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George Dewey Hay (1895-1968)

Nashville now and then: Southern hospitality

Three tales of neighbors and visitors in 20th-century Nashville -- and their impact on the Opry, the economy and the civil rights struggle
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The letters from the West Coast on the Barn Dance

About three weeks after George Hay's arrival in November 1925, a seventy-seven-year old fiddle player from Wilson County named 'Uncle' Jimmy Thompson made an unscheduled two-hour appearance on WSM.


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