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"Hudson, Ed. Organist at Country Estates Baptist Church".
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Hudson Ed." Headline: Hudson Ed. organist at Country Estates Baptist Church.
Read the record →Roots & musical traditions
Fiddling, folk, country, Red Dirt, and other traditions represented in the sources.
Individual musician research and Hall of Fame accounts connect instruments, genres, and musical work with documented Oklahoma experiences. The records retain the distinctions among birthplace, education, residence, and later career.
These connections can help future interview readers place a recollection in context. They do not imply that every musician shared one tradition or that a genre began at a single place.
Start with these records
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1992 Reunion Committee
Panel of the "1992 Reunion Committee" with photos of people and objects. Top left photo two women has handwriting: "Co-Chairmen" Middle photos has handwriting of "Work-Work-Work." Photos of people has handwriting: "Plan-Plan-Plan.
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21st century homes.
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Photograph of Paul Fidler. . . associated with 21st Century Homes where he handles construction." Headline: Fiddler, Paul, 21st Century Homes, Norman.
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Amuse.
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Photograph Of Ruth Jaroslow "Fiddler On The Roof" company." Headline: Jaroslow, Ruth Amus.
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Amusement art.
" Jim Henline and Suzanne Charney will star as a Russian peasant couple in ""Fiddler on the Roof""".
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Animals, spiders.
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "May so. But if this "Fiddler" is on your roof, you've got trouble." Headline: Fiddler on the roof.
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Appearing in concert.
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "These ten youngsters will perform a concert at the Civic Center Music Hall. They are students of famed Japanese violinist and educator Shinichi Suzuki. They
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At country estates.
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Photograph Of Ina Wood, Veta Smith, Edward Fream, Cecil Harp, Steven Stivers, and Mayor Marion C. Reed." Headline: Harp Cecil, e Member of Midwest City Kiwa
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Barnett, Bobby (AMUS).
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Country and western singer"
Read the record →The experiences behind the evidence
Future interviews will connect these sources with the recollections of people who made music.
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