Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is from 1938 and is shot in Red Hill, Tennessee. One of the first photos made by Joe, Baptising in Olde Towne Creek, has endured to become a favorite and meaningful to many. It bears close scrutiny because of the differing expressions and attitudes of those attending. People have said that they have counted fifty-one people in this picture and I’ve listened to many a controversy about a TV antenna* appearing in this 1938 photo. The Rev. Hugh Vancel, in charge in this photo, performed countless baptisms, but the ceremony eventually moved indoors. Olde Towne Creek empties into Keg Branch, a creek that runs though our property, about three miles left of your view point. To your right, about a mile, is the Clark family cemetery where Joe was laid to rest in December of 1989. In 1981 the Smithsonian Institute displayed a print of this photo for use in an exhibit “Rights of Passage.” It was published in the autobiography of Dolly Parton and as the poster for the Wolf Trap Music Festival. Jb. *lightning rod

Photograph of two female teachers holding hands as they spin in an open field.

Narrative by Kay Clark. Joe Clark, HBSS, took this shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee of Roy McCrary on a fence in a field dreaming about his life in the hills of Tennessee. This picture is in Joe book published book "Back Home". Here is the poem in the book. I PLEDGE To loaf along Life’s highways To feel its shifting sands Climbs its hills, view its valleys And see its verdant Lands. To feast on bountiful harvests That grow along its way To watch the glowing sunsets That end its shining days. To greet each missing joyously To sing the livelong day, To laugh with happy Comrades, To while his life away. hbss

Photograph of a row of lard buckets used as lunch pails as well as a two lunch boxes, a brown paper bag, a baseball, and a baseball bat on a bench along the back wall of a one room school house.

Photograph of a boy kneeling alongside a stream as he fills a bucket with water by using the ladle he holds in his right hand.

Photograph of benches along a wall in a school room. The benches have lunch pails and bags resting on top of them.

Photograph of an old farm house in a field. The roof is covered in wooden shingles; there is also a brick chimney. The envelope containing the negative has "Old Russell Place" written on it.

Photograph of Leon McGeorge seated at a bench as he writes on a sheet of paper.

Photograph of a boy kneeling alongside a stream as he fills a bucket with water. He holds a ladle in his right hand.

Photograph of three young girls and one boy walking downhill. Each child is carrying a lunch pail. There are trees and mountains visible in the background of the image.

Photograph of a teacher standing in front of benches as he looks down at his book. There are children seated along a bench to the left in the image.

Photograph of a young boy resting his head on his arms as leans on the back rest of the bench in front of him. The photograph appears to be taken in a church or one room school in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Photograph of students sitting on rocks in a wooded area as they eat lunch from their lunch pails. There are two dogs visible in the foreground of the image.

Photograph of a young buy laying down, resting his head on his crossed arms, on a bench in what is assumed to be a church or one room schoolhouse in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Photograph of Roy and Dorothy McCrary sitting on a makeshift bridge, fishing in a stream. This photograph was shot on 116 film.

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Image is from 1938 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. This home was built by Wade Clark. It is the home that Joe Clark, my father, was born in on October 4, 1904. Pictured here was the newest addition: a "Courtin' Parlor" built when the eldest girls "'came of courtin' age." My father, Joe, always regretted that he had no pictures of this home "in its glory." Photo by: Joe Clark HBSS

Photograph of Junebug Clark, son of Joe & Bernice Clark, bathing in a wash tub. In the photography Junebug is smiling inside the small wash tub under the shade of a nearby tree. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Additional photos and information can be found in the pdf document "Junebug Clark Scrapbook" pages 16-17. It is part of a Friends Magazine cover story called the "Backyard Bather" June 1951 issue. Photo by Bernice Clark.

Photograph of six men around a moonshine still in the hills of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Photograph of Joe Clark holding up a quart jar full of moonshine. Joe sits in a carved out hollow surrounded by moonshine stills. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Joe documented scores of Moonshine Stills, usually located by his youngest brother, my Uncle Junebug. A number of them appear in his book, "White Lightning." Joe preferred to calling these "Mountain Coffee Mills." Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0013-111

Photograph of a Roy McCrary sitting on a wooden fence, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. McCrary wears a wide-rimmed hat, and only his silhouette can be seen.

Photograph of Ivana Wright being led into the water for baptism by Preacher Hugh Vancel outside John Owen's home in Red Hill, Tennessee. Multiple people from the town are in attendance. Hester Welch, Minnie Hicks, Cleo McCurey, Lilian Hicks, and Lenore Treece follow Ivana, holding hands, on their way to be baptized. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is from 1938 and is shot in Red Hill, Tennessee. Baptising in Olde Towne Creek, has endured to become a favorite and meaningful to many. It bears close scrutiny because of the differing expressions and attitudes of those attending. The Reverend Hugh Vancel, performing the baptism, is standing in the creek and facing a large crowd of people on the bank, and holding the arm of a young girl standing next to him; several other girls, a woman and a man are also standing in the creek, on the left. A building with wood siding is visible in the background. People have said that they have counted fifty-one people in this picture and I’ve listened to many a controversy about a TV antenna* appearing in this 1938 photo. The Rev. Hugh Vancel, in charge in this photo, performed countless baptisms, but the ceremony …

Photograph of Joe Clark's father, Wade Hampton Clark, Sr. and his hunting dog, Bingo, look toward the Cumberland mountains. Photo was taken on his farm in Cumberland Gap, TN.

Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel performing a baptism in Olde Town Creek near Red Hill, Tennessee. The reverend is standing in the creek and facing a large crowd of people on the bank, and holding the arm of a young girl standing next to him; several other girls, a woman and a man are also standing in the creek, on the left. A building with wood siding is visible in the background.

Photograph of a young boy on a mule next to a group of men standing in the doorway of a wooden watermill. Behind the mill is the water wheel. Large trees and vegetation are behind the mill and dirt road is along the front.