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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Cuba Wiley, Peytona, WV. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
April 13, 1996
Notes
Cuba Wiley grew up in Honey Bottom at the mouth of Shumate's Branch and Hazy Creek, and worked in coal and timber much of his life. His CB handle, "the Trading Post," relates to his prolific trade in second hand goods, talk, and tales. Hoping to trade in all three, we visited Cuba and his wife Mary in the company of Dave Bailey and were not disappointed. As the audio selections in this presentation show, Cuba is particularly knowledgeable concerning the history, terrain and forest species around Bradley Mountain, Cherry Pond Mountain, Hazy Creek, and Shumate's Branch.
Event: Visit to the home of Cuba Wiley.
Subjects
Spring
April
Storytelling
Economy: trade and barter
Shumate's Branch
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Peytona, WV
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Wiley, Cuba
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C079-12
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec07912
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec07912