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"The salad pickers is a heartwarming recollection of E. Jane Ball-Groom, and her family's journey from New York's urban streets to rural, Warren County, North Carolina, making a fresh start; living and working during the bold and audacious early planning and development days of the Soul City"--P. 3.
Rachel Holcomb (1821-1902) married Christian Reinhardt and later Daniel Long.
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Adam Spach was born in 1720 at Pfaffenhofen, Alsace, Germany. He and his father immigrated to America in 1733. When they reached America, he was bound out for six years to pay part of the passage. At the end of the six years he settled at Manakosy, Maryland. He married Maria Elisabeth Hueter in 1752, at Frederickstown, Maryland. They had nine children, 1753-1771. They moved to North Carolina in 1753 and settled near Wachovia, North Carolina. He died at Friedberg, North Carolina, in 1801.
String band music is most commonly associated with the mountains of North Carolina and other rural areas of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains, but it was just as abundant in Piedmont region of North Carolina, albeit with different influences and stylistic conventions. This work focuses exclusively on the history and culture of the area, the music's development and the changes within traditional communities of the Piedmont. It begins with a discussion of the settlement of the Piedmont in the mid-1700s and early references to secular folk music, including the attitudes the various ethnic and religious groups had on music and dance, the introduction of the fiddle and the banjo, and outsi...
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