There\'s No Place Like Home: Bramwell Millionaire Homecoming Bramwell, West Virginia 1988-2005

Creator: Cochran, Dana

: Cochran, Amanda

: Harris, Elbery "Dizzy"

: Sigmon, Sarah "Bibbi"

: Stoker, Louise Dawson

In this project, Dana Cochran explores a traditional event in her hometown of Bramwell, West Virginia. The event is known as Millionaire Homecoming Weekend and during it former students of Bramwell School all converge on the town for a giant reunion. The event had taken place from 1988 to 2005 (and probably beyond, but this paper was written in 2005). Activities during the event include a street fair, a 5 mile run, a class reunion, and more. 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.