Vanishing Appalachia: Photographs by Don Dudenbostel, 2010

"Vanishing Appalachia," an exhibit at the Museum of East Tennessee History, March 1-June 20, 2010. Photographer Don Dudenbostel created the exhibit's 94 b&w images (11"x14”). In one box. The second box has mounted captions from the exhibit. The sound recordings by writer/media producer Tom Jester are not included. Farmers and serpent handlers, moonshiners and Mennonites are among the mountain people portrayed in the photographs. Most subjects of "Vanishing Appalachia" are East Tennesseans, although a handful of photos were taken in mountain areas of border states like Kentucky and South Carolina. Serpent handler James E. "Jimmy" Morrow and moonshiner Popcorn Sutton are included.