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Ralph Warren Stanley and his wife Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on the porch at Mount Vernon
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1998-09-26
  • United States
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge. [show more]
Ralph Warren Stanley Receives the National Endowment for the Arts Award as Master Artist
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1999-09-28
  • United States
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Left to Right: First Lady Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Governor John Elias Baldacci of Maine (1955-) On September 28, 1999 the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Ralph W. Stanley as a Master Artist “who has contributed to the shaping of our artistic traditions and to preserving the cultural diversity of the United States” and gave him a National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton. [show more]