Another of Joe Clark HBSS photographs which shows that things were beginning to change in the Hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. A wood fence in need of repair is set among overgrown weeds, awaiting for someone to take care of it.

Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.

Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.

Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.

Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.

Photograph taken during a "stir off" of two couples embracing next to a stack of sorghum stalks arrange din an upright bundle to the right. It was taken during a

Photograph of an antique stone sharpening wheel in the middle of tall and short weeds attached to an old wood frame. Next to the sharpening wheel is an old barrel. There is a wire fence behind the sharpening wheel with the end post directly behind the wheel. In the background, it looks to be a dirt road leading somewhere coming up alongside where the sharping wheel is placed. Also in the background, it looks to be a field with a building off to the right edge of the photo. There is some kind of cone-shaped object placed on a fence post.

Photograph of an unidentified woman pouring sugar into the apple butter as a young boy stirs. In the image, the group is outside with the kettle over an open flame and a wood home can be seen behind them.

Photograph of a young boy stirring boiling apple butter over an open flame. In the image, the boy is wearing winter clothing holding the paddle stirrer while sitting in a wooden chair outside.

Photograph of an unidentified woman, stirring boiling apple butter with an paddle stirrer over an open flame. In the image, the woman is seated, due to the physical intensity of the task, a few feet from the copper kettle.

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Franklin D. Roosevelt Wright making apple butter by the spring house outside of their home in the hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. This picture is in Joe Clark, HBSS, small book called "A Few Grains of Corn" from the General Store. The envelope containing the negative is inscribed "Clark Bruce's; Junebug's Aunt; Mary Well's"

Photograph of a girl pouring sugar into the kettle. In the image, the unidentified girl is adding sugar to the apple butter while I boy stands over another bag of HERSHEY'S PURE CANE SUGAR.

Photograph of two men arm wrestling at a bar while two other men observe.

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North Texas Special Collections Library. Specifically in a Detroit news pictorial article published December 13, 1942 titles "stir-off party" where mountaineers make molasses and merriment. Also in life magazine published November 13, 1950 [page 156] titled “Stir-off Time in Tennessee, Fun Starts in Hills as Molasses Boils.’ Also in the library is the NBC Today Show story on Joe Clark HBSS by Bob Dotson. It features Joe Clark returning to Cumberland Gap Tennessee to photograph a molasses stir off taking place in the same location as some of these photographs and attended by some of the same people in the early 1980s. Let me briefly set the scene of the time and …

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North Texas Special Collections Library. Specifically in a Detroit news pictorial article published December 13, 1942 titles "stir-off party" where mountaineers make molasses and merriment. Also in life magazine published November 13, 1950 [page 156] titled “Stir-off Time in Tennessee, Fun Starts in Hills as Molasses Boils.’ Also in the library is the NBC Today Show story on Joe Clark HBSS by Bob Dotson. It features Joe Clark returning to Cumberland Gap Tennessee to photograph a molasses stir off taking place in the same location as some of these photographs and attended by some of the same people in the early 1980s. Let me briefly set the scene of the time and …

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North Texas Special Collections Library. Specifically in a Detroit news pictorial article published December 13, 1942 titles "stir-off party" where mountaineers make molasses and merriment. Also in life magazine published November 13, 1950 [page 156] titled “Stir-off Time in Tennessee, Fun Starts in Hills as Molasses Boils.’ Also in the library is the NBC Today Show story on Joe Clark HBSS by Bob Dotson. It features Joe Clark returning to Cumberland Gap Tennessee to photograph a molasses stir off taking place in the same location as some of these photographs and attended by some of the same people in the early 1980s. Let me briefly set the scene of the time and …

Photograph of Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece pulling cotton through a seed pulling machine made of wood. In the image, the couple is seating across from each other both rotating handles while Aunt Nora feeds the cotton through the gears.

Photograph of Aunt China and Uncle Harv Sparks sitting near a fireplace in their home living room. Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Aunt Joanna Wright looking at quilting patterns. In the image, large square patterns are placed a long their laps as the pair sits by the fireplace.

Photograph of Aunt Joanna Wright showing her quilting skills. In the image, Wright and a young unidentified girl are holding up a quilt to show the pattern.

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary. In the image, McCreary is seating in a rocking chair with the Bible open in her lap. A lamp is lit on a side table next to her.

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary sitting in a rocking chair reading a book by the fireplace.

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary's living room. In the image, a wicker rocking chair sits in front of the fireplace and a piano is placed in the corner. Miscellaneous objects sit on the mantle above the fire.

Photograph of the entrance hall into Aunt Julia McCreary's house. In the image, objects are placed on the rail-less staircase and a wash bin setup is along the wall.