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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
"Grandpa, all you bought was the air!" [Manuscript]
Author/Creator
Author: Artist/Poet: Bob Henry Baber
Created/Published
1980s
Notes
After researching the complicated history of his grandfather's property, West Virginia poet Bob Henry Baber composed this version of the Broad Form Deed.
Subjects
1880s
Broad form deed
Colonization
Satirical poem
Protest
Poster
Manuscripts
Ethnography
Object Type
Language
English
Call Number
afc1999/008:ms0001
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 ms0001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.ms0001