About Billy Hammond | Digital Traditions
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Billy Hammond and his wife Mary offer some biographical information.Audio
Hammond recalls how he began making smaller baskets after retiring
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Making Smaller Baskets | Billy Hammond | Digital Traditions
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Hammond recalls how he began making smaller baskets after retiring.
Billy Hammond Photos | Digital Traditions
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Grover "Billy" Hammond, a native of Clarks Hill in McCormick County, exemplified the important craft of split-oak basketmaking in South Carolina. The thin strips – or splits – that can be riven from...
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A multi-instrumentalist from the Piedmont, Nick Hallman is a life-long devotee of old-time country music indigenous to the South Carolina. As founding member of the Nickpickers, Hallman assembled one...
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McCormick (McCormick County) realtor who was a musician prior to WWII. Interview conducted by Anne Kimzey.
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Harold Vernon Riddle Photos | Digital Traditions
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Harold Vernon Riddle played the fiddle for well over fifty years. He was first exposed to the rural folk music of upstate South Carolina in the mill village of Glendale where he was born. He heard...