Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

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Item Title

Woody Boggs, recycling the wormy chestnut timbers from the dismantled Coffee Pot into a kitchen for a new log cabin in Pettry Bottom. [Photo]

Author/Creator

Photographer: Boggs, Woody

Created/Published

1999

Notes

In 1999, Woody Boggs began building a log cabin in Pettry Bottom. This cabin, built of yellow poplar logs, incorporates a kitchen built from the wormy chestnut boards of The Coffee Pot at Edwight. The Coffee Pot was for decades a favorite local gathering place and teen hangout near the bridge to Edwight. Reincarnated here as a kitchen, The Coffee Pot forms a bit of a historic backdrop to the music sessions that now take place on the cabin porch most Friday nights.
Event: Building a Log Cabin.

Subjects

Fall
Log cabins
Poplar, yellow (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Community space
Cultural landmarks
Recycling
Chestnut (Castanea dentata)
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Pettry Bottom, WV

Object Type

still image

Medium

35 mm Color Slide

Language

English

Call Number

CRF-WB-C007-03

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 wbc00703
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.wbc00703