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Storyteller and musician Bonnie Collins received the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor
Storyteller and musician Bonnie Mae Starkey (June 9, 1915 – August 6, 2011) was born on a farm on Franks Run, Doddridge County, to Lafayette and Mary Alice Snodgrass Starkey. Her father was a farmer, sawyer, blacksmith, millwright, boarding house ...
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