This is a documentary recording by Eleanor Dickinson of Brother Henry Harrison Mayes, the folk-art sign-maker and lay preacher from Middlesboro, Kentucky, near the Cumberland Gap. The recordings are part of Eleanor Dickinson’s Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection and were made public through the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives. Chapters Background Brother Henry Harrison Mayes has…
WBIR Channel 10’s ‘The Heartland Series‘ hosted by Bill Landry aired from 1984 to 2009. We hope you enjoy these captivating windows into East Tennessee history. This short documentary shows the lighted cross close up and several prominent markers around Middlesboro. There is still hope that footage of Henry Harrison Mayes will surface. I know…
I came across a True Adventure episode from the 50s called “Serpent Cult” featuring at least one familiar face: Oscar Hutton (sometimes Oskar with a k). I dug through my archive and turned up some photos and a newspaper article. A Courier-Journal piece describes “the Rev. Oscar Hutton of St. Charles, Va., a native Kentuckian…
Amazing documentation about the music and the people of the Southern Appalachians. An exploration of the religious music of the southern Appalachian mountains, and the conflict between the sacred, political, and profane. Religious music of the South Appalachians covers a wide panorama. At one extreme, the fundamentalist Baptists regard any music as “the devil’s work,”…
