Helpful Pilot Mountain State Park Links Below…
Pilot Mountain State Park
Information about the park itself, including trails, maps, hours of operation, and Park Ranger demonstration schedules.
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“Jomeokee Geology. Pilot Mountain State Park: An Environmental Education Learning Experience Designed for Grades 9-12” PDF download:
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Friends of the Sauratown Mountains.
This group of volunteers formed in 2010 to preserve and protect the Sauratown Mountain Range that includes Pilot Mountain State Park. This link provides information on the organization of which the author is a dues paying member. They are a state sanctioned 501(c)3 organization.
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Pilot Mountain Specialty License Plate
The special license plate serves as a fund raiser for the Friends of the Sauratown Mountains and the North Carolina license plate can be obtained at the NCDMV.
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Mt. Airy News article on the Pilot Mountain State Park specialty license plate
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About the Author…
Southern Folklife Collection at the Wilson Library on the Campus of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Over 4,500 concert images by the author are available here in person from 160 concerts in the general area. The author utilized the Wilson Library for a number of historic photographs and the extensive W.L. Spoon collection for this book on Pilot Mountain State Park.
Southern Folklife Collection
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“James McKelvey Collection” at the Southern Folklife Collection with 150 images online but the other 4,350 images must be viewed in person at the Wilson Library.
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International Bluegrass Music Association volunteer photography by the author
For five years the author was a volunteer photographer for the International Bluegrass Music Association during their five-day World of Bluegrass festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2014 the wrap-up International Bluegrass issue in October featured an image taken by the author on the cover. There was much discussion that year on what is bluegrass? The newsletter cover put that discussion in sharp focus with relative newcomer Noam Pikelny, of the Punch Brothers, in front of bluegrass icon Del McCoury.
There are several credited images by the author within the newsletter, too. The entire International Bluegrass newsletter from October of 2014 is available here…
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Here is a link to the highly recommended Wide World of Bluegrass festival held the last week of September in Raleigh, North Carolina:
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All of the images taken during the festivals are stored in the Southern Folklife Collection and I would encourage fellow photographers to do the same.
Author Publications:
Variety (first edition published December 16, 1905) is a weekly international entertainment publication with a broad coverage of movies, television, theater, music and technology, written for entertainment executives. The author worked for this publication from 1979 to 1992.
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The Detroit Free Press was launched May 5, 1831. The first paid job for the author was as a Detroit Free Press paperboy with 90 daily and 130 Sunday papers. Features written for the Detroit Free Press included musical personalities like Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and the history of the Ark Coffeehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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The Face international weekly magazine was run by a different company when a four hour interview with Aretha Franklin was the subject of a long feature on her life. Interviews for the feature included Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin, George Michael, Clarence Clemons, James Brown, friends she grew up with and her immediate family.
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Detroit Metro Times also ran a two-part feature on Aretha Franklin that was told by her family, friends, musical coherts and featured many topics explained by the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin.
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Images by the author from the International Bluegrass Music Association festival in Raleigh, North Carolina were also published in Japan. The magazine, MoonShiner, has been publishing for decades there.
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The first published writing for the author was for the Ypsilanti Press in Michigan. Features that were exactly 250 words long were published word for word. They included Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Arlo Gutherie and Pete Seeger, the Marshall Tucker Band, Dave Mason, Bonnie Raitt and Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac.
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