On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 5:36:52 AM UTC-7,
taffy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a descendent of Bev Baker. Are there any photos of him clippings.
berea
http://traildriver.com/web%20content/projects/appalachia/berea%20contests/img%20berea%20fiddlers.jpg
In 1990, a man named Chester Nolan from Madison, Indiana contacted Loyal Jones at the Appalachian Center at Berea College. From eastern Kentucky originally, Nolan had once been roomates with Dock Roberts at Berea. Nolan recalled a fiddle contest in
which he and Dock both played. Later he sent a photo (see above) showing a group of fiddlers from the contest. I believe Nolan is front row, far left. Since he participated in the 1919 contest, the photo presumably dates from that year. The fiddlers have
not been identified (the third fiddler from the left in the front row is believed to be Bev Baker) but we can see the contestants' names by reading the clippings from that year. The contest held in Berea in August was preceeded by a contest in Richmond
in May that was won by Dock Roberts. The first two clippings below refer to the Richmond contest.
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