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Home of Jerry & Donna Correll Elk Creek, VA

The gathering where I first heard the “Old Reel” played by Ellen Vigour

As transcribed in “Hill Country Tunes”

Harry Bolick’s T-Shirt Design

Todd standing on the unmarked grave of Sarah Armstrong. Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA

Latrobe Bulletin – Aug 12, 1957

Samuel P. Bayard

Bayard’s Field Recordings

Sarah Armstrong’s Children Left to Right - Bertha, Mary, Robert

“Sadie” holding her dog

Sarah Armstrong’s uncle, Davis Gray (holding fiddle) and family

Ruthie says in her letter: “As a child, I barely can remember hearing “Sadie” (Sarah Armstrong’s nickname) and my Grandpap’s family play when they got together. My sister, who is a good bit older than I, can remember quite well. She said there was a ton of food and they would play for hours… just for the fun… entertainment of it. Always good times, no matter how bad things were.”

A Gray family reunion

Davis & Katherine Gray

Sarah Armstrong’s brother, Israel, died in 1936

Kist’s Grove

Sarah Armstrong CD released 2004

Sarah’s relatives join us at the Derry Railroad Days Festival 2013

Sarah’s Legacy Preserved by the DAHS

Bookplate in my copy of HCT

Dream Song

Research Sources • Hill Country Tunes, Samuel Preston Bayard, 1945,

The American Folklore Society • Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, Samuel

Preston Bayard, 1982, The Pennsylvania State University

• Town & Gown Magazine, March 1976 • Derry Area Historical Society • Cole’s Cemetery, Derry, PA • Ruthie Henigin, Gray’s Station, PA • Carl Rahkonen, Music Librarian, IUP

Download a PDF of “Hill Country Tunes”

http://www.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/hct/index.htm

Thanks to John Lamancusa of State College, PA