. These tales mostly are concerned with the time they ran Montgomery Female College in Christiansburg, Virginia in the late 1800s. This 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.- Creator
- Micielli, Shannon
- Porterfield, Cindy
- Cloe, James
- Edwards, Jacob
- Romero, Christal
- White, Alisha
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- Appalachia4
- Christiansburg (Va.)
- Folklore--Appalachia
- Oral histories--Appalachia
- Montgomery Female College (Christiansburg, Va.)3
- Ghosts.1
- Superstition1
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- Porterfield, Cindy3
- Hill, Jenny L.2
- Middleton, Barbara2
- Myers, Emily2
- Adkins, Penny1
- Bycoski, Jennifer1
- Cloe, James1
- Dowdy, Brenda1
- Edwards, Jacob1
- Micielli, Shannon1
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