Episode 4: Location, Location, Location

Recommended additional reading, listening, or watching:

• "Feeling Let Down and Left Behind, With Little Hope for Better" by Richard Fausset via New York Times.

• "This is Progressive Wilkes County" via State Archives of North Carolina Youtube.

• Academy and Village.

• "Under the Shadow of the Awful Gallows-Tree: The Murder Trials of Thomas Dula and Ann Melton as a Case Study in Gender and Power in Reconstruction Era Western North Carolina" East Tennessee State University History Department Masters thesis by Heather L. Miller.

• "North Carolina v. Thomas Dula" via State Library of North Carolina.

• The ballad of Tom Dula : the documented story behind the murder of Laura Foster and the trials and execution of Tom Dula" by John Foster West via WorldCat.

• The Kingston Trio's 1958 cover of "Tom Dooley" via Youtube.

• "Infectious: Tom Dooley" by Paul Slade via Planet Slade.

• "Why do we love to sing murder ballads? Tradition, feminism and bluegrass" by Miriam Jones via Overland.

• MidMountain April 17, 2019 show details via Facebook.

• Hat Band DC benefit show May 4, 2019 show details via Facebook.

Transcript: To come!

Documents:

• County map of Virginia and North Carolina 1861, via Library of Congress.

• Map of U.S. enslaved population based on 1860 Census data, via Library of Congress.

• Hand-drawn map related to Laura Foster's killing, showing the Yadkin river and tributaries, via State Library of North Carolina.