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Programs 3 & 4: The Culture of Play

July 4th celebration--interviews with Gov. Patton and others at annual parade in Campbellsville (Taylor Co.); also interview with folklorist Johnston Njoku

Emancipation Day--interviews with celebrants at Paducah's annual festival honoring the end of slavery (McCracken Co.)

thumb-picking/flat-picking--interviews with Eddie Pennington and Jess Aldridge about west Kentucky guitar styles popularized by Merle Travis and others (Christian & Muhlenberg Counties)

Dirt Bowl Homecoming Day--interviews with organizers of Lexington's summer basketball league in Douglass Park (Fayette Co.)

hand-jive--two Paducah teens and two Nigerian immigrants (Warren Co.) perform their versions of the hand-clapping game

Saturday Night Dance--interviews with Clifton & Ruby Caudill, founders of the dances at Carcassone School, also interviews with square-dance caller Charlie Whitaker and former Appalachian Volunteer John Henrikson (Letcher Co.)

Halloween traditions in the E. KY mountains--interview with Clara Rogers of Pineville along with footage of yard effigies (Bell and Harlan Counties), and Middlesboro's "Pumpkin Alley"; also interview with author Loyal Jones

fiddle styles--interviews with Clyde Davenport (Wayne County), Roger Cooper (Lewis County) and fiddle-tune collector John Harrod

roly hole marble shooting--interviews with the Richard & Larry Bowman and Bill Brown (Monroe Co.); also interview with folklorist Lynwood Montell, a Tompkinsville native