This great photograph from the Pocahontas County Fair in the 1920s comes from Maxie Gum, of Green Bank. It pictures six musicians playing banjos and fiddles under a tree at the Fairgrounds near Marlinton, W.Va. Left to right: George Taylor, Rosco Brown, Clinton Akers, Frank Ashford, Scott Durnell and Jim Sutton. Courtesy of Maxie Gum, ID: PHP000771
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