r Lunsford Festival Opens October 5 At Mars Hill
The tint weekend in Oc
tober will be a busy one for
liars Hill College. The
Baacomb Lamar Lunaford
Mountain Musv< and Dance
Festival will be held that
weekend aa will the achool'a
Alumni Day.
The 12th annual "Minstrel of
the Appalachian' will open
Oct. 5, with a program featur
ing old time mountain fiddl
ing. Of nearly all the in
struments popular among
mountain music aficionados,
the fiddle remains the most
celebrated. Easier to carry
than the guitar or banjo, the
fiddle was consequently the
first instrument many of the
early settlers of the region
brought with them. Entitled
"Mountain Fiddling: From
Hornpipes to Hoedown," the
Friday evening program will
feature many of the region's
best known fiddlers including
Byard Ray, Liz Smathers
Shaw and Lynn Shaw, Luke
Smathers, Tommy Hunter,
Mac Snodderly, Gordon
Freeman, and Arville
Freeman. These musicians
will present their program in a
more intimate, workshop-type
event in Owen Theatre beginn
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday remains the bid
day for the festival. Lunsford
originally conceived of the
festival as a celebration of the
mountain way of life' a time
when old friends could get
together, play the familiar
tunes, dance the dances, and
preserve these traditional
ways by passing them on to
the new generation. To this
HUBERT HAWKINS
Hawkins Gets
September
Man Of Month
Hubert Hawkins has been
named Man of the Month at
Greater Ivy nutrition site. He
is married to Delilah Buckner
Hawkins and they have one
son, Bruce Hawkins, a dentist
at Mt. Holly.
Hawkins is a retired farmer
who previously taught school,
' worked in the Mars Hill P06t
Office and served as clerk of
Madison County Superior
Court for 12 years.
He is a member of Califor
nia Creek Baptist Church
where be has served as
teacher of the adult men's Bi
ble class. He has received
numerous compliments for
the beauty of his farm,
especially his lawn.
Hopewell
Club Meets
Thursday
The Hopewell-Walnut Gap
Community Development
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. on
Sept. 27 in the community
room of Hopewell Baptist
Church. Jeaneatte Plemmons,
club president, urges all
residents of the communities
to attend the meeting.
Singing
The regular fifth Saturday
night singing will be held at
Memorial Church of God this
Saturday beginning at 7:30
p.m.
Everyone is invited.
Reunion
end, festival officials have
enlisted the help of numerous
craftsmen, home-makers,
musicians, and dancers who
know the old ways intimately
and still practice them. Begin
ning at 10 a.m. Oct. 6,
demonstrations in spinning
and weaving, wood carving,
quilt and doll making, shingle
splitting, and whittling will be
held on the green in front of
the college's new administra
tion building, Btackwell Hall
A homemaking skills
demonstration will also be
held featuring cooking on a
woodburning stove, makinng
sausage biscuits, buttermilk
churning, and making apple
butter.
There will be workshops in
most of the musical in
struments, a special attrac
tion for children, and of course
the Jam sessions that go on all
day. On Saturday evening, the
"Minstrel of the Appalachia"
will get started at 7 p.m. in
Moore Auditorium. Musicians
and dancers from throughout
the region will gather to
celebrate the memory of Mr.
Lunsford and the way of life he
dedicated himself to preserv
ing
Saturday will also be the
day former students of the col
lege return and celebrate
Homecoming with a full slate
of activities. Registration will
begin st B:30 p.m. in the first
floor lobby of Blackwell Hall,
and class reunions will start at
10 ajn. From 11:90 a.m. to l
p.m., a Homecoming buffet
will be available in Coyte
Bridges Dining Hall, and at
noon, a special luncheon will
be featured for the 90th an
niversary class, 1929, and the
Golden Year classes ? all
classes from 1900 through 1928
? will be held in the Blue
Room of Bridges cafeteria. A
Luncheon honoring the Alum
nus and Alumna of the Year
will also be held at noon, in the
Gold Room of the cafeteria.
The traditional homecoming
parade will begin winding its
way to the athletic field at 1 : IS
p.m. and the football game
between Mars Hill and
Guilford will start at 2:30 p.m.
An alumni dinner will be held
in the gumnasium at 5:15
p.m.,, and the day's activities
will wind up with ? Theatre
Arts and Drama teers alumniu
celebration in Owen Theatre
at 8 p.m.
Additional information con
cerning the festival is
available from Dr. Harold
Herzog, chairman of the
Lunsford Festival committee,
Mars Hill College, Mars Hill,
N.C. 28754, telephone 689-1332;
and information concerning
Alumni Day activities is
available from the Alumni Of
fice, Mars Hill College, Mars
Hill, N.C. 28754, telephone
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