Radford’s Alfreda Peel: noted Appalachian folklorist and ballad collector

Cover of Alfreda Peel’s “Witch in the Mill,” with paper-cut illustrations by the author.

Music and folklore have been intertwined in Appalachia for centuries. Ballads and folk tunes traveled with the first settlers across the Atlantic and found root in the hills and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains. These musical traditions passed from […]