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Tab Ward plays "Poor Ellen Smith" on a handmade banjo while Jack Guy demonstrates the dancing limberjack toy.

Tab Ward of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, performs on a handmade banjo.

Tab Ward of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, performs on a handmade banjo.

Two performances of "Home Sweet Home" by father and son Lonnie and Russell Ward. Lonnie plays banjo, then mandolin; Russell plays guitar.

Father and son Lonnie (banjo) and Russell Ward (guitar) perform.

Silent footage of teenagers posing, dancing, and making music. From the collection of Jack Guy.

Silent footage from an outdoor event, likely the Daniel Boone Wagon Train, an annual pioneer-themed gathering that took place from 1963 to 1973 in North Carolina's Wilkes and Watauga Counties. Additional footage features Jack Guy and various Beech…

Scenes from Beech Creek, North Carolina, and from an outdoor event, likely the Daniel Boone Wagon Train, an annual pioneer-themed gathering that took place from 1963 to 1973 in North Carolina's Wilkes and Watauga Counties.0:00 - 7:15 -- Scenes of Tab…

A second film of Beech Creek scenes includes silent footage of Tab Ward, Jack Guy, and others making music, walking, posing, dancing, and demonstrating Guy's handcrafted toys. Additional footage includes shots of the landscape, houses and buildings…

Scenes from Beech Creek, North Carolina, 1960s, from the collection of Jack Guy.

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Unidentified man with banjo and gun.

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Arlie Watson poses with banjo.

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Tab Ward and Dave James of the Beech Mountain Ramblers, in front of Tab Ward's spring house on Beech Mountain.

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The Beech Mountain Ramblers in front of Tab Ward's spring house on Beech Mountain. Left to right: Tab Ward, Dave James, Russell Ward, and John Sipe.

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Buna Hicks, Tab Ward, and an unidentified child at Tab Ward's home.

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Jack Guy with fiddle, Tab Ward with banjo, an unidentified woman, and Ora Watson at Tab Ward's home.

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Jack Guy, Ora Watson, and Tab Ward at Vannoy's Drive-In.

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Audience members at Jack Guy's store.
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