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…
The YouTube Channel “The Appalachian Storyteller” features Harrison Mayes story. Found my Conway, AR sign in there, so I assume one or another image was sourced from here as well. Which is cool. I found a few more leads in the comments, so maybe I’m able to add more to the map.
In 2014 I released an album of Norwegian archivist and singer-songwriter C.Strøm. The title track I Have Heard of a Land, written by James Moore in 1914 and recorded by Smith’s Sacred Singers from northern Georgia in the 1920s, is said to be the first ever “country gospel” record. For the video I used the video portrait of…
The Carpetbagger is (or was ;-)) one of the best resources for Mayes markers. Jakob documented quite a lot. http://www.thecarpetbagger.org/2012/10/harrison-mayes.html Searching for Harrison Mayes on the Rattler
