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[Account of Wallace Family History]

Description: This document is an undated account of the Wallace family history from the Charles B. Moore Collection. The Wallace family were kin to Charles Moore through his grandmother Elizabeth Wallace Moore. He details the lives of Mary and Joseph Wallace including their spouses names, where they settled, if they had any children, and when they died. It is damaged along the edges of the letter and some words are missing due to the damage.
Date: unknown
Creator: Moore, Charles B.

[Aging wood fence]

Description: Another of Joe Clark HBSS photographs which shows that things were beginning to change in the Hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. A wood fence in need of repair is set among overgrown weeds, awaiting for someone to take care of it.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe

[The Albino Wyooter]

Description: Photograph of a man and his dog cowering before the likeness of the Albino Wyooter, a mythical creature living in the Tennessee mountains. The Wyooter was described by Joe Clark to be incredibly tall and fearsome, with giant claws that it used to attack travelers and their animals.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Antique stone sharping wheel]

Description: Photograph of an antique stone sharpening wheel in the middle of tall and short weeds attached to an old wood frame. Next to the sharpening wheel is an old barrel. There is a wire fence behind the sharpening wheel with the end post directly behind the wheel. In the background, it looks to be a dirt road leading somewhere coming up alongside where the sharping wheel is placed. Also in the background, it looks to be a field with a building off to the right edge of the photo. There is some kind of… more
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman pouring sugar into the apple butter as a young boy stirs. In the image, the group is outside with the kettle over an open flame and a wood home can be seen behind them.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of a young boy stirring boiling apple butter over an open flame. In the image, the boy is wearing winter clothing holding the paddle stirrer while sitting in a wooden chair outside.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, stirring boiling apple butter with an paddle stirrer over an open flame. In the image, the woman is seated, due to the physical intensity of the task, a few feet from the copper kettle.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Apple Butter Making]

Description: Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Franklin D. Roosevelt Wright making apple butter by the spring house outside of their home in the hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. This picture is in Joe Clark, HBSS, small book called "A Few Grains of Corn" from the General Store. The envelope containing the negative is inscribed "Clark Bruce's; Junebug's Aunt; Mary Well's"
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Apple peeling gathering]

Description: Photograph of a group of people gathered for an apple-peeling event, to make them into apple butter. In the image, two men are playing music while a group of seated women peel apples into containers on their laps. A group of boys stand behind the group. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Armed Moonshiners Pause for a Drink in Woods]

Description: Photograph of four moonshiners standing in a wooded area, somewhere near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee during the 1950's. One man holds a gun, and another drinks from a jug. Junebug Clark narrative: Story was that moonshine was so potent and strong that the moonshiners would take turns holding a gun on each other to force them to take a drink. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 0013-57
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Armed Moonshiners Pause for a Drink in Woods (2)]

Description: Photograph of four moonshiners standing in a wooded area, somewhere near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee during the 1950's. One man holds a gun, and another drinks from a jug. Junebug Clark narrative: Story was that moonshine was so potent and strong that the moonshiners would take turns holding a gun on each other to force them to take a drink. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0013-57
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Co… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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