19 Jan Ralph Stanley Museum: A Walk Through Primitive Beginnings
Upon entering the Ralph Stanley Museum the first stop is the Crooked Road section. Here guests find their first introduction to "the Dickenson County sound." This is the unique sound found in the county's hollers and hills. It is derived from its Scotch Irish settlers. This sound was developed over decades of front porch pick'n and song's handed down from generation to generation. One person up the mountain might have had a fiddle. A person down...